Opening Times: FRI: 11am - 5pm, SAT: 11am - 5pm, SUN: 11am - 4pm
Venue: Site Gallery
Curators: TC McCormack & Tommy Støckel
The project asks us to rethink a space where sculpture, structure and sound coalesce. Base Notes and Place Holders are counter positions that resist classification and encourage associative leaps. They offer different ways to question the hierarchies of forms and reimagine the traditional distinctions between subject and object, spectator and participant.
Featuring an exhibitionary proposition alongside a live programme of discussions and sound, this project will bring together speculative propositions by international artists at SITE Gallery. This project asks us to speculate on two elemental intentions: 'elevation' and 'support', while considering a form of entanglement between sculpture, structure and sound. The featured artists offer playful presentational approaches which nonetheless question the fundamental value, uniqueness, power and agency of art, in order to give shape to new creative formulations.
Developed in collaboration between TC McCormack and Tommy Støckel, Base Notes & Place Holders is a long-term curatorial research project providing a platform for interdisciplinary engagement and dialogue.
Artists: Renata Casiano Alvarez (Mexico/Italy), Maiken Bent (Denmark), Sunah Choi (Berlin), Antonia Low (Berlin), TC McCormack (UK), Outgoing (Brett Gui Xin & Del Hardin Hoyle) (NYC), Kirsty Russell (Scotland/UK), Amba Sayal-Bennett (UK), Tommy Støckel (Berlin), Eva Taulois (France), Jonathan Trayte (UK), Claudia Wieser (Berlin), Keith Wilson (NYC/UK)
Opening Times: FRI: 10am - 6pm, SAT: 11:30am - 4pm, SUN: 10am - 4pm
Venue: Chapel of the Holy Spirit at Sheffield Cathedral
Artist-Researcher: Helen Blejerman
"Violence against women and girls remains one of the least prosecuted and punished crimes in the world. It is still so deeply embedded in cultures around the world that it is almost invisible" (1). Many times, the families know that their daughter or sister was killed, but despite extensive efforts, it is not possible to find the victim's body. Collectives of families and searching brigades look for corpses in urban and rural areas, most of the time without the help of the authorities.
This film was made using narrative techniques and Google Earth technology. The voice we hear is the Mexican artist tracing territories where bodies of women have been found. She asks questions such as, what happens with the Mexican families' connection to God and the sacred beliefs in the afterlife when a funeral does not take place because a corpse has not been found? As she searches for 'the bones of her sisters,' we hear her voice, but we do not see her body.
Opening Times: FRI: 10am - 8pm, SAT: 10am - 4:30pm, SUN: 10am - 4pm
Venue: Art House
Artist-Researcher: Dr. Austin Houldsworth
In 1860, a Lord stated 'You must arrive at equality either by levelling down or by levelling up'. 164 years later 'levelling' (of any type) is still very much a work in progress. Similarly, the Trickle-Down rhetoric that influenced Margaret Thatcher's government did little to help the longstanding levelling agenda.
The exhibit 'Countering Rhetoric' attempts to address this disparity between promises and prosperity. It includes two new projects from Dr Austin Houldsworth that critically investigate the political rhetoric of 'Trickle-down economics' and 'Levelling up' through the proposition of two interactive alternative wealth redistribution devices that turn rhetoric into reality.
Opening Times: FRI: 4pm - 9pm, SAT: 10am - 4pm, SUN: 10am - 4pm
Venue: Basement at Exchange Place Studios
Artist-Researcher: Aron Spall, Daniel Bacchus & Dr Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat
An audiovisual installation that combines mapping and 3D imaging to merge experiences and data, images and objects, from the River Dôn, its tributaries and archives.
The exhibition responds to its unique underground location at the confluence of the rivers Don and Sheaf, overlapping with the knotty convergence of pathways, railways, driveways, and boatways, to offer an embodied experience of the river and the interrelationships it forms with eco, bio, and socio (infra)structures.
The work offers novel perspectives of The Dôn and its role in shaping communities and urban communicative spaces. It encourages visitors to confront the interdependence of their relationship with the river, catalysing discussion on the responsibilities communities have towards nature.
