AND Festival 2012 \\ Manchester, UK \\ 29 August – 02 September
AND invited visitors to experience a festival that highlighted the complexities, gradations and anomalies encountered when we examine success as an ideal. AND Festival 2012 continued to be as much about work evolving over time, artists experimenting, and setting ambitious parameters, as it was about finished exhibitions. The experience of success can be fleeting and addictive. Through unusual strategies, the artists and filmmakers presenting in the festival revealed alternative ways of being by offering rich counterpoints to perfection and undermining accepted logic.
Girl Gang is swagger and adventure, bluff and bravado. Girl Gang is open to any bold and fearless female. Girl Gang challenge…
Read moreDare / Girl Gang (2012)
Sat 1st Sep 2012
Clearing is a new work by Ultimate Holding Company (UHC) that seeks to create a dialogue around the subject of higher arts education and the globalized trade in ‘knowledge capital’. The piece takes data from the University and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) and the London stock market Stock Exchange to create an animated digital display and a physical space for critical reflection.
Read moreClearing / Ultimate Holding Company (2012)
Thu 30th Aug — Sun 2nd Sep 2012
29 August – 01 September 2012 The challenge was to take on a new identity, with a little help from Heath Bunting’s…
Read moreNew Identity Residency / Martin Johnson (2012)
Chasing Nimbus is a project that explores digital and analogue techniques for project moving images onto clouds from aircrafts. Artist, director and inventor Dave Lynch has been developing his ambition to deliver multiple projections onto water vapor canvases including urban vents, cooling towers, steam trains and clouds.
Read moreProject Nimbus / Dave Lynch (2012)
Fri 31st Aug 2012
AND is proud to present the first UK solo exhibition of works by American artist Stanya Kahn, who presents a selection of recent drawings and video work, characterised by her signature blend of dark comedy, visceral characters and reluctant optimism.
Read moreIt’s Cool, I’m Good \ Stanya Kahn (2012)
Fri 22nd Jun — Sun 16th Sep 2012
For four weeks throughout the months of September and October 2011 Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair pedalled a plastic swan over 160…
Read moreSwandown / Dir Andrew Kotting (2012)
Fri 22nd Jun 2012
The Humble Market headed to Preston for the WE PLAY Expo – a whole weekend of unmissable free events in Preston that celebrated…
Read moreThe Humble Market at WE PLAY Expo (2012)
Fri 7th Sep 2012
The Humble Market was a fusion of theatre and media art from the Brazil-UK theatre network Zecora Ura and new media artists…
Read moreThe Humble Market / Zecora Ura and artists (2012)
Fri 22nd Jun — Wed 29th Aug 2012
Dir. Tim Brunsden and starring Scottee. Told over four episodes, Follow was commissioned in 2012 as a live and evolving documentary about…
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