Why This Is Hell

A little bit belated, but my photos of the Triennial are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewmbutler/sets/72157627085227120/

A few things - the Leas Lift Bagpuss, the deathtrap classrooms, the masonic ritual - weren't photographable and I didn't do the shop. I didn't catch any of the Strange Cargo signs.

2008: http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewmbutler/sets/72157627058267398/

I tried to go to this with an open mind. I'm aware how art can revitalise an area - but usually it's through artists finding a place that is dirt cheap, creating a buzz, and then the trendies move in, pushing up property prices (see Butler's Wharf, Hoxton). I'm not sure buying an area and sticking artists there works, no matter how philanthropic. Too much like producing art to order.

Folkestone could do with regeneration - although this was clearly a grey day:



After burning myself in Sandwich and Deal on Monday, on Tuesday I got hold of another Explorer ticket and headed south. Time for some art ( courtesy of Roger de Courcey )

( Lost Property )

( Nathan Coley )

( Richard Wentworth )

( Robert Kusmirowski )

( Selja Kameric )

( Richard Wilson )

( Marcel Duchamp )

( Adam Chozdko )

( Wentworth, encore )

I've clearly scratched the surface here, so maybe need to come back and see what they've done to the Martello tower, and look for Emin's things. There's a screening of one of the Quatermass films, so maybe then. I've got until September.