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Margate Rocks 08
Festival of Contemporary Visual Art and Ecology
2-11 May
The ‘Margate Rocks’ festival is back with a bang following a three-year sabbatical. Do not expect Turneresque watercolours or paintings of fishing boats at sea, often associated with art in British seaside towns. Margate as a town is currently reinventing itself and this art event facilitates the potential and possibilities of such changes. ‘Margate Rocks’ uses twenty different venues, and addresses the theme of art and ecology through various media from street performance and music via drawings, photography, film and sculpture to workshops for families and late night talks. The festival showcases a wide range of diverse artists. Displayed prominently on Margate’s promenade is a large poster by Jimmy Cauty: a photograph showing landmarks of Margate behind a mountain of waste. Immediate associations arise about the amount of rubbish we all produce. That some locals complained and even threatened one of the organisers about this piece seems laughable considering the seriousness of the subject matter. “This is not Art” has been scrawled in graffiti over the piece and shows clearly how art can be seen as provocative or even threatening, raising...
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