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ART PROJECTS VIDEO BOOTH: FOLKESTONE TRIENNIAL FRINGE
18TH 23RD JANUARY 2011

Folkestone Triennial
A Million Miles from Home
25th June – 25th September 2011
18 international artists including Martin Creed, Cornelia Parker, Hew Locke, Charles Avery and Cristina Iglesias have been commissioned to create new works for the second Folkestone Triennial. More details can be found on www.folkestonetriennial.org.uk

Folkestone Triennial Fringe, Club Shepway
June – September 2011
Club Shepway will be working in Folkestone during the 2011 Folkestone Triennial to explore the town’s folklore and the uncanny in a series of residencies and events in the Old Town.
The showreel will showcase work by Matthew Cowan, Matthew Rowe and films made available through GHost, led by Sarah Sparkes and Ricarda Vidal

SHOWREEL PLAYLIST

Matthew Rowe, The Four Winds, UK, 2004, Super8mm transferred to Digital Video, cardboard house and Earthenware, 1.29 min
Super8 film is projected onto a blank ceramic house to the scale of model railway scenery. In this work the efforts and signatures of ceramic processes are veiled by the luminosity of the film as it coats the fragile ceramic blank. The film plays homage to nostalgic interpretations of the English seaside aesthetic.

Matthew Rowe, Relic, UK, 2010, Super8mm transferred to Digital Video and porcelain, 0.40 min
The screaming skull pays homage to historical accounts of displaced human relics that posses supernatural powers. It is alleged to relentlessly harass the culprit who is responsible for removing it from a designated resting place. The projection of an animated veil onto the surface of a blank porcelain skull activates the screaming skull’s wail in infinity.

GHost lead by Sarah Sparkes and Ricarda Vidal, have selected three films from their Hostings archive for the London Art Fair:

Michelle Hannah, I AM THE SUN AT NIGHT, UK, 2010, HD, 4.30 min
The video harnesses the precarious and fleeting aspects of our world, evoking the spiritual and visceral attachment to nature, faith and the existence of life after death, ideas very much founded in the Romantic traditions. Yet the transcendental and meditative experience at the core of this tradition is disrupted here by the disturbing presence of a singular unsexed voice.

Neil Wissink, Pugwash, Canada/UK, 2007, 16mm, 5.44 min
Pugwash depicts a farm in Nova Scotia which was originally settled by Wissink’s ancestors, but which he had never before visited as it was abandoned shortly after he was born. In London he showed the rushes to a professional psychic medium, whose ‘reading’ of the film became its soundtrack, offering a highly subjective and contentious proposition for what representations of place can mean.

Kate Squires, Unheimlich Gäste, Germany, 2009, Lumix still camera, 4.29 min
Rare footage of ghosts sitting down to enjoy a normal spaghetti dinner. This film uses the common ‘ghost white sheet’ with eye holes and shows it’s unsuitability beyond the spirit world. With haunting music by Tomita.

Matthew Cowan, Felix, UK, 2011, Digital Video, 3.33 min
A grotesque looking carved wooden jig doll dances to the tune 'Princes Royal', whilst hanging from the wires and harness attached to his master,
musician Phil Tyler.

Matthew Cowan, A Morris Dancer Should Never Appear to Touch the Ground II,
UK, 2010, Super8mm transferred to Digital Video, 2.15 min
Recorded at Kennedy Hall, Cecil Sharp House, the Headquarters of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, Filmed by Stewart Morgan, soundtrack by Paul Wyborn, audio production by Claire Cowan

Matthew Cowan, Lumps of Plum Pudding & Pieces of Pie, UK, 2009, Digital Video, 1.07 min
A short video inspired by the Cotswold Morris Dance jig ‘Lumps of Plum Pudding’, from the village of Bledington. The video is a literal take on the words of the jig’s song, a tale of gluttony, dishonesty and woe.

NOTES:
Matthew Cowan’s practice is in the realm of traditional British and European customs. His works are photographs, videos, installations and performances, which play with the inherent strangeness of the continued popularity of long established folk customs in a modern world. www.matthewcowan.net

GHost aims to address the various roles ghosts play in contemporary culture by bringing artists, writers, curators, researchers and others together. To date GHost has held three exhibitions and screenings of moving image art and performance at St Johns Church on Bethnal Green and five workshops, so-called ‘hostings’ in the haunted rooms at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies. GHost is led by Sarah Sparkes and Ricarda Vidal www.host-a-ghost.blogspot.com

Michelle Hannah is a Glasgow based artist. She currently revolves around the darker recesses of the human psyche and is at the fledgling beginnings of an esoteric cult: The Kingdom of Muin. She has recently shown at Embassy Gallery Edinburgh, The Elevator Gallery London, The Creative Labs CCA and Tramway Glasgow.
Neil Wissink is a Canadian-born artist currently based in London. Since completing his studies at the Royal College of Art in 2007 he has exhibited his work in galleries and festivals internationally. Neil recently won the inaugural AMIP award for artist’s moving image, a co-commissioning scheme from the National Film and Television School and The Royal College of Art.
Kate Squires primarily makes sculpture and collage/drawings as well as short films. Her work often calls on the viewer to suspend their imagination somewhere between reality and non-reality. She is currently based in Berlin where she runs an art space www.centrumberlin.com with David Moynihan.

Matthew Rowe presents the viewer with an essence of folk culture in a quest to
distill the codes and embellishments that define regional identity. Rowe’s practice emerges from documentary imagery to produce a lexicon of props, decorative curios and actions. Objects are constructed from an assortment of materials intrinsic to our domestic environment. www.gogowhippet.com

Based in Folkestone Club Shepway is a group of emerging artists and writers attempting to develop an active arena of cultural engagement and experimentation. Club Shepway is lead by Laura Mansfield, Matthew Rowe and Niamh Sullivan
www.clubshepway.com