Tales of time and space, 14 June - 14 September 2008
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Sunday, 14 September 2008
Folkestone Triennial 2008 Closed
Tuesday, 25 September 2007
23 International Artists’ Projects selected for Major UK Exhibition
Tuesday, 25 September 2007
Emin joins major new art festival
Wednesday, 26 September 2007
Rundown resort hopes to turn tide with triennial featuring top artists
Tracey Emin
Title: Baby Things
Location: Various - see site map
Emin has bronze cast seven items of found baby clothing and toys, each painted to exactly match the original. These small sculptures have been placed casually, one baby’s matinee jacket hanging from a railing: a small teddy under a bench; a baby’s sock by a curb’, appearing as if lost or left behind. The installation creates a trail throughout the town and be a poignant reference to Folkestone’s high percentage of teenage pregnancies, similar to that of Margate, Emin’s hometown.
(Please note that the artwork in Mill Bay - 8c on the map - is at the back of University Folkestone near the railings - just along from the disabled car park)
Translated text about each of the artworks into French, Turkish and Slovak can be found on the events page or from the visitor centre
Baby Things, Jacket, 2008. Photograph © Thierry Bal
Tracey's Biography
Born London, 1963. Lives and works in London.
Photo: Scott Douglas
Tracey Emin’s art is one of candid disclosure, using events from her own life as inspiration for her practice, ranging from painting, drawing, video, and installation, to photography, needlework and sculpture.
Recent solo exhibitions include
British Pavilion 52nd Venice Biennale – Italy 2007
More Flow, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill – Rome 2006
I Can Feel Your Smile, Lehmann Maupin – New York 2005
When I Think About Sex…, White Cube – London 2005
Recent group exhibitions include
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy – London 2007
Lights, Camera, Action, Whitney Museum of American Art – New York 2007
Youth of Today, Schirn Kunsthalle – Frankfurt 2006
Body, Vancouver Art Gallery – Canada 2005
Emin was made a Royal Academician in 2007.
See Tracey Emin's work
www.whitecube.com
David Batchelor
Title: Disco Mecanique
Location: Metropole Galleries, The Leas
Batchelor has made a dazzling kaleidoscope of multi-coloured spheres appearing to free-float in space. The sculpture is created from thousands of cheap, brightly coloured plastic sunglasses, bought in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Transformed into spheres and suspended in a cluster from the ceiling of the historic space of the Metropole Gallery via discoball motors, they rotate slowly and silently, a galaxy of spinning globes, throwing pools of transparent colours across the room as they glint in the light.
The title of the work is derived from Fernand Leger’s 1924 film ‘Ballet Mecanique’ and inspired by the gallery, which was formerly the ballroom of The Metropole Hotel.
Translated text about each of the artworks into French, Turkish and Slovak can be found on the events page or from the visitor centre
Disco Mécanique, 2007. Photograph © Thierry Bal
David's Biography
Born Dundee, 1955. Lives and works in London.
Photo: Guinam Moon
David Batchelor’s work is principally concerned with colour as it is experienced in the modern city, and takes the form of three-dimensional work, drawings, photographs and video.
Recent solo exhibitions include
Unplugged, Talbot Rice Gallery – Edinburgh 2007
Festival Remix, South Bank Centre – London 2006
Ten Silhouettes, Gloucester Road Underground Station – London, 2006
Shiny Dirty, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, 2004
Recent group exhibitions include
Color Chart, MoMA – New York 2008
Echo Room, Alcala 31 – Madrid, 2007
Abstraction, Millennium Galleries – Sheffield 2007
Backdrop, Bloomberg Space – London 2006
the 26th Biennale de Sao Paulo, Brazil 2004
Batchelor is the author of Minimalism (1997), Chromophobia (2000) and editor of Colour (2008). He is currently Senior Tutor in Critical Theory at the Royal College of Art, London.
See David Batchelor's work
http://www.wilkinsongallery.com
Christian Boltanski
Title: The Whispers
Location: West End of The Leas
Christian Boltanski's contribution to the Triennial is a sound installation sited at four benches on the Leas. The sound is triggered when visitors sit down. The voices heard are reading letters to and from servicemen of the First World War. Having passed through Folkestone on their way to the battle-fields in France and Belgium, the town became a poignant site for the soldiers in these personal and intimate reflection on love and separation in the midst of war. The letters have been presented to the Triennial by the people of Folkestone and they are read by the people of Folkestone.
Translated text about each of the artworks into French, Turkish and Slovak can be found on the events page or from the visitor centre
visit to Folkestone, April 2008. Photograph © Gautier Deblonde
Christian's Biography
Born France, 1944. Lives and works in Paris.
Photo: Andrea Schlieker
Christian Boltanski works with the ephemera of the human experience, dealing with questions of death, memory, and loss. Known for a body of work that may be considered an archive of our social, cultural, ethnic, and personal histories, Boltanski is one of France’s most widely exhibited living artists.
Recent solo exhibitions include:
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea – Rome 2006
A.V. Schusev State Museum of Architecture – Moscow 2005
Marian Goodman Gallery – Paris 2005
MACRO Museum of Fine Arts – Boston 2000
Haus der Kunst – Munich 1997
Recent group exhibitions include:
Surprise, Surprise, ICA – London 2006
Dis-assembly, Serpentine Gallery – London 2006
La Force de l’Art, Grand Palais – Paris 2006
Venice Biennale, Venice 1996 and 199
In 2006 Boltanski was awarded the Laureate of the Praemium Imperiale, and in 2001 won the Kaiser Ring, Mochhausmuseum Goslar and the Kunstpreis, given by Nord/LB, Braunschweig, Germany.
See Christian Boltanski's work
www.mariangoodman.com
Adam Chodzko
Title: Pyramid
Location: Info sign: Coastal Park, at the base of the Leas Cliff Hall and Film screening: The Stone Store, Shakespeare Terrace
Chodzko's 'Pyramid' is nothing less than “the creation of a myth”. This is articulated through a film set somewhere between the past and the future of Folkestone, and a 'fake' visitor information sign. The information sign is placed in the Coastal Park, beneath the steel support structure of the overhanging terrace of the Leas Cliff Hall.
