Fort Process | |
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Genre | Festival |
Location(s) | Newhaven Fort, Newhaven, East Sussex |
Country | United Kingdom |
Established | 2014 |
Most recent | August 3, 2018 |
Activity | Sound art, experimental music, free improvisation, site-specific art |
Website | https://lost-property.org.uk/fortprocess/ |
Fort Process is a multi-disciplinary sonic arts festival set in Newhaven Fort, Newhaven on the south coast of England, produced by Lost Property. [1] The festival takes place within the structure of the 19th century coastal defence, commissioning site-specific art installations and performances that respond to the fort's architecture and network of subterranean tunnels. The first edition was held in September 2014, with later editions in 2016 [2] [3] and 2018. [4] The festival has been well received with positive reviews from The Wire, [5] The Quietus , [6] Freq [7] and others.
The festival was initially conceived in 2012 by Alastair Kemp, founder of Newhaven's Eleusinian Press, who proposed the idea to a group of Brighton-based arts and music promoters. It was in response to East Sussex County Council announcing that Newhaven Fort would become privately run. [4] The interested parties would form arts collective Lost Property to handle the festival's organisation. [6]
Across its three editions, the festival has presented a wide range of artists and musicians, including: Sarah Angliss, Adam Basanta, Pierre Bastien, Mike Blow, Peter Brötzmann & Steve Noble, John Chantler, Rhys Chatham, Audrey Chen, Poulomi Desai, Leslie Deere, Timothy Didymus, Graham Dunning, Max Eastley, Ex-Easter Island Head, Michael Finnissy, Limpe Fuchs, Mariska de Groot, Ian Helliwell, Daniel W J Mackenzie, Darsha Hewitt, Konk Pack, Kyoka, Joshua Le Gallienne, Grischa Lichtenberger, Liminal, Toshimaru Nakamura, Seijiro Murayama, Evan Parker, Aura Satz, Semiconductor, Tim Shaw, Plurals, The Artaud Beats, Gabey Tjon a Tham, Tetsuya Umeda, Zimoun. [1]
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