Opening Times: FRI: N/A, SAT: 7pm - 8:15pm, SUN: N/A
Venue: SADACCA (Sheffield And District African Caribbean Community Association)
Artist-Researcher: Dr Tom Payne & collaborators
Storm-Cloud: Thrown into Form is a contemporary reimagining of Victorian polymath John Ruskin's prophetic public lecture 'Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century'. On 4 February 1884, Ruskin delivered his controversial lecture highlighting the disastrous results of nineteenth-century industrialisation, the human impact on the environment, and the effects of air pollution, a 'plague-wind' on our health
Storm-Cloud: Thrown into Form is an immersive experience that combines live performance, spoken text, digital projection, and a unique weather soundscape to conjure a striking atmosphere of environmental dis-ease that evokes the climate crisis. Created in response to the text of Ruskin's lecture by an interdisciplinary team of artists and scientists led by performance maker Tom Payne, with dramaturgical focus by Terry O'Connor, and presented as a special one-off performance at the G-Mill for No Bounds Festival 2024. This event features a collage of found and new writing, space data, climate science, and natural history alongside original composition by David John Brady, motion design by Jake Goodall, illustrations by Billy Hughes and Penny McCarthy, photography by Becky Payne, digital media by Richard Mather and Anne Doncaster, and archival research by Ashley Gallant.
Storm-Cloud: Thrown into Form is part of Storm-Cloud, a collaborative arts-science programme exploring Ruskin's lecture within the context of the climate and ecological emergency. Project partners include Sheffield Museums, Sheffield Theatres, Space Hub Yorkshire, Invisible Dust, The Guild of St George, Sheffield and District African Caribbean Community Association (SADACCA), The Green Estate Community Interest Company, Sheffield Hallam University. Supported with mentoring from Tim Etchells (Forced Entertainment).
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Opening Times: SUN: 11am - 4:30pm
Venue: Green Estate
From the expansive vistas of Green Estate - the site of Manor Castle - there is no better place in which to immerse yourself in a whole day of imagining new ways of living and being in a more harmonious relationship with nature. This invitation to delve deep into the sovereignty of the natural world, to contemplate the urban environment around us and how it came to be and to hear poetry around an open fire pit, will ignite a spark in all who join us. Free family activities. Bar available. Accessible site (contact innovation@shu.ac.uk for further info).
| Time | Area | Artist | Activity |
|---|---|---|---|
| All day | Discovery Centre | Green Estate | Children's Activities |
| 11:00 | Discovery Centre | Chris Hall | There Will Be Mud (film + artist talk) |
| 11:00 | Manor House | Kaisu Koski & Penny McCarthy | School of the Eclipse (full details below) |
| 12:00 | Meeting point (Discover Centre Cafe) | Green Estate | Tour/Walk |
| 13:00 | Manor House | Tim Machin | The park & the castle (full details below) |
| 14:00 | Meeting point (Discover Centre Cafe) | Green Estate | Tour/Walk |
| 14:00 | Discover Centre | Chris Hall | Sheffield Beaver Documentary Project (film + talk) |
| 14:45 | Fireside / Manor House | Tom Payne | Storm Cloud 'Thrown into Form' talk |
| 15:30 | Fireside / Manor House | Alban Krashi & Harriet Tarlo | Introduction to the River Don Project & Poetry Reading of Sheffield and Tinsley Canal 1819-2023 |
Opening Times: 13 October 2024 at 11am
Venue: Manor Lodge, Green Estate
Artist-Researcher: Dr Kaisu Koski & Penny McCarthy
School of the Eclipse explores the human-bear relationship through consideration of real and imagined bears, including Bruin, the historic bear of Sheffield's Botanical Gardens. We extend the understanding of bears through performative and visual gestures that weave in myth and science. This inaugural issue of the School of the Eclipse Live Journal develops new forms of research circulation that transcend any boundaries we once knew. The audience will encounter multiple conceptualizations of the bear using forms of physical presence, images, and storytelling.
School of the Eclipse is a collaboration between Kaisu Koski and Penny McCarthy.
Opening Times: 13 October 2024 at 1pm
Venue: Manor Lodge, Green Estate
Artist-Researcher: Tim Machin
Following the destruction of the Second World War, Sheffield was rebuilt and re-imagined, a pleasant green city stretching into the new Peak District National Park, its people lifted out of the slums into spacious, airy new flats and houses. In subsequent years, the well-documented de-industrialisation of the city saw this vision increasingly lost to demolition and often-contested regeneration, this utopian heritage is now nostalgically re-packaged to market new developments.
