11 Michael Craig-Martin Folkestone Lightbulb The Clearing – Folkestone Triennial Symposia This image of an everyday object in stylish strong colours picks Visitor Centre at Quarterhouse On the Edge: Time and Truth up formally on the curving façade of the building. Located at the Mill Bay, Folkestone CT20 1BN Sat 2 September, 11am – 6.30pm junction of The Old High Street and Tontine Street, the gateway Open 10am – 5pm daily Folkestone Quarterhouse More information on the artworks and artists is available in the Folkestone to the Creative Quarter, conceptually the lightbulb suggests ideas, 01303 760 750 This year’s commissioned artists talk Triennial 2017 Guide Book (£5 from the Visitor Centre at Quarterhouse) inspiration, sustainable energy, the essence of regeneration. Head here for an exhibition guide and about their projects in the context of this map, family guide and details of our Triennial’s title double edge, focusing on 1 Bob and Roberta Smith 12 Gary Woodley Impingement No. 66 ‘Cube public programme, merchandise, two major subthemes: the edges of truth FOLKESTONE IS AN ART SCHOOL Circumscribed by Tetrahedron – Tetrahedron café, accessible toilets and baby and time. Free, booking essential. This artwork is in four parts: a ‘declaration’ in the streets; twelve Circumscribed by Cube’ 2017 changing facilities. short pedagogical videos; a ‘directory’ of art teaching facilities Cézanne proposed: ‘treat nature by means of the cylinder, the Border and talents; and a teaching programme / exhibition. The artist sphere, the cone’. Woodley’s ‘impingements’ are about the Other Information Points Sat 4 November, 10am – 5pm discovered that everything needed for an art school is already in interaction between ideas and reality, ‘platonic’ forms in dialogue Folkestone Central Railway Station Folkestone Quarterhouse Folkestone – the resources just need to be recognised differently. with physical architectural space. No. 66 draws two pairs of Mark Dion’s Mobile Gull Appreciation Exploring the concept of situated figures onto and through Coronation Parade (a cliff-stabilising Unit at Sandgate Road practice in contemporary art, 2 Amalia Pica Souvenir structure between landscape and architecture). architecture and urbanism. In Decorative constructions of sea shells are made in seaside towns Family, Adult and Critics’ partnership with University College everywhere and often kept as souvenirs. The artist has made Antony Gormley Another Time XVIII 2013 (Loading Guided Tours London / Urban Laboratory. To book go her own shell sculptures – in a different cultural tradition – 13 Bay) & Another Time XXI 2013 (Coronation Parade) Let one of our expert guides take you to www.edge.situated-practice.net and loaned them to shops and residents for public exhibition. Three from a series of 100 solid cast-iron figures have been on a lively and informal exploration of For more info on the symposia and their Some have been cast in bronze for all-weather display. loaned for Folkestone Triennial (two in Folkestone and one double edge sights, sounds and ideas. speakers go to the Public Programmes installed in Margate by Turner Contemporary). Intended to All tours are free, last for approximately section of our website. Emily Peasgood Halfway to Heaven 3 “celebrate the still and silent nature of sculpture… within 2 hours, and numbers are limited to 25 The Baptist Burial Ground has been stranded 20 feet above the the flow of lived time”, all three stand within the ebb and flow people maximum. Booking is essential. Website street for 150 years. From the grave markers, composer Emily of the tide. Go to the What’s On section of our www.folkestonetriennial.org.uk Peasgood researched some of the people buried there to weave website to choose your preferred tour. Our website is a comprehensive a narrative into her audio installation: each channel relates to a Marc Schmitz and Dolgor Ser-Od Siren resource for all the above, as well as specific gravestone and is triggered by the presence of a listener. 14 Inspired by the ‘listening ears’ along the coast, Siren evokes an Tours for Schools, Universities our Artist-led events, National Student unfamiliar technology, as if landed from space. This surprising and Colleges Days, Salons, Field Trips and Study HoyCheong Wong Minaret 4 object amplifies distant sound, but also ‘speaks back’ by For help planning your school, Days. Also available for download are The Islamic Cultural Centre has operated as a Mosque for 28 years, university or college visit contact video interviews with commissioned but many residents in the town are unaware of it. The artist has becoming a megaphone. It gathers the noise of the waves (like a sea shell) and recalls the Harbour Arm lighthouse fog horn. Tania McCormack on 01303 769 241 artists and an interactive map (via your introduced a temporary façade (which lights up at night) with or email taniamccormack@ smartphone or tablet). You can also find minarets and arches, characteristics of Islamic architecture, creativefoundation.org.uk useful information on the best places to making it more beautiful and more visible. 