Edge: Situated Practice in Art, Architecture and Urbanism
This trio of events explores the concept of situated practice in contemporary art, architecture and urbanism. Set across the three months of the 2017 Folkestone Triennial, they will take place in three ‘edge’ locations linked by the High Speed One rail link between London and Folkestone.
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This trio of events explores the concept of situated practice in contemporary art, architecture and urbanism. Set across the three months of the 2017 Folkestone Triennial, they will take place in three ‘edge’ locations linked by the High Speed One rail link between London and Folkestone.
Jeremy Deller is the keynote speaker on the first day of EDGE - a series of three events presented as part of Folkestone Triennial 2017, exploring the concept of situated practice in contemporary art, architecture and urbanism.
Bringing together practitioners and thinkers at three 'edge' locations connected by the High Speed 1 railway, participants will respond to the sensory, social and environmental impact of their individual approaches, and together generate a narrative exploration of the creative use of interstitial spaces.
For the first event, we consider Bloomsbury and King's Cross as 'edge' locations. The Gower Street campus of UCL was planned and built on the urban/rural edge of nineteenth-century London , a 'learning' gateway through which generations of students have now passed, and one which now runs up against the King's Cross development, conceived as a mix of ‘knowledge gateway’ with transport gateway.
Dates and locations
Edge: Gateway
14 September 2017
Location: The Slade School of Fine Art, Gower Street, London WC1H 6BT
Tickets: £10 standard / £5 concession
Keynote: Jeremy Deller
Lectures: Marjetica Potrc and OOZE, Matthew Beaumont, Jan Kattein, and Rebecca Ross
Masterclasses: Samson Kambalu, Gary Woodley, Florian Roithmayr, Leah Lovett, and Katy Beinart
On each of the three days, practitioners and thinkers are invited to respond to the event location, and investigate the sensory, social and environmental impact of their individual approaches, together generating a narrative exploration of the creative use of urban interstitial spaces.
You can book tickets for a single event or a bundle of tickets to attend all three. Concessions are available on all day-tickets.
Periphery
7 October 2017
Location: Here East, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London E20 3BS
Tickets: £15 standard / £8 concession
Participants:
Jill Magid
Assemble
Oreet Ashery
Lewis Biggs
Kreider + O’Leary
MUF
Stephen Pritchard
Public Works
Kieren Reed
Prof. Jane Rendell
SPACE
Do Ho Suh
Border
4 November 2017
Location: Quarterhouse, 49 Tontine Street, Folkestone CT20 1BN
Tickets: £15 standard / £8 concession
Participants:
Friedrich Ludewig
Dr. Lesley Hardy
Dr. Darrell Rohl
The Decorators
Diane Dever
STROOM
Professor Charles Quick
Dr. JJ Charlesworth
Princess Marilyn Douala Manga Bell
Prof. Anthony Downey
Bundle ticket: £35 standard
All efforts will be made to accommodate wheelchair users and anyone with other accessibility issues: please email urbanlaboratory@ucl.ac.uk before booking a place.
The series is organised by the UCL Urban Laboratory and Folkestone Triennial 2017, with additional support from the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL and The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.