Both the film and its associated 'evidence' deal with the fact that these supporting girders delineating four inverted pyramids, "arguably one of the most quintessential sculptural forms” (Chodzko). The work explores artifice, superstition (inverted pyramids as sign of bad luck) and make belief. For his ‘fake’ documentary’, Chodzko meddles with the existing landscape and the day to day life of Folkestone, blurring fantasy and reality. the town's flora and fauna also become duplicit in his utopian narrative.
Translated text about each of the artworks into French, Turkish and Slovak can be found on the events page or from the visitor centre
Adam Chodzko with Pyramid, 2008. Photograph © Gautier Deblonde
Adam's Biography
Born UK, 1965. Lives and works in Whitstable, Kent.
Photo: Neil loman
Adam Chodzko’s art proposes new relationships between our value and belief systems, between the community and private space that generate these systems, and between the documents and fictions that describe and guide them. Since 1991 Chodzko has exhibited extensively in international solo and group exhibitions.
Recent solo exhibitions include
Dublin City Art Gallery – Ireland 2007
MAMbo – Bologna 2007
Signal – Malmo, Sweden 2007
Cubitt – London 2002
Recent group exhibitions include
Breaking Step, Museum of Contemporary Art – Belgrade 2007
One Brief Moment, apexart – New York 2006
British Art Show 6, Newcastle (touring), 2005/06
Forthcoming is a solo exhbition at Tate St Ives, May 2008. In 2007 Chodzko was offered a three year AHRC Creative Arts Fellowship with the University of Kent and in 2002 received awards from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Foundation for Contemporary Art, NY, USA.
See Adam Chodzko's work
www.adamchodzko.com/
Nathan Coley
Title: Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.
Location: The Old Post Office, 48 Tontine Street
Nathan Coley's illuminated text sculpture is fixed to a 6x6m metal scaffolding structure. Each word is spelt out by aluminum letters to which fairground-style light bulbs are attached. Ambiguous readings, such as 'Heaven' as a place where nothing (bad) ever happens or the notion that heaven in terms of 'after life' doesn't exist are intentional. Folkestone as seaside resort and traditional place for restful retirement - a haven of uneventfulness - could be suggested here.
Translated text about each of the artworks into French, Turkish and Slovak can be found on the events page or from the visitor centre
Heaven Is A Place Where Nothing Ever Happens. Photograph © Thierry Bal
Nathan's Biography
Born Glasgow, 1967. Lives and works in Glasgow.
Photo: Jane Barlow
Nathan Coley’s practice is based on an interest in public space, and explores how architecture comes to be invested, and reinvested, with meaning. Coley works in a diverse range of media including public and gallery-based sculpture, photography, drawing and video.
Recent solo exhibitions include
Doggerfisher Gallery – Edinburgh 2007
We Must Cultivate Our Garden, Public Art Project – Edinburgh 2007
There Will Be No Miracles Here, Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute – Scotland 2006
Gathering of Strangers, ICA – Nottingham 2006
Haunch of Venison Gallery - Berlin 2008
Recent group exhibitions include
Breaking Steps, Museum of Contemporary Art – Belgrade 2007
British Art Show 6 – Newcastle (touring) 2005/06
Solitude, Upstairs – Berlin 2006
A Cidade Interpretada – Santiago de Compostela, Spain 2006
Coley has been nominated for the Turner Prize 2007 and was awarded the Artist Award from the Scottish Arts Council in 2003 and 1996.
See Nathan Coley's work at the Haunch of Venison website and the Doggerfisher Gallery website
Tacita Dean
Title: Amadeus (swell consopio)
Location: Sassoon Gallery, Folkestone Library, Grace Hill
Dean has made a 50min, 16mm anamorphic film, shot in real time, or crossing the Channel from Boulogne to Folkestone in an old fishing boat ('Amadeus') in rough seas at dawn in March 2008.
Translated text about each of the artworks into French, Turkish and Slovak can be found on the events page or from the visitor centre
Location photograph from Amadeus. Photograph © Tacita Dean
Tacita's Biography
Born Canterbury, 1965. Lives and works in Berlin.
Photo: Jim Rakete
Tacita Dean trained as a painter and now works in a variety of media. She is best known for her 16mm films in which issues of time and filmmaking are of central importance.
Recent solo exhibitions include
Guggenheim Museum – New York 2007
The Hugh Lane Gallery – Dublin 2007
Miami Art Central – Florida 2007
Schaulager – Munchenstein 2006
Recent group exhibitions include
On History – Madrid 2007
Universal Experience, MART Rovero – Italy 2006
4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art – Germany 2006
Universal Experience, Hayward Gallery – London 2005
The 51st Venice Biennale – Italy 2005
She has received many awards including the 2006 Hugo Boss Prize, the DAAD Fellowship, and in 1998 was short-listed for the Turner Prize.
See Tacita Dean's work
www.frithstreetgallery.com/
Jeremy Deller
Title: Risk Assessment
Location: Various locations - daily between 2pm and 4pm
Jeremy Deller has worked with Folkestone residents and members of the Folkestone and Hythe Operatic and Dramatic Society on a series of unannounced daily performances based on seaside humour and the comic tradition of Buster Keaton, Jacques Tati and Norman Wisdom. Watch out for the absurd in the everyday and the blending slapstick and reality.
Translated text about each of the artworks into French, Turkish and Slovak can be found on the events page or from the visitor centre
Risk Assessment, 2008. Photograph © Jeremy Deller
Jeremy's Biography
Born London, 1966. Lives and works London.
Photo: Andrea Schlieker
Collaboration and participation are central to Jeremy Deller’s artwork.
Recent solo exhibitions include
Edited Rushes, 1998-2001 with Extras, Modern Institute – Glasgow 2007
Bat House Project, A competition to design a Bat House for London - 2007
Jeremy Deller, De La Warr Pavilion – Bexhill 2006
Our Hobby is Depeche Mode, documentary film co-directed with Nicholas Abrahams - 2006
Jeremy Deller, Kunstverein – Munich 2005
An Injury to One is an Injury to all, BAWAG Foundation – Vienna 2005
Recent group exhibitions include
Sculpture Projects – Münster 2007
2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, 2007
Manifesta 5 – San Sebastian 2005
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art – Pittsburgh 2004-05.
