Thursday 27 May – Sunday 11 July 2021

Birkenhead – Ellesmere Port – Liverpool – Online

AND Festival resurfaced for 2021, taking us on an extraordinary journey responding to the Manchester Ship Canal and River Mersey. The programme followed the flows of shipping, energy and political power structures, from container ports on our doorsteps to the depths of the ocean floor; through ecosystems bound up with industrial chemicals, minerals and microplastics, to their effects on our planet, human and non-human bodies.

AND Festival 2021 took place online, on docklands and on the water, featuring field trips in the physical world via augmented reality seascapes, immersive voyages and floating laboratories, expanded through an online programme of radical and disruptive artworks, film screenings, performances, talks and workshops. Inviting radical artists, critical thinkers and curious audiences to renavigate the industrial landscape from physical and virtual perspectives, the programme brings into focus the oceanic scale of networked industries and infrastructures that form part of our daily contemporary consumption.

Audiences local and remote were invited to trace the entangled flows of shipping routes, oil refineries, chemical industries, recycling plants and energy systems from these ports, and unearth the impact on our ways of living.

Artists who presented work in the festival: Hakeem Adam, aio0o0o0, AssemblyYaYa Bones (Ayesha Tan Jones)Marija Bozinovska JonesKate DaviesSarah DavachiAngeliki DiakrousiAnita FontaineMary MaggicKali MaloneLuiza Prado de. O MartinsMaxwell MutandaNew EmergencesTulapop SaenjaroenAura Satzmariëlle verdijkIgnatia Nilam Agustapublic works and Sissel Marie Tonn.

Guest curators and contributors included: Dr Danielle-Maria AdmissAngela ChanTendai MutambuIgnatia Nilam AgustaScalarama Merseyside, Natasha Thembiso Ruwona and Matt Turner.

Thu 24th Jun 2021

Psychedelic audio-visual sculptures explode from land and water, and the Liverpool skyline playfully shapeshifts revealing a surreal alternate reality of the urban landscape in this new AR work.

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The Blue Violet River \\ Anita Fontaine

Thu 24th Jun — Sun 27th Jun 2021
Thu 1st Jul 2021

Does Spring Hide Its Joy was an immersive audio experience by American composer Kali Malone featuring musicians Stephen O’Malley and Lucy Railton….

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Does Spring Hide Its Joy \\ Kali Malone

Thu 1st Jul — Sun 4th Jul 2021
Water crashing on rocks
Wed 23rd Jun 2021 Ι

Scalarama Merseyside presented an evening focused on water activism on film, using local footage on the historical misuse of water and the…

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Headwaters \\ Turbulent Flow

Wed 23rd Jun 2021
photo of a dog on New Brighton beach with houses and shops in the distance
Wed 16th Jun 2021 Ι

What can we learn from cinema preservation in the quest to protect water? As cinemas reopened once more, Scalarama Merseyside presented an…

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Headwaters \\ Show and Flow

Wed 16th Jun 2021
Old black coin on green background
Sun 13th Jun 2021 Ι

Link to text – All Power to the {Historical} Imagination! by McKenzie Wark Follow – Collective Reading: From Modes of Production to…

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Resurface: Countercontrol – A reading group with Black Swan

Sun 13th Jun 2021
Sun 30th May 2021 Ι

Celebrating the opening of AND Festival, we invited you to our open gathering to meet commissioned artists and the Abandon Normal Devices…

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Resurface: Abandon Normal Gathering

Sun 30th May 2021
Fri 25th Jun 2021 Ι

Friday 18 + Friday 25 June 2021 This event was an online gathering and shared storytelling space led by artists Angeliki Diakrousi…

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Weedweavers \\ New Emergences Gathering

Fri 25th Jun 2021
Sat 5th Jun 2021 Ι 11am - 2.30pm

Toxicity’s Reach artist Mary Maggic led a live digital collaging workshop! 11am – 1.15pm Session #1 – Live stream open session via…

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Workshop: Queering Consumerism

Sat 5th Jun 2021
Animated picture of child in front of the moon with two seals either side
Fri 2nd Jul 2021 Ι

Tomm Moore \ 2014 \ (UK) \ PG \ StudioCanal A family-friendly outdoor screening, curated by Scalarama Merseyside. The enchanting Irish animation…

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Observatory Cinema \\ Song of the Sea (PG)

Fri 2nd Jul 2021