Folkestone Triennial 2021: the Plot 22 July – 2 November 2021

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Free and open to all creativefolkestone.org.uk Folkestone Triennial 2021: The Plot 22 July – 2 November 2021

The Plot focuses on movement, circulation and may impact on, the environment: both its and narration. It charts (the body’s) stories and its bricks and mortar. As curator, movement through the environment: I research ‘opportunities’: sites that have a the impact of the urban landscape on us potential energy for change in the present, and our impact on it. The urban landscape development in the future, or for recovery is constantly changing, with people, goods, of the past. Then I look for an artist whose traffic, money, knowledge and stories practice fits well with that opportunity and circulating through it to keep it alive and in who might like to engage with it. I hope this flux. Each of the exhibition’s three plots or approach to art is as holistic as possible, ‘ways’ is a story and an image of movement foregrounding the ways materiality and and circulation. narrative flow into one another. It is at the interface where reality and myth meet that For this exhibition, I invite the visitor to be art and culture, the marvelous and the equally aware of stories and of the urban miraculous, spring into life. environment as sensed through our bodies. A plot is a narrative. A plot can also refer to To appreciate art, we need to question as something tangible or verifiable: a plot of we look, to consider the context as well as ground or plotting a graph. There’s a place the object, and use our own imagination in between these two meanings that is dialogue with the artist’s. Each of the ‘ways’ especially creative and interesting, when that flow through the exhibition evokes a part plotting draws on both conceptual and of Folkestone’s history and offers a rationale material realities. A ‘conspiracy’ is when for why the town appears how it does today. a group of people aspire to turn ‘their’ They are presented in historical sequence – narrative into a reality. In this sense, art is a medieval way, an Enlightenment way and a plot. A shared belief between artists and an industrial/post-industrial way. But the their audience creates a reality from an idea, exhibition’s subject is the artworks, not the rumour or myth. town. Every place may seem special, but human needs are the same everywhere. Most good art is made from materials that If an artist addresses this specific environment make us feel, with narratives that make us with sufficient insight, then the artwork will think. As an outdoor exhibition The Plot is have universal resonance. unavoidably contextualised by physical surroundings. Artists are invited to make Lewis Biggs, Curator, new artworks that will be seen in relation to, Folkestone Triennial 2021

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A1 Patrick Corillon A4 Winter / Hörbelt On the Track of St Eanswythe’s St Eanswythe’s Return Waterway 1 Wolfgang Winter and Berthold Hörbelt’s sculpture marks the Co-commissioned for Creative Folkestone place where St Eanswythe’s Water used to run, and the scar on Triennial 2021 under the Nouveaux the urban landscape created by the gyratory. The dark steel Commanditaires programme of the wall and bright tree-fountain suggest the blockage of the Fondation de France, curated by watercourse and its possible future return. The sculptural tree artconnexion (Lille). replaces one that died while the artwork was in planning. These five sculptural ‘relic-boxes’ have been A4 Location: RUMBLE.INCREASED.OMBUDSMAN inspired by the artist’s dialogue with a group of local residents. Located along the course of the historic St Eanswythe’s waterway, each box is different. The words and objects refer A5 Patrick Corillon to children’s games and to St Eanswythe On the Track of St Eanswythe’s Waterway 4 herself: the patron saint of Folkestone who See A1. is said to have made water run uphill. A5 Location: GEESE.BOUNDED.MESS A1 Location: ADMIRINGLY.ALONE.OBVIOUSLY

A2 Patrick Corillon A6 Stephenie Bergman On the Track of St Eanswythe’s Blood Branches Waterway 2 This two-part ceramic sculpture was inspired by William See A1. Harvey’s discovery that oxygenated red blood flows in the A2 Location: SHOWCASES.IMPROVES.REJECT arteries and de-oxygenated blue blood flows in the veins. The artist saw an affinity between the branches of trees and the blood system in mammals. The artwork is presented within the William Harvey exhibition at Folkestone Museum from Wednesday 28 July, opening hours Tuesday–Saturday, 10am–4pm. www.folkestonemuseum.co.uk A6 Location: FOLLOWING.CUPBOARDS.SNATCHED

A3 Patrick Corillon A7 Sam Belinfante On the Track of St Eanswythe’s On the Circulation of Blood Waterway 3 This ‘performed sculpture’ is named after William Harvey’s See A1. book that explains the blood system of mammals. The netting A3 Location: VOTED.CRAFT.OVERPOWER and poles here in Market Place are carried by performers to two other key sites in the town. The artist has commissioned the composition of several duets to accompany the performers, who also carry lights. Please see the website for performance times: www.creativefolkestone.org.uk A7 Location: SUNBLOCK.CAMCORDER.AWARDS

