Welcome to Coastal Currents Arts Festival 2018 8 The White Rock Hotel has Welcome to Coastal Currents 2018, funded by the Arts Council England, Hastings Borough Council and the perfect location with East Sussex Arts Partnership. stunning views over award This is the 20th year of Coastal Currents and to mark that, winning Hastings Pier we are working with even more artists and curators than ever before. Join the launch party procession and help us and the sea, a fabulous celebrate the successes of the last 20 years. cafe-bar, and lovely rooms. Coastal Currents 2018 A community festival at its core, Coastal Currents looks is devised and managed Why stay anywhere else? to work with local artists on site-specific pieces to create by Sweet & Dandy Ltd. a legacy concerned with bringing more art to the streets sweetanddandy.co.uk around us, and helping us look at our towns and spaces Situated in a prime location on Hastings in a new and often intriguing light. seafront, the White Rock is a great place With thanks to The Arts to stay for your visit to Hastings whether Council England, Hastings With hundreds of artists taking part in the Open Studios Borough Council and the for business or pleasure. and 36 individual events and exhibitions as well as shows East Sussex Arts Partnership. at some of the best venues in town, I want to say a huge Our hotel offers modern comfortable rooms thanks to the community which keep fuelling this festival and professional but friendly service. We have the security and convenience of a 24 hour year on year and allowing me to find the inspiration and reception, food and drink available all day in the energy to keep making it bigger and better. So get our stylish cafe-bar and room service at no out there and enjoy the extensive programme of extra charge. We also have our own carpark, exhibitions, interventions, performances and events free WiFi and a choice of meetings rooms. we have in store for you, over the course of the whole month of September. The Terrace cafe-bar’s famed sea front terraces are the ideal place to breakfast Tina Morris Director al fresco, meet friends for lunch or sip cocktails in the moonlight. Perhaps unusually for such a modern bar we are also noted for our excellent local beers and our ‘dogs We are very grateful to all artists, organisers and advertisers who have contributed to Coastal Currents 2018. welcome’ policy. Also discover our newly Design by Luke Herriott at Studioink.co.uk opened basement bar and live music nights. With special thanks to Home Live Art, Becky Beasley, Greig Burgoyne, Daniel Hardiker and Neil Hetherington (ZEROH), Mark French, Caleb Madden, Beccy McCray, Luke Herriott, Cath Tajima-Powell, Joule Arts and Events, Fay McConnell, Hannah Muller and Eleanore Booth, Ditching Museum of Art + Craft and Brighton Festival. To book, please call us Venue partners The Masonic Hall, The Printworks, Blue Reef Aquarium, Shipwreck Museum, Kino Teatr, East and West on 01424 422240 Hill Cliff Railways, Borough Wines, Wow and Flutter, CAW Accountancy, De La Warr Pavilion and Hastings Arts Forum. A big thank you to Hastings Independent - our media partner for 2018. www.thewhiterockhotel.com [email protected] Placemarque - official sponsor of 2018 Coastal Currents. 2 coastalcurrents.org.uk CONTENTS 6 Curated Programme 8 Opening Party 10 Workshops/Parade/Interventions - Beccy McCray 12 Exhibition/Installation - Morag Myerscough 14 Exhibition - Becky Beasley 17 Event - Scalands (Ben Urban and Billy Stanley) 18 Exhibition - Becky Beasley 19 Exhibition - Anne Parfitt 20 Augmented Reality - ZEROH 8 22 Installation - Emily Peasgood 24 Installation/Exhibition - Doug Fishbone 26 Performance - Doug Fishbone 28 Performance and Exhibition - Antivoid Alliance 30 Exhibition - Chris Dobrowolski 32 Performance - Home Live Art: Secret Salon 33 Performance - Salty 34 Performance - Fantabulosa 35 Performance - New Queers on the Block 36 Film - Screen South 37 Film - The Light and Shadow Salon 38 Pecha Kucha Coastal Currents Special 39 Performance - Folk in a Box 40 Performance in development - FUEL presents Melanie Wilson 42 Talk - In Conversation with Becky Beasley and Melanie Wilson 43 Coastal Currents Art Fair 45 Film - Hastings Filmmakers Night 45 Family Event - The Red Balloon 46 MAP 49 Exhibitions and Events 71 Open Studios 72 Bexhill 75 Battle 77 St Leonards 91 Hastings 102 East of Hastings 104 Northiam and Udimore 106 How to get here Coastal Currents 2018 is devised and managed by Sweet & Dandy Ltd. Sweet and Dandy Ltd cannot be held responsible for accident or injury at events and activities organised by external individuals and groups during Coastal Currents 2018. All events and Open Studios from page 49 onwards are not the responsibility of Coastal Currents. Large print versions are available on request email [email protected] Coastal Currents 2018 5 The opening weekend will see artist Morag Myerscough’s touring stage housing all manner of performances in partnership with Stade Saturdays. Sound artist Caleb