Outdoor Spaces
Rachel Spring- Found
28 Aug - 30 Sept Weekends only : Outdoor SpacesWalking in Ecclestone Glen, I found a stone. I took it home and its turning affected my life, my work. I aspire to make objects that you will find in the wild and feel are yours to take home, and that will affect your life, your work, whatever that may be. They bear no physical resemblance to the stone. They will be in wild (but safe, so please don’t take risks) places such as Hastings Country Park and the seashore.
“From Pier to Eternity”
Fri 4, 11, 18, and 25 Sept 7pm : Outdoor Spaces 
Level access
“From Pier to Eternity” is an opportunity for cyclists to gather and enjoy the beauty of the sunset along the promenade during Coastal Currents. Each Friday during the Festival we will depart from the pier at 7pm and complete a gentle ride along the promenade cycle path. Cyclists are encouraged to pimp up their bikes with lights and decorations, and technical help is available from the organizers (Philip 07879810587 / Patrick 01424 719570). The final ride on 25 September will include pedal-powered projections! Rides are free and open to all ages and all types of human-powered locomotion!
Bela Emerson – Movietronica
Fri 11 Sept 8.30pm : Outdoor SpacesA selection of silent short films from a variety of film-makers, with unique soundtracks composed and performed live by cellist Bela Emerson. Every Movietronica programme is different, to create a never-to-be-repeated event & each film’s score semi-improvised to evoke the musical spirit of the golden age of silent cinema!
Bela Emerson is an acclaimed Brighton-based electric cellist & composer who performs solo and collaboratively worldwide.
Back Door Gallery – Lolly at BACK DOOR de change
12 -13 September 11am - 5pm : Outdoor Spaces Level access
BACK DOOR GALLERY is an artist-run initiative formed to promote the work of emerging and early career artists. BACK DOOR GALLERY has no fixed abode, but is a wandering entity; sometimes utilising a flat-pack version of the original space, other times taking on a completely different space or form.
During Coastal Currents, Back Door Gallery is working in collaboration with artist Rene Duboir to present Lolly at BACK DOOR de change.
Key to Rene’s practice is his Duboir currency. In a bid to encourage a new economic system, the artist creates and manufactures his own Duboir notes.
BACK DOOR de change will be trading in the artists’ 25d, 50d and 100d notes. In addition, a brand new limited edition 250d note, inspired by and exclusive to BACK DOOR GALLERY will also be available
Guerrilla Projections: Ann Walker and Angel Stripe – A Good Hiding
19 - 20 Sept From 7.30pm : Outdoor SpacesThe artists’ collaboration involves an iconic 2CV and a series of unscheduled interventionist ‘guerrilla’ projections of their video work in undisclosed locations around Hastings & St Leonards.
The underlying concerns of Angel Stripe’s practice is controlling the uncontrollable, particularly with reference to states of mind, while Ann Walker investigates the interrelationship between the body and the physical world.
‘A Good Hiding’ – draws ideas informed by their individual practices and presents a shared interest in the juxtaposition of beauty and the abject.
Nathan Burr – Bread Bird Houses
29 Aug - 30 Sept : Outdoor Spaces Level access
Burr’s intervention among the trees in Hastings Memorial Garden is “a desire to overcome alienation in an ecstatic embracing of nature and community”. The bird houses are literally fabricated from loaves of bread and bread sticks. Bread Birdhouses can be used by the bird population as a home or a food source. The latter choice suggests a Hansel and Gretel like scenario with the birds eating themselves out of house and home. Members of the public who discover Burr’s project are transformed into amateur twitchers and will walk away with a heightened awareness of the local feathered wildlife.
Victoria Foster – A Space Inbetween
29 Aug - 30 Sept 2009 : Outdoor SpacesFoster subtly calls attention to a common ‘non-place’ found in all cities and towns: the alleyway. This connective yet displaced site, intrinsic in experiencing the urban environment and yet often overlooked in the rush to get from A to B.
In Hastings, Foster merges a fragment of the interior, domestic, familiar, homely and perhaps event frivolous with the exterior space, simply by adorning an alleyway with carefully extracted/disconnected patterns living room wallpapers. Foster’s work encourages an exploration of Hastings Old Town’s hidden spaces.
Louise Kenward – Reflective Space
29 Aug - 30 Sept : Outdoor Spaces Level access
Private View; Friday 4 September, 6-9pm
Kenward’s intervention is sited in the seafront shelters between Hastings and Bexhill-on-Sea making connections between the towns and along the coastline, an exploration of these structures and their sense of place and purpose. The shelters are transient spaces for people to think, watch, listen as well as to seek shelter. Kenward makes subtle shifts within these structures, placing objects or adding some element which may then be interacted with. The intervention will change in response to the public’s manipulation of the objects.
Terence Kershaw – Untitled
Available to view from roadside anytime. Public access: Saturday 29 Aug ,5, 12, 19, 26 Sept (weather permitting) Saturday 12noon - 4pm : Outdoor Spaces Level access
Located in an enclosure adjacent to the station forecourt in St Leonards.
Kershaw’s untitled Sculpture was an attempt at a more direct use of 3d line and drawing in space with material.
The sculpture has mass and body that stands its ground in the space and surroundings but also frames the different views and perspectives created by its presence with the use of strong lines and negative space.
Charlotte Lambert-Gorwyn – Rubbish Souvenirs
The artist will be on site: Mon 31 Aug - Sat 5 Sept 12noon - 4pm : Outdoor Spaces Level access
Lambert-Gorwyn brings a garden shed to Hastings seafront and transforms its interior into a ‘shop’ displaying a clutter of abandoned holiday souvenirs. The artist intends to show how much clutter is produced and consumed, then eventually discarded. She also suggests that these rubbish souvenirs are actually quite amazing in their rubbishness. Postcards of Hastings and of souvenirs featured in the shop will be available for sale along with some of the displayed objects.
Lambert-Gorwyn will have other works at the café in St Andrews Shopping Mews.
