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Rebecca Lennon, Eva Braun's Pool, 2018. Image courtesy of the artist.
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Open School East Associates 2018, Contemporary Exorcism (2018). Image © the artists.
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Kris Lock & Josephine Sweeney, The Vase In The Container (production still), 2018. Image © and courtesy of the artists.
Biennial
Whitstable Biennale 2018 | Swimming Home
2 Jun 2018 – 10 Jun 2018
Address
- 11 Horsebridge Road
- Whitstable
- Kent
- CT5 1AF
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Trains from Victoria - Whitstable
Whitstable Biennale 2018 features new screenings, installations, performances, walks, workshops, talks, readings and events, created by some of the UK’s most exciting artists.
About
Our programme includes a large number of new works made especially for the festival, by artists at an important early point in their career.
We take our title for this year’s festival from the groundbreaking book Swimming Home by acclaimed writer Deborah Levy. Beautifully written, this subtle and haunting Man Booker shortlisted work tells a story from multiple viewpoints and several generations. Dark undercurrents flow through the book, and the line ‘Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we’ll all get home safely’ becomes key to this experimental work where a sense of home and belonging is unstable and elusive.
Many of the works in this year’s festival also touch directly or indirectly on ideas connected to global movement, exile, how we find ‘home’ and the instability of language and identity.
“Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we’ll all get home safely”
