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NEW CINEMA DIGITAL CULTURE & ART27 MAY11 JUL 2021ANDFESTIVAL.ORG.UK@ANDFESTIVAL#AND21AND Festival 2021Introduction from Creative Director Luke W MoodyKate Davies, By the Sound of Things, on board the DanielAdamson for AND Festival 2021. Photo credit Chris FosterNational Waterways MuseumMersey FerriesBirkenhead Hydraulic TowerBidston ObservatoryDaniel Adamson MEELLESMERE PORTRSEYSHIPALCANThrough a summer of opening andreemergence, our festival of digitalculture, new cinema and art openedalong the shores of the River Mersey,Manchester Ship Canal, and online. Atevery meander of our online portal andphysically rooted sites - by lighthouses,on boats, amongst industrial ruins images and sounds have ebbed andflowed, between floating futures,hidden histories and digital archives.AND’s 2021 programme was inspiredby the River Mersey, which historically,acted as a border between kingdoms,taking its name from such a function:mære, ‘a boundary’, ēa, ‘a river’. Onceagain, we look upon it as a boundaryto traverse, a fluid line between thenand now, demise and regeneration,streaming and touching, knowing andunknowing. Industry, cargo shipment,and the era of fossil fuel economiesare only recent human uses of thislandscape. Hopefully, in coming yearsour relationships with interconnectedportals of water, oceans, and movementof people and goods, do not placetechnological progress, resourcing, andenergy production in conflict with landthrough extracting, carving, colonising,but are attuned with nature throughinhabiting, vibrating, regenerating withthe biological and earthly movementsaround us. This is a time not only toask how to resurface differently, butto ask what foundations to urgentlysink – to recognise that it’s not enoughto abandon, but that we have a role toabolish normal devices.Listen to Luke’s festival introductionAND Festival 2021 HighlightsEnter: andfestival.worldConnect with AND:
The BlueViolet River \\Anita FontaineTHU 24SUN 27 JUNMersey Ferries,Liverpool and BirkenheadWetLab \\ public works and AssemblyFRI 11 SUN 13 JUNNational Waterways Museum, Ellesmere PortThis floating laboratory created by publicworks and Assembly uses the canal networkas site as well as subject. A space wherecreative minds including artists, architects,scientists, engineers, technologists andcooks explore the biological and socialecology of the waterways, working withcommunities to envisage potential futureuses for the canal.public works and Assembly led workshopson site, with opportunities to observedemonstrations and take part inexperimental activities as part of the WetLabCanal Clinic. Each session made use of thehidden natural resources in and around thecanal, through morning tea ceremoniesand afternoon feasts, as well as exploringsustainable ways of living on the water.After the festival, WetLab toured to sites inBurnley and Leigh.After the festival, WetLab toured to: Reedley Marina in Burnley 15 – 18 July Pennington Flash, Leigh 6 - 8 AugustTwo films explore some of the learning,techniques and future-facing ideas aroundsustainability that underpin WetLab: Dialogues #1, an introduction to thefloating structure and building the biomassRocket Stove Cycle Dialogues #2, exploring weaving anddyeing techniques, and a foraged feast.“I want to update the conventionalguided tour into something magicalthat weaves together science fiction,environmental themes and localarchitecture into a future fairytale –as seen from the River Mersey Ferry”Anita FontaineVisitors stepped aboard the iconic MerseyFerry to inhabit a fantasy-fiction worldexploring an evolved reality brought aboutby climate change, rising sea levels andtropical climates.Using augmented reality (AR), artistAnita Fontaine invited the viewer to leaveperceptions of reality ashore, encounteringa kaleidoscopic world of psychedelicsculptures exploding from land and water.The Liverpool skyline playfully shapeshifted,revealing a surreal alternate reality of ourlocal urban landscape in The Blue Violet River.Watch our film about WetLabWetLab websiteWetLab by public works Assembly is commissioned byAbandon Normal Devices and Super Slow Way.public works and Assembly, WetLab at National WaterwaysMuseum for AND Festival 2021. Photo credit Chris FosterProduced by Abandon Normal Devices for AND Festival 2021.Delivered in partnership with Canal & River Trust andWigan Council. Supported using public funding by ArtsCouncil England.Anita Fontaine, The Blue Violet River, onboard MerseyFerries for AND Festival 2021. Photo credit Chris FosterThe work was experienced by passengersvia eight custom-built, tablet-basedviewfinders on the decks of the MerseyFerry, alongside a site-specific ritualisticchoreography performed by costumedinhabitants of the River, from Anita’sFontaine’s future fairytale. A transcript ofthis work was available on site.Watch our film aboutThe Blue Violet RiverThe Blue Violet River by Anita Fontaine is commissioned andproduced by Abandon Normal Devices. Supported using publicfunding by Arts Council England, with further support fromWirral Borough Council and Merseytravel.Creative Director: Anita Fontaine, 3D Artist: Ignas Blažys,Writer: Kris Hermansson, Fabrication: Adam Sadiq & M3Industries, Software Developer: Grigor Todorov, Sound Design:Trent Williams, Voiceover: Rachel Barker, Choreography:Maria Malone, Performers: Elias Dubicki, Onyx Hinds, MariaMalone, Pei Tong, Costume & Flags: Mariel Osborn, Producer:Tricia Coleman, Production Manager: David Berger, TechnicalOperator: Andrew Hunt. Special thanks to McCann Manchester,Fox & Co & Chris Mullany.