Deller was awarded the Turner Prize in 2004, and was appointed a Trustee of the Tate Gallery in 2007.
See Jeremy Deller's work
www.themoderninstitute.com
Mark Dion
Title: Mobile Gull Appreciation Unit
Location: This is a mobile work. See homepage and Visitor Centre for daily locations
"Gulls are the most conspicuous non-human denizens of Folkestone", Mark Dion declared after his first site visit. Dion's staffed mobile unit made in the shape of a seagull provides information about these often unloved birds. 'The Mobile Gull Appreciation Unit functions as a clearing house for information about the evolution, ethnology, natural history, environmental status and folklore of these remarkable animals'. Folkestone is lucky to be host to a rather rare type of seagull - the Mediterranean Gull - which is found in larger numbers here than anywhere else in the UK. A Field Guide to the various local gull species, produced in collaboration with local gull enthusiasts will be distributed from the Unit.
Translated text about each of the artworks into French, Turkish and Slovak can be found on the events page or from the visitor centre
Mobile Gull Appreciation Unit, 2008.Photograph © Thierry Bal
Mark's Biography
Born New Bedford Massachusetts, USA 1961. Lives in New York City and works worldwide.
Photo: Dana Sherwood
Mark Dion’s artwork incorporates aspects of archaeology, ecology, detection, and systems of classification by which people have tried to bring order to the world.
Recent solo exhibitions include
Systema Metropolis, Natural History Museum – London 2007
Carré D'Art, Nîmes, France, 2007
Miami Art Museum 2006
The Academy of Fine Arts – Vienna 2004
Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts – San Francisco, California 1998
Recent group exhibitions include
Surrealism and Beyond – Israel Museum 2007
Drawing from the Modern, MoMA – New York 2005
Sculpture Projects – Muenster 1997
Dion was awarded the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award in 2001,The Joan Mitchell Foundation Award in 2006, and received an honorary Doctorate of Arts degree from the University of Hartford in 2003.
See Mark Dion's work
www.tanyabonakdargallery.com
Ayse Erkmen
Title: Entangled
Location: Martello Tower 3, East Cliff
Folkestone is home to seven Martello Towers dating back to the Napoleonic Wars. Martello 3, in the East of town, is a fairly well kept tower, painted white, and up to 2001, was used as a visitor centre by the council. In contrast, Martello 4 in the West of Folkestone is more of a ruin and completely taken over by a massive layer of ivy that has embedded itself into the 13 ft deep walls. Erkmen emulates the ivy cover of Martello 4 at Martello 3 (in what the artist calls ‘a jealousy project’), with a malleable, plastic floral form created by designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. 15,000 of these plastic ‘ivy’ units joined together similar to Lego, now shroud the exterior of Martello 3 like a giant curtain or blanket. The camouflage colours refer to the tower’s wartime history.
Translated text about each of the artworks into French, Turkish and Slovak can be found on the events page or from the visitor centre
Entangled, 2008. Photograph © Thierry Bal
Ayse's Biography
Born Istanbul. Lives and works in Berlin and Istanbul.
Photo: Emre Erkmen
Ayse Erkmen's spectacular public projects and subtle architectural interventions engage with the architectural, historical, and cultural context of the site she is working with
Recent solo exhibitions include
Habenichts, Galerie Barbara Weiss – Berlin 2007
Scenic Overlooks, Galerist – Istanbul 2005
Under the Roof, IKON – Birmingham 2005
Busy Colors, Sculpture Centre – New York 2005
Recent group exhibitions include
Beyond the Wall, Berlin Freeport of the Arts – Germany 2007
Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial – Japan 2006
Eindhoven Istanbul, Van Abbemuseum – Eindhoven 2005
Who is singing over there?, National Gallery – Sarajevo 2004
Ayse will be having a solo exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin in 2008
See Ayse Erkmen's work
www.galeriebarbaraweiss.de
Sejla Kameric
Title: I remember I forgot
Location: Various - see site map
Kameric’s project comprises of twelve photographic installations in public spaces (police station, outdoor outfitters, ice-cream parlour, pub, hotel etc) as well as six large-scale billboards in specially selected sites across the town that carry a strong a sense of history. Visitors will be invited to join a journey through Folkestone taking in Kameric's atmospheric images and stories that document the changing face of the town.
In addition, a set of postcards are being sold at Rennie's Seaside Moderin in the Old High Street as a memento of the project and the town. This way the artist's work will reach both the wider public and the private, personal sphere.
Translated text about each of the artworks into French, Turkish and Slovak can be found on the events page or from the visitor centre
The End.I remember I forgot. Photograph © Sejla Kameric
Sejla's Biography
Born Bosnia Herzegovina, 1976. Lives and works in Sarajevo and Berlin.
Photo: Tarik Samarah
Šejla Kamerić
Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina 1976. Lives in Sarajevo and Berlin.
Šejla Kamerić uses mainly photography and video as media juxtaposing an explicit social context with intimate perspectives. She creates tense artefacts from society through an almost obsessive documentation of details and objects surrounding her. Public interventions, diverse types of actions and site-specifically installations are one of the most important aspects of her approach to art.
Recent solo exhibitions include
Is it rain or is a hurricane, Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic 2008 What do I know, DAAD Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2008 Mit tudok, Trafo - House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest, Hungary 2007 What Do I Know, O.K. Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria 2007 Brand New, Contemporary Art Institute EXIT - Kosove 2006 Sejla Kameric (Another Expo - Beyond the Nation - States), Gallery SOAP - Kitakyushu, Japan 2005
Recent group exhibitions and festivals include
(30th) Clermont - Ferrand Short Film Festival, In competition, Labo, Francuska 2008
(64th) Venice International Film Festival, Corto Cortissimo, In competition, World premiere, Venice, Italy 2007 Hell is ..other people, Stedelijk Museum Bureau - Amsterdam 2007 History Started Playing With My Life, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel 2007 Zones of Contact, 15th Biennale of Sydney - Australia 2006
Kamerić was awarded the DAAD Fellowship in 2007.