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A8 Patrick Corillon A12 Jacqueline Poncelet On the Track of St Eanswythe’s Waterway 5 Shimmera See A1. This, the last of five sculptures, marks the end-point The striking patterns of shimmer discs of the waterway – a pond that served the needs of the nearby decorating the gables at each end of the Priory, as well as the military position on The Bayle. From here ‘cabins’ have been designed by the artist to the surplus water (the waterway had a powerful flow) had celebrate and articulate the energy of the to find its way back down to the Pent via The Old High Street recently recovered public footpaths between and Mill Bay. The Old High Street, Payers Park and Tontine A8 Location: MARMALADE.DIALECTS.ROOFS Street. The designs have a green accent heading towards the Park, and a blue one travelling towards Tontine Street and the sea. A12 Location: FAKES.REPORTER.APPARATUS A9 Stephenie Bergman Blood Letters O These ceramic sculptures refer to blood types, and they are placed on these pathways to draw attention to the circulation of people through the town as a sign of health, like the A13 Stephenie Bergman circulation of blood in the body. Parade Steps used to connect Blood Letters A the military position on The Bayle, commanding the harbour, See A9. St Michael’s Steps with the strand below. used to connect the streets on A9 Location: ANALOGY.CREATURES.PURELY the high ground above with the tidal inlet now hidden beneath Tontine Street. A13 Location: A10 Stephenie Bergman HUMBLE.ADMIRINGLY. Blood Letters AB ALLOWABLE See A9. There used to be a slaughterhouse at the top of the Bail Steps, and the overflow of water from the Bayle Pond would have been used to clean out the blood there before draining down these steps. A10 Location: OTTERS.SHUDDERS.DECREASE

A14 Christopher Houghton Budd Forgiving Light This circle of light-posts marks the centre of the town: the point where a bridge crossed A11 Stephenie Bergman over the mouth of the Pent River allowing Blood Letters B traffic from The Old High Street to gain See A9. This ancient pathway has recently been re-opened to access to the fishing village around what is create a direct connection between The today The Stade. Hoping for a more beautiful Old High Street and Tontine Street during the daytime. and pedestrian-friendly central area, the A11 Location: VILLA.MEGAWATT.VISUAL artist calls it The Plaza. A14 Location: ENGRAVING.GRAPH.FIELD

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Ch erit on R oad 15 Folkestone Triennial 2021 B ou William Harvey (1578–1657) was born in book De Motu Cordis, 1628. The book was rn t C8 em Folkestone S in a house near the Guildhall revolutionary for its method of argument o hip Plot B: ut S d h whose household needs were supplied by from experimental procedure and for its R R li k d C6 C7 14 r St Eanswythe’s Water. He was educated description of the heart and circulation of C Folkestone a F P C5 o West Station William Harvey’s Way r o o in Folkestoner before travelling to Padua the blood. Harvey became Royal Physician n 16 d d a to study medicine.R He was the first physician to James I and Charles I, and his statue stands 51 A1 R d C A2 herito n Rd 19 to describe the systemic circulation and overlooking the sea at the junction of Castle

C3 C4 properties of the blood in mammals in his Hill Avenue and The Leas. S 20 Rd h mead r Rd o Broad 17 Dove rn c i l Cl i e C11 10 1 R Folkestone ade o 12 Par a Central Station A3 C10 11 tion d 18 13 2 d s na 4 R k ro c Co lo 9 m r C2 3 5 a r u B1 Sunny

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Cli l cent Rd l res 56 55 Lighthouse C R Grand s ton ea d The if L Cl The Metropole s a 57 ath e P 62 L 58 ag ig Z he 59 Z T 60 B10 B7 61 53 Plot B: William Harvey’s Way Clis 54 Radn 63 Quarterhouse or Cli Folkestone Museum B9 B852 Information centre Lowe r Sandgate Rd 64 Folkestone Artworks Park and Ride See pages 30–31 See page 36 12 Folkestone Triennial 2021 Plot B

B1 Pilar Quinteros B3 Sam Belinfante Janus Fortress: Folkestone On the Circulation of Blood Co-commissioned for Creative Folkestone The old net drying ground and St Peter’s School suggest Triennial 2021 and England’s Creative Coast ‘industry and education’. Please see the note at A7, Waterfronts with Turner Contemporary. and visit the website for performance times: Janus was the Roman god of beginnings www.creativefolkestone.org.uk and transitions, between past and future. B3 Location: GENTLE.WATCHDOGS.NERVY The sculpture faces towards both mainland Europe and England, connecting them, as Folkestone has always done whether as a fort or a port. It is made of chalk and will disintegrate over the course of the exhibition, as a reflection on the erosion of the coastline. B4 Diane Dever B1 Location: WARBLERS.REMODELS.VIBE Urban Room Folkestone 2017 Commissioned for Creative Folkestone Triennial 2017. In 2017 Urban Room Folkestone (UR Folkestone) occupied The Customs House on the Harbour Arm. It continues as an idea, an information resource and as a programme of activities, housed in this former Tourist Information pavilion. UR Folkestone is dedicated to remembering the history of the town and encouraging debate about its future. B4 Location: WICKED.LINES.POUNCES

