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Welcome to the monthly e-newsletter from Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum, telling you what’s on in Sheffield this October. Full listings, including details of the venues, can be seen at www.artsheffield.org/listings. All exhibitions and events are free to attend, unless otherwise stated.
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Transmission is a series of artists’ talks organised by Sheffield Hallam University in association with Site Gallery. In this series of lectures, staff from the department of fine art have each invited a friend to speak. For this first talk of the season, Jaspar Joseph-Lester and Sharon Kivland play host, with speakers Bevis Martin, Charlie Youle. Tickets £2/£1.50 conc. Tickets from The Showroom box office: 0114 275 7727. more |
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Crime Writer Danuta Reah talks to Alison Ross about her choice of work for A Picture of Us? Identity in British Art, which is currently showing at The Graves Art Gallery. For the show Reah has selected Erinnerung aus dem Weltkrieg (2001) from The Russian Ending, by Tacita Dean. Of Russian descent herself, Reah is intrigued by the idea developed by Danish filmmakers in the early 1900s which would see a film produced with two endings; the American version would see a joyful resolution to the narrative, while in stark contrast the version produced for Russian audiences would “end in catastrophe”. Free, please book in advance on 0114 278 2655 more |
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Opening
at Bloc The opening event for Antoinette. In her new solo exhibition at Bloc, Artist Michal Tkachenko looks at similarities between cooking and painting, both of which she uses to explore the way food influences community. Painting seems as much about creating sensations to please the senses, as does cooking. More |
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Transmission is a series of artists’ talks organised by Sheffield Hallam University in association with Site Gallery. In this series of lectures, staff from the department of fine art have each invited a friend to speak. This week, the speaker is Tim Etchells, with host Penny McCarthy. Tickets £2/£1.50 conc. Tickets from The Showroom box office: 0114 275 7727. More |
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To coincide with Daniel von Sturmer’s exhibition, Site will be screening work from the New Zealand Film Archive. Curated and introduced by the archive’s Exhibitions and Programmes Manager, Mark Williams, this is a rare opportunity to see some of New Zealand’s experimental film and video work, as well as home movies, government films and music videos. The programme kicks off with 'The Experimental Archive'. Rather than a 'Greatest Hits', this programme suggests possible roads towards establishing a history of New Zealand experimental film and video. While many of the films could be considered within the internationally recognised tendancies of the experimental/avant garde, there is also an opportunity to place these films in the broader context of our recognised national cinema, and it’s representation of people and place. more |
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To what extent do public art collections represent Britain in the 21st Century? Join an invited panel of curators, artists and commentators including Chris Stephens, Head of Displays at Tate Britain, and Maria Balshaw, Director of the Whitworth Art Gallery, to explore this question. This event accompanies A Picture of Us? This event accompanies A Picture of Us? Identity in British Art, currently showing at the Graves Art Gallery. Free, please book in advance on 0114 278 2655 |
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A series of artists’ talks organised by Sheffield Hallam University in association with Site Gallery. In this series of lectures, staff from the department of fine art have each invited a friend to speak. This week Andrew Sneddon hosts artist Roderick Buchanan. Tickets £2/£1.50 conc. Tickets from The Showroom box office: 0114 275 7727. More |
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Opening
at Millennium Gallery
You are invited to the opening of Can Art Save Us?, the first in
a series of three exhibitions at Museums Sheffield: Millennium Gallery
which will draw on the ideas and insights of critic, author, artist
and scholar, John Ruskin (1819-1900). At first glance an unlikely
eco-warrior, Ruskin was arguably ahead of his time in his recognition
of the environment as a finite resource. Featuring paintings, sculpture,
installations and mixed media work from Tate, the V&A, the National
Gallery and the Natural History Museum, Can Art Save Us? will see
Ruskin’s legacy illustrated through a diverse selection of historic
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A Screening programme to coincide with with Daniel von Sturmer’s
exhibition. In the early 1970s a post-object art movement was emerging