See Sejla Kemeric's work
Sejla Kameric
See Sejla Kameric's work
www.sejlakameric.com
Robert Kusmirowski
Title: Foreshore
Location: Inner Harbour beside Gigi's cafe
Celebrated for his sculptural simulacra, Kusmirowksi has recreated elements of an old fish market from detritus found in the harbour - tables, baskets, nets, buckets - and installed it in Folkestone’s tidal harbour. The work, consisting of three huts, will only be visible in its entirety at low tide, yet fully submerged at high tide. The dramatic rise and fall of the water levels here (variance of 6m) is a deliberate and integral part of the work. Foreshore makes reference and is tribute to the once thriving fishing industry of the town.
Translated text about each of the artworks into French, Turkish and Slovak can be found on the events page or from the visitor centre
Foreshore, 2008. Photograph © Thierry Bal
Robert's Biography
Born Poland, 1974. Lives and works in Lodz, Poland.
Photo courtesy of the artist
Kusmirowski is celebrated for his sculptural simulacra. The work takes the form of detailed, turn of the century reconstructions and perfect copies of old official documents, newspapers, photos and ID documents but also monumental works like a graveyard or a train car. He held his first exhibition in Poland in 2001.
Recent solo shows include
Van Abbemuseum – Eindhoven 2005
Foksal Gallery Foundation – Warsaw 2005
The Ornaments of Anatomy, Kunstverein – Hamburg 2005
D.O.M, Johnen Galerie – Berlin 2004
Double V, CCA Castle Ujazdowski – Warsaw 2003
Recent group exhibitions include
Of Mice and Men, The 4th Berlin Biennial – Germany 2006
4Ks2/63, Auschwitz Prozess Ausstellung, Frankfurt – Germany 2004
Distance?, CCA La Plateau – Paris 2004
Artistic Initiative Domestic – Lublin, Poland 2003.
Langlands & Bell
Title: Folkestone: Boulogne
Location: Coastwatch Station, Copt Point
Langlands and Bell's 15 minute video is a portrait of the two towns, separated by 22 miles of water. Folkestone and Boulogne have been twinned since 1960 and for many years were also connected physically through a ferry service (ceased in 2001). The video, filmed over the course of a year, is an intimate and comparative observation of the two towns' daily life, culture, environment, customs, as well as social situations.
Translated text about each of the artworks into French, Turkish and Slovak can be found on the events page or from the visitor centre
Folkestone Coast Watch, 2007. Photograph © Langlands & Bell
Biography
Ben Langlands, UK, 1955. Nikki Bell, UK, 1959. Both live and work in Kent and London.
Photo: Langlands and Bell
Langlands & Bell have been collaborating since 1978, and exhibiting internationally since the early 80s. They explore the complex web of relationships linking people and architecture and the coded systems of circulation and exchange which surround us.
Recent solo shows include
Superactive i2i, Somerset House – London 2007
Zardad's Dog, Tate Britain – London 2005
Plunged in a Stream, Site Archéologique du Coudenberg – Ancien Palais de Bruxelles 2005
The House of Osama bin Laden, Imperial War Museum – London 2003
Recent group exhibitions include
Eye on Europe - Prints, Books, & Multiples / 1960 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York 2006/2007
Panopticon, The Architecture and Theatre of the Prison, Zacheta National Gallery of Art – Warsaw 2005
Playground, 6th International Exhibition of Architecture, Art Play – Moscow 2005
Their exhibition The House of Osama bin Laden won the prize for Interactive Arts Installation at the 2004 BAFTA Awards in London. It was also nominated for the Turner Prize in 2004.
Visit Langland and Bell's website
www.langlandsandbell.com
Kaffe Matthews
Title: The Marvelo Project
Location: 91 Sandgate Road
“Created in collaboration between Folkestone Academy year 7 pupils and Kaffe Matthews, the Marvelo project is a sound collage made for bicycles to be performed by visitors to the Triennial. The Marvelo group explored routes of Folkestone, mapping personal histories within the context of the town. New sound pieces have been scored from their stories and encounters and from marking and drawing on local maps, all of which replace notes written on a traditional musical stave. The resulting 'opera' is to be experienced by cycling on specially adapted bikes housing a GPS tracking system, computer and two speakers. The cycling participants become performers of the opera and passers-by accidental audience members.
Translated text about each of the artworks into French, Turkish and Slovak can be found on the events page or from the visitor centre
The Marvelo Project, 2008. Photograph © Thierry Bal
Kaffe's Biography
Born in U.K, 1961. Lives and works in London.
Photo: Kevin Altamirano Zuberia
Kaffe Matthews has been making and performing new electro-acoustic music since 1990. She is acknowledged as a leading figure and pioneer in the field of electronic improvisation and live composition, making on average 50 performances a year worldwide.
Recent solo shows include
Sonic Bed_Shanghai, Xuhui Art Museum – Shanghai, China 2006
This is for you, work for chaise longue, Arnolfini Gallery – Bristol 2005
Three Crosses of Queensbridge Rd, Sounds Like Drawing, Drawing Room – London 2005
No-one here but us chickens, The Starr auditorium, Sound of Heaven & Earth Symposium, Tate Modern – London 2005
Significant Collaborations
With Shri and live with Christian Fennesz, Pan-Sonic, Eliane Radique, agf, Sachiko M, Ikue Mori, Granular Synthesis, Ryoko Kuwajima, Zeena Parkins, Andy Moor as well as: -
Karen Kilimnik Ballet,
Sleeping Beauty & friends, New PlayersTheatre, London 2007, made & performed score.
Merce Cunningham Dance Co, John Paul Jones, Philip Selway, Steve Montague, Barbican, London 2005
Sounding Architecture + Lynn Cox + vision impaired adults. Directed the making and performance of Damp Under, 8 channel work for Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London, by Siza and de Moura.
