SALT + EARTH: The Body as Data + From Here On - Screening
On Saturday 5th October we are excited to invite you to the final event for The Body as Data screening series, including performances and a Q&A with the artists. Please join us in Folkestone to watch the film together with a drink and to revisit some of the work that was created throughout the project.
Opening the night will be local Poet Josephine Carter with poems created from her workshop at The Napier Barracks Drop In. We will also be presenting another film alongside the Body as Data as part of a Double Bill - Gecko Theatre & Good Chance Theatre’s From Here On (2024) made with local young people from the Kent Refugee Action Network. The evening will close with a musical rendition from Tom Tegento, who will perform songs created from the project.
The Body as Data (2024) follows a group of people as they re-map the Kent Coast of England. Emerging from the summer’s Body as Data project workshops and walking events, this film captures local migrant and community participants as they draw their own borderlines across the Kent coast and create an ephemeral cartography of arrival. By highlighting the constructed nature of borders, the film presents an alternative, mobilised version of these boundaries, created by those whom the borders deny.
The 2024 Body as Data Project aimed to connect local communities and those who have experienced forced migration through creative dance practice, walking, and surveillance technologies to come together to mobilise the border of the Kent coast from Margate to Folkestone.
Over the summer, we presented a series of community workshops and site specific walking events which explore how the ‘body-as-data’ can draw its own border by re-imagining the impact of drone technology and the power of walking practices.
Director - Sidonie Carey-Green
Producer – Jodie Cole
Sound – Andre Braga-Verissimo
Lead Artist – Tom Tegento
Camera – Mijo Peraica
Drone - Tommy Stewart
The Body as Data Website
Accessibility: Block 67 has wheelchair access from the street and many parking options very close. Block 67 has a disabled toilet.