Screenings: The Waiting Place

Transformed into a cinema-style space, with a single large-scale projection, the Horsebridge presents two programmes of international artists' film and video, each to be shown on alternate days. The Waiting Place is where we are when between places, between places that might seem more important. It is seldom a place that we might consider as valuable in itself, yet perhaps we should come to appreciate of its keen sense of reflection and of anticipation, of what has been or what might be. The videos in this programme, selected from a diverse array of national and international artists, share this sense of uncertainty, whether in their form hovering between drama and documentary, performance and observation or their ostensible subject matter. At times this might appear ambiguous or unclear, perhaps the situations improbable or the actions suspect, yet they each offer us a place in which we can reside for a moment, and to consider where it is that we find ourselves.

The programmes feature works by artists including Jannane Al-Ani, Mircea Cantor, Adam Chodzko, Luke Fowler, Szabolcs KissPal, Mark Lewis, Rosalind Nashashibi, the Otolith Group, Oliver Payne, Nick Relph, Anri Sala, Zineb Sedira and Roy Villevoye.

The exhibition consists of two, two-hour long programmes; programme one will be screened on Saturdays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, while programme two will be screened on Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Screening times for individual works can be found on the Whitstable Biennale website and in the gallery.

In 2004, Graham Gussin was commissioned by the Whitstable Biennale and Turner Contemporary in Margate and to make a new work for the Whistable Biennale 2004; the result was Illumination Rig, an extraordinary installation of 8 film lights set upon the cliff-top at Reculver Country Park that were lit from noon until midnight on the year's longest day. ADVD documenting this work never before publicly exhibited will be screened continuously in the window of the Horsebridge Arts & Community Centre.

The screening programme has been devised by Jeremy Millar, an artist and curator living and working in Whitstable.