George Lewis Ensemble, Baden-Baden, SWR2,
Neue Music, Germany 2004
Weightless Animals. Online sonic space cartoons & 12” picture disk .2 yr NASA research.
In February 2006 Matthews was made an Honorary Professor of Music, Shanghai Music Conservatory, China. At present she is Director & Founder of
field 61, promoting monthly Live Digital Music events, currently on Resonance FM, and Artistic Advisor to STEIM, (electronic music studios) Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Her 2004 collaboration Weightless Animals was awarded a BAFTA, she received a NESTA Dreamtime Fellowship (2005-06) and an Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica 2006 for the work Sonic Bed_London.
Hear Kaffe Matthews work
www.annetteworks.com
Heather & Ivan Morison
Title: Tales of Space and Time
Location: This is a mobile work. Please check homepage and visitor centre for daily locations
Attracted by Folkestone’s connection with H.G. Wells, the Morisons have constructed a mobile Science Fiction library in the style of a 1970s Californian House Truck.
Made popular in America during the Hippy movement, these house trucks, similar to Gypsy caravans, are a symbol of freedom and a nomadic self-sufficient lifestyle. Following this tradition the Morison's version is hand built using Douglas fir from their arboretum in Wales onto a 1955 Green Goddess, ex army fire engine.
Inside, the truck houses hundreds of Science Fiction classics as well as soft sci-fi furnishings. It is staffed by a local Science Fiction enthusiast.
A series of related talks will be held throughout the summer. The house truck will be a base for a discursive forum where alternate possibilities, time and space can be speculated.
Translated text about each of the artworks into French, Turkish and Slovak can be found on the events page or from the visitor centre
Tales of Time and Space, 2008. Photograph © Ivan and Heather Morison
Heather & Ivan's Biography
Heather Morison, U.K, 1973. Ivan Morison U.K, 1974. Both live and work in Wales.
The Morison’s work varies from performance, video, photos, text and audio pieces, to a garden and an arboretum; all modest documentations of naturally occurring man-made phenomena, real and unreal.
Recent solo shows include
Bloomberg Space - London 2007
Earthwalker, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art – London 2006
Camden Arts Centre Tree Tour, Camden Arts Centre – London 2006
Starmaker, Charles H Scott Gallery – Vancouver 2005
Chinese Arboretum, Q Arts – Derby 2005
Heather & Ivan Morison do not understand it, IPS – Birmingham 2004
Recent group exhibitions include
Zoorama, part of Thin Cities, Piccadilly Line, Platform for Art – London 2007
British Art Show 6, Manchester – Nottingham and Bristol 2006
Human Nature, Pump House – Battersea, London 2005
The Art of the Garden, Tate Britain, London, 2005
The Morisons completed their first Science Fiction novel
The Divine Vessel in 2003 and created a bedding scheme for the City of Westminster in spring 2004. The Morisons represented Wales at the 52nd Venice Biennale 2007.
See Heather and Ivan Morison's work
www.morison.info
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
Kiosk5:KiteKiosk, 2008. Photograph © Thierry Bal
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
Susan Philipsz
Title: Pathetic Fallacy
Location: The outlook at Baker's Gap - on the steps joining East Cliff and the Sunny Sands Promenade
The lookout at Baker's Gap on the East Cliff not only offers contemplative sea views, but is also the site for Susan Philipsz' multi-speaker sound installation. Philipsz can be heard singing an acapella version of ‘Dolphins’ made famous by Tim Buckley in the mid 1970s. The haunting lyrics, touching on themes of longing, transcendence and mortality, are interpreted by Philipsz' voice ascending and then descending in scale building up to a crescendo and then dying away again.
The work will be on a 5 minute loop.
Translated text about each of the artworks into French, Turkish and Slovak can be found on the events page or from the visitor centre
Location photograph from Pathetic Fallacy. Photograph © Martin Wills
Susan's Biography
Born Glasgow, 1966. Lives and works in Berlin.
Susan Philipsz works primarily with sound, film and space. The starting point of her works is the interface and tension between subjective and collective memories of popular music, political songs and film experiences.
Recent solo shows include
CGAC, Santiago de Compostella – Spain 2007
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery – New York 2008
Mitzuma Gallery – Tokyo 2007
Isabella Bortolozzi Gallery – Berlin 2006
Ellen De Bruijne Projects – Amsterdam 2004
The Ikon Gallery, public commission – Birmingham 2004
Recent group exhibitions include
Unmonumental, New Museum for Contemporary Art – New York 2007
The Münster Sculpture Project – Germany 2007
Busan Biennale – South Korea 2006
Berlin Biennale – Germany 2005
Becks Futures Exhibition, ICA – London 2004
Philipsz was awarded the PS1 International studio programme in New York, 2000 and the International Artist Programme at Art Pace, San Antonio, 2003. Susan will be participating in the 2008 Sydney Biennial.
See Susan Philipsz's work
www.edbprojects.nl
public works
Title: Folkestonomy
Location: This is a mobile work - please check visitor centre and website homepage for daily locations
Public works is an art/architecture collective, who have been collaborating on projects since 1998. Together, they develop participatory art projects, which focus on the use of public space and engagement with the environment. For Folkestone, public works are looking at the role of culture in the process of regeneration . With the help of audience participation, FOLKESTONOMY investigates the impact of the Triennial and the wider changes the town is currently undergoing.
Public works designed a special tool, a mobile 'hub' in the form of a milk-float positioned in different locations of Folkestone throughout the Triennial. From this ‘hub’, staff will collect feedback and conduct interviews with passers-by, 'mapping’ individual experiences of visitors and residents via specially developed software. The results will lead to an animation and an ever changing map (similar to a weather map) to be published weekly in a local newspaper. FOLKESTONOMY is a mixture of interactive artwork and sociological study.
See the blog for daily updates on Public Works project
Translated text about each of the artworks into French, Turkish and Slovak can be found on the events page or from the visitor centre
Folkestonomy, 2008, Photograph © Thierry Bal
Biography
Kathrin Böhm, Germany 1969.
