SOUND

Friday 29th August 2025

Sound art revisited, part of the Folkestone Triennial Fringe - "What is sound art and how does it intersect other forms such as music, beyond the field of art?" Strangelove hosts a talk, at Kollectiv on the high street.

While writing on sound art within academia is prolific, for this event we turn to music writing for a wider perspective. Author and musician Alan Licht argued in 2019 that sound art and experimental music are two completely different practices and yet they are commonly defined as one. Licht defines experimental music as intending to break the rules of music but still having the philosophy of music. Sound arts however, follow the philosophy of visual art, and is intended to work the same way as a painting or a sculpture does, beyond time and exposed in different mediums.

Experimental music is still fixedly linear in time and meter, has a beginning and an end, moving from left to right. Sound arts on the other hand stand perpetually in their environment; the duration decided by the audience experiencing it as they move through a space. But perhaps this is now a delineation that is dissolving?

Broadcaster and artist Fari Bradley hosts vocal artist and composer Randolph J Matthews, improvising musicians Pleistocene Megafauna and installation artist Ruth Canning, Friday 29th August. The event was followed by a live improvised performance from Pleistocene Megafauna.

Friday October 3rd 2025

How is performance art embodied? - Phenomenology, Performance and the Artist Placement Group.

Folkestone artists Claire Attia and Dr Henrica Langh discuss their action-based or experience-centred work, processes and influences. Dr. Langh introduces her practice-led research, and how she draws on phenomenology as 'a methodology of holistic curiosity that scrutinises the normalised and taken-for-granted of our experience'. Claire Attia explores her community-facing and mark-making work in the context of a childhood spent with the founders of the 1960s seminal Artist Placement Group, who believed in placing artists in positions of influence across society as anything council to corporate employees.

Dr Henrica Langh is a transdisciplinary artist and practice-led researcher interested in the intertwined relationship between material culture and emotion and experiences of the female body and womanhood. As a doctor in the philosophy of art, her practice is process-led, experimental, and inquisitive, and she combines theory and practice using a mediums such as textiles, photography, collage, poetry, and installation art.

Claire Attia studied art at University of the Creative Arts, UCA and a Masters at The Margate School in the philosophy of art, science and nature. Her work involves engaging members of the public in open spaces, physical and performative mark-making, canvas and community.

This talk with be later transmitted on arts-radio station ResonanceFM, on 104.4FM in London, on digital radio nationally and streamed online globally. www.resonancefm.com

PUBLIC ART

Friday October 10th, 2025 - 5-6pm

How performance art is embodied.

Is public art programmed by artists experienced differently?

Folkestone artist Diane Dever discusses her audience-centred work, re-imagining the Harbour Arm and Folkestone town for residents to be part of local change. A co-founder of Folkestone Fringe, Dever's programmes are interventions in public space, be they curated festivals, live projects, or performative events. As a parallel, Bradley discusses her performance-participatory work and background in regeneration.

Hosted by artist and broadcaster Fari Bradley for Strangelove.

NB -this talk with be later transmitted on arts-radio station ResonanceFM, on 104.4FM in London, on digital radio nationally and streamed online globally. www.resonancefm.com