AND Festival 2015 \\ Grizedale Forest, UK \\ 18 -20 September

The festival created a space where audiences could experience the forest anew through inviting world-class artists to create new art works for the historical site. We turned the forest into a laboratory, which became a temporary haven for filmmakers, artists, creative technologists, philosophers and scientists, who explored the secret infrastructure of the forest and natures processes. The programme provided new perspectives on the forest, through the eyes of the plants, animals and machines that inhabited it, allowing visitors an insight into natures technologies as well as emerging trends in digital practice.

Fri 18th Sep 2015

This bespoke screening space was dedicated to Hiker Meat, an exploitation film that never actually existed. Hiker Meat and its fictitious Italian director…

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Hiker Meat / Jamie Shovlin (2015)

Fri 18th Sep — Sun 20th Sep 2015
Fri 18th Sep 2015

Peak Simulator was a new sculptural installation from Matthew Plummer Fernandez that juxtaposed computer-generated landscape over the ‘natural’ landscape. In the early…

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Peak Simulator / Matthew Plummer-Fernandez (2015)

Fri 18th Sep — Sun 20th Sep 2015
Fri 18th Sep 2015

Night of the Living Deadwood was a workshop led by microbiologists Dr Rod Dillon and Dr Jackie Parry, based at Lancaster University, it…

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Night of the Living Deadwood (2015)

Fri 18th Sep — Sat 19th Sep 2015
Isabella Rossellini
Fri 18th Sep 2015

Isabella Rossellini and her critically acclaimed and provocative online and video series, Green Porno was screened within our Cinema Caravan as part of…

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Green Porno / Isabella Rossellini (2015)

Fri 18th Sep — Sun 20th Sep 2015
Fri 18th Sep 2015

The lifestyles of plants were a source of inspiration for this unconventional exhibition at Grizedale Forest Visitor Centre. Seeing the Forest Through…

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Seeing The Forest Through The Trees (2015)

Fri 18th Sep — Sun 6th Dec 2015
Fri 18th Sep 2015

Spreadkom was an alternative communication system created especially for the forest by Slovenian collaborators BridA (Tom Kerševan, Sendi Mango and Jurij Pavlica) . This…

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Spreadkom / BridA (2015)

Fri 18th Sep — Sun 20th Sep 2015
Fri 18th Sep 2015

Humans often see figures and forms in clouds, whether that’s animals, faces and even god. This kind of perception also appears in…

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Cloud Face / Shinseungback Kimyonghun (2015)

Fri 18th Sep — Sun 6th Dec 2015
Fri 18th Sep 2015

This new work brought together two contrasting viewpoints and histories of search and rescue missions. Drawing inspiration and research from the ‘Gibson…

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Searcher / Jen Southern (2015)

Fri 18th Sep — Sun 20th Sep 2015
Sat 19th Sep 2015

Artist Geraldine Pilgrim developed  a weekend workshop that looked at the meaning of  ‘home’ and how our personal relationship to this word…

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Home / Geraldine Pilgrim (2015)

Sat 19th Sep — Sun 20th Sep 2015