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ARTISTS Tracey Affleck, Val Bolsover, Sophie Brown, Jose Fernandez Levy, Fiona Townend and Claudia Chiappini
WHEN Friday Saturday and Sunday 11:00-17:00
WHERE ROOM, outside the Pilkington Building on the University of Kent Medway campus at Pembroke
Entering this blue-as-the-sky space, in order to understand it collaboratively, are a group of six Fine Art MA artists from the School of Music and Fine Art, working with a proposition by artist and senior lecturer Adam Chodzko:
…When the flood receded one of the ship’s 20 containers was left beached in a Medway library’s car park. Although apparently empty, inspection detected the emission of a low resonant ‘cello-like’ pulse somewhere within the box’s interior and the strange rearrangement of the visitors’ smartphone data. Shipping records indicate the container’s transit of a ‘cloudbuster’, based on Wilhelm Reich’s designs, without detailing where it was going, or who had sent it.
ROOM is a converted shipping container, designed by architect Simon Barker. This is a multiple-partnered project involving Island Projects, The University of Kent and the Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust.