Curating Contemporary Art (MA)
Caterina Guadagno
The project was initially conceived as a series of artist commissions to be presented across Margate in May 2020. These performances, workshops and screenings were to engage with the different timescales, paces and rhythms of the seaside town. With a crowded beach and abandoned arcades, a turbulent sea and a century-old amusement park, Margate is a town that fluctuates between carnivalesque abundance and eerie absence. The region’s geological history as an island severed from the mainland, its ancient myths and daily tides form an environment where past, present and future overlap. Departing from these peculiar sensations of space and time, Nothing gentle will remain intended to invite artists and audiences to come together and take up space; to explore what might happen if we spill over and ooze out.