Micro-residencies involve emerging international artists who will explore issues of development/ destruction, identity/borders, the new world/nature and games/social engagement. These residencies will culminate in talks and presentations.
‘Mind part, Body part, Land part’. Exploring the intimacy that emerges from the exchange between mind, body and the surrounding environment within the practice of art and the experience of travel.
and imagining new ones, the tension between instructions and suggestions to apprehend a landscape, building by undoing, the compression and paring down of language (e.g. with ‘hash tags’ and ‘sticky language’) and the construction of an authentic experience.
‘Dragging Anchor’. “This is a nautical term for a boat whose anchor does not catch on the bottom of the ocean so the boat drags along. Many times this happens while the people onboard are asleep so they wake up in the morning in a different place, on the rock … in a place they did not expect.” The artist uses this metaphor to explore the notion of Folkstone slowly and maybe reluctantly being dragged to a new place through regeneration.
Join us for drinks, snacks and a performance about getting together.
SATURDAY 13TH AUGUST 4PM – TRANSIT\ION – the residency culminating presentation and a social event with Gillian White introducing the latest version of her Folkestone Regenerated Monopoly Board. Join as for games and refreshments.
‘Arrival, Departure, Return’. Operating from a disused fish shop, previously called ‘Shoreline’, TRANSIT\ION will work with local fishermen and lorry drivers, collecting images, film and audio that record their experiences of leaving and returning home. Considering Folkestone as a point from which to look out to the sea, and back into land, the artists will explore the ways these two groups relate to place; as edge, terminus or frontier.
Location LOW&HIGH 15 Tontine Street, Folkestone, CT20 1JT.