Swimming Home
Whitstable Biennale
2018
I was curator for the ninth edition of the Whistable Biennale, Swimming Home. The curatorial team, led by Whitstable Biennale Director Sue Jones, also included: Sophie Chapman, learning; Gareth Evans, film and Keira Greene, performance.
As with the 2016 Biennale, the festival took its name after the commissioned works had been given a chance to develop according to the artists' interests. This time drawing from the title of Deborah Levy novel (itself making reference to John Cheever's The Swimmer), the festival, and, in different ways, the works, responded to an atmosphere of destabilised identity and loss of ground, looking at ways in which communities might rethink or rebuild themselves.
Commissioned artists/groups for the festival included: Analogue Ensemble, Salma Ashraf, Bakudapan, Caroline Bergvall, Josephine Callaghan, Rosie Carr, Leigh Clarke, Patrick Cole, Jude Crilly, Phoebe Cunningham, Libita Clayton, Sarah Dobai with Tom McCarthy, Bernice Donszelmann, Lucy Gunning & Helen Robertson, Georgia Gendall, Keira Greene with Katye Coe & Tim Mitchell, Kihlberg & Henry, Sophie Lee, Hannah Lees, Rebecca Lennon, Deborah Levy, Nantes School of Art, Josephine Sweeney & Kris Lock, Sarah Wood, Water Bodies, Webb-Ellis.
For more information and a full list of artists click here:
cementfields.org/projects/whitstable-biennale-2018
The Swimmer, screened at Whitstable Biennale 2018. Photo: Rosie Lonsdale
Open School East Associates, 2018 Contemporary Exorcism, 2018. Photo: Rosie Lonsdale
Josephine Callaghan, Summercamp, 2018. Photo: Rosie Lonsdale
Caroline Bergvall, Conference, 2018. Photo: Thierry Bal
Patrick Cole, Restaurant, 2018. Photo: Lou-Lou Sainsbury
Swimming Home
Whitstable Biennale
2018
I was curator for the ninth edition of the Whistable Biennale, Swimming Home. The curatorial team, led by Whitstable Biennale Director Sue Jones, also included: Sophie Chapman, learning; Gareth Evans, film and Keira Greene, performance.
As with the 2016 Biennale, the festival took its name after the commissioned works had been given a chance to develop according to the artists' interests. This time drawing from the title of Deborah Levy novel (itself making reference to John Cheever's The Swimmer), the festival, and, in different ways, the works, responded to an atmosphere of destabilised identity and loss of ground, looking at ways in which communities might rethink or rebuild themselves.
Commissioned artists/groups for the festival included: Analogue Ensemble, Salma Ashraf, Bakudapan, Caroline Bergvall, Josephine Callaghan, Rosie Carr, Leigh Clarke, Patrick Cole, Jude Crilly, Phoebe Cunningham, Libita Clayton, Sarah Dobai with Tom McCarthy, Bernice Donszelmann, Lucy Gunning & Helen Robertson, Georgia Gendall, Keira Greene with Katye Coe & Tim Mitchell, Kihlberg & Henry, Sophie Lee, Hannah Lees, Rebecca Lennon, Deborah Levy, Nantes School of Art, Josephine Sweeney & Kris Lock, Sarah Wood, Water Bodies, Webb-Ellis.
For more information and a full list of artists click here:
cementfields.org/projects/whitstable-biennale-2018
The Swimmer, screened at Whitstable Biennale 2018. Photo: Rosie Lonsdale
Open School East Associates, 2018 Contemporary Exorcism, 2018. Photo: Rosie Lonsdale
Josephine Callaghan, Summercamp, 2018. Photo: Rosie Lonsdale
Caroline Bergvall, Conference, 2018. Photo: Thierry Bal
Patrick Cole, Restaurant, 2018. Photo: Lou-Lou Sainsbury