B2 Mariko Hori B5 genuinefake Mellowing the Corners FORTUNE HERE (for Urban Room Folkestone) Folkestone’s Zig-Zag Path was built in the Inspired by The Rotunda amusement park formerly 1920s to appear as natural rocks and grottos. on this site (demolished more than 15 years ago) this Designed by James Pulham, this fake rock artwork is a contribution to UR Folkestone’s programme. surface encases waste material which is Its ‘infotainments’ promote alternatives to current models now wearing thin and exposing the rubbish of urban production and co-operation that might be better within. This story inspired the artist to create aligned to the aspirations and needs of communities. More Pulhamite ‘boulders’ containing objects fundamentally, they aim to encourage people to be active donated by residents – acting as time influencers themselves. capsules as the objects gradually appear B5 Location: TORCHED.PHOTOS.STATED in the future. B2 Location: RABBLE.DODGES.WRENCHING B6 Gilbert & George RESPECT ROAD 2020 Exhibited courtesy of the artists. Every building site presents itself as the work of ‘considerate contractors’ and this artwork overlooks Folkestone’s biggest construction site. The artists have always created pictures that capture the essence of contemporary urban life and reflect on the meanings that we find whenever our thoughts engage with our looking. B6 Location: TONSILS.FUEL.STINT

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B7 Bill Woodrow B11 Jason Wilsher-Mills The Ledge 2017 I Am Argonaut Commissioned for Creative Folkestone Triennial 2017. Commissioned for Creative Folkestone This modernist composition, echoing the white cliffs beyond, Triennial 2021 and produced by Shape Arts supports figures of an Inuit and a seal, and sits on a black as part of the Adam Reynolds Award. puddle shape. Sited by the shore, the strong horizontals This contemporary monumental figure suggest rising water levels resulting from the disappearing describes and expresses the world as polar ice caps, an iceberg melting into a pool of oil. The experienced by the artist, whose disabilities figures are on thin ice. were caused by a disease of the blood cells. B7 Location: PROSPERED.PICNIC.MENTIONED It references the artist’s research into the life and work of William Harvey, whose monument stands close by. B8 Mariko Hori B11 Location: SUNBLOCK.SCRIPT.LATCHED Mellowing the Corners See B2. This time-capsule boulder takes its place as one among others on the beach. B12 Gilbert & George B8 Location: BLOOD CITY 1998 and REMOTES.DOCTOR.TONAL BLOOD ROADS 1998 Exhibited courtesy of the artists. Each of these pictures present the same two ideas in counterpoint: the representation of the city through the mapping of streets and blocks of housing, and the ‘mapping’ of blood B9 Rana Begum cells moving through veins and arteries. No. 1054 Arpeggio B12 Location: Commissioned for Creative Folkestone Triennial 2021 in AMBUSHED.EARMARKED.HARMONY partnership with Folkestone & Hythe District Council. The graduated colour scheme and the insistent rhythm of the design have turned a half-mile marching rank of beach huts into notes of colour on a keyboard. Arpeggio is a musical term meaning a chord broken into a sequence of notes played in an ascending or descending order. B13 Atta Kwami B9 Location: SOIL.LIMITS.RESTS Dusiadu (EveryTown) 2020 This group of sculptures are in conversation with each other; and corralled by the flowing B10 Sam Belinfante traffic. Derived from traditional West African On the Circulation of Blood street-vending kiosks, kiosks like these are This amphitheatre in the Lower Leas Coastal sites for the exchange of money and goods, Park suggests a place for leisure, sport and for the currency of knowledge, and for the culture in the town. Please see A7 and the circulation of stories. The artist is from Ghana, website for performance times: and the title is in the Ewe language. www.creativefolkestone.org.uk B13 Location: CALLER.SUCKLE.ENGINEERS B10 Location: BACK.CORROSIVE.RESULTS

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19 B r a R ad C3 C4 d n o S 20 d G s r h d R t d ea o R B o dm 17 u er r The Milky Way was the informal name for roa F ov id r B il n D g n d o e H e c o a R i l h R r d Cl i Foord Road South. In the last quarter of the a r v d d e ll C11 10 e 1 y R S R S de o 19th century, horse-drawn wagons hauled Folkestone t t ara a N d 12 n P Central Station A3 N C10 11 tio d 18 o 13 2 d s na coal from the Harbour up the Pent Valley to r o 4 R k ro t r c o h t C h lo 9 m r the Gasworks and returned the same way C2 3 5 a r u B1 Sunny

C1 r T D C9 C12M u Sands laden with chalk to be used as ballast by the i e B2 y ll o h 23 B C13 A13 T a G 22 b ships. The road was stained black by coal 24 ra a r B3 A4 y W H ce a 46 50 t i 6 H dust and then white by chalk falling from ornclie Rd C S ll Sh h s T 49 e n 21 A11 o the wagons, making it look – so a poetic r Che llo G nt it riton e u in o Rd h i A12 e B4 n S ld S e 48 contemporary suggested – like the Milky G h A7 t tad The S a a The l O ld 47 r l d S Way. The Pent River was the source of power t A10 Hig 45 C C e h St n a h s The 41 7 for the town’s mills industry, and its valley s r re Pa t i ra l s a de e t M u 26 A5 is now the location for much of its post- C q C e H l 34 a S 44 h h i g y A14 l n r u Outer l u A6 a industrial economic and cultural activity. o u r A r 27 B 8 r b 28 c c Harbour v le d h h R 71 Bus R e e d S A9 The Milky Way can be taken as an image d d 25 h n R i te t Station T d 32 u d M a R e C g r te A8 for the transience of Folkestone’s ‘industrial’ d e a 31 43 C14 h n w g e Inner a o d S L n r cycle; it is now a cul-de-sac. i a T M t 29 Harbour t o S s e e a W n r Grand C15 d r r R 72 ie 70 a i r P n Burstin 30 ve c u l n ce e o a io n e B lb a c r A s b e la m il e B6 V m Re C17 f o B5 B13 Road 42