Does Spring Hide Its Joy \\Kali MaloneTHU 1SUN 4 JULCentral Hydraulic Tower,BirkenheadKate Davies, By the Sound of Things, on board the DanielAdamson for AND Festival 2021. Photo credit Chris FosterDoes Spring Hide Its Joy was an immersiveaudio experience by American composerKali Malone featuring musicians StephenO’Malley and Lucy Railton. Manifesting asa 4-day multichannel sound installation,Malone offered a deep listening environmentin a hydraulic tower and engine house inBirkenhead Docks. Does Spring Hide Its Joywas created and recorded in the empty BerlinFunkhaus & Monom during the lockdown ofspring 2020. The music is a study in longform, non-linear durational composition,with a heightened focus on septimal justintonation and beat interference patterns.energy, Malone’s durational compositionbreathed and bellowed through porous brickwalls, reverberating toward the surface ofdockland waters.A specially commissioned Super 8mm filmexperimental portrait of the installation byfilmmaker Célia Hay, co-directed by SweatMother was available to watch online, duringthe installation. This lyrical film capturedthe movement of natural forces: wind, fire,water, animals as they pass through andovercome a man-made skeleton of industry.Watch a clipOriginally designed by engineer Jesse Hartley,and built in 1868, the Hydraulic Tower isbased on the Palazzo Vecchio, a renaissancecavern in Florence, Italy. Bombed duringWorld War II, the iconic nineteenth-centuryGrade II listed building was left unused fordecades. In this empty chamber of industrialKali Malone, Does Spring Hides Its Joy, at the Hydraulic Tower,Birkenhead for AND Festival 2021. Photo credit Chris FosterDoes Spring Hide Its Joy by Kali Malone is commissioned andproduced by Abandon Normal Devices. Supported using publicfunding by Arts Council England and Wirral Council. Withfurther support from Peel L&P. Featuring musicians StephenO’Malley and Lucy Railton, recorded at The Berlin Funkhausby Jonny Zoum and at Monom by Rodrigo Stambuk. Producers:Sophie Meadley and Heather Swift Hunt.By the Sound of Things \\ Kate DaviesFRI 9SUN 11 JUNThe Daniel Adamson, Manchester Ship CanalFrom the deck of one of the last survivingManchester Ship Canal tugs, the audiencewas invited to feel the vast echoes andepic scale of the modern shipping industryand consider the extent and impact of ourinsatiable consumerism on local and globalenvironments.Submerged beneath the waterline, marinersrest below deck between watches – theircradle song the aching sounds of a shipagainst water. A nautical soundtracktransports wayfarers to a vast and veiledworld – a subaquatic acoustical mirage.Featuring deep sea hydrophone recordingsdepicting the marine ecosystem disruptedby man-made ship noise, this hypnoticbinaural sound work told the story of thejourney of a container as it travels from thesurface to the bottom of the ocean.An accompanying film focused on the worldabove water, presenting a collision of theextraordinary and the banal that definesthe image of global sea trade – an absurdnarrative of ordinary things. Containersloaded and unloaded, the rhythmic motionsof cranes performing an industrial-scaleballet, the transporting vessels of the globalshipping industry forge sonic trails acrossoceans to bring us our things; the necessaryand frivolous, the coveted and the disposable.A transcript of this work was available on site.Watch our film aboutBy the Sound of ThingsBy the Sound of Things by Kate Davies is commissioned andproduced by Abandon Normal Devices. Supported using publicfunding by Arts Council England with further support from TheDaniel Adamson Preservation Society, Portico: Portsmouth’sCargo Terminal, and Maritime Digital Hub. Special thanks toProfessor Steve Simpson, University of Exeter, the UK Centre forEcology & Hydrology, and Marta Bolgan PhD.Sound Design: Chris Timpson of Aurelia Soundworks, Voice: JessGunning, Host: Peader Kirk, Producer: Tricia Coleman, ProductionManager: David Berger, Technical Operator: Jake Goouge.By the Sound of Things: Sound- Contributors: Andrew Bass,Department of Neurobiology and Behaviour, Cornell University;Daniel Birch; Marta Bolgan PhD; Sarika