Madden returns with a large scale sculptural intervention in the Masonic Hall. Deborah Bowness is also joining the festival programme this year with an outdoor intervention as well as several pieces in the An introduction to the balance with urban art fi rmly on the agenda. Curated Programme Keep an eye on our social media channels for news, updates and teasers. Festival favourites ZEROH are working on This year’s curated programme works with an innovative new commission working with even more artists and curators than ever Augmented Reality to create a month-long before, from internationally acclaimed series of fantastical interactions; a prequel artist Becky Beasley who will explore the to the well loved “Moth Project”. exciting discovery of a seaweed decoration shop, unique to Hastings. Beasley is also The fi lm programme invites two new curating a programme of connected events partnerships: Screen South will bring their and exhibitions including an evening at Playback touring exhibition to the Shipwreck Borough Wines curated by Ben Urban and Museum and Chiara Ambrosia hosts a Billy Stanley as well as an exciting one-off Hastings special of her much loved Light “In Conversation” with Melanie Wilson. and Shadow Salon, usually based at the Horse Hospital in Bloomsbury. Greig Burgoyne returns with two impactful and press-worthy curatorial gems; Home Live Art are working with Emily Peasgood will create a brand new Chris Dobrowolski on a new commission sound art commission especially for the celebrating the environment and inspiring cliff railway in Hastings old town and urgent action on climate change. They Doug Fishbone will bring his usual style also head-up an incredible LGBTQ+ strand heavily infl uenced by the world of stand-up which includes: New Queers on the Block comedy to the Kino Teatr as well as a live in partnership with The Marlborough performance at the Stade Hall on the Theatre, Salty, a queer performance party, 12 September. Fantabulosa, outdoor drag storytelling and they return to their roots with a salon event For the fi rst time, Coastal Currents presents in a secret location featuring Florence Peake an aff ordable Art Fair running from 2 to and Catherine Hoff man. the 13 September inviting 45 selected artists’ work shown at the Stade Hall. Grab yourself We kick off on the 31 August with the now a bargain from artists including: Ben Fenton, legendary FREE Opening Party. Artist Tom Bartlett, Geraldine Swain, Jamie McCartney, Beccy McCray will lead a procession from Grande Dame, Rachel Glittenberg, the pier to Azur where you will fi nd a hotbed Oscar Yasamee, Sophie Barber, Peter Quinnell of interesting talent gathered mostly from and Benjamin Phillips. other seaside towns. Expect the unexpected. 6 coastalcurrents.org.uk Coastal Currents 2018 7 8 coastalcurrents.org.uk Coastal Currents 2018 9 WORKSHOPS/PARADE/INTERVENTIONS Curated in partnership with Beccy McCray CRAFTERNOON TEA CLUB Be N-Ice Lolly Lovers Hastings Pier Entrance Friday 31 August 7pm (Opening Party Night) Crafternoon Tea Club are back spreading the love as only they can: working with the local community to create special messages about all the things we can do to be nice to people and kinder to our planet: culminating in a playful, participatory intervention artwork. Join the Be N-Ice Lolly Lovers parade and mobile disco, in collaboration with From Pier To Eternity illuminated bike rides, to distribute these messages and help generate a sweet ripple of goodwill across Hastings and beyond, flexing your right to party in the process. Participants join at own risk. Children must be supervised by an adult at all times. Dressing up theme: N-ice lolly lovers (arrive on wheels: bikes, boards, roller skates...) Co-founded by Beccy McCray and Hannah Elbourne, Crafternoon Tea Club are a collective who explore participatory art combined with activism, blurring lines between artist & audience, bringing people together through the sharing of materials & ideas - and having a good time while they do it. Crafternoon Tea Club have been commissioned by organisations such as the The Barbican, National Theatre, The Olympic Park Legacy Company, The De La Warr Pavilion, Create London and Bestival. crafternoonteaclub.com beccymccray.com From Pier To Eternity will be holding illuminated bike rides on Fridays throughout September - check From Pier To Eternity’s Facebook page for more info. facebook.com/groups/242274762482901 10 coastalcurrents.org.uk Coastal Currents 2018 11 EXHIBITION/INSTALLATION Curated in partnership with Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, and Brighton Festival MORAG MYERSCOUGH Belonging Bandstand Stade Open Space, Hastings, TN34 3DW 1 - 9 September FREE Belonging Bandstand is Morag Myerscough’s fi rst-ever mobile installation: a bright, bold, touring bandstand programmed in conjunction with communities across Sussex. The subject of belonging has intrigued Myerscough for many years and bandstands bring people together with the use of music and performance.