15 Alex Hartley Wall Wall responded to Canterbury Archaeological Trust’s invitation stay, eat and drink in Folkestone and See great art at the seaside to create a monument to the querns found at this ancient frontier Tours for Group Visits how to join our mailing list so you can 5 Sinta Tantra 19 47 For help planning your visit as stay updated well after your visit. The immobile volume of The Cube is transformed by colours found site – querns are Iron Age millstones. The cage-like structure 2 September – 5 November refers to the fences used at ‘The Jungle’ in Calais. The historically an organised group contact in a poster from 1947 advertising rail travel to Folkestone, and Fiona Boxall on 01303 760 251 Folkestone Triennial App folkestonetriennial.org.uk with shapes inspired by the compositions of Ukrainian-born inevitable land erosion and the precariousness of the present are brought into dialogue. or email fionaboxall@ Download our free interactive French artist Sonia Delaunay. This eclecticism suits Tontine creativefoundation.org.uk smartphone guide! The Folkestone Street, where migrants from many parts of the world live. 16 Diane Dever and The Decorators Customs House: Triennial 2017 app is available for both Urban Room Folkestone Free Family Workshops iPhone via iTunes and Android via 6 Richard Woods Holiday Home Every Saturday at Block 67, GooglePlay. Six one-third size ‘homes’ identical except in their colourways and The Harbour Station Customs House marked a frontier. Customs 67 Tontine Street and during sited in ‘unlikely’ places, wittily suggest that no site is too small, are also a community’s behaviour, which is interdependent with the autumn half-term break For daily updates and anecdotes too unlikely, or too inconvenient for its neighbours, for a second the physical environment. A new public space is suggested by the Drop in, no need to book. For the follow us on: home. They also draw attention to the ‘housing crisis’ resulting footprint of the massive, historic building while the Urban Room full list of workshops go to the Facebook /fstonetriennial Welcome to Folkestone Triennial 2017, from the tax policy decisions of successive governments. inside is dedicated to the history of the town and encouraging debate about its future. What’s On section of our website. Twitter @FstoneTriennial double edge, one of the UK’s most Artwork supported by Jenner. Instagram @fstonetriennial Sol Calero Casa Anacaona Folkestone Triennial 2017 ambitious art exhibitions. 7 Jonathan Wright Fleet on Foot 17 Family Guide Wheelchair Access Gilded replicas (3D printed) celebrating Folkestone’s fishing fleet A co-production with Womad World of Art, this social space has been made in collaboration with Folkestone ‘creatives’ as a A lively illustrated guide, including fun There is wheelchair and motorised Explore the 20 specially commissioned contemporary sit on poles carrying information about each boat and tidal times. games and tasks for young visitors and scooter access to as many artworks Plimsoll markings describe the boats’ volumes in fresh and salt gathering place for informal activities. The brightly painted artworks placed around the town. Discover the artist’s vision their families, is available from The as possible, but due to the historic water. Tontine Street runs over the mouth of the Pent River, the furniture, inspired by the stereotype of ‘Latin American culture’, Clearing and other information points. nature of the town some artworks are about what is going on and what might be done about it. tidal inlet where the first fishing boats were established. contributes to the sense of ‘place’ within which visitors may have a ‘cross-cultural’ experience. less accessible. Please seek advice from The exhibition is designed to be enjoyed while walking, The Clearing – Folkestone Triennial Studio Ben Allen The Clearing with the town and the art experiences together. 8 Visitor Centre. double edge Quarterhouse has been customised into the Triennial Visitor 18 Lubaina Himid Jelly Mould Pavilion invites you to think, and talk, about how every point of view Centre, a place for reflection as well as information, for thought The artist collects ceramic jelly moulds, adding her own painted Support Us has its opposite, and how to bridge the gap between these and dialogue as well as for buying merchandise. The concept was pattern decorations, as a tribute to the Black community and If you enjoyed your visit and would like to inspired by a clearing in a forest, the moment of orientation when evoking the connection between slavery and sugar. The full-scale to live together peacefully in a beautiful place. support future Triennials, please go to you stop walking and appreciate where you are. pavilion is on the former ‘Rotunda’ leisure site, where barley sugar Our Hosts and Creative Foundation team are here to make candy floss and toffee apples fuelled the fun of summer visitors.