in New Zealand, where artists turned their attention to performance
activities. Several artists used film and porta-pak video to document
their work, much of which later re-emerged in galleries as video
installations. More
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Opening
event at S1 Artspace The opening for Living Structures, a solo exhibition of new work by Giles Round following a three month residency at S1 this summer. Outmoded or defunct domestic solutions regarded as impractical to contemporary living feature prominently in Round’s work. Living Structures presents a balanced display of allegorical works, situating both high & low cultural forms of production side by side, including furniture, horticulture, ceramics, lighting, typography & textiles. Reinvestment in the past is central to Round’s practice. He employs the formal language of modernist & minimalist art & design, whilst retaining an ambiguity to past, present & future sources. Specific influences are drawn from pioneers in this field such as Donald Judd, Fred Sandback, Eric Gill & Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Exhibition continues until 5 December 2009. More |
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Performance
/ event at Bank Street Arts PRISM
is a bi-monthly contemporary art event. Established at The Showroom
Cinema in 2008 it utilises various venues across Sheffield to exhibit
work by emerging and established artists. This October it begins
a new residency at Bank St Arts. Tickets £2 More |
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Transmission is a series of artists’ talks organised by Sheffield Hallam University in association with Site Gallery. In this series of lectures, staff from the department of fine art have each invited a friend to speak. This week speaker Kelly Large is hosted by Becky Shaw. Tickets £2/£1.50 conc. Tickets from The Showroom box office: 0114 275 7727. More |
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Performance
at the Showroom The première of Words & Pictures at the Showroom, as part of the Off The Shelf Festival of Writing and Reading Festival. Dubbed as 'a book reading for a book that doesn't exist (yet), the event will be a theatrical collection of short stories, obsessions, illustrations and digressions. Third Angel have been talking to Studio Dust about making a book of their texts and images - some from performances, some that have never made it into a show, some that were not originally intended to be performed. And then they started talking to the Off The Shelf festival about doing a reading for that book. They know that it is usual to publish the book first, then go and do readings of it - but they’re doing it the other way round. Tickets £6 / £4 - Contact the Showroom to book tickets on 0114 275 7727 more |
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From
2002-2006 experimental musicians were invited to create a soundtrack
to films in the collection of the New Zealand Film Archive. As a
result many previously unknown or forgotten films were seen for
the first time in many years, and a mainstream audience celebrated
experimental music. Film footage includes amateur documentation
of Antarctic whaling shot in the late 1960s, an industrial film
about New Zealand’s meat exports to Britain, newsreel footage of
the massive 1931 Napier earthquake and home movies shot on 16mm
film by women of means in the depression years. Musicians include
Rosy Parlane, Rachel Shearer, Greg Malcolm and Bryce Galloway. |
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Opening
event at Cupola Gallery You are invited to the opening of Feast, a solo painting and mixed media exhibition by Corinna Button. Obsessions with image, gossip, fashion, materialism, the minutiae of celebrity life – these are our Idols of today and they are the underlying presence within the artist’s current body of work ‘Feast‘; feasting our eyes as well as in the sense of eating and drinking. more |
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Book
launch at the Site Gallery
The Name of the Band is The Limit, From Mexico to Sheffield
was Laureana Toledo’s addition to Art Sheffield 05: Spectator T.
Toledo created a cover band that sang songs by local Sheffield groups,
and named it after the cult Sheffield nightclub, The Limit, which
closed in 1992. The band was created in Mexico - where it played
one local concert, then came to Sheffield, where it played two shows
before disbanding. Like most of Toledo’s work, The Limit appropriates
and reinterprets a pre-existing entity. With this volume, Toledo
continues to play with the idea of authorship by pirating an already
iconic magazine layout - The Face - and turning it into a labyrinth
of information that leaves the reader unsure if he or she is reading
about music, a band’s story, an artist, Mexico or even just pop
culture. During the event, the gallery will be open, showing the
first UK solo show by Melbourne-based Daniel von Sturmer. more |
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