Cullis-Suzuki; IslaDavidson; Tim Gordon; Gordon Drummond Hastie, Universityof St Andrews; Thomas R. Kieckhefer; James Locascio andDavid Mann, University of South Florida College of MarineScience; Dr. Sue Lowerre-Barbieri, University of Florida; RobMcCauley; Eric Parmentier; Paul Perkins, NUWC Engineering;Shelia Patek; Graig A. Radford, University of Auckland; Prof.Steve Simpson; Aarhus University; Discovery of Sound in the Sea(DOSITS) from University of Rhode Island Ocean & Inner SpaceCenter (ISC); Sonatech; Voices in the Sea, Scripps Institution ofOceanography, UC San Diego; Watkins Marine Mammal SoundDatabase, Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionBy the Sound of Things: Film - Filmed by Kate Davies on locationwith Unknown Fields, aboard cargo ships with Maersk and CMACGM, in ports in Vietnam, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan & Korea.Thanks to Dan Cross for additional footage in Liverpool
Observatory Cinema \\Headwaters \\FRI 2SUN 4 JULBidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre, Birkenheadcurated byScalarama MerseysideThe Observatory Cinema was a temporary open air cinema atop Bidston Hill. A big screenweekend projected the art of sculpting time in the grounds of Bidston Observatory ArtisticResearch Centre: a location historically renowned for measuring natural undulations of tideand time. From this site of scientific observation and lighthouse signals overlooking theMerseyside estuary, AND curated new waves of cinematic experience. A live cinema eventthat reckoned with our industrial past and offered prophetic glimpses of what is to come.WED 16 JUN FRI 2 JULOnline and at BidstonObservatory ArtisticResearch Centre, BirkenheadPhoto credit Mitchell OrrObservatory Cinema at Bidston Observatory forAND Festival 2021. Photo credit Chris FosterSong of the SeaThe FogCurated by Scalarama MerseysideJohn Carpenter 1980 15 USA StudioCanalTomm Moore \ 2014 \ (UK) \ PG \ StudioCanalEnchanting Irish animation telling the storyof two children on a fantastic journey acrossa fading world of ancient legend and magic, inan attempt to return to their home by the sea.In this cult classic, ghosts of the victims ofa shipwreck near a tiny Californian coastaltown return 100 years after the event toget their revenge, as a strange, glowing fogsweeps over the area.All Light, EverywhereThe Life Aquatic with Steve ZissouTheo Anthony 2021 no certificateWes Anderson 2004 15 USA Touchstone PicturesUSA Memory / Sandbox FilmsRenowned and eccentric oceanographerSteve Zissou (Bill Murray) has swornvengeance upon the rare ‘jaguar shark’ thatdevoured his best friend and chief diverEsteban, in this comedy-drama caper.The open air premiere of this award winningdocumentary (Sundance 2021, non-fictionexperimentation), which explores thepersonal and philosophical relationshipsbetween cameras and weaponry.Supported using public funding by Arts Council England, Wirral Council and Film Hub North, proud to be part of the BFI FilmAudience Network. With further support from Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre.A journey across the Wirral peninsula,Headwaters, curated by Michael Pierce andMonika Rodriguez of Scalarama Merseyside,invited us to explore our connections withwater through hidden rivers, oral historiesand film archives. Taking place both onlineand in physical open-air spaces, Headwatersused local heritage and archive footage asa starting point for discussion; examiningthe environmental impact of film, activismaround water and imagined hydropunkfutures. Headwaters demonstrated howcommunity cinemas and water are used forhealing and recovery, and why both need tobe respected and protected.Show and Flow online via ZoomTime travel through local screen heritage,with guest speaker Mike Taylor, aprojectionist at Birkenhead Town Hall.Taylor spoke about his experience as aprojectionist with one of the oldest 35mmprojectors in the country, and shared hisown outlook on modern cinema.Turbulent Flow online via ZoomWater activism on film, using local footageon the historical misuse of water and thecontroversies it can cause. We reflectedwith local activist groups on how to getpreservation