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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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/2021/07/Screenshot-2021-07-21-at-11.31.58-600x399.png)
Deeper was a series of in-depth conversations with artists presenting work elsewhere within the festival, about their ways of thinking and making….
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Thu 27th May — Thu 8th Jul 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![Water crashing on rocks](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2021/05/johny-goerend-Gl6CrEEXcrs-unsplash-600x399.jpeg)
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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Wed 23rd Jun 2021![photo of a dog on New Brighton beach with houses and shops in the distance](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2021/05/mitchell-orr-iuqsjQ_GhCo-unsplash-600x399.jpeg)
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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Wed 16th Jun 2021![Old black coin on green background](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2021/05/unnamed-600x399.png)
Link to text – All Power to the {Historical} Imagination! by McKenzie Wark Follow – Collective Reading: From Modes of Production to…
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Sun 13th Jun 2021![](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2021/05/Screenshot-2021-05-18-at-12.49.51-600x399.png)
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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Sun 30th May 2021![Woman in field smiling](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2021/05/Suzanne-Dhaliwal-600x399.png)
The cultural shift required to address the climate crisis calls on the cultural sector to look closely at the sites of ecocide…
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Sun 6th Jun 2021![](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2021/05/Screenshot-2021-07-01-at-16.57.50-600x399.png)
This broadcast event was followed by a Q&A, with questions submitted via YouTube chat, within our Live Channel. In Sustaining Uncertainty, we’re…
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