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18/6/2010

Whitstable Biennale 2010

Different venues, Whitstable

Opening reception 12 noon Saturday 19 June 2010 on Whitstable's main beach at the Biennale's specially commissioned Pavilion, by artist Kieren Reed.

Aesthetically influenced by 1950’s social housing schemes and utilitarian architecture, Kieren Reed has created a Pavilion - a sculptural intervention which will become the Whitstable Biennale Headquarters for the duration of the 2010 festival. Placed on the shingle beach, next to the Royal Native Oyster Stores, the sculpture references seaside architecture and tourist functionality. It forms an information point for the Biennale, housing artists’ books, print materials and other ephemera.

Reed is responding to how the architectural and public spaces that surround us can be used to manipulate and interrogate our individual and collective identities. His practice considers the relationship between functioning and non-functioning objects in order to explore a duality of meaning and possibility within the everyday. Creating functional architectural interventions within public spaces, he is intrigued by the aesthetic and sculptural qualities of these works and questions how they can be seen both as artworks and usable purpose built spaces.

The Biennale has commissioned major new works, all of which explore different aspects of performance and film. For two weeks the seaside town of Whitstable will be transformed into a centre for contemporary art.

Performances & Events

Curated by Emma Leach & Gemma Sharpe

A series of performances, events and talks take place each of the three weekends of the Whitstable Biennale, 19/20 June, 26/27 June and 3/4 July 2010. The performance programme takes place in a variety of indoor and outdoor venues, folding itself into Whitstable.

Gemma Sharpe is a writer and critic with a background in Art History and English. She has worked for Afterall Publishing, the ICA, Gasworks and the Triangle Arts Trust. Currently completing an MFA in 'Art Writing' from Goldsmiths, she has written for Nukta, Art India, Shifter, MAP, Afterall Online and Untitled. She has contributed various essays to exhibition catalogues and printed publications and has given talks at the ICA and The A Foundation in London, at Weld in Stockholm, the Indus Valley University in Karachi, and at 1Shanthi Road, Bangalore. She is a founder member of art writing platform 'antepress' and is a member of the 'Other Asias' research circle.

Emma Leach is an artist working in performance, writing and installation. She graduated from Kent Institute of Art & Design in 2005 and has since worked on projects in a wide variety of art contexts, including for Turner Contemporary, Tate Modern, Artsadmin and - since 2006 - the Whitstable Biennale. Collaboration and artist support are important elements in Leach's practice: she often performs in works by other people and has mentored early-career artists with the peer mentoring group, Junto. Leach is currently living in London and works for Bobby Baker's Daily Life Ltd, as well as pursuing freelance projects.

Screening programme

UR-NOW: The Ruins of the Contemporary

Curated by Brian Dillon

The Horsebridge Arts & Community Centre, Gallery 1

UR-NOW: The Ruins of the Contemporary focuses on what it means to be contemporary, to be up to date, of the moment, au courant: all of this implies a kind of punctuality, a requirement that we meet our times on their own terms. And yet, this moment – ‘the now’ – is always about to vanish into the past or the obsolete: nothing seems so dated as the declaration that one is at the cutting edge of fashion, culture, social or political mores. On the other hand, how to tell what was wholly of its time before that time has passed? The contemporary demands a future from which it may be judged, precisely, to have been contemporary.

Brian Dillon is AHRC Research Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Kent. He is UK editor of Cabinet magazine and the author of Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (Penguin, 2009) and In the Dark Room (Penguin, 2005). He lives in Canterbury. Talk by Brian Dillon and artists in the film programme Saturday 19 June.

Artist commissions

Curated by Sue Jones

Assistant Curator Kate Phillimore

The Artist Commissions are major new works that have been commissioned specially for the Whitstable Biennale.
Nine commissions have been created for this years Whitstable Biennale, plus Uddin & Elsey launch their two-year project that will run to the Whitstable Biennale 2012.
The 2010 Biennale programme of commissions includes a series of major new commissions, including new works by Phil Coy, Adam Chodzko, Katie Paterson, Anna Lucas, Olivia Plender & Unnar Örn, Karen Mirza & Ruth Beale, Alex Pearl and Mikhail Karikis. Kieren Reed's sculpture will operate as the Biennale HQ for the two weeks, and Uddin & Elsey are launching a two-year project.

Info, venues, artists:
http://www.whitstablebiennale.com

The Time has Come, to Talk of Many Things

Satellite programme website at http://thewhitstablesatellite.com/

The 2010 Whitstable Biennale Satellite Programmes is a showcase of artists from Whitstable and all over the UK. Over seventy-five projects and events will take place during the 2010 Biennale. The works encompass a broad range of artistic practices - from a parade of people making birdcalls to an exhibition in a caravan that changes daily; from a disorientating audio tour of Whitstable which guides you by the sounds of Marrakech, to the return of the 'guerilla knitters'.

Press & Marketing - Simon Steven +44 (0)1843 596194 press@whitstablebiennale.com

Opening reception 12 noon Saturday 19 June 2010

Different venues
Whitstable

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