campaigns seen and actedupon, with special guest Barbara Hardcastlefrom Merseyside CND (Campaign for NuclearDisarmament).Natural Flow ft. Song of the SeaSee previous page for detailsThese screening and discussion events wereaccompanied by a series of journal postsin which Michael and Monika share theirprocess and discoveries over the 7 weeks ofthe festival.Headwaters was curated by Scalarama Merseyside andproduced by Abandon Normal Devices. Supported using publicfunding by Arts Council England, Wirral Council and Film HubNorth, proud to be part of the BFI Film Audience Network.The Headwaters programme contains archive material,including films provided by North West Film Archive atManchester Metropolitan University.
Notes from thePeriphery \\TulapopSaenjaroenNew Cinema Shorts \\Beyond Bodies, Towards Waterscurated by Natasha Thembiso RuwonaCounterflows curated by Matt TurnerDreamwalkerReliquary 2Andrea Zucchini 2019 15 minsLarry Achiampong 2020 12m 56sFRI 18 JUNOnlineSUN 11 JULEvery Piece of Youarranged residuesPeter Spanjer 2020 6minsSara Tammone 2020 12m 32sAbandon Normal Devices commissionedartist and filmmaker Tulapop Saenjaroento create a new short film exploringthemes of globalised networks, territoriality,and parallel spaces of trade and labour ina port city Laem Chabang, ChonburiProvince, Thailand.Notes from the Periphery (2021)Notes from the Periphery is filmed in Englishand Thai, with English subtitles.Still from Notes from the Periphery,Tulapop Saenjaroen, 2021Hear Me SometimesHeavy Bones #2Sofia Theodore-Pierce 2020 14 minsMaybelle Peters 2019 2m 19sNotes from the Periphery was premiered atandfestival.org.uk/live on Friday 18 June,alongside Saenjaroen’s previous shortsPeople on Sunday (2019) and A Room With aCoconut View (2018).Commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices. Supported usingpublic funding by Arts Council England, and Film Hub North,proud to be part of the BFI Film Audience Network.Signal 8in the absence of ruinsSimon Liu 2019 14 minsCairo Clarke 2021 27m 33sEvery RuptureThe Mail from WaterSasha Litvintseva 2020 13 minsXuefei Cao (Cherphile Ciao) 2020 11m 52sIf You Stand With Your Back to theSlowing of the Speed of Light in WaterJulie Murray 1997 18 minsNew Cinema Shorts \\FRI 4 JUNOnlineFRI 9 JULTurbidity curated by Angela ChanRIOT curated by Tendai John MutambuThe Island is No HomeRiotShamica Ruddock 2020 2 minsJohn Akomfrah 1999 50 minRIPPLESPreemptive Listening(Part 1: The Fork in the Road)Anuka Ramischwili-Schäfer 2018 9 minsWeek-long waves of moving images thatrippled and reflected across the festival’svirtual, real and post-digital landscapesof short form cinema, featuring selectionsfrom guest curators. Each programme wasavailable to watch at andfestival.org.uk/livefor seven days.Supported using public funding by Arts Council Englandand Film Hub North, proud to be part of the BFI FilmAudience Network.Aura Satz 2018 9 minVoice from ElsewhereLo Lai Lai Natalie 勞麗麗 2018 13 mins
Toxicity’s Reach \\curated by Dani AdmissTHU 27 MAYOnlineONGOINGThis online exhibition traces howcontaminants of emerging concern exertagency over our lives in unexpected andlesser-known ways, asking how exposureto chemical water pollutants affects usbiologically, socially and ideologically, andhow reimagining molecular water-pollutionmight make us think differently about ourdaily actions and give us hope to flourish intoxic worlds.Plastic Hypersea (the spill) \\Invisible to the naked eye, micro-pollutingchemicals are everywhere, shaping ourbodies and worlds. Many of us are bornonto toxic lands built on unjust legacies orpursue belief systems that continue socialinequalities and put in place new pollutingfutures. In multiple ways, we are entangledwith the very environments we seek to livewith, from and in.Sissel Marie TonnPart of Toxicity’s ReachVisit the exhibitionAn audio introduction, and audiodescriptions of the works are available hereLuiza Prado de O Martins, The SeaCollapsed into the Pleasures of Sand, 2021Toxicity’s Reach is commissioned and produced by AbandonNormal Devices, curated by Dani Admiss. Supported usingpublic funding by Arts Council England and Creative