Whitstable Biennale - Festival of Contemporary Art
Uddin & ElseyCafe EsperantoWhitstable MuseumSat 23 July 2011Artists Sonia Uddin and Leah Elsey presented Cafe Esperanto, an event as part of their two year commission with Whitstable Biennale. Whitstable Museum's Education Space, on the High Street, became an informal interactive language centre, encouraging people to speak with others in a range of foreign languages. Presented with the support of Canterbury City Council TAP into Cash Commission, the Whitstable Twinning Association and Whitstable Oyster Festival. |
Satellite Programme
A record number of artists took part in the Satellite Programme, the Biennale's lively fringe. 141 artists took part in over 75 different projects.
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Songs of SaltSaturday 6 August 2011Queen's Walk Promenade, South Bank Centre 60th Anniversary of the 1951 Festival of Britain Whitstable Biennale was invited by Metal to take part in the Southbank Centre's celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Festival of Britain. A four-month Festival of British culture and creativity is running from April - September 2011. Following their wonderful sea shanty singing project at the Satellite Programme of the 2010 Whitstable Biennale, Cave People are representing Whitstable Biennale at the Southbank Centre on Saturday 6 August with a new sea shanty performance. |
Whistable Biennale wins awardCanterbury Culture Awards16 June 2011Whitstable Biennale won an award at the first Canterbury Culture Awards on 16 June. The award was for "raising the profile of Canterbury's cultural offering regionally, nationally and internationally", and was sponsored by Chives. |
Whitstable Biennale DIY8 projectin association with Live Art Development Agency:Cecile WeeI can't live live on vitriol alone!
In the ‘current climate’ where the very need, impact and agency of creative action is being undermined, it is easy to become distracted, disregarding what we need to flourish, only seeking the basics for survival. This workshop aims to provide a critical yet supportive environment in which participants consider and experiment with positive and pro-active approaches to art’s participation in current social conditions. Drawing from aspects of action research, the project invites individuals to become part of a learning group who wish to orient their practice towards further engagement with social, political, economic and environmental issues through critical affirmative activities. This will centre around small-scale action research projects, which will be reflected on by the individual participant and the group, testing how these ideas can be carried on outside the hermetic workshop context.
Inspired by Escalate collective, UK Uncut, David Bohm’s theory of dialogue and Theodore Roszak’s writing on counter culture. This workshop will take place in September 2011. Applicants were selected by open submission. Results of the workshop will be made available by the end of 2011. The artist: Cecilia Wee is a London-based independent writer, broadcaster and curator who produces art projects, particularly in the fields of experimental sound, performance and visual art practices, in the UK and internationally. She has worked with organisations including Tate Britain, Magazin 4 Bregenz, Whitechapel Gallery, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Chelsea College of Art, National Review of Live Art and Resonance FM. Cecilia’s research interests include narratives of technological 'progress', the theory and practice of dialogue, cultural understandings of militarised combat, civil society in the Global South and environmental change. www.ceciliawee.com |
Jester-Curator SymposiumTo what extent does the curator need to be a responsible storyteller?11:00-17:00 20 May 2011Venue: University for the Creative Arts at CanterburyA day of presentations and discussions addressing ideas of playfulness and responsibility in relation to curatorial practice. Chaired by Tom Morton, Co-curator of the 2010 British Art Show 7 PAPERS from TJ Demos, Critic and author, The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp, and Dave Beech, Critic and co-author, The Philistine Controversy; member of the art collective Freee PANEL with Pablo Leon de la Barra, Artist and curator; editor, Centre for the Aesthetic Revolution, Sally O'Reilly, Author, The Body in Contemporary Art, Matthew Poole, Curator and writer, Programme Director of the Centre for Curatorial Studies at the University of Essex, Gilda Williams, Lecturer, MA Curating, Goldsmiths College, London correspondent for Artforum magazine PERFORMANCE by Richard Layzell, Artist and researcher with ResCen Admission: £17.50 full price, £12 concessions. For further information and to book your place, visit www.trifarious.com The symposium has been made possible by CD:EK (Curatorial Development in East Kent), an initiative which provides three early career curators with the chance to work with leading organisations in the county: Stour Valley Arts, Whitstable Biennale and University for the Creative Arts. CD:EK is supported by Canterbury City Council, Ashford Borough Council and Arts Council England. |
DIY8: Call for ProposalsDeadline 5pm Thursday 19 May 2011
More info on DIY8 on the Live Art Development Agency site
DIY is an opportunity for artists working in Live Art to conceive and run unusual training and professional development projects for other artists. We want to hear from you if have an idea for an exciting, innovative and idiosyncratic Live Art professional development project that offers something new and is geared to the eclectic and often unusual needs of artists whose practices are grounded in challenging and unconventional approaches, forms and concepts. If you think you can initiate and run a DIY professional development project then read the guidelines below. DIY 8 builds on the strengths of previous DIY schemes which have proved to be invaluable experiences for project leaders, participants and organisers alike. DIY 8 is a Live Art Development Agency initiative developed in collaboration with Artsadmin (national), Fierce (West Midlands), Live at LICA/Nuffield Theatre Lancaster (North West), PLATFORM (national), Text Festival (North West), Whitstable Biennale (South East) and Yorkshire Sculpture Park (Yorkshire). Projects will be specifically based in and/or stimulating and benefiting artists from the regions noted above. Projects may also be developed in collaboration with the DIY partner organisations in those regions. Nine DIY projects will be supported that will take place sometime between August and October 2011. Each project will receive £1,000 support. |
Phil Coy, FaçadeScreening at Loop in Barcelona11 May 2011Film showing at Loop Barcelona, at the IAAC, Institute for Advanced Architecture. More information on the Loop website. |
Off the Page festival in WhitstableFriday 11 - Sunday 13 February 2011
In February 2011, Sound and Music and The Wire present Off the Page, the UK’s first ever literary festival devoted to music criticism. Taking place at the Playhouse Theatre, Whitstable, this weekend-long event will feature a host of internationally-renowned critics, authors, musicians and artists discussing the current state of underground and experimental music in a programme of talks, presentations, panel discussions and workshops.
Highlights include Robert Wyatt on his favourite music on Friday 11th and a presentation by Christian Marclay on Saturday 12th. More info on the festival and booking at http://soundandmusic.org/projects/page |
Phil Coy, FaçadeScreening, Whitechapel GalleryThursday 3 Feb 2011, 19.00-19.45
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Phil Coy FaçadeScreening at South London Gallery8 & 9 September 2010Friday 8 October 7-9pm Saturday 9 October 11am-6pm Free See South London Gallery website for more information. |
Phil Coy FaçadeScreening at Whitechapel Gallery, London30 September 2010See Whitechapel Gallery website for more information and booking.
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Karen Mirza & Ruth BealeScreening of The Voyage of Nonsuchand Q&A session with the artistsBritish Film Institute 1 August 2010Karen Mirza and Ruth Beale's film will be screened at the BFI on 1 August 2010. A video of the artists' Q&A session with BFI Curator Will Fowler, held after the screening, is now online at BFI website.
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