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C1 Richard Deacon C4 Gilbert & George Benchmark 1-5 BEHAVE 2014 Wooden benches on concrete bases provide Exhibited courtesy of the artists. comfort for visitors enjoying these beautiful The picture draws the attention of visitors gardens. The artist noticed a number of arriving in the town to the contested powers empty bases and was inspired to respond given to the police to disperse “groups of two with a series of bench-like sculptures. The rich or more persons in any public place if their and varied ecology of the gardens suggested presence is likely to result in any members that he choose different colours of granite in a of the public being intimidated, harassed, medley for the composition of each sculpture. alarmed or distressed”. C1 Location: BRILLIANT.BLEACH.SECRETS C4 Location: OFFICE.TWEE.GOLFING

C2 Mariko Hori C5 Jacqueline Poncelet Mellowing the Corners Looking Ahead See B2. This time-capsule The site on the other side of this wall has boulder stands in for a topiary been acquired by Folkestone & Hythe District bush that was missing from Council for development. Before it was a the garden’s formal design. gasworks, this was where Folkestone’s first C2 Location: middle class villas were built. The artist EMBLEM.BLEND.FOREHEADS creates a sense of celebration with the kaleidoscopes and bee-eye lenses piercing the wall like a galactic firework display. She invites us to look towards the railway viaduct, the hills and the future. C5 Location: TICKET.DRAWN.LANDMARK

C3 Bob and Roberta Smith C6 FOLKESTONE IS AN ART SCHOOL 2017 Morag Myerscough Commissioned for Creative Folkestone Flock of Seagulls Bag of Stolen Chips Triennial 2017. The artist has created a joyful welcome Invited to consider whether an art school area and platform offering visitors a view should be re-established in Folkestone, over the whole former Gasworks site and its the artist realised that all the skills, environment. She invited local residents to knowledge and facilities required were talk about the site and has incorporated their already present in the town – they just words into the design, providing a moment to needed to be recognised and appreciated celebrate the site and its future development. differently. His artwork consists of this C6 Location: ACROBATS.SWOONING.TOWEL ‘declaration’, along with 13 ‘pedagogical videos’ available on our website: www.creativefolkestone.org.uk C3 Location: DIALECTS.BUDGET.DEBATE 20 21 Folkestone Triennial 2021 Plot C

C7 Jacqueline Donachie C10 HoyCheong Wong, Beautiful Sunday Simon Davenport The Gasworks social club remained active on and Shahed Saleem the derelict site for many years. The artwork Nūr ‘celebrates all the dance floors of Folkestone’ The industrial building now past and present – you can find them marked occupied by the Islamic out on the surface of the stage. The film Community Centre was documents a line dance called The Slosh. one of the most important Beautiful Sunday is the title of the 1972 hit in Folkestone, incorporating song by Daniel Boone. a huge water-wheel driven C7 Location: HECKLER.RESTING.INCUR by the Pent. The designs for the 10m high lantern were evolved through workshops with the Madrasa and wider C8 Jyll Bradley Islamic community, while the Green / Light (For M.R.) 2014 artists have worked with the Commissioned for Creative Folkestone Centre’s organising Triennial 2014. committee to present The sculpture’s aluminium poles and green proposals for the future acrylic sheets are designed to catch the development of the building. light, and their circular footprint is that of a C10 Location: demolished gasometer. The outer square is HOTELS.PURELY.SHOELACES set out as a hop field, the poles and twine drawing on Kent’s historic agriculture and the artist’s childhood memories. C11 Stephenie Bergman C8 Location: JUSTIFIES.INDOORS.CRISPS Pills Before the development of literacy and graphic signs, C9 Shezad Dawood shops would advertise by The Terrarium hanging up their wares A virtual reality artwork situating viewers outside the door: a kind 300 years into the future: the Earth’s surface of universal language of is submerged in water and you have been objects. These playful and modified into a cephalopod hybrid and beautiful ceramic sculptures released from a laboratory into the now mark the entrance to the connected Kent-Baltic coastline. The VR is Harbour Medical Practice, presented alongside Shifter: The Terrarium where many attenders do Triad, a score by Graham Fitkin. not have English as their www.upprojects.com/projects/the-terrarium/ first language. For opening times please visit: C11 Location: www.kent.gov.uk/libs SPITES.ADMIRINGLY.STIRS C9 Location: DEPEND.KICKBACKS.CARPENTRY

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C12 Gilbert & George C15 Tina Gverovic THEY SHOT THEM 2014 Surface Flows Exhibited courtesy of The roll-on roll-off ferry ramp was once the the artists. epicentre of Folkestone’s economy and of its There are two narratives connectedness, bearing uncounted tonnes of in the picture, one about goods and multitudes of people. The artist’s ‘cleaning up’ sex, and images of floating clothing remind us of the another one about ending flow of people and goods around the world, injustice through anarchy. often by water, and generally reaching their C12 Location: destination, but sometimes foundering. TANGENT.FRIZZ.DRAGON C15 Location: BUZZ.LOWEST.MAGNITUDE

