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Emma Hart,

Art Exchange

Emma Hart's work, M20 Death Drives, commissioned by Whitstable Biennale 2012, can be seen at the Art Exchange Gallery, at the University of Essex, from 17 January - 14 February 2013. For more information visit Art Exchange

Martin John Callanan, Whitechapel Open

Martin John Callanan, who showed work in this year's Whitstable Biennale in September 2012, had works on show in the 2012 Whitechapel Open, including Deed Poll, and International Directory of Fictitious Telephone Numbers (2012).

For more information visit The Whitechapel.

Mikhail Karikis, XENON

Mikhail Karikis' 'exploded opera' took place at East Kent festivals over summer/autumn 2010, including Whitstable Biennale. One chapter of XENON was on show at Manifesta 9, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art.

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The sixth edition of the Whitstable Biennale took place over three weekends between 1 - 16 September

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Whitstable Biennale is a festival of contemporary visual art. Set in the small fishing town of Whitstable, the festival features a wide range of ambitious and experimental new work in film and performance.

This year's Whitstable Biennale took place over three weekends between 1 - 16 September, and was packed with live performances, screenings, exhibitions, talks and events.

Whitstable Biennale 2012 presented three curated programmes which unfold across the three weekends of the festival, exploring the overlap between film and performance, and presenting some of the most energised, inventive and important younger artists working in visual arts today

Stages in the Revolution, curated by The Island (Victoria Brooks and Andrew Bonacina) was series of projects that seek to create spaces for, and reflect on, the provisional communities that coalesce and dissolve across the three weeks of the Biennale. Their programme iIncludes Patrick Staff's series of stages constructed around the working harbour area which, as well as functioning as new public spaces and an open invitation for impromptu performance, will also be used as performance spaces for participants in workshops and discussion groups; Gareth Moore's Children's Films, an itinerant film project involving a set of short 16mm films made by international artists especially for children; and Jesse Jones' dramatisation of an an iconic encounter group therapy session.

Artist and writer Jeremy Millar curated a programme of exhibition and talks, including a new film by BJNilsen and Jon Wozencroft, and Speak Nearby, a programme of new and classic artists’ film and video that explore the intertwining themes of rituals, dream, dance, and possession. A group exhibition including the American film-maker Maya Deren, Joachim Koester and Shezad Dawood, these are works of transformation, and within them it is often the human body that is transformed, performing these acts or, in turn, being performed upon.

Artist Emma Leach put together a programme of live performances taking place on each of the three weekends in unusual spaces in Whitstable, as well as immersive and performative installations that span each day. Many of the artists' works exist at the intersection of performance with other media: video, sculpture, writing and music will all feature strongly. One strong concern shared by many of the works is the relationship between material things and the magic that makes them function. Charisma, the internet and sea shanties will all be under scrutiny. There will also be a series of three Saturday performance evenings, each including a trio of new works corresponding to three themes that run through the Biennale's programme as a whole: Delivering Text, Moving Sculpture and Faith & Trickery.

Whitstable Biennale 2012 will be accompanied by a lively fringe, the Whitstable Satellite.

A new festival App will be available nearer the opening date.