Listen to Anna’s reading of Undone in the face, a new work produced for Whitstable Biennale’s Journal from material she generated during a residency at St John’s College Oxford in Spring 2019. The recording is followed by a conversation with Whitstable Biennale performance curator Keira Greene, in which Anna describes her work with reading groups and voice recognition software, as well as the ideas and texts informing her work.
Whitstable Biennale Performance Curator Keira Greene met with artist Florence Peake to discuss Florence’s practice in situ at her studio. The conversation moved fluidly between Florence’s collaboration with dance artists and her relationship to scoring and improvisation. View a transcript of parts of the conversation, written by Keira, with the text annotated and drawn into by Florence.
As a part of Whitstable Biennale 2018, on 10 June, between 4:17pm and 5:17pm The Creaking Breeze Trio performed their new composition Slack Fulcrum Twelfths (Green Vitriol) on The Street, a spit of shingle projecting into the sea at Whitstable. Here the trio are joined in conversation by Whitstable Biennale 2018 performance curator Keira Greene to discuss the composition, which was guided by a series of letters about an imaginary band described in Nathaniel Mackey’s ongoing experimental fiction project From A Broken Bottle Traces Of Perfume Still Emanate.
by Emma Leach
Kino Paxton is an emerging and significant new voice in Richard Layzell’s new international work The Naming. Their relationship is embedded in the process and supported by the legacies of philosophers Heraclitus and Arne Naess.
by Emma Leach
WB2016 artist Richard Layzell discusses Softly Softly, his performance for the festival, catapulting soft toys, and the artist use of alter egos.
by Ben Hawkins
Caitlin and Andrew Webb-Ellis on the development of their WB2016 video installation Parlour Walls, the relationship of water to memory and future directions.
Celebrated painter Rose Wylie takes a keen interest in cinema, and references from film spill into her work.
On 5 June 2016, in a discussion hosted by art writer Skye Sherwin, Wylie talked to artist filmmaker Ben Rivers, about painting, film, and being the subject of Rivers’ film portrait, What Means Something, which was screened after the discussion. (57m)
The third in a series of posts by WB2016 artist Trish Scott discussing the development of Medium: her new work for the festival, and her collaboration with psychologist Dr Ian Hocking.
by Kiira Laurikka
Mikhail Karikis talks to Kiira Laurikka about his WB2016 work ‘Ain’t Got No Fear’, made over the course of eighteen months with a group of teenagers on the Isle of Grain.
The first in a series of posts by WB2016 artist Trish Scott discussing the development of Medium: her new work for the festival, and her collaboration with psychologist Dr Ian Hocking.
by Sarue Jokonya
Artist Ben Judd interviewed about Stories In The Dark: Contemporary Responses To The Magic Lantern, the exhibition he curated for Whitstable Biennale and The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge.
by Mira Kuure
S Mark Gubb discusses his WB14 artwork, a coach tour of the East Kent Coast called It All Began With Richard Burton.
by Rebecca Bloomfield
Artist Anna Lucas discusses her relationship with film and film-making following her WB10 work Things that had stories rubbed out
by Emma Leach
Tanya Axford participated in Whitstable Biennale 2012 with the performance installation The Path Made by a Boat in Sound (3 down). Performance curator Emma Leach interviews Axford about her work and her relationship to performance.
by Jennifer Thatcher
by Emma Leach
by Kate Phillimore
by Emma Leach
Neil Henderson’s work has encompassed multiple projector pieces, experiments with the materiality of film and photography, and films about landscape. His work has been shown at Whitechapel Gallery, Tate Britain, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; Anthology Film Archives, New York and Modern Art Oxford. He talks to Whitstable Biennale 2014 performance curator Emma Leach about Tidal Island, his work for the festival.