The Park and the Castle is a voiced artwork about the imagining-into-being of modern Sheffield. It's a playscript, but it's also somewhere between an exhibition, performance and workshop (audience participation encouraged but not obligatory). Constructed from archival fragments: the letters, plans, reports, newspaper clippings, typed memos and emails of those involved and impacted by these changes, from the 1950s to the present day, it will reconstruct the inside story of this transformation, asking us to imagine our city and its rebuilding through the testimony of those who were there. This event will premiere The Park and the Castle for a live audience, inviting them to spectate, speculate and contribute as scenes from the city's past are re-enacted, discussed and reminisced over.
As Sheffield reinvents itself for the 21st Century, this question of how we imagine a place and who we imagine it for is as important as ever.
Opening Times: SAT: 11am - 6pm, SUN: 11am - 6pm
Venue: SADACCA (Sheffield And District African Caribbean Community Association)
Curators: Memory Dance, White Teeth & Ashley Holmes
SADACCA F.M. is an exciting multi-room presentation by Memory Dance, White Teeth & Ashley Holmes featuring a combination of archival material, installation art and experimental sound and moving image work exploring Sheffield's rich musical and social histories, hosted at SADACCA as part of No Bounds Festival 2024.
Weekend in '84 by Memory Dance is an archive activation using exclusive BBC Radio Sheffield collections to reflect on 40 years since the tumultuous coal dispute in South Yorkshire. From trade union meets, to picket line violence, pop music, Smash Hits and Sounds, A Weekend In '84 will run through rare tape collections from October of that year, played back in real-time in 2024. A celebration of the power and importance of local media, archives, and documentation - then and now.
Titled under Agency and Revelation White Teeth responds to the latest research project from the Bantu Archive Programmes, From Soundsystem to Pirate Radio, Music from the Front Room.
This installation, developed by Ella Barrett and Jashan Walton of White Teeth, explores the impact of Sheffield's pirate radio scene. It delves into how this subculture redefined third spaces for the Black community and for the youth in the city, while also reshaping and subverting concepts of freedom, direct action, and Black entrepreneurship. Jashan Walton continues to build upon his work uncovering South Yorkshires of history Black music culture, following on from his debut, 'Ultra Violet Neon Planet, which explored the subconscious influences that shaped the sound Yorkshire's Bleep Techno.
The installation is part of a broader research initiative by The Bantu Archive Programme housed at SADACCA. Funded by the Centre of Equality and Inclusions, the project is led by Ella Barrett, Alex Mason, and Rob Cotterall, with contributions from Macole Lannaman and Callum McMillan Rice.
What Your Sound Can Do is an experimental short film and visual poem by multidisciplinary Sheffield-based artist Ashley Holmes that continues his ongoing work and research around the genealogies of Black music to explore social histories and the politics of space.
Written, edited and soundtracked by Holmes and narrated by Jamaican-British poet Danae Wellington, What Your Sound Can Do ruminates on the DIY ethos, and historical impact of soundsystems occupying public space. Consisting of 35mm film photography and warped audio recordings, Holmes brings together a range of his interests around Dub and post-war Britain, illuminating the inner workings and relationships between displacement rootedness and locality. The short film questions how encounters with the past are constantly reappearing in contemporary society, meditating over the crucial ways in which Black communities in cities across the UK have constructed social spaces that allow people to exist, imagine and relate to one another in a different type of way.
With a heavy heart we announce that Coles Hidden Corners is cancelled due to insurmountable issues with the space.
The core of this project was to allow visitors to explore the unusual spaces in small guided groups. But due to health and safety concerns we had a choice between opening a very much restricted version of the project, or to cancel it. Out of the respect for our audiences we decided not to compromise the artistic quality of the work or restrict the guest experience.
We are very sorry to those looking forward to it, but we are developing this work in an alternative location to take place at a later date, in which all ticket holders will have free, priority access. Watch this space.
We would like to thank everyone at Sheffield City Council and Urban Splash for their support of this project, and we are sad that it could not be part of this iconic building's history.
