The Folkestone Triennial, curated by Andrea Schlieker, has commissioned 19 international artists to contribute pieces for this year’s event. Here are those you can see during the festival, from June 25 to September 25.

TONICO LEMOS AUAD

Carrancas and Reflected Archaeology

Tonico Lemos Auad presents a series of Carrancas boat figureheads which will be installed around Folkestone Harbour. These figureheads are more usually found in Brazil and used as symbolic talismans to protect sailors. There will also be a silver ink covered wallpaper installation that acts as a giant scratch card. Visitors can draw their own messages.

CHARLES AVERY

The Sea Monster

Charles Avery will create a 20ft sea monster; a beast that appears to be a hybrid of horse, snake, fish and wallaby. The huge creature will rest on the floor of a large room in Folkestone’s Library.

CAMP

The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories

This Mumbai-based collective has collaborated with the National Coastwatch over the course of a year, inviting the volunteers to collect data, contributing to CAMP’s research into the shipping trade, tourism and fishing. This will form the basis of a film script, which will be acted out by National Coastwatch volunteers and be shown as short episodes.

MARTIN CREED

Work No. 1196

Turner Prize-winner Martin Creed will create a sonic work for Folkestone’s Leas Lift. The piece will be recorded with the renowned Kent-based Sacconi String Quartet and will mirror the lift’s ascent and descent.

A K DOLVEN

Title: Out of Tune

A K Dolven will suspend a 16th-century Tenor Bell from a steel cable right on the edge of the sea. The bell can be rung by visitors using a rope, allowing it to contrast and interact with the eight-bell carillon of the nearby parish church of St Mary and St Eanswythe.

SMADAR DREYFUS

School

Smadar Dreyfus presents a complex audio-video installation which will immerse the viewer in a series of lessons, including citizenship, history, bible studies and biology, recorded in schools in her native Tel Aviv. They are experienced in a suite of seven rooms in a former office building in Folkestone’s town centre.

HALA ELKOUSSY

Al-Khawaga and Johnny Stories

Hala Elkoussy will create a 'reading room’ in an empty retail unit, filled with historical documents, photographs, maps, music and a specially made film, all relating to Egypt’s colonial past, and highlighting the complex urban, political and historical entity that is Cairo.

RUTH EWAN

We Could Have Been Anything That We Wanted To Be

Scottish artist Ruth Ewan will introduce a revolutionary element to Folkestone by introducing 10 decimal clocks across the town, in locations from the town hall to a local taxi, telling French revolutionary time. By inserting new clock mechanisms and creating decimalised clock faces she subtly pastes this historical notion of time into Folkestone’s day-to-day life.

SPENCER FINCH

The Colour of Water

Spencer Finch has observed the ever-changing tone and colour of the English Channel over a number of weeks and has created a palette of colours that have been used to dye a hundred flags and create a special colour wheel. Each day an observer will use the wheel to choose a flag whose colour most closely reflects the colour of the sea, and then hoist the flag at midday on one of four flag poles in the centre of the town.

HAMISH FULTON

31 Walks From Water to Water 1971–2010

Fulton will install a large map of water-related walks he has made across the British Isles and western Europe over his 40-year career, from coast to coast, river to river, and coast to river. A poster displaying one of Fulton’s trademark text-works about his recent Kent walks will be posted around town throughout the Triennial.

CRISTINA IGLESIAS

Title: Towards the Sound of Wilderness

Cristina Iglesias will create a large mirrored structure on the ramparts of Martello 4, one of a number of towers built as defence against Napoleonic invasion. The reflective walk-in structure has walls of invented vegetation leading to a window that opens up a view of the overgrown tower, offering the illusion of a secret entrance into another world.

NIKOLAJ BENDIX SKYUM LARSEN Promised Land

Nikolaj B. S. Larsen will create a 50-minute, three-screen video installation focusing on a number of migrants living in camps near Calais on the last leg of a long and dangerous journey from their war- and poverty-ridden home countries, including Iran and Afghanistan, to Britain. Larsen’s piece creates a portrait of their utopian vision of Britain – the destination they risk their lives to reach.

HEW LOCKE

For Those In Peril On The Sea

A large-scale installation consisting of around 100 model ships – warships, trawlers, steamers, liners, coasters, whalers, brigs, rafts, as well as dhows and junks – collected from around the world and made of cardboard, will be suspended from the nave of St Mary and St Eanswythe Church, the oldest building in Folkestone.

CORNELIA PARKER

Title: The Folkestone Mermaid

Cornelia Parker will create a Folkestone version of one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world, Copenhagen’s 'Little Mermaid’, by creating a life-sized bronze cast of local resident Georgina Baker, sited in a space between the sandy beach and the picturesque harbour.

OLIVIA PLENDER

Crown and Sceptre Are Dreams Hallucinations During Sleep or Hallucinations Waking Dreams?

Olivia Plender is producing a work crossing several disciplines: performance, video and graphic novel. Plender will install a video installation of a filmed workshop featuring local amateur dramatic groups exploring mysticism and colonialism in Folkestone. The film will be screened daily in the Masonic Hall’s Great Lodge Room, where access is normally restricted to Lodge members only.

ZINEB SEDIRA

Lighthouse in the Sea of Time

Zineb Sedira’s multi-screen film installation will highlight the remote and often inhospitable position of two extraordinary and historic lighthouses in Algeria. The film will be shown in a large hall carved into the cliff face high above the sea, locked up for many years, and now open to the public for the first time for this artwork.

ERZEN SHKOLOLLI

Boutique Kosovo

Erzen Shkololli will open a shop, 'Boutique Kosovo’, in the cobblestoned Old High Street in Folkestone’s old town. The shop will house an eclectic collection of Kosovan folkloric and ritual clothes, collected over a two year period of travelling. These garments, now almost obsolete, were worn at special occasions like birth, marriage and death, and are intricately connected to Kosovan national identity. A limited edition of specially made, traditional shirts will be available to buy.

STRANGE CARGO

Everywhere Means Something To Someone

Strange Cargo is creating an illustrated alternative guide book to their home town of Folkestone. The A6 pocketbook presents unobserved and hidden sites of local and personal interest compiled after many months of work with the community and local residents. The booklet encapsulates their reflections on what makes a site into a memorable place. It will be accompanied by acrylic text plaques which will be fixed in their respective locations.

PALOMA VARGA WEISZ

Rug People

Paloma Varga Weisz’s five-headed sculpture, its body wrapped in blankets and cardboard, appears stranded and forlorn. Arrived as if by magic, the group huddles together on a carpet that covers the disused railway tracks of the old harbour railway station.