Andreas Lang, Germany 1968.
Torange Khonsari, Iran 1973.
All live and work in London.
public works is an art/architecture collective who have been collaborating as a changing group of partners and collaborators in different constellations since 1998. They develop participatory art and architectural projects which focus on the use of public space and engagement with the environment.
Recent solo shows include:
Granville Cube – Kilburn, London 2006
Uferterassen – Stadt Geesthact, Germany 2006
Future Gallery – Siemens Art Programm, Siemens, UK 2005/07
Make: Shift, – Bagfactory, Johannesburg 2005
Park Products – Serpentine Gallery, London 2004
Group shows include:
British Art Show 6 – Newcastle (touring) 2005/06
London in Six Easy Steps, The ICA – London 2005
Gats Free Zone – Venice 2005
They were the recipients of the 2006 Stanley Picker Fellowship in Design at Kingston University, London.
See their work
www.publicworksgroup.net
Mark Wallinger
Title: Folk Stones
Location: West End of The Leas, close to the William Harvey Statue
19,240 beach pebbles have been numbered and placed in a large square on the Leas. What might at first appear as a senseless act is in fact a subtle memorial, as the number of pebbles equals the number of British and Allied fatalities on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Situated on the Leas, not far from the Road of Remembrance, it marks Folkestone's historical importance as a place from where over one million soldiers left for the battlefields of France and Flanders in the First World War. Wallinger's work is a poignant monument to lives lost on the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army.
Translated text about each of the artworks into French, Turkish and Slovak can be found on the events page or from the visitor centre
Folk Stones, 2008. Photograph © Mark Wallinger
Mark's Biography
Born Chigwell, Essex, 1959. Lives and works in London.
Photo: Charlie Hopkinson
Mark Wallinger is one of Britain's foremost contemporary artists. He is perhaps best known for Ecce Homo, a life-size sculpture of Christ that occupied the 'Fourth Plinth' in London's Trafalgar Square in 1999.
Since the mid-1980s Mark Wallinger’s primary concern has been to establish a valid critical approach to the ‘politics of representation and the representation of politics’ and has often explored issues of the responsibilities of individuals and those of society in his work. Wallinger has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally.
Recent solo shows include
Braunschweig Kunstverein – Germany 2007
The Human Figure in Motion, Donald Young Gallery – Chicago 2007
State Britain, Tate Britain – London 2007
The End, carlier gabauer – Berlin 2007
Threshold to the Kingdom, Convent of St Agnes of Bohemia, National Gallery – Prague 2006
Easter, Hangar Biocca – Milan 2005
Recent group exhibitions include
Sculpture Projects – Münster 2007
Belief – Singapore Biennale 2006
Out of Place, New Art Gallery – Walsall 2006
How to Improve the World, Hayward Gallery – London 2006
Wallinger was awarded the Turner Prize in 2007. In 2001 he represented Britain at the 49th Venice Biennale and was also awarded the DAAD Fellowship.
See Mark Wallinger's work
www.anthonyreynolds.com
Richard Wentworth
Title: Racinated
Location: various - see site map
Wentworth has developed a series of ten text signs, similar to the deep blue enamel street signs found in France and Germany. Yet instead of street names, these signs display information about 'non-native' trees:trees that were originally introduced to the UK from other countries. Situated at one of the closest points to mainland Europe. Folkestone has always been a shelter for immigrants. Wentworth's signs act as a metaphor for the immigrant population who have made a home in Folkestone or elsewhere in the UK.
Translated text about each of the artworks into French, Turkish and Slovak can be found on the events page or from the visitor centre
Racinated, Eucalyptus, 2008 Photograph © Thierry Bal
Richard's Biography
Born Samoa, 1947. Lives and works in London.
Photo: Roger Sinek
Richard Wentworth has played a leading role in New British Sculpture since the end of the 70s. His work focusing on objects and their role in our daily lives has radically altered the traditional definition of sculpture. His work reveals a spontaneous and surprising urban reality.
Recent solo shows include
Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art – Cyprus 2006
Lisson Gallery – London 2005
Tate Liverpool 2005
Glad that things don’t talk, Irish Museum of Modern Art– Dublin 2003
Recent group exhibitions include
It Starts From Here, De La Warr Pavilion – Bexhill 2007
Global Cities, Tate Modern – London 2007
Out of Place, New Art Gallery – Walsall 2006
Sao Paulo Biennale – Brazil 2004.
He was awarded the DAAD Fellowship in 1993 and in 2002 was made Master of the Ruskin school of Drawing and Fine Art.
See Richard Wentworth's work
www.lisson.co.uk
Pae White
Title: Barking Rocks
Location: Pleydell Gardens
Pae White has transformed an existing dilapidated dog park into a small jewel-like garden for dogs and their owners. Taking her cue from the many dogs of Folkestone and their often elderly owners, White has designed a dog playground, equipped with enjoyable amenities for canines and humans alike.
Sculptures of cats' heads on 3m high poles and specially worded tongue-in-cheek signage make it clear who is not welcome here.
The park has been planted with fragrant rosemary, jasmine and lavender and includes a dramatic lighting system.
Translated text about each of the artworks into French, Turkish and Slovak can be found on the events page or from the visitor centre
Barking Rocks, work in progress, 2008. Photograph © Thierry Bal
Pae's Biography
Born USA, 1963. Lives and works in Los Angeles.