C13 Gilbert & George CHAIN BRAIN 2019 Exhibited courtesy of the artists. C16 Assemble Wearing chains as a fashion Skating Situations statement has been a part The artists have collaborated with local of contemporary life since skaters to develop ‘skateable sculptures’ the 1970s. Symbolically it starting from the point of view of sporting evokes a lack of freedom. and aesthetic interest rather than functional C13 Location: relation to the urban landscape. This group of CHEEKS.WADES.RIPEN sculptures complements and celebrates F51, Folkestone’s Olympic standard indoor skate park, opening in 2021. C16 Location: TWIN.SKATE.CONGRATULATIONS

C14 Mike Stubbs C17 Atta Kwami Climate Emergency Services Atsiaƒu ƒe agbo nu This sculpture on wheels highlights the value (Gateways of the Sea) 2020 hierarchies of the motor industry: freedom, The artist is best known in this country for his speed, excitement and pride. The cost of our colourful abstract paintings that refer among addiction to these values is paid by wasteful other things to architectural environments. production processes and the contribution of This sculpture reverses that relationship fossil fuels to climate change and ecological between painting and architecture. It acts as disaster. Concealed within this conflicted hot a greeting, a welcome point and captures the rod is a cool laboratory for studying the excitement of arrival at a place where people climate emergency; and a roving observatory meet at the edge of the sea. for visiting festivals, schools and events. C17 Location: C14 Location: SPELL.VALUED.RESULTS RECONNECT.INCLUDES.CLOTHING

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Take Your Own Tour of the Artworks 29 September Brendan Walker: Folkestone Circulation Revisited Public Programme Online and in person Through the Eyes of a Thrill Engineer. Thursdays 6:30pm, 9 September: Capital, Plan, personalise and take your friends, family 6 October Bob and Roberta Smith: 16 September: Blood, 23 September: People Dive deeper into the themes of or colleagues on a tour of the Triennial at a What Art Education Can Do For A Town. Talks curated by Christopher Houghton Budd the Folkestone Triennial with our time, date and distance that suits you. 13 October Dan Atkinson: Plottymouth: that respond to William Harvey’s discovery of programme of talks, tours and Comic Triennial Review and Striptease the circulation of the blood. film screenings. All events are free, Audio Tours with curator Lewis Biggs (weather dependent). to find out more visit our website: and guests 20 October Pippa Catterall: Art, Placemaking Urban Room Folkestone 2017 www.creativefolkestone.org.uk Listen on your own device and Inclusion. Exhibitions, workshops and talks giving Join Folkestone Triennial curator Lewis Biggs 27 October Lewis Biggs: Plotting: An Evening insight into the town’s history and geography, Opening Weekend Events while touring Plot A, B or C. For more to Celebrate, Ask and Be Asked Questions. celebrate its stories and expand thinking information visit the website. Skate Jam and Pier Pressure 2021 about its future development. F51, Creative Folkestone and Skate Films www.urbanroomfolkestone.net Talks Folkestone present two weekends of Still Reeling – Films by and About Let’s Play Plaza skateboarding action. Intersections – The Story of Folkestone Folkestone Triennial Artists A selection of events to accompany and Saturday 24 July, from 1pm Skate Jam: Mosque Friday 3 September, 6.30pm contextualise Christopher Houghton Budd’s come skate Skating Situations, a Folkestone Saturday 24 July, 6.30pm, Folkestone Islamic Celebration of artist Jyll Bradley with the artwork Forgiving Light. Triennial artwork, at the Harbour Arm. Cultural Centre and Quarterhouse world premiere of her film M.R. (2021) Saturday 31 July Pier Pressure 2021: HoyCheong Wong, Shahed Saleem and FORTUNE HERE Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 September, a free skateboarding festival. Simon Davenport with Faruk Miah and Talks and discussions with genuinefake 10am–4pm www.instagram.com/folkestone51 Shaheen Chowdhury from Folkestone on urban rooms, community interventions, Films from Pilar Quinteros, Jacqueline Mosque, on collaboration, making the and the future of Folkestone. Donachie, Tina Gverović, Patrick Corillon Tours artwork Nūr and the story of mosques in and more. World premiere of documentary Meet at Quarterhouse – booking essential. Britain. Chair: Remona Aly. FOLKESTONE IS AN ART SCHOOL Stephenie Bergman (work in progress) A conceptual framework inviting creative Guided Tours Emergency on Planet Folkestone (2021 dir. Rafael Ortega Ayala). activities and contributions. Fridays: 10am, 2pm, 6pm* and Sundays: 10am, Saturday 4 September, 6.30pm, Quarterhouse Workshops, mentoring, portfolio reviews, 2pm, 4pm (duration 1 hour/up to 2 hours) Join our panel as we tackle some difficult Artist-led events exhibitions and events. More details to be Folkestone Triennial tours are an exciting questions. With environment expert Nicholas On the Circulation of Blood announced. way to experience the town and the new Thurston and artist Mike Stubbs. Chair: Saturday 21 July: The Durlocks, exhibition. Our expert guides include artists, Charlotte Sleigh. Saturday 14 August: Market Place, National Student Days educators, a composer, a running coach, an Breath and Water, Blood and Bones Saturday 16 October: The Lower Leas explorer, an actor and a lecturer in film. National Student Days Saturday 2 October, 4pm–7pm, St Mary Sam Belinfante processions and *6pm Friday tours will run until the end of Thursday 21 and Friday 22 October, and St Eanswythe’s Church performances, with illuminated evening August only. 10.30am–5pm, Quarterhouse Historian Lesley Hardy, Dr Sarah Montgomery events plus choreographed light display. Gathering students from universities and Critics’ Tours and musician Grenville Hancox explore Terrarium colleges across the UK. Guided tours, panel Saturdays 11am and 2.30pm (duration 2 hours) William Harvey, St Eanswythe and the A public programme exploring the talks from the Triennial team, film screenings Join an art critic and tour artworks. circulation of breath, blood and myth in exhibition’s connection to Kent and quiz. 31 July Will Jennings, independent artist, this ancient building. Chair: Joanna Labon. Shezad Dawood explores the Kent writer and curator. The Matter of Circulation The Plot in The Clearing, Quarterhouse coastline with researchers and activists. 28 August Skye Sherwin, art writer for Saturday 23 October, 10.30am–5pm Wednesdays 6.30pm – seven hosted talks www.upprojects.com/projects/the-terrarium The Guardian. Postgraduate research event with keynote with expert speakers, drinks and conversation 25 September Jennifer Thatcher, art critic speakers Prof. Lewis Biggs and Dr Gilda 15 September Emily Ghassempour: and course leader at Sotheby’s. Williams. How is art and design able draw Why Diversity in Stories Matters. 30 October Richard Dyer, Editor-in-Chief, our attention to the gap between narrative 22 September Helen Lindon: Art and Activism, Third Text. and reality, promise and execution from a Sea Levels and Folkestone. material perspective? 26 27 Folkestone Triennial 2021

