{"id":5141,"date":"2022-10-14T15:57:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T14:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=5141"},"modified":"2022-10-14T15:57:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T14:57:21","slug":"walking-with-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2022\/10\/14\/walking-with-ghosts\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking with Ghosts: an ambitious new artwork"},"content":{"rendered":"

Academics, artists and creatives have been working tirelessly over the past months on an exciting new installation artwork recognising the hisory and legacy of war and conflict on the town of Folkestone. Titled Walking With Ghosts, <\/em>the ambitious artwork is inspired by, and uses, original film footage from the First World War, as well as photographs, artworks, poetry, letters, diaries, newspaper accounts, and testimony on war and its impact from 1914 to the present. It will bring these together in a new multimedia experience including an original immersive soundscape and digital recreation of the ‘ghostly army’ who marched through Folkestone from 1914.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The durational nature of the artwork is inspired by Fabian Ware who was Director of the Imperial War Graves Commission. In 1926 he estimated that it would take the \u2018ghostly army of the dead of the Imperial forces\u2019 84 hours to march past the Cenotaph. This length of time creates the temporal boundary for our artwork.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Whilst the artwork will be live for the full 84 hours, the organisers encourage visitors to come at dusk or in the dark, when the ghosts will be most visible.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Each showing lasts exactly 30 minutes and then repeats, and visitors are welcomed to bring a chair (and warm clothes\/blanket!) to sit and experience the whole piece, or to move through the installation in their own time.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As well as the immersive artwork, there will a range of workshops and events over the weekend. These range from poetry, ropemaking, walks and storytelling and have been curated by Elspeth Penfold in partnership with Fourth Wall Folkstone and a number of community groups. All are free to attend, but must be booked online. <\/span>https:\/\/www.gatewayspartnership.org.uk\/programme-walking-with-ghosts<\/span><\/a> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Walking with Ghosts\u00a0has been developed in collaboration with local artists, community groups, schools and arts organisations. It is part of Imperial War Museum’s\u00a0<\/span>14-18 NOW Legacy\u00a0<\/span><\/a>programme. The Gateways Partnership is based in the School of Arts and School of History at the University of Kent. Find out more about the Walking with Ghosts team\u00a0<\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The project has been made possible thanks to funding from the Imperial War Museums\u2019s 14-18 NOW Legacy fund, a national programme of 22 artist commissions inspired by the heritage of conflict and created in partnership with Imperial War Museums (IWM) and 14-18 NOW, the official UK arts programme for the First World War centenary.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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