Over three months we produced and presented a series of live talks in Folkestone, on British performance art at the art space and gallery Kollectiv. This , in collaboration with the venue, Venice Agendas, Strangelove Festival during the Folkestone Triennial as part of the Triennial Fringe.
The talks were on phenomenology, the history of art as a lived experience, The Artists Placement Group – famously putting artists to work in civil society – and public art, the lived history of Folkstone Fringe.
A show about the APG, Artists Placement Group is currently on show at Modern Art Oxford.
The talks, recorded at Kollective art gallery for podcast / broadcast on arts-radio station Resonance104.4FM, were supported by techne and University of the Arts London.
This short placement of my own consolidated a long relationship with the place, to which we. southern Londoners run from the city. My sound work was exhibited several times at Strange Cargo and the Sight and Sound Festival (“That Illiterate Woman”, a sound piece for earphones about racism in 1960s America, pitting the president against campaigner Fanny Lou Hamer. Another, “Separate Engagements”, was again a sound piece for earphones, pitting the breath of the listeners against the narrative of both Charles and Diana in separate interviews about the differences that saw them split. Folkestone is also where, after attending several Pride festivals on the coast towns, pregnant, I interviewed a local fisherman about the sea, and came up with the unpublished song cycle “The Secret Sex Lives of Molluscs” – (this is a sketch, performed for Non-Classical in London, still pregnant then!)
worked on by my final guest Diane Dever.
In loving memory of the fishermen of Folkestone, and their embodied knowledge of the sea.
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