GHost: July 2011

The GHost CLHub Flag is in residence at the B&B Project Space.
Photograph Ricarda Vidal

On June 25th and 26th the Folkestone Triennial 2011 officially opened and GHost was there inviting visitors into our GHost CLHub at the B&B Project Space. We also took up residence in the Kent Cultural Baton in the Stade.
Here are some photographs from the weekend.

GHost CLHub in the B&B Prject Space -Photograph by Ricarda Vidal

GHost CLHub is a GHost Project for Folkestone Triennial Fringe. The name is part homage to the real Ghost Club and a play on our name GHost and our hosts name Club Shepway. The CLHub was constructed by Sarah Sparkes and Ricarda Vidal, from our own hand made wallpaper and found objects from Folkestone. It serves as both an exhibition space and investigative headquarters for our research into haunted Shepway. We are currently showing artwork by Miyuki Kasahara, Calum F. Kerr, Domingo Martínez Rosario and Cathy Ward. More artists will be represented over the three month residency and their work will hang along side a growing archive of materials sourced, lent or donated form Shepway residents and which reference paranormal themes.

GHost CLHub postcards - look out for them around the town. by Sarah Sparkes and Ricarda Vidal 2011.


The GHost CLHub wall paper haunting Cathy Wards Treasures. Photo Sarah Sparkes

A busy opening B&B - Saturday 25th June


"The Haunted Sea" by Sarah Sparkes 2011 - mixed media.

“The Eternal Tide” Cathy Ward, 2006/11
salt-encrusted objects, film

On a cold, bleak, winters day a 7 year old child was out rock hunting in the outer limits of no-mans-land left by the retreated tide. She discovered buried treasure under the stones, a mass of silverware, medallions, jewellery and brass. The treasure trove was handed over by the child. It was discovered that it was stolen from an antique shop in Tontine Street, but the child received no acknowledged for the find.

The true story is retold as part memory, part fiction, blended with nostalgia and a melancholic soundtrack that harkens back to that decade. Featuring her elderly mother in the present day, with images of the artist and parents from 1967, the year this event occurred in Folkestone. The event was restaged 40 years after the discovery in 2006. The objects used then stood for years corroding, decomposing & reforming salt crystals, a process of being reclaimed by the sea.


Cathy Ward The Eternal Tide Detail. Photograph by Sarah Sparkes

Cathy Ward, The Eternal Tide - detail 2011. Photograph Sarah Sparkes

Domingo Martínez, detail 201. Photograph Sarah Sparkes

Un-titled, Domingo Martínez, 2011
found photographs, found objects

Domingo Martínez is a visual artist currently studying for his PhD at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. Both his artworks and research project deal with memory in contemporary art, taking anonymous found objects (photographs, videos, dolls, furniture, etc.) as the starting point to build up the artwork. By means of manipulating and modifying those objects, he reaches issues on a conceptual level in which we can argue about the role of memory as a construction within the present, that has a direct influence on the conception of ourselves, our identity and the world we live in. In the photographs and objects for the project GHost CLHub in the Folkestone Triennial, he shows the memories and recollections of a place, not only by using old photographs and objects, but for the presence of other beings in them, other souls that lived in the same place and that appear as silhouettes and ghosts.

Domingo Martinez haunted photographs and Matt Rowes ceraminc skulls in the B&B window. Photograph by Ricarda Vidal

Miyuki Karahara, Hungry Ghost 2009. Photograph Sarah Sparkes

“Se Ga Ki (Hungry Ghost)” Miyuki Kasahara, 2009
Sculpture and Found objects

Miyuki’s ‘hungry ghost’ was part of a series of ghosts she made for a performance at GHost II in St John on Bethnal Green, London, in 2009. At the exhibition she gave away boxes containing ‘hungry ghosts’ asking the recipients to sign a promise to look after the ghosts and take them home to feed them well. The result can be seen on http://segaki.blogspot.com/

The last hungry ghost is now unliving at the B&B Project Space - please visit it and feed it to keep it from haunting the space.

“Alan Hazzard's Re-readings from the Necronomicon” Calum F. Kerr, 2009/11
Mixed Media (Digital Film, Screen, Headphones / The Necronomicon, Chain, Dark Cloth, Padlock),

Detail of the book from Calum F Kerr's installation

In an illuminated basement on 26th July 2009 Alan Hazzard read from the Necronomicon. He had recently acquired it from a professor in Leipzig. Oh to re-live this sombre reverie!
With live sound from Death to the King (Kevin Quigley) and camerawork by Miyuki Kasahara.


Still from Calum F Kerr's Film

On Sunday 26th GHost CLHub was in residence in the Kent Cultural Baton where were new memebers were intitiated, ghost stories collected and recorded. Inside the Baton, visitors could watch films from the GHost archives and find out more about the project.