IndustriesFund Netherlands.The Sea Collapsed intothe Pleasures of Sand \\Luiza Prado de O. MartinsEstroworld Now:Part of Toxicity’s ReachThe Quarantine Edition \\Mary MaggicPart of Toxicity’s ReachMary Maggic, Estroworld Now: The Quarantine Edition, 2021From the make-up, soaps and birth controlpills in your bathroom to plastic packagingin your kitchen, beauty, hygiene and lifestyleproducts in the average home cater to aconsumerist culture driven by ideals ofbeauty, sterility, and purity. These everydayitems leach a multitude of pervasivechemicals that wend their way through ourbodies, environments and urban systems,disrupting hormones of all species andcausing ecological threat to our landscapes.This new work invites you to navigate3D model renderings of the interior of anactual suburban home in the North West ofEngland. Part of ‘The Estroworld’, a fictionalcorporate conglomerate of petrochemical,agricultural, and pharmaceutical industrieswhose products and molecular residues aresimply inescapable, visitors are confrontedwith an overpopulation of Estroworldproducts, pop ups, and derivative companyslogans, that promise to either shieldor distract us from our current state ofplanetary ruin. Are we all already livingin The Estroworld? How political is yourshampoo?Creative technology consultancy by Preverbal Studio,Tim Murray-Browne and Alex Futtersak. With specialthanks to Alexandra Levene.‘River Mersey’ originates from the OldEnglish ‘Maere,’ meaning ‘boundary’.Boundaries, borders and interstices are sitesof transition and transformation; liminalspaces where dimensions meet. Historically,countless ships launched themselves towardthe sea from here, animated by the Empire’sdesire for domination and its insatiablehunger for bodies, human and non-human.That violence remains etched into this world,sacred waters and sacred lands, saturatedwith the toxic waste of Empire.Through a speculative narrative, this GIFessay explores how, in the unstable sites ofsalt marshes, wetlands, and intertidal zones,forms of queer life can come into being. Whatqueer life can flourish in the boundary spacesdrenched with the traces of moving andshifting matter? How can we make medicinefrom the sediment and the rot of history?Sound by Ryan Mahan.When our ancient ancestors crept out ofthe primordial soup, they had to “fold” theocean back into themselves. This is called theHypersea - a biological concept describingthe interconnected network of nutrientfilled fluids flowing through all land-basedorganisms. Our blood, gastric juices, sweatand urine are daily reminders of theseshared aquatic origins. Today, however,there is another material entanglement(re)connecting marine and land-basedorganisms: plastic. Plastic debris has spreadto every corner of the earth through air andwater currents, breaking into ever-smallerbits that never fully disintegrate, and passfrom environments into our bodies. In ayear of pandemic, where pressure on foodsystems led to a worldwide public healthcrisis, contamination reminds us that ourhealth is also inextricably entangled with thehealth of our ecosystems.Plastic Hypersea (the spill) is part sciencefiction film, part eco-immunologicalenvironment; a multi-channel film andanimation in which Tonn prompts us toconsider how we can shift our understandingof our individual health towards a moreecological world view.Performers: Kenzo Kusuda & Goda Žukauskaitė. Sound:Jonathan Reus. Plastic Hyperse (the spill) was made possiblewith the support of: BAD Awards; Creative Industries FundNetherlands; Department of Environment and Health;VU Amsterdam and Department Molecular Cell Biology &Immunology, Amsterdam UMC – location VUmc.Sissel Marie Tonn, Plastic Hypersea (the spill), 2021
