ace-logo Visit Whitstable Biennale website wb-logo download add check close keyboard_arrow_left keyboard_arrow_right playlist_add playlist_add_check vertical_align_bottom list pause skip_next skip_previous play_arrow open_in_new twitter facebook instagram
Skip to content

Journal

  • Journal
  • Watch
  • Listen
  • Read
  • Download
  • About
  • Whitstable Biennale
  • Watch 17
  • Listen 11
  • Read 31
  • Download 1
  • View all 49

Richard Layzell

Richard Layzell, The Naming, 2018

Interview with Kino Paxton

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.

13.08.2017

Read Interviews
Richard Layzell, Softly Softly, 2016

Interview with Richard Layzell

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.

06.08.2017

Read Interviews Whitstable Biennale 2016
Richard Layzell, Softly Softly, 2014. Image: Reynir Hutber

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)

04.06.2016

Watch Artworks Performance Whitstable Biennale 2016