Whitstable Biennale - Festival of Contemporary Art
Anna Best
Whitstable Herne Bay Dover Folkestone Rye Hastings Eastbourne Brighton Shoreham Worthing Littlehampton Portsmouth Southampton Christchurch Bournemouth Poole Swanage Weymouth Bridport Lyme Regis Sidmouth Exmouth Teignmouth Torquay Totnes Plymouth Truro Falmouth St Ives Newquay Bridgwater Weston Bristol Newport Penarth Barry Port Talbot Swansea Llanelli Tenby Milford Haven Cardigan Aberystwyth Caernarfon Holyhead Bangor Rhyl Birkenhead Bromborough Liverpool Preston Blackpool Fleetwood Whitehaven Maryport Annan Stranraer Girvan Ayr Irvine Campbeltown Largs Ardrossan Greenock Dunoon Oban Stornoway John O’Groats Inverness Banff Aberdeen Montrose Arbroath Dundee Perth St Andrews Alloa Berwick Newcastle Hartlepool Whitby Scarborough Bridlington Hull Goole Grimsby Boston Skegness Kings Lynn Great Yarmouth Lowestoft Ipswich Felixstowe Harwich Colchester Clacton Maldon Southend Sheerness Faversham
In June 2006 a collection of newspapers was gathered, coinciding with the Biennale. People usually collect newspapers because of a royal celebration or a significant, global event. The work has become an archive of a random moment in time, rather than for reasons of historical significance.
Anna Best read stories from the newspapers, at Whitstable Harbour on all three Biennale Sundays. For Best, the harbour as a venue was an important metaphor. Harbours right around the British mainland are points of entry and exit; they delineate between land and sea and serve both industry and leisure and tourism in unison, on the fringes of a vast, liminal space.
Whitstable Harbour
