Artist	Colin Priest
Date	June 2012
Location	Deal
Category	Film

Inspired by a found vintage postcard depicting South Beach in Deal during a regatta around 100 years ago, Greetings from DEAL: Time Ball 2012 is a proposed summer film event recording the 2012 Deal Regatta. Led by artist Colin Priest the ambition of the event is to re-create a contemporary moving picture postcard from the same view point. The event would film the Time Ball Tower and South Beach front, recording the 2012 Deal Regatta and associated seafront activities.

 With The Kent Cultural Baton, a mobile public artwork travelling and producing an alternative cultural map of Kent, the event will portray and celebrate the life of Deal in 2012. The Baton will become a point of exchange moored on the beach distributing specially embroided beach towels and information about the project.

 Greetings from DEAL is an ongoing curatorial multi-media project focusing upon the creation and gathering of contemporary, fictional and historic narratives about Deal, Kent. The production of works with residents and former inhabitants of Deal since September 2010 appropriate the postcard as a familiar format that at once connect and distance an audience to a place to manifest site-specific memories.

 Colin Priest trained as an architect and initiated Studio Columba upon graduation from the Architectural Association, London in 2003. Operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, art, research and event production projects range from physical intervention to writing to performance. Studio Columba’s ambition is to design memorable contemporary experiences. Applied research via teaching as a Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and inter-disciplinary collaborative practice centres on adjusting the cultural value of public space, shifting perceptions of identity, society and notions of locality. The studio has exhibited at View Tube Art, London Transport Museum and Architectural Association Gallery in London, Bowery Gallery, Leeds, Mass Moca, Boston and at the UIA Celebration of Cities Congress in Istanbul and currently working on projects in the UK and France. www.studiocolumba.com