WB2016 artist Richard Layzell discusses Softly Softly, his performance for the festival, catapulting soft toys, and the artist use of alter egos.
Interview with Richard Layzell
by Emma Leach
Category: Whitstable Biennale 2016
Interview with Webb-Ellis
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.
Leslie Deere: Modern Conjuring for Amateurs
This video, shot by Reynir Hutber, documents Leslie Deere’s performance Modern Conjuring for Amateurs, which takes its title from the book by J.C. Cannell, a popular guide to learning tricks, conjuring and ventriloquism. Deere’s performance combined her performing arts dance background with her sonic arts training, as she created a shared experience, conjuring up sound and visuals with gesture.
Matthew Herbert: Hear What You Eat
This video documents Hear What You Eat, a very special kind of symposium/dinner party held for Whitstable Biennale 2016 by musician Matthew Herbert and chef Rosie Sykes. (50m23s)
Philip Hoare & Jessica Sarah Rinland in discussion
The acclaimed writer Philip Hoare is joined by collaborator and Whitstable Biennale 2016 artist Jessica Sarah Rinland to discuss the whales, marine life and ecology. (1h20m)
All This Can Happen: Siobhan Davies in conversation with Gareth Evans
Created by Siobhan Davies and filmmaker David Hinton in 2012, All This Can Happen is a film constructed entirely from archive photographs and footage from the earliest days of cinema. Whitstable Biennale screened All This Can Happen on 8 June 2016) 2016. This was followed by this conversation between Davies and Whitstable Biennale 2016 Cinema curator Gareth Evans. (19m27s)
Rose Wylie & Ben Rivers interviewed by Skye Sherwin
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)
Richard Layzell: Softly Softly
This video, filmed by Reynir Hutber, documents Richard Layzell’s performance Softly Softly, an elemental journey exploring suspension, elasticity, anthropomorphism and flight.Taking place in a then undisclosed location in Whitstable, it invited participants to uncover the universal in the everyday, the endangered in the familiar, function and form, expectation and humility, success and failure, tension and release, pathos and play. (23m31s)
Marcia Farquhar: The iScreamers
This video documents The iScreamers, the performance which opened Whitstable Biennale 2016: a consideration of ‘the cool confection’ in song and dance. Artist Marcia Farquhar draws on the dark side of ice cream’s history in a semi-autobiographical, psycho-geographical, socio-economical lecture accompanied by action painting and live music. (45m18s)
Andrew Kotting: Salon – Atmosphere
A recording of the first of the two salons Kötting presented at Whitstable Biennale 2016. Kötting explores the notion of ‘atmosphere’, and how it might be experienced in a sonic, visual or textual way. (1h33m)
Ethics, Art and Moving Images Symposium
This symposium, organised by Silke Panse and Connal Parsley, invited academics and artists to explore the relationship of ethics to contemporary art making. Watch a selection of presentations, originally live-streamed on 3 June 2016 by thisistomorrow.com.
Introduction to Whitstable Biennale 2016
Read about the 2016 Whitstable Biennale: The Faraway Nearby.
Trish Scott: Option B – Trish Scott interviews Ian Hocking
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.
Trish Scott: Ahead of Time
The second 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.
Interview with Mikhail Karikis
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.