Folkestone Triennial

Nils Norman with Gavin Wade mit Simon & Tom Bloor

Title: Kiosk 5: Kite Kiosk
Location: West End of The Leas, in front of Clifton Crescent

The artists have recreated a modernist kiosk based on the 1930s design of Berthold Lubetkin for Dudley Zoo. “Kiosks are a wonderful invention. You can live your life the geometric way framed within a diametric ellipsoid composition designed to make things better”, (Simon and Tom Bloor).
These kiosks are seen as symbols of a utopian future. “As the world develops, new things have to be made out of the fragments; needs will be radically different”, (Simon and Tom Bloor). From the kiosk red and black kites are available, each printed with quotes and keywords from current “culture and regeneration debate.”(Norman).
These quotes will be further investigated in a booklet put together by the artists, which will also be available from the Kiosk.

Translated text about each of the artworks into French, Turkish and Slovak can be found on the events page or from the visitor centre

Nils Norman's Biography

Born East Sussex, 1966. Lives and works in London.

Nils Norman has developed his own mix of art and activism, examining histories of utopian thinking and ideas on alternative economic systems that can work within urban living conditions.

Recent solo shows include

Degenerate Cologne, Galerie Christian Nagel – Köln 2006
The Homerton Playscape Multiple Struggle Niche, City Projects – London 2005
Hey Rudy!: A Phantom on the Streets of Schizz, Galerie Christian Nagel – Berlin 2003
The Geocruiser, the University of Cambridge Botanic Garden and The Institute of Visual Culture, Cambridge – England 2001

Recent group exhibitions include

It Starts From Here, De La Warr Pavilion – Bexhill on Sea 2007
Revolution is not a Garden Party, Galerija Miroslav Kraljevi – Croatia 2007
British Art Show 6, Newcastle (touring) 2005/6
50th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale – Italy 2005

Norman collaborates with a range of artists and also lectures in Europe and the US. He completed a major design project for the Roskilde Commune in Denmark in 2005 and is now working on a school playground project for the new Golden Lane Campus in East London.

Gavin Wade mit Simon & Tom Bloor's Biographies

Gavin Wade, born Birmingham, 1971. Lives and works in Birmingham. Simon & Tom Bloor, both born Birmingham, 1973. Live and work in Birmingham.

Gavin Wade mit Simon & Tom Bloor are an artist group (formed in 2005) based in Birmingham, UK. Their ongoing Kiosk project exploits two ellipsoid concrete buildings located among a series of enclosures created for Dudley Zoo (UK) in 1937 by the Russian architect Berthold Lubetkin and his young architecture group Tecton. With a shared interest in Modernist design and architecture and the proliferation of ideas and images through print Gavin Wade mit Simon & Tom Bloor are sending Lubetkin’s kiosk on new adventures around the globe, giving the kiosks a new lease of life as the multitude of kiosk uses grows.

Recent group exhibitions include

Kiosk7:OudWestKiosk, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam – Netherlands 2007
Kiosk6: Intellect&ComprehensionKiosk, Isola di san Servolo – Venice, Italy 2007
Kiosk3: MerzKiosk, Magazin4, Bregenz – Austria 2006
What are the senses? Dudley Zoological Gardens – Dudley 2005

Gavin Wade is an artist-curator, serial collaborator, Director of the new Eastside Projects, Birmingham and Research Fellow in Curating at Birmingham City University. His practice combines a number of strategies from developing structures within exhibitions for ‘supporting’ the work of others to a broader enquiry into utopian sites of/for art, resulting in projects merging fiction, public space and whatever else feels urgent at the time.

Simon & Tom Bloor are artists using a variety of social and artistic media, making projects that develop from research into a diverse range of subject matter which includes historic documents, 20th Century architecture & design and contemporary popular culture.

See Gavin Wade mit Simon und Tom Bloor's work
www.kiosk1and2.org