AND produces, develops and stages one of the biggest media arts festivals in the UK. Travelling to and mapping a different terrain every occurrence, AND Festival is a rehearsal space and catalyst for new models of working. The programme invites new ways of seeing the world through re-negotiating our relationship to place featuring live cinema events, installations, online projects, residencies, public realm interventions exhibitions, performances, games and apps.
Abandon Normal Devices’ festival of new cinema, digital culture and art, and the UK’s only roaming digital festival, takes to the water…
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Thu 14th — Sun 17th May 2020
New rendering and image making techniques like photogrammetry and LIDAR scanning are allowing us to visualize previously hidden or forgotten histories. Archaeologist…
MoreRendering the Past \ Panel Discussion (2017)
Fri 22nd Sep 2017
James Ferraro // The Deluge Set in a nightmarish simulation of humanity – a Brueghelian underground – musician and critical futurist James…
MoreJames Ferraro & Nkisi \ Listening to the Dark Evening Event (2017)
Fri 22nd Sep 2017
Listening to the Dark was a series of prodigious sonic experiments, explorations and expeditions that could be found deep under the earth in…
MoreListening to the Dark Tour \ Various Artists (2017)
Fri 22nd — Sun 24th Sep 2017
AND proudly presented the UK debut of underground San Francisco phenomena Midnight Mass, starring horror hostess Peaches Christ in this Rocky Horror-style…
MoreMidnight Mass: Peaches Christ presents All About Evil (2010)
Sat 2nd — Sun 3rd Oct 2010
Dopplereffekt is one of the strangest and most mysterious units on the electronic music scene today. Only a handful of interviews with…
MoreDopplereffekt Presents: Neutrino (2011)
Fri 30th Sep 2011
AND Festival 2011 abandoned the gallery to spill out into cafes, shops, clubs and markets in a quest to test the trust and gullibility of the public, whether they are consenting or not! Audiences were told to expect phoney Beatles, celebrity cults, gurus, gimmicks, satanic messages and scryers in places where mysticism meets money.
MoreAND Festival Events (2011)
Sat 24th — Sun 2nd Oct 2011
Lawrence Malstaf’s work is an intriguing contradiction between science and technology often creating sensory experiences that bypass intellectual analysis.
MoreShrink \ Lawrence Malstaf (2009)
Mon 4th — Tue 5th Oct 2010
Plan C was a dystopian reminder of the fragility of advanced technological societies. The project involved a rather adventurous trip to Chernobyl, Ukraine, site in 1986 of one of the most dramatic nuclear disasters ever.
MorePlan C \ Various Artists (2010)
Sat 2nd — Thu 7th Oct 2010
Featuring a cacophony of performances with some of the world’s leading exponents of live and improvised cinema. Kinematic was a night of…
MoreKinematic (2010)
Tue 5th Oct 2010
At nightfall on the 26 & 27 March 2010 visitors to Preston were bathed in fake moonlight.
MoreFake Moon \ Simon Faithfull (2010)
Fri 26th — Sat 27th Mar 2010
Improv Everywhere are experienced at causing scenes of chaos and joy in public places and with their help we reclaimed the Blackburn streets in a flashmob spectacle.
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