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.
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AND Festival will resurface on the physical and virtual waves of the Manchester Ship Canal and River Mersey for 2021.
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Thu 27th May — Sun 11th Jul 2021![](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2021/06/Resurface-Countercontrol-A-reading-group-with-Black-Swan-600x399.png)
Resurface was a space for questioning our collective futures, through a series of case studies and dialogues on future ecologies of art…
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Sun 6th Jun — Sun 4th Jul 2021![](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2021/06/riot.jpg)
RIOT curated by Tendai John Mutambu. Riot / John Akomfrah / 1999 / 50 min Curated by Tendai John Mutambu, we are…
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Fri 25th Jun — Fri 2nd Jul 2021![](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2021/06/Every_Rupture_still1-600x399.jpg)
Counterflows curated by Matt Turner [63 mins] Moving like the tides, shifting shapelessly, the works in this programme reflect the flow of…
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Fri 11th Jun — Fri 18th Jun 2021![Black, blue and green graphic with Radio Ensemble written in white](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2021/05/Radio-Ensemble-by-Ignatia-Nilu-2021-600x399.jpg)
This week’s conversation connects across the oceans with Indonesia-based curator Ignatia Nilu, exploring ideas behind the presentation of Radio Ensemble at AND…
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Thu 1st Jul 2021![Old building with light shining on it. Dome roof to the right](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2021/05/20190830_193544-600x399.jpeg)
The Observatory Cinema was a temporary open air cinema atop Bidston Hill. A big screen weekend projected the art of sculpting time…
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Fri 2nd Jul — Sun 4th Jul 2021![](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2021/05/web-600x399.png)
In Weedweavers, the radical Dutch curatorial collective New Emergences present collaborative workshops and a live performance led by artists Angeliki Diakrousi, mariëlle…
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Fri 9th Jul 2021![](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2017/07/Cardboard_Royal_Arch_provisional_3D_point_cloud-600x399.jpg)
New rendering and image making techniques like photogrammetry and LIDAR scanning are allowing us to visualize previously hidden or forgotten histories. Archaeologist…
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Fri 22nd Sep 2017![](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2017/11/The-Dark-Orchestra-Nkisi-AND-Festival-2017-Photo-taken-by-Chris-Foster-9-600x399.jpg)
James Ferraro // The Deluge Set in a nightmarish simulation of humanity – a Brueghelian underground – musician and critical futurist James…
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