al this blisse was a site-responsive window installation in the main reception of the Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whistable. It took place during Whistable Biennale 2018 and was part of Whitstable Biennale Satellite programme. The work quotation means 'all this joy' and came from the oldest surviving poem in Middle English, Lenten ys come (Spring has …
Why do you never speak?
Why do you never speak? presents two art commissions informed by T S Eliot’s famous poem The Waste Land (1922). Harriet Gifford’s new immersive sound installation draws on voices of the multiple characters found in Eliot’s text and layers readings by community members into a difficult, fragmented audio field. This methodology alludes to the almost impenetrable …
Art Is Something Much More Dangerous
The exhibition presented over 70 submissions from practitioners based mostly in Kent but also in London, Oxford, Berlin, Lyon and Athens. Responding to an open call, they collectively reframed one of the most ordinary settings – the living room – into a complex domestic space in which identity, crisis, memory and matter richly interlinked. The …