{"id":476,"date":"2013-08-02T11:10:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T11:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=476"},"modified":"2017-01-13T11:59:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T11:59:04","slug":"the-i-am-not-dead-festival-officially-opens-in-herne-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2013\/08\/02\/the-i-am-not-dead-festival-officially-opens-in-herne-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;I am not dead festival&#8217; officially opens in Herne Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks the School of English has been eagerly anticipating the opening of the Marcel Duchamp &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iamnotdead.co.uk\">I am not dead festival<\/a>&#8216;\u00a0in Herne Bay.<\/p>\n<p>In the summer 1913 artist and philosopher Marcel Duchamp spent a number of weeks in Herne Bay and it is the centenary of this important point in his development as an artist that is being celebrated in the two-week arts festival at the seaside resort. Over the last few years the town&#8217;s reputation as an artistic centre has been growing and the festival is being seen as a perfect opportunity to draw attention to this unique town and its artistic heritage.<\/p>\n<p>The School of English has been keen to support the local festival over the last few months. Natalie Bradbeer, a student on the MA in Creative Writing, has been enjoying an intensive internship with the arts festival, which has offered unparalleled work experience opportunities in festival organization and management.\u00a0 The festival, which runs from 1<sup>st<\/sup> to 17<sup>th<\/sup> August, offers an astonishing array of events. The centrepiece of the festival will undoubtedly be the\u00a0giant urinal which goes on display today (Friday 2nd August).\u00a0The 12ft \u00a0toilet (made from MDF)\u00a0is a scale replica of Duchamp&#8217;s most famous work &#8216;The Fountain&#8217;, which was first exhibited in 1917, and has been recreated\u00a0for the festival\u00a0by Whitstable artist Phillip Long. Other events include\u00a0a symposium on the work of Duchamp (which welcomes internationally renowned academics), workshops, talks, screenings and exhibitions. The festival offers students, academics, locals and visitors an excellent opportunity to delve deeper Kent&#8217;s artistic and cultural legacy. As\u00a0Professor Peter Brown (Head of the School of English) commented, &#8216;the Duchamp Festival is a model of how to recognise and celebrate the astonishing cultural resources on our very doorsteps.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks the School of English has been eagerly anticipating the opening of the Marcel Duchamp &#8216;I am not dead festival&#8216;\u00a0in Herne &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2013\/08\/02\/the-i-am-not-dead-festival-officially-opens-in-herne-bay\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2400,"featured_media":477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/1162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}