Folkestone Harbour Arm Station, November 2022 & November 2023
I was the Historical Director of this multimedia immersive art experience and programme of walkshops, interweaving past and present to explore the impact of war on Folkestone over the last 100 years using film, music, poetry and personal testimony.
Created by the Gateways Partnership with funding from the Imperial War Museum, and in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Kent and local community groups, the installation included the projection of an army of ghostly soldiers for 84 hours without break - the amount of time that Sir Fabian Ware, Vice Chairman of the Imperial War Graves Commission, told BBC radio audiences on Armistice Day 1928 that it would take the war dead of the British Empire to march past the Cenotaph in London, walking four abreast.
The event was set at Folkestone Harbour Arm station from where many thousands of soldiers departed to and returned from the battlefields.
A short excerpt of the installation is available below.