One-Fifth of the Earth’s Surface \\THU 27 MAYOnlineONGOINGOne-Fifth of the Earth’s Surface is aconversation between artists Hakeem Adam,Maxwell Mutanda and the Atlantic Ocean.Presented as an interactive audio-visuallandscape, this explorative online experienceunearths the power of water as a dynamicand fluid archive, offering multiple readingsof the unpredictable transatlantic watersas an evolving structure that initiateschange on its surrounding lands; reroutingpower and reshaping the lives of all whodepend on it.Their research involves investigations andexperiments into the design of varioussystems and infrastructure: canals anddams, transcontinental submarine datacable maps, and much more, exploring howthese tools and materials have been used fordredging up and rearranging our histories,lives and power.Featuring landscapes created from dataand the artists’ own unique relationsto water, this online artwork begins anopen dialogue. The website serves asan experimental route for users to readvarious digital drawings, each offering andresponding to a specific theme connectedto the Atlantic Ocean, a body of watercovering one-fifth of the Earth’s surface.Visit the exhibitionClick the eye symbol on the above link fora more accessible viewing experience, forexample, if using a screen readerOne-Fifth of the Earth’s Surface by Hakeem Adam and MaxwellMutanda is commissioned and produced by Abandon NormalDevices and York Mediale. Supported using public funding byArts Council England and British Council.One-Fifth of the Earth’s Surface contains digitised maps andsound recordings from the collections of the British Library.One-Fifth of the Earth’s Surface was selected in a closed callfrom ColabNowNow 2017-2019 alumni.Still from Kate Davies, By the Sound of Things, 2021Deeper \\THU 27 MAY THU 8 JULOnline, available to watch or listenDeeper was a series of in-depthconversations with artists presenting workelsewhere within the festival, offering aweekly moment to delve beyond the surfaceof the AND Festival 2021 programme.Watch each talk and accompanyingpresentation via the links to the right, whichinclude closed captions, or listen on-the-govia our new AND Podcast.Deeper: One-Fifth of the Earth’s SurfaceHakeem Adam, Maxwell Mutandaand Mariama AttahDeeper: Toxicity’s ReachDani Admiss and Luiza Prado de. O MartinsDeeper: WetLabpublic works, Assembly and Luke W MoodyDeeper: The Blue Violet RiverAnita Fontaine and Luke W MoodyDeeper: Radio EnsembleIgnatia Nilu and Luke W MoodyHeinrich Berann for National Geographic CreativeDeeper: By the Sound of ThingsKate Davies and Prof. Steve Simpson
Weedweavers \\New EmergencesGatherings: FRI 18, 25 JUNPerformance: FRI 9 JULIn Weedweavers, the radical Dutchcuratorial collective New Emergencespresented collaborative workshops and alive performance led by artists AngelikiDiakrousi, mariëlle verdijk and Laura Spark.Danielle Braithwaite Shirley, THE WORLD HAS CHANGED YOU WILL BE JUDGED, 2021Resurface \\SUN 6 MAYSUN 4 JULOnline, available to watch or listenResurface was our conversationsprogramme looking at how we worktogether and reshape the future of art.Watch each talk and accompanyingpresentation via the links to the right,which include closed captions, or listenon-the-go via our new AND Podcast.Resurface: Suzanne DhaliwalSuzanne DhaliwalResurface: Countercontrol –A reading group with Black SwanLeïth Benkhedda, Laura Lotti andCalum BowdenResurface: Hypericum: A Code of PracticeFeaturing members of the current WorkingGroup of UK based arts workers and smallscale organisationsResurface: THE WORLD HAS CHANGED:YOU WILL BE JUDGEDDanielle Brathwaite ShirleyResurface: Sustaining UncertaintyRazia Jordan, Jonathan May, Penny Rafferty,Siddharth Khajuria and Luke W MoodyGatherings as part of Weedweavers tookplace in June, where participants, artistsand archaeologists came together to sharememories and reflections about water,beachcombing and algae explorations.The performance was an hour-long liveimprovisation using the materials fromthe Gatherings. Introducing the idea of analgaerithm, Laura, Angeliki and mariëllecollaborated in creating a live algal oracle inwhich they weaved soundbites, spoken wordand visuals into an ambiguous, emergentand intuitive narrative.This event was broadcast at andfestival.org.uk/live on Friday 9July. The recording of this performance was available to watchonline until Sunday 11 July.Weedweavers by Angeliki Diakrousi and mariëlle verdijk iscommissioned and produced by Abandon Normal Devices,curated by New Emergences. Supported using public funding byArts Council England and Creative Industries Fund Netherlands.
