Art and Regeneration.
A half day symposium from 14.00 10 18.00
followed by a public round table discussion at 18.30
Friday 12th September 2008
Georges House,
8 the Old High Street,
Folkestone,
Kent CT20 1RL, UK
T: 44 (0) 1303 244533
The event is an initiative by public works as part of the Folkestone Triennial and in association with Folkestone based Strange Cargo, Club Shepway, The Creative Foundation and the Research Network Forum.
The half day symposium brings together a number of practitioners and organisations from Folkestone and the South East Coast, who are involved in cultural programmes that are linked to regeneration issues.
Art and Regeneration are two terms frequently used to describe current changes in Folkestone. The event wants to provide a platform to look at actual cultural programmes and initiatives, and to discuss overlaps and differences in existing and projected ideas and strategies for Folkestone.
Programme
13.30 Registration
14.00 Welcome by Strange Cargo and public works
14.10 Introduction by public works
14.40 Presentation by Brigitte Orasinski from Strange Cargo
followed
15.10 Presentation by Nick Ewbank Creative Foundation followed by
questions
15.40 Coffeebreak
16.00 Presentation by Andrea Schlieker from Folkestone Triennial
followed by questions
16.30 Presentation by Laura Mansfield and Matt Rowe from Club
Shepway followed by questions
17.00 Break out Session
17.45 Plenum and feedback from the 2 Sessions
18.00 Break and Refreshments
18.30 - 20.00
Public panel discussion with
Andrea Schlieker (Folkestone Triennial)
Nick Ewbank (Creative Foundation)
Paul Rennie (Folkestone Research Network Forum)
Laura Mansfield (Club Shepway)
Brigitte Orasinski (Strange Cargo)
Chaired by Kathrin Böhm (public works)
The event is free, but seats are limited.
For more information and bookings please contact Kathrin@publicworksgroup.net
About the partners organising the event
(all texts are taken from the organisation's websites)
public works is a London based artist and architects collective
involved in this year's Folkestone Triennial. public works develops
physical and non physical models to allow for a participatory and
cross-hierarchical reflection and shaping of public spaces. Their
contribution to the triennial is a mobile mapping station called
"Folkestonomy" (www.folkestonomy.net) which
traces everyday cultural spaces within the town and compiles
individual mappings in a growing on line map.
www.publicworksgroup.net
Strange Cargo
Over its eleven year lifespan, Strange Cargo has established a
reputation for high profile quality public art, and has delivered
award-winning projects, including Like the Back of my Hand, an
extensive installation at Folkestone Central station which recently
won the Rouse Kent Public Art Award. In its public art involvement,
Strange Cargo seeks to create works of context, leaving communities
with lasting meaningful landmarks and a sense of participation in
their surrounding environment.
www.strangecargo.org.uk/
Club Shepway
Club Shepway is a group of emerging artists and writers based in
Folkestone. Playing with local histories, hidden memories and
current affairs Club Shepway is concerned with the social and
commercial development occurring in the area. Through events,
exhibitions and interventions Club Shepway aims to develop an
active arena of cultural debate within the current process of
regeneration.
www.clubshepway.com
Creative Foundation
How do you regenerate a once-fashionable but now faded seaside
town?
The regeneration question matters across Britain, and for the
Folkestone-based Creative Foundation it demands an innovative
answer: we want to revitalise the town by attracting and harnessing
the energies of creative people and businesses.
www.creativefoundation.org.uk
Folkestone Triennial
One of the of the most ambitious public art projects to be
presented in the UK, the Triennial is a three-yearly exhibition of
works which will be specially commissioned for public spaces
throughout Folkestone. The selected artists have responded to the
invitation with proposals for artworks that engage with the Kent
coastal town's history, population, culture and built environment
to create a cutting-edge contemporary art exhibition.
The Triennial is conceived and curated by curator Andrea Schlieker,
co-curator of the British Art Show 2005/06, and aims to examine
changing notions of art in the public realm. The inaugural
Folkestone Triennial will include both temporary works, which will
remain in situ for the three months of the show, and a number of
permanent works. This pattern will be repeated in subsequent
Triennials so that, over time, Folkestone will become a centre for
contemporary art of the highest calibre.
www.folkestonetriennial.org.uk
Regeneration Network Forum
The Research Network Forum (RNF) is organised by Dr Paul Rennie of
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. It is
hosted by University Centre Folkestone and is supported by the
Creative Foundation.
The RNF will take place over three separate days over the summer of
2008. The RNF coincides with the Folkestone Triennial - an
international festival of contemporary public sculpture.
The town of Folkestone is a historic seaside resort on the south
coast of Britain (located at the English end of the Channel
Tunnel). Like many seaside towns, it has suffered from a variety of
economic and social problems that devolve from the perception of
economic marginalisation and collapse of the traditional English
seaside holiday.
Those problems are now being actively addressed through cultural
regeneration. The Creative Foundation is engaged in promoting this
regeneration through a variety of initiatives, not least the 2008,
2011 and 2014 Folkestone Triennials. In addition, the arrival of
HS1 rail services to-and-from London will place Folkestone at one
end of a development corridor stretching from King's Cross to East
Kent, via the Olympic sites of East London.
Accordingly, Folkestone is a uniquely qualified environment in
which to investigate the effectiveness of these regeneration
strategies and to elaborate the interdisciplinary and collaborative
methodologies that will support the proper analysis of regeneration
economics.
www.rennart.co.uk/rnf.html
