The Voyage of Nonsuch
PART II UPCOMING: The Voyage of Nonsuch - Master of Measurement
doggerfisher, Edinburgh, 30 October - 1 November 2008
Part I: Whitstable Biennale 2008, curated by Sue Jones
Sea Cadet’s Hall, Whitstable, 5 July 2008
Archive film screening drawn from the collections of: British Film Institute, LUX, National Maritime Museum, Prelinger Collection, Screen Archive South East, Tony Blake Film Archive.
A programme of maritime films wove a tale from industry and trade to leisure and heritage. Drawing on national, local and personal film archives, the programme brought together thinking on the document within contemporary art, with that of globalisation and the local; pragmatic and political collectivity.
Influenced by development plans at Whitstable Harbour, the screening was the first stage of a collaborative research project with Karen Mirza to be fully realised at the 2010 biennale, following the fate of the harbour as development plans unfold.
The ongoing collaboration will question the relationship of the past to the present moment, of archiving, collecting, nostalgia and heritage; the subjective nature of collecting, and the dialogue around collections as discursive centres as well as clusters of objects.
www.whitstablebiennale.com/screenings
Photo: Simon Steven. Courtesy Whitstable Biennale.