360 Folkestone with Young Animators Education Saturday 9 October, 11am–3pm Envisage Folkestone in the distant future and take us there. All Saturday family workshops are free, drop-in sessions at our Join artist and animator Lydia Hibbert to create a multimedia studio at Block 67, Mill Bay, Folkestone, CT20 1JG. Just turn up. scene inspired by the immersive environments of Shezad All workshops are run according to current government guidelines. Dawood. Photograph your artwork using a 360-degree camera and then step inside your own world using a Virtual Play Making with Leap Then Look Reality headset. Saturday 4 September and 18 September, 12pm–4pm

How can we create a space to play and make? Join artists All Experiences Dissolve Into Experience with Sam Ayres Leap Then Look to create a playful, ever-changing installation Saturday 16 October, 11am–3pm which will grow and evolve over the course of the day. Inspired by the Folkestone Triennial themes of circulation Inspired by Folkestone Triennial themes, we will explore of blood and the movement of water, we will work with inks different sets of materials, encouraging families to work on recycled and reclaimed materials, exploring the flow of together to make structures, create games and build a knowledge and how learning connects our brains and bodies shared collaborative environment. to the world around us.

Power Objects with Katrin Albrecht Looking Re-looking with Nicole Cowan Saturday 11 September, 11am–3pm Saturday 23 October, 11am–3pm Taking inspiration from Mariko Hori’s sculptures, Mellowing Inspired by Jaqueline Poncelet’s Looking Ahead, we will think the Corners, come and make your own object of power. about how we can view something in many different ways. We will be looking at examples from different cultures for Creating our own viewfinders, we will use photography, inspiration. Bring something tiny and personal like a bead, drawing and projections to fill the space and create a layered ribbon, pebble, whisker, twig, hair, image or whatever small installation by looking, re-looking and then looking again! item you would like to work into your object.

Plotting with Emily Martin The Best in Us with Young Animators HALF TERM Wednesday 27 October, 11am–3pm Saturday 25 September, 11am–3pm Inspired by Folkestone Triennial’s theme The Plot, we will look Create a Jason Wilsher-Mills inspired colourful character and at three historic Folkestone narratives and their journeys within bring it to life. Animate your character dancing or waving and cartography. Referring to the passages of movement, we will even interact with your character using augmented reality. create unique and personal maps of Folkestone and explore Jason Wilsher-Mills’ drawings and sculptures are a salute to mark making through various printing techniques. all that makes us unique and celebrate strong personalities. We will find out about the brilliant personalities of some Celebrate Folkestone with Louella Ward and Hannah Lucas amazing Folkestonians; the one next door, the ones from Saturday 30 October, 11am–3pm history and the ones that make our town great. Give your Create your own Morag Myerscough inspired placards! character that part of you that makes you brilliant, and share We will experiment with poetry, collage and painting to your work in a celebration of big, colourful personalities. make statements celebrating Folkestone, and what it

means to belong and connect with one another. Drawing Sculpture with Jeni Johnson Saturday 2 October, 11am–3pm Inspired by Stephenie Bergman’s ceramic sculptures that play on the forms we associate with medicine – from pills Scan the QR code to find all of our Folkestone Triennial to organs, veins and arteries – we will experiment with creative resources for primary schools, secondary schools drawing with clay and wood to create our own playful, and families… For information on our schools’ programmes wearable sculpture objects. please contact [email protected]

