Folkestone Triennial

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.

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

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