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.

Inside/Out was a residency film project developed by Fragments International Ensemble in partnership with AND Festival and the Canal and River Trust….
Read moreInside/Out / Fragments International Ensemble (2012)
Wed 18th Jul — Sat 8th Sep 2012
As part of a residency initiated in 2011 by AND and DaDa (Disability and Deaf Arts), Irish composer and writer Ailís Ní…
Read moreThe Hearing Test / Ailís Ní Ríain & Andrea Pazos López (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…
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