School of Music and Fine Art staff and students featured in International Festival of Projections, March 2016

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University of Kent’s International Festival of Projections 2016.

Cultural icon Yoko Ono is one of the artists contributing to the University’s International Festival of Projections, taking place from 18-20 March 2016. Designed to showcase internationally renowned arts together with ground-breaking research at Kent, this major new arts festival, which is free and open to all, features more than 100 artists, filmmakers, poets and musicians, who will fill dozens of spaces on Kent’s Canterbury campus with intriguing, thought-provoking and fun artworks, with additional activities at the University’s Medway campus and in Canterbury City centre.

School of Music and Fine Art staff and students feature significantly. Screenings of work from sonic artist Professor Tim Howle, Lecturer in The School of Music & Fine Art take place on Sunday 20th March, which he follows with an evening talk On making electroacoustic movies.

Artist and Senior Fine Art Lecturer Adam Chodzko’s new film Deep Above, which engages with climate change, can be seen on 19th-20th March, with work from MA Fine Art student Jose Fernandez-Levy featured the same days in Confined Projections.

A group of 6 Fine Art MA students from The School of Music & Fine Art present their work The Cloudbuster – a multi-partnered project with Island Projects, and the Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust – from 18-20th March in ROOM on the Medway campus. The students – Tracey Affleck, Val Bolsover, Sophie Brown, Fiona Townend, Jose Fernandez-Levy and Claudia Chiappini – worked with Adam Chodzko on this innovative project.

For the full programme for the University’s Projections festival go to: https://issuu.com/kentdesignstudio/docs/bt_121184_projections_prog_final_we/1?e=11873757/33904657