Festival

Whitstable Biennale 2006

The Waiting Place

Ryan Gander, Loose Associations, 2006. Photo: Simon Steven

Ryan Gander, Loose Associations, 2006. Photo: Simon Steven

The Waiting Place, curated by Jeremy Millar, 2006. Photo: Simon Steven

The Waiting Place, curated by Jeremy Millar, 2006. Photo: Simon Steven

Cullinan & Richards, Savage School Working Women’s Club Bar for the Shock Workers, 2006. Photo: Simon Steven

Cullinan & Richards, Savage School Working Women’s Club Bar for the Shock Workers, 2006. Photo: Simon Steven

William Hunt, Longshore Drift In Open C, 2006. Photo: Simon Steven

William Hunt, Longshore Drift In Open C, 2006. Photo: Simon Steven

New work commissioned for Whitstable Biennale 2006 included Simon Faithfull,  Anna Best, Cullinan & Richards, Ryan Gander, Adam Chodzko and Gary Stevens. Live work included a series of events organised by Sally O’Reilly and Mel Brimfield from an old army HQ tent on the beach and included a symposium on Art & Comedy.

Jeremy Millar selected a film programme entitled The Waiting Place, including artists Mircea Cantor, Adam Chodzko, Luke Fowler, Szabolcs KissPal, Mark Lewis, Rosalind Nashashibi, the Otolith Group, Oliver Payne, Nick Relph, Anri Sala, Zineb Sedira and Roy Villevoye. Millar described The Waiting Place as where we are when between places, between places that might seem more important. It is seldom a place that we might consider as valuable in itself, yet perhaps we should come to appreciate its keen sense of reflection and of anticipation, of what has been or might be.