In May 1976, 35 children posed for this class photograph in the hall of Chuckery Infant School in Walsall. In 1999 we made a short performance piece called Class of ’76, using this photo as the basis for telling lies and fibs to the audience.
mmediate 2 follows on from our highly successful launch of this bi-annual project in November 1999. The exhibitions features the work of 13 recently graduated regional artists working in a variety of media.
Transmission Series ‘Spatiality, Homelessness & Anxiety, and Performativity, Repetition & Acting’ ran from October 2001 to March 2002 including artist talks from Sharon Kivland, Adam Chodzko and Simon Patterson.
We are no longer ourselves is a photographic exhibition which examines the enigmatic subject of the nocturnal city. Rut Blees Luxemburg, Effie Paleologou and Sophy Rickett inhabit the streets, exploring how urban life transforms after dark.
Certain contemporary artists are currently working with number and mathematics in ways which imply less that the world can be explained solely by number but that it is a way of interpreting the world and calling into question the sovereignty of systems over randomness.
Breda Beban, whose solo exhibition Still commissioned by Site Gallery in May 2000, returns to perform a one-off live event, blurring the boundaries between movies and the visual arts.
New video sculptures and projections by the renowned British artist. Mat Collishaw fuses antique and contemporary technologies in his unique strain of moving-image sculpture, as precious as it is provocative.
A video loop of a mechanical bird trapped in a building is accompanied by the sound of swallow calls as they return to Britain for the summer, traditionally in the first week of May
An exhibition about value & uniqueness and the means and context in which we make value judgements. In the centre of the gallery is a machine which shreds snapshot photographs (for which there are no negatives) unless they are saved by a viewer placing their hand on a plaque. In order to avoid destruction the photos must have value ascribed to them by the viewer.
Tehching Hsieh is an artist who uses his own life as his means of expression. ‘His work consists of five One Year Performances, done between the years of 1978 and 1986…
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