{"id":138,"date":"2024-06-19T08:11:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T07:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/?p=138"},"modified":"2024-07-30T10:26:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T09:26:48","slug":"hooden-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/2024\/06\/19\/hooden-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooden Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘I’d much rather be in the White Horse in Sittingbourne with the East Kent Hoodeners’\n<\/p>\n

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Hooden Horse<\/em>, Sadie Hennessy, 2024. Displayed in the Museum of Imagined Kent, 2024.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sadie Hennessy\u2019s <\/span>Hooden Horse<\/span><\/i> explores the Kentish folk tradition of hoodening, but with a little extra glamour in the form of silver and mirror glass.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hoodening, traditionally performed at Christmastime, was a short and humorous play put on by a group of travelling performers (\u2018hoodeners\u2019) using a horse, often crudely made of a broom handle and with a clacking jaw that opens and closes. It is thought that the pantomime horse could be a descendant of the Hooden Horse.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hennessy\u2019s work explores a timeline in which Bianca Jagger had become a fan of this particular tradition whilst looking for entertainment during a dull Christmas at Mick Jagger\u2019s family home in Dartford. The story claims her iconic appearance on a white horse at New York nightclub Studio 54 was a homage to her experience in Kent on that Christmas night.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Detail from Hennessy’s Hooden Horse<\/em> story.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The artwork is presented as the horse itself, which Bianca allegedly sent to the White Horse Pub in Sittingbourne following her experience, alongside the story and a video of the horse in action, soundtracked by The Osmonds\u2019 \u2018Crazy Horses\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Close-up of the Hooden Horse’s head, with ”clacking jaw’.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hennessy, based in Whitstable, creates multimedia artworks, often with feminist themes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although we have many artworks in the Museum of Imagined Kent that explore the \u2018what if\u2019s of fictional and folkloric characters in Kent, such as Hannah McDonald\u2019s <\/span>The Myth of Salacia<\/span><\/i>, the excitement of this works comes from the involvement of real-life celebrity being incorporated into Kentish tradition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And Bianca Jagger surely did spend time in Dartford, so who knows, maybe there\u2019s some truth to this work!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Explores Sadie Hennessy\u2019s other works here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Learn more about Hoodening here<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Read about Bianca Jagger\u2019s Studio 54 appearance here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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