Photo: Joe Goode
Pae White works with range of genres and media, from fine art and product design to urban planning and architecture, typography and graphics, creating art that crosses the border between Art and Design
Recent solo shows include
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2004
Le Salle de Bains – Dijon, France 2004
Galerie Daniel Buchholz – Cologne 2003
Tamayo Museum – Mexico City 2002
Greengrassi - London 2007
Recent group exhibitions include
Münster Sculpture Projects – Germany 2007
If Everybody Had an Ocean, Tate – St.Ives 2007
The Secret History of Clay, Tate – Liverpool 2004
Sign Language – LA MOCA 2004
Venice Biennale – Italy 2004
See Pae White's work
www.greengrassi.com
Richard Wilson
Title: 18 Holes
Location: Coastal Promenade near Mermaid Cafe
Starting point for Richard Wilson’s work was Folkestone's Rotunda Amusement Park, formerly situated right on the seafront, as in so many other seaside towns from Margate to Coney Island. The park closed in 2003 and its rides have been sold or demolished since to make way for redevelopment. The last remaining vestige of the once buzzing park was the derelict crazy golf course. Wilson cut slabs around each of the 18 holes, lifted and reconstructed them as three beachhuts a little further down the shore. Following the style of the existging Folkestone beachhuts - rather severe stone-built structures - Wilson's 18 Holes is a “contemporary meditation on the ideas of redundancy and transformation”(Wilson), as well as reference to Folkestone's once buoyant tourist industry.
Translated text about each of the artworks into French, Turkish and Slovak can be found on the events page or from the visitor centre
18 Holes, 2008. Photograph © Thierry Bal
Richard's Biography
Born U.K, 1953. Lives and works in London.
photo: Miyako Narita
Richard Wilson is one of Britain’s most renowned sculptors. He is internationally celebrated for his interventions in architectural space which draw heavily from the worlds of engineering and construction for their inspiration. Wilson has exhibited widely nationally and internationally for over thirty years.
Recent solo shows include
Turning the place Over, Lead work for Year of Culture – Liverpool 2007
Galleria Fumagalli, Bergamo – Italy 2007
Curve Gallery, Barbican Art Centre – London 2006
Bank Job, Caveau, Palazzo delle Papesse Contemporary Art centre – Italy 2004
Recent group exhibitions include
Royal Academy Summer Show – Royal Academy 2007
Butterfly, Platform China – Beijing China, 2006
Break Neck Speed, Yokohama Triennal – Yokohama, Japan 2005
Wilson was nominated for the Turner Prize on two occasions and was awarded the DAAD Fellowship in Berlin 1992/93. Wilson was made a Royal Academician in 2006.
Saturday, 06 October 2007
Folkestone Triennial Launched
Patrick Tuttofuoco
Title: 'Folkestone' and 'Folkestone Express'
Location: Harbour Arm and Harbour Information Centre
This project makes reference to Folkestone’s (once and hopefully soon again thriving) connection to Europe. Tuttofuoco and two collaborators hired a van and followed the Orient Express route from Istanbul to Paris documenting, collecting the letters F, O, L, K, E, S, T, O, N, E from found situations and encounters in ten different countries on their way.
The final stop of the journey was Folkestone Harbour (where the Orient Express, until recently pulled in twice a week). The letters have been fabricated from steel (3m x 2m) and are installed at the end of the Harbour Arm welcoming in boats and ships and visitors to the town. A 60 minute film of Tuttofuoco’s journey, entitled 'Folkestone Express' is shown in the Harbour Information Centre.
Translated text about each of the artworks into French, Turkish and Slovak can be found on the events page or from the visitor centre
Folkestone, 2008. Photograph © Thierry Bal
Patrick's Biography
Born Milan, 1974. Lives and works in Milan.
Photo: Tom Buzzi
Patrick Tuttofuoco is known for his utopian ideals and his interest in society, cities and community. He composes a practice inspired by a desire for interaction and an interest in social and political dynamics making frequent use of fluorescent colours, loud music and quirky architecture within his work.
Recent solo shows include
Chindia, Haunch of Venison – London 2007
Revolving Landscape, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo – Turin 2006
The Circle Guenzani – Via Melzo, Milan 2005
My private-2 – Via Pasteur, Milan 2005.
Recent group exhibitions include
Mediterranee, Carre d´Art, Musee d´Art Contemporain de Nimes – France 2007
On Mobility, De Appel Foundation – Amsterdam 2006
HyperDesign, Biennale of Shanghai – Shanghai, China 2006
LUNA PARK. Arte Fantastica, Villa Manin Centro Arte Contemporanea – Codroipo, Udine, Italy 2005;
The Encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphony – Emerging Resonances, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art – Kanazawa, Japan 2004
Manifesta 5, San Sebastian – Spain 2004
Sogni e Conflitti. La Dittatura dello Spettatore, Esposizione Internazionale d´Arte, Biennale di Venezia, section "La Zona" – Venice, Italy 2003
Spectacular, Museum Kunstpalast – Dusseldorf, Germany 2003
In 2003 Tuttofuoco was awarded the Premio Artegiovane by the Associazione Artegiovane, Turin.
See Patrick Tuttofuoco's work
www.haunchofvenison.com
About Folkestone
Your visit to Folkestone Triennial will take you around some of the most attractive parts of Folkestone - a hidden gem on the South East Coast of England. While you are here, be sure to take in some of the highlights of the town, such as the glorious seafront; magnificent scenic promenades; panoramic views across to France; extensive coastal park; old town and Creative Quarter; family-friendly beaches; grand Victorian villas; Martello Towers and clifftop walks.
Folkestone is a medium-sized town on the Kent coast 66 miles from London and 22 miles from France. From beginnings as a fishing village, then a successful trading port, Folkestone emerged as a popular and smart Victorian seaside resort frequented by Edward VII. It has been a creative centre ever since, attracting writers, artists, musicians, and filmmakers, from Charles Dickens, Derek Jarman, Jimi Hendrix, Marcel Duchamp and 20th-century literary figures from H G Wells to George Bernard Shaw, Joseph Conrad and Samuel Beckett.
Beaches and Seafront
Folkestone’s clean and picturesque beaches are mainly pebbled, with some bays and sand-pit play areas for children. There is a sandy beach, ‘Sunny Sands’, near the harbour and The Stade fishery. The mile-long Leas promenade, between the town and the seafront, provides breathtaking views across the Channel, as well as a working Victorian water-lift. The recently renovated Leas bandstand has a summer programme of events. There is a bustling farmers’, fishermen’s and artists’ market in the harbour area every Sunday.
