Three short films were commissioned as part of the Sea Change initiative, which have been produced by the very creative people at Animate Projects. Each of the films presents a perspective on a seaside town that is currently going through the regeneration process. If you click on the picture below, you will be taken to… [Read more…]
October 8, 2009
Last week I went to the Black/North SEAS conference in Skegness. I posted regularly to my twitter profile while I was there and because of this I was asked by New Start Magazine to contribute a blog post to their website. You can read this short article by clicking here. “There was some exciting artistic… [Read more…]
September 19, 2009
Wesley has posted up the latest contribution to our ‘Reading the Arcades, reading the Promenades’ blog, where we are attempting to bring together our readings of Walter Benjamins’ ‘Arcades Project‘ and apply these to the British seaside promenade. A taster of Wesley’s piece: “Benjamin is, very, clear and, far too, concise in his summation of… [Read more…]
September 7, 2009
I’m planning on going to this conference in October,which for some reason I only found out about today! SeaScape Conference – Butlins, Skegness, PE25 1NJ Thursday 1st and Friday 2nd October 2009 This is a two-day international conference exploring culture as a regenerative force for coastal communities. Bringing together cultural strategists, architects, and regeneration experts… [Read more…]
June 23, 2009
I’ve just posted about ‘the fantasy of cultural history’ and cultural materialism on the arcades/promenades blog. Wesley has also posted a photo-essay that takes its cue from Brighton’s promenade. “…fashion…this semblance of the new is reflected, like one mirror in another, in the semblance of the ever recurrent. The product of this reflection is the… [Read more…]
June 9, 2009
I think this conference looks very interesting….the timing isn’t great for those of us with big teaching loads, but the setting alone is tempting! Researching Coastal and Resort Destination Management: Cultures and Histories of Tourism 19th – 20th October 2009 Girona, Catalonia, Spain 2009 marks the hundredth anniversary of the formal designation of the Costa… [Read more…]
March 26, 2009
BBC1 show ‘The Apprentice’ is taking on the re-branding of Margate in Kent as one of the tasks for it’s contestants in the latest series, which started last night. Contestants will be tasked with designing a brand for the seaside town that can capture the town’s aspirations as a 21st century seaside destination.
March 10, 2009
Along with Wesley Rykalski, I have just embarked on an online project that seeks to examine the role of the seaside promenade in the imagination and practices of late modernity, through a critical encounter with Walter Benjamin‘s ‘The Arcades Project’. In his final project, Benjamin was attempting to critique the ‘bourgeois experience of nineteenth century… [Read more…]
February 2, 2009
This is a copy of an article published this month in Kent Profile magazine, based on an interview with me about Kent’s seaside towns. Click on the image to read it. Share this:
January 26, 2009
This is a link to a blog set up by two artists (I think?) who have taken it upon themselves to start travelling around the coast of the UK to try and “make some new seaside memories”. In doing so they are presenting images and text about their experiences, leaving an archive of touching, insightful… [Read more…]
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