Fiona James
The Incident, A Diagram for Whitstable

Saturday 31st May
13:00—14:00
The Beach

This event to mark the launch of Whitstable Biennale 2014, will take as its starting point the enacted simulations of disaster situations that beach lifeguards use as training exercises. It will examine how attention plays out in heightened conditions where individuals are expected to think for themselves and, at the same time, to respond to the situation as a team.

Functioning somewhere between a live experiment and an embodied diagram, the work will approach the performative space as a piece of active research. The presence of the audience will subtly feed into the piece, affecting how it