Vernacular Folk

Images: left - Cathy Ward, detail from the Eternal Tide installation; right - Linda Barck, Edith

Vernacular Folk Publication.

Throughout the summer of 2011, GHost completed a three month residence at The B&B Project Space in Folkestone.  This was part of a programme of exhibitions and and events, hosted by Matt Rowe of Club Shepway, in which artists were invited to respond to the themes of folklore and the uncanny. 

The publication Vernacular Folk documents the work of these artists, made during Folkestone Triennial 2011 and includes a text by Sarah Sparkes about GHost CLHub - the title of GHosts project for the B&B space.

Vernacular Folk includes texts and works by:

 Francois Coadou, Alice Haylett Bryan, Ruth Calland, Matthew Cowan, Field Collective, Cathy Lomax, Matt Rowe, GHost Club, Sarah Sparkes & Ricarda Vidal, Annabel Dover, Hayley Lock, Cathy Lomax, Alex Pearl, Mimei Thompson.

Artists participating in the GHost residency:

Tymon Albrzykowski, Neil Baker, Nick Baxter & Jude Cowan & Joanna McCormick, Linda Barck, Emma Caddow, Kieron Clark, Inez de Coo, Glenn Church,Sarah Doyle, Rebecca Feiner, Romeo Grünfelder, English Heretic, Malcolm Hobbs & Colin Priest & Joe Reeves, Miyuki Kasahara, Calum F. Kerr, Ellen Lake & Chris Green, Amy McDonough, Domingo Martínez Rosario, Matt Rowe, Eva Rudlinger, Richard O'Sullivan, Sarah Sparkes, Stasis73, Jacqueline Utley, Ricarda Vidal and Cathy Ward.

With thanks to Paul Harris.

Vernacular Folk is currently available to purchase at Space-Station Sixty-Five.

You can also contact Matt Rowe or GHost direct for a copy.

Read more about GHost in Folkestone:

• The Haunted Sea
• The Haunted Sea: film screening programme
• GHost at Folkestone Triennial opening weekend
• Haunted Folkestone

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GHost at Folkestone Triennial Opening Weekend

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. 
 

Miyuki Kasaharas Scroll and Domingo Martines dolls inside the Baton on sunday 26th - Phootgraph Ricarda Vidal

Initiated into the GHost CLHub at the Kent Cultural Baton - photo by Ricarda Vidal

Visitors leave the Kent Cultural Baton with GHost CLhub postcards 

GHost CLHub opens its doors

GHost has been invited to haunt the B&B Space in 14 Tontine Street for the duration of the Folkestone Triennial (25 June – 25 September). Our project GHost CLHub has manifested in a corner of the B&B and will open its doors to the public on 25 June. Over the three months of the Triennial GHost CLHub will explore  the hidden narratives of ‘hauntings’ emanating from Folkestone and the Shepway area and our corner in the B&B will grow from the initial exhibition into an archive of artworks, artefacts, documents, films, stories and other entities.

For the opening of GHost CLHub we will be showing haunted artworks by Miyuki Kasahara, Calum F. Kerr, Domingo Martínez Rosario, Sarah Sparkes, Ricarda Vidal and Cathy Ward.  

26 June to 1^st July: GHost at the Kent Cultural Baton

Between 26 June and 1^st July we will install temporary headquarters in the Cultural Baton – find us in Folkestone Harbour on the 26^th and in the Leas from 28 June to 1^st July.  Visitors can engage with and contribute to the ghostly archive documenting uncanny tales from the Shepway locale. On display will be films by  GHost artists, publications, artefacts and illustrations responding to local ghost stories.  There will also be interactive information about the project.

Visitors will also have the chance to acquire membership of  "GHost CLHub", take away GHostly souvenirs as well as leaving some ghostly keepsake behind for the archive.

Opening times:
Sunday, 26 June, 4.30 – 7.30pm; EVENT: 8pm, Raising a euphoric ghost

Tuesday, 27 June - Friday, 1^st July, 4.30pm – 7.00pm  

(Monday closed)

Contact: ghost.hosting@gmail.com

More info for the Kent Cultural Baton: http://kentculturalbaton.com/blog/?p=249

More info about B&B Space: http://gogowhippet.com/wordpress/bandb/about/

May Day - GHost in Folkestone

GHost, In collaboration with Matt Rowe of Club Shepway will  be spending May bank holiday in residence at Club Shepway’s B&B Project Space for the research and development of   "GHost CLHub"

The B&B, 14 Tontine Street.  Matt Rowes work can be seen in the windows. The resident ghost Edith Mary Grimes, a 24 year old typist haunts the fourth floor.

Throughout the Triennial  we will research and document the hidden narratives of hauntings, unusual occurrences and curiosities in the Shepway area and explore the origins and mechanics of ghosts and their apparitions. A growing archive at the B&B Project Space will document our findings over the five months and will be contributed to by visiting and local artists, writers, researchers and others.
Throughout the Triennial we will be working in the public domain, contributing to the vernacular events program with a series of events such as performances, film screenings and talks.