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1 Studio Ben Allen, The Clearing 13 Diane Dever and Jonathan 26 Amalia Pica, Souvenir 40 Ian Hamilton Finlay, Weather 52 Bill Woodrow, The Ledge 64 Pablo Bronstein, Beach Hut 2 Yoko Ono, SKYLADDER Wright, Pent Houses 1-5, (2) 27 Tracey Emin, Baby Things Is A Third To Place And Time 53 Richard Wilson, 18 Holes In The Style Of Nicholas 3 Diane Dever and Jonathan 14 Richard Wentworth, Racinated 28 Tracey Emin, Baby Things 41 Banksy, Art Buff 54 Richard Wentworth, Racinated Hawksmoor Wright, Pent Houses 1-5, (3) 15 Diane Dever and Jonathan 29 Richard Wentworth, Racinated 42 Paloma Varga Weisz, 55 Adam Chodzko, Pyramid 65 Mark Wallinger, Folk Stones 4 Nathan Coley, Heaven Is A Place Wright, Pent Houses 1-5, (1) 30 Richard Wentworth, Racinated Rug People 56 Ruth Ewan, We Could Have 66 Richard Wentworth, Racinated Where Nothing Ever Happens 16 Amalia Pica, Souvenir 31 Hamish Fulton, 31 Walks From 43 Richard Woods, Holiday Home Been Anything That We 67 Richard Wentworth, Racinated 5 Jonathan Wright, Fleet On Foot, 17 Amalia Pica, Souvenir Water To Water 1971-2010 44 Richard Woods, Holiday Home Wanted To Be 68 Pae White, Barking Rocks (10) 18 Strange Cargo, 32 Tonico Lemos Auad, Carrancas 45 Sarah Staton, Steve 57 Will Kwan, Apparatus #9 69 Richard Woods, Holiday Home 6 Diane Dever and Jonathan The Luckiest Place On Earth 33 Diane Dever and The Decorators, 46 Tracey Emin, Baby Things (The China Watchers: Oxford 70 Richard Wentworth, Racinated Wright, Pent Houses 1-5, (4) 19 Tracey Emin, Baby Things Urban Room Folkestone 47 Michael Sailstorfer, University, MI6, HSBC) 71 Richard Wentworth, Racinated 7 Michael Craig-Martin, 20 Bob and Roberta Smith, 34 rootoftwo, Whithervanes: Folkestone Digs 58 Christian Boltanski, 72 Tracey Emin, Baby Things Folkestone Lightbulb FOLKESTONE IS AN A Neurotic Early Worrying 48 Cornelia Parker, The Whispers 8 Diane Dever and Jonathan ART SCHOOL System (NEWS), (2) The Folkestone Mermaid 59 David Shrigley, Lamp Post Wright, Pent Houses 1-5, (5) 21 muf Architecture/Art, 35 Lubaina Himid, 49 Gary Woodley, Impingement (As Remembered) 9 Tracey Emin, Baby Things Payers Park Jelly Mould Pavilion No. 66 ‘Cube Circumscribed 60 Spencer Finch, 10 Sinta Tantra, 1947 22 Rigo 23, Through The Glassworks 36 A K Dolven, Out Of Tune By Tetrahedron – Tetrahedron The Colour Of Water 11 rootoftwo, Whithervanes: and Earth’s Oldest Satellite 37 Sol Calero, Casa Anacaona Circumscribed By Cube’ 61 Yoko Ono, Earth Peace A Neurotic Early Worrying 23 Yoko Ono, SKYLADDER 38 Antony Gormley, 50 Tracey Emin, Baby Things 62 Cristina Iglesias, Towards Mark Dion, Mobile Gull Appreciation System (NEWS), (1) 24 Richard Wentworth, Racinated Another Time XVIII 51 Marc Schmitz and Dolgor The Sound Of Wilderness Unit (Not in fixed location. Displayed 12 Amalia Pica, Souvenir 25 Amalia Pica, Souvenir 39 Patrick Tuttofuoco, FOLKESTONE Ser-Od, Siren 63 Richard Wentworth, Racinated at special events.) Folkestone Triennial 2021 Quarterhouse Creative Quarter

Quarterhouse is the award-winning Folkestone’s Creative Quarter is an urban village of designers, filmmakers, performing arts hub of Creative musicians, web developers and artists. Folkestone. A stone’s throw from the sea and less than Don’t take our word for it, get lost in the Based on Tontine Street, in the heart of an hour from London, Folkestone’s Creative Creative Quarter and see what you can find. Folkestone’s Creative Quarter amidst a Quarter is home to hundreds of creatives vibrant community of artists’ studios, shops, who contribute to and support the creative Save the date… why not join us for bars and spaces, Quarterhouse presents a community, making Folkestone one of the Open Quarter and explore the area’s year-round programme of contemporary best places in the world… but we would say hidden spaces from Friday 10 – Friday theatre, dance, music, comedy, film, live that wouldn’t we? 17 September 2021. screenings and family shows. Quarterhouse also supports artist development, our creative community, and many local festivals.

This autumn look out for:

Edgy music gigs from The Staves and This Is The Kit Searing comedy from Mark Watson and Bridget Christie Flamenco- and Kathak-inspired performances from Agudo and Pagrav Dance Companies Brilliant theatre by Frozen Light and Emily Jenkins Mrs H & the Singalong Band who will provide our popular wig-out for toddlers Our monthly Documentary Club screenings – Doc Club, and A brand-new Documentary Film Festival

We round off the year on Sunny Sands beach with Beacons, a specially composed sound and light installation on the winter solstice by Folkestone-based artist and scenographer Alison Neighbour with composer Emily Peasgood.