Coastal Park
In recent years, the Victorian lower Leas Coastal Park has been brought back to life to create an 11 hectare leisure park overlooking the sea. Summer meadows, picnic areas and avenues of pines lead down to a series of bays and beaches, while events in a 300 seat sea-view amphitheatre keep visitors entertained. For children, there is the largest free outdoor adventure playground in the South East
Old Town and Creative Quarter
Folkestone’s historic Old Town is being reinvented with a new ‘Creative Quarter’, where more than 120 artists live and work in state-of-the-art studio spaces, creative shops and galleries. Take some time to visit the Quarter’s specialist shops and cafes and watch local artists create their work.
Tourist information can be found at Discover Folkestone
Folkestone Triennial
22 internationally acclaimed contemporary artists and artist groups including Christian Boltanski, Tracey Emin, Mark Dion, Jeremy Deller, Tacita Dean and Mark Wallinger have been commissioned to create new works for the first Folkestone Triennial, Tales of Time and Space, which will run from 14 June – 14 September 2008.
One of the of the most ambitious public art projects to be presented in the UK, the Triennial is a three-yearly exhibition of works which will be specially commissioned for public spaces throughout Folkestone. The selected artists have responded to the invitation with proposals for artworks that engage with the Kent coastal town’s history, population, culture and built environment to create a cutting-edge contemporary art exhibition.
The Triennial is conceived and curated by curator Andrea Schlieker, co-curator of the British Art Show 2005/06, and aims to examine changing notions of art in the public realm. The inaugural Folkestone Triennial will include both temporary works, which will remain in situ for the three months of the show, and a number of permanent works. This pattern will be repeated in subsequent Triennials so that, over time, Folkestone will become a centre for contemporary art of the highest calibre.
Curator Andrea Schlieker says: “It’s a tribute to Folkestone’s truly inspirational character that our roster of acclaimed artists from LA to Lodz have all responded with extraordinary enthusiasm and artistic insight to creating works for this seaside town. Our aim is to bring art of the highest quality to the widest audience, and to put Folkestone on the cultural map in the same way that Münster receives world-wide recognition for its Skulptur Projekte. We are especially excited about the legacy element of the Triennial which will maintain the focus on Folkestone as a place committed to contemporary art beyond the timeframe of this inaugural exhibition.”
The Folkestone Triennial forms a major component of the creativity and arts-led regeneration of Folkestone, which is being driven by the Creative Foundation, chaired by leading UK philanthropist Roger De Haan, former chairman of Saga. Other elements of the regeneration programme include a Foster + Partners masterplan for the redevelopment of the harbour and seafront, a new £38m city academy specialising in the arts, a new University Campus with a strong focus on arts courses, a new performing arts centre and a Creative Quarter with over 100 artists already established in a growing number of refurbished studio, living and retail spaces. A new high-speed rail link from London St Pancras International will open in 2009.
Travel and Accommodation
66 miles from London, Folkestone is served by good road, rail and bus links.
BY TRAIN
Services from Charing Cross/London Bridge/Waterloo East/Cannon St to Ramsgate calling at Folkestone Central Station run regularly and take between 1 hour 20 and 1 hour 40 minutes. Folkestone Central Station is a short walk from the centre of town. National Rail Enquiry Line 08457 48 49 50 www.nationalrail.co.uk
Top Tip: a quick way of getting to Folkestone from London Bridge (1 hour 19 minutes) is to change at Tonbridge - there is no need to change platforms in between trains. The Visitor Centre is about 20mins walk through the town centre from the station - follow the red seagulls trail!
BY CAR
Head for the M20, turn off at junction from 12 or 13 and follow the signs to Folkestone. Or take the M2 to Canterbury for a choice of pretty routes into Folkestone.
PARKING
All the Council’s car parks charge daily fees, mostly between 8am - 8pm. Please note that the Leas Cliff Hall car park normally closes at 9pm, except on days when there is an evening performance at the Leas Cliff Hall when it closes at midnight. The main harbour car park is close to many of the key locations for the Folkestone Triennial and to the visitor centre at 55-57 Tontine Street CT20 1JR. Charge for parking at the Harbour car park is £4 per day.
BY BUS OR COACH
A direct National Express coach service runs from London Victoria Coach Station as well as many other towns and cities around the country to the main bus station in Bouverie Square, Folkestone. Stagecoach also operates a network of routes linking towns and villages.
National Express 08705 80 80 80
Stagecoach East Kent 08702 433711 www.stagecoachbus.com/eastkent/
TAXI
Folkestone Taxis: 01303 252 000
VISITOR CENTRE
The Visitor Centre for the Triennial is based at 55-57 Tontine Street CT20 1JR (see map). Folkestone Triennial site-maps and Young People’s Guides can be collected from here and you can buy copies of the catalogue and merchandise and sign up for Triennial talks and tours. There will also be staff around to help with any queries you may have.
ACCOMMODATION
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Sponsorship & Support
The Folkestone Triennial has been principally funded by the Roger De Haan Charitable Trust and made possible by the generous gifts of our local and national sponsors. We would like to thank all the sponsors listed below for their indispensable and enduring support.
Contacts
VISITOR CENTRE
The Folkestone Triennial Visitor Centre is based at 55-57 Tontine Street CT20 1JR (see map). Folkestone Triennial site-maps and Young People’s Guides can be collected from here and you can buy copies of the catalogue and merchandise and sign up for Triennial talks and tours. There will also be staff around to help with any queries you may have.
The Visitor Centre opening hours are 10am until 6pm 7 days a week
The staffed artworks are available from 11am to 5pm Monday to Friday and 10am until 6pm Saturday and Sunday
The Visitor Centre telephone number is 0845 2020190
For email enquiries
Andrea Schlieker, Curator
Sigrid Wilkinson, Development Consultant
Jessica Wythe, Assistant curator
Niamh Sullivan, Assistant curator
Martin Wills, Assistant curator
Vivien Ashley, Arts and Education Consultant
Rachel Steward and Helen Hayward, Talks and Tours Organisers
Nick Ewbank, Director, Creative Foundation
Press Enquiries
Charlotte Burns, Bolton & Quinn Ltd
Tel: 020 7221 5000
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Yvette Illsley, Creative Foundation
Tel: 01303 245799
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