Marija Bozinovska Jones, Beginningless Mind:(rivers, rhythms, rituals), 2021. Photo by Frangipani BeattBeginningless Mind:(rivers, rhythms, rituals) \\Marija Bozinovska JonesSAT 12 JUNOnlineThis edition of Beginningless Mind activatedembodied knowledge through movement,in collaboration with choreographerFranka Marlene Foth. In search of a senseof belonging through a shared reality,Bozinovska Jones probes collectiveworldmaking, mapping Wikipedia onto websearches using Natural Language Processing,a subfield of Artificial Intelligence. Theresults, produced by algorithms, aretranslated into a kinaesthetic vernacular,in a gesture where the verbal collapsesmeaning onto movement. This view of thebody as a collective assemblage of social,material and unknowable multitudes, queersthe nature-culture divide. Starting where weare, we can begin to refine our consciousnesstowards universal kinship.The audiovisual event premiered at andfestival.org.uk/live onSaturday 12 June with an introduction from Lucia Pietroiusti,Curator, General Ecology at Serpentine, and was available towatch online until Sunday 11 July 2021.Radio Ensemble \\ricEntropy \\curated by Ignatia NiluYaYa Bones x 00Online: SAT 19 JUNBidston Observatory: FRI 2 – SUN 4 JULSAT 26 JUNOnlineUK and Indonesian sound artists andcomposers were invited to perform togetheras an ensemble across parallel time andspace, as part of an exchange hosted byAND in response to restrictions for musicalcollaboration over the last 12 months. Theselimitations necessitated alternative modesand expanded possibilities for collaboration:combining analogue and digital technologiesto connect multiple players in a speculativeperformance. Each of the ensemble playerswere guided in the performance by anauditive score composed by Gatot Danar.Contributing artists: Daniel Caesar, JonathanHerring, Daniel Thorne, Harsya Wahono.An accompanying installation was availableto explore at Bidston Observatory overone weekend, where the work could beexperienced via the analogue radiosprovided, either alone or as a group, bysearching for the correct frequency.YaYa Bones (Ayesha Tan Jones) streamedEther through the ethernet in this liveaudiovisual broadcast; a symbiosis ofoperatic siren calls and technological earthbeats, mantras of poetics and epitaphs tothe chthulucene (or ‘self-making’ –Donna J Harroway, 2016).accompanied by liquid digital imagery,courtesy of 3D visual artist 00 (aio0o0o0).Following the premiere, YaYa Bones and 00joined Luke Moody to discuss their ideasbehind the work.Reflecting on a childhood of Mersey shores,ricEntropy undulates with meditationaldunes from the Liverpool-born artist,This performance was broadcast on Saturday 26 Juneat andfestival.org.uk/live, and was available to watchonline until Sunday 11 July.Preview Clip and Artist’s ConversationThe Grief Interval \\Aura Satz with Sarah DavachiSAT 10 JULOnlineListen back. RadioEnsemble is curated by Ignatia Nilu, commissionedand produced by Abandon Normal Devices. Supported usingpublic funding from Arts Council England and British CouncilIndonesia. With further support from Bidston ObservatoryArtistic Research Centre.Score: 33EMYBW and J.G BiberkopfChoreography: Franka Marlene FothDancers: Janan Laubscher, Camille Jackson, Steph B. Quinci,Dana Pajarillaga, Myriel WellingNatural Language Processing: Jayson HaebichVoice: Natasha KerryWardrobe: OttolingerBeginningless Mind by Marija Bozinovska Jo
Using augmented reality (AR), artist Anita Fontaine invited the viewer to leave perceptions of reality ashore, encountering a kaleidoscopic world of psychedelic sculptures exploding from land and water. The Liverpool skyline playfully shapeshifted, revealing a surreal alternate reali