For more information or to book tickets visit our website or call our Box Office on 01303 760740.

32 33 Folkestone Triennial 2021 Folkestone Fringe Triennial 2021 Thank you to our supporters...

Since its inception in 2008, the Creative Folkestone Triennial Sponsored by Founding Funder has been accompanied by a Fringe programme.

The Folkestone Fringe team apply their 2. Open – ‘SubPlot’ knowledge, skills and experience, gathered Fringe Open collates proposals from across through working in our communities over the the whole of Folkestone, by acting as the last 12 years, to enable these programmes to central showcase to promote any creative form. At the core of this work is an awareness activity happening alongside Folkestone Supported by of the role that the arts plays in accessing Triennial. No matter your age, background, and articulating both individual and societal or experience, Fringe Open supports diverse meaning. And for 2021, we want to play our voices to step onto public platforms. part in using the arts and creativity to reflect, heal and build for the future – through existing 3. Associates – ‘Chapters’ and new ways. The Associates platform, entitled ‘Chapters’, amplifies the activities of local arts What’s Happening, Exactly? organisations who have devised and This year, the Folkestone Fringe Triennial 2021 developed their own programming during programme cultivates across 3 platforms: Folkestone Triennial. Acting as a go-to hub, ‘Curated’, ‘Open’ and ‘Associates’ the platform provides a single channel of information for residents and visitors to enjoy 1. Curated – ‘What’s Happening, Exactly?’ the dynamic cultural activity taking shape A curated platform of 40 events, including across the town, all at once. Artwork Supporters the work of 6 selected, Folkestone-based artists, and powered by a new graduate www.folkestonefringe.com/festivals/ artist/curator initiative – GLUE. folkestone-triennial-2021

Become a Creative Folkestone Member Triennial Supporters Since 2002, the work of Creative For more information on becoming Folkestone has enabled thousands of a member, please visit: people from all backgrounds to live, www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/ work, create, play, learn and perform. join-and-support

As a charity, we rely on the generosity of Donate and help us to keep Folkestone all our supporters to continue enabling the creative. Visit our website to donate creative community in Folkestone to flourish. online or text CREATIVEFOLKESTONE to 70085 to donate £3 to our Learning Join us as a Creative Folkestone Member and Engagement Programme. and discover a diverse and exciting range www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/ In Kind of discounts, events and opportunities. join-and-support Bagnalls Dulux Decorator Centre CCP Structures 34 35 Folkestone Triennial 2021

Creative Folkestone Triennial 2021 Access Thursday 22 July – Tuesday 2 November There is wheelchair and motorised scooter Free and open to all access to as many artworks as possible and we have done our best to highlight step free About routes around the exhibition. However, due to Folkestone Triennial is one of the UK’s largest the historic nature of the town, some artworks exhibitions of newly commissioned work. are less accessible. Where possible we will Artists are invited to use the town as their provide BSL interpretation at events and large gallery creating striking artwork that reflects print information. If there is anything we can issues affecting both the town and the wider do to make your visit easier, our team will be world. Returning in 2021 for the fifth time, more than happy to help. Please contact we are delighted to present The Plot. [email protected] Immerse yourself in a virtual world, find secret Public Programme artworks, learn the latest dance craze, kickflip With a packed schedule of talks, tours and over a sculpture, wonder at the urban myths more, our Public Programme gives you an of Folkestone and so much more. opportunity to dive deeper into the ideas and For more information about Folkestone themes of The Plot. For more information visit Triennial including artist interviews, page 26 of this booklet or visit our website for educational resources and more visit our more details. website: www.creativefolkestone.org.uk Schools and education Visiting Folkestone Triennial Throughout Folkestone Triennial, we are The visitor centre for Folkestone Triennial is offering workshops and fun activities for located at Quarterhouse (Mill Bay, Folkestone children and families to get creative. If you CT20 1BN). Open daily from 10am–5pm. would like your school to get involved, contact Head to the visitor centre to grab your [email protected] exhibition guide, book events or make or turn to page 28. use of the toilets and changing facilities. Many of the artworks will be staffed daily Get in touch by our friendly team of Hosts. To help plan Share your experiences from The Plot your visit to Folkestone visit our website: and tag us in your best photos and videos: www.creativefolkestone.org.uk /creativefolkestone @CreativeFstone Park and Ride @creativefstone Pay just £5 to park all day and catch the shuttle bus to Folkestone and the Harbour. The new If you have any comments or suggestions service will run from the Motis Business Centre about Folkestone Triennial or any of our in Cheriton near J12 of the M20, CT19 4 QJ. projects, please email us at This service will operate every weekend [email protected] until October and daily during the summer holidays. Shuttle buses will run every 30 Tell us what you think minutes between 9am and 6pm to Folkestone More than ever, it is vital we learn Harbour via Folkestone Central Station. what you thought of this year’s Creative Folkestone Triennial. Please complete a short anonymous Drone photography by Tom Bishop Photography. survey by scanning the QR code. All other artwork photography by Thierry Bal. Your honest feedback is invaluable. 36