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Site Platform – Sonya Dyer
Paul Robeson Research Station
2-19 February
Paul Robeson Research Station presents a series of screenings, discussions and live mapping, culminating in a choral performance. Paul Robeson (1898 – 1976) was an American actor, singer, scholar, athlete, writer, lawyer, trade unionist and social justice advocate. The son of an escaped slave, he was at the forefront of [...]
Site Platform – Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone
Things to Come
11-29 January 2011
Working from a series of unpublished photographs the artists will build in the gallery space a large, highly abstract, metal and glass model based on Lazlo— Moholy-Nagy’s set designs of a ‘future city’ originally made for the 1936 science fiction film Things to Come. From this model they will shoot [...]
Site Platform – Richard William Wheater
Neon Lights
Richard William Wheater regularly works with glass and neon through performance and installation. Neon making, in particular, requires a high degree of skill to achieve any sort of successful outcome and the project aims to explore the value of skill when associated with art work. Whilst fascinated with the process, the artist’s practical skill [...]
Site Platform – AUDiNT
AUDiNT’s installation Unsound Systems explores the use of sound as a weapon by focusing on the boundaries of the audible. At Site AUDiNT will produce a cosmology of sonic weaponry on the insides of vinyl album covers and an installation of an audio documentary. The latter sound work explores events in which frequencies have been [...]
Site Platform 2010/11
13 November 2010 – 25 February 2011
Site Platform offers an opportunity for artists to use the gallery space to develop new work in the gallery setting whilst also allowing audiences to engage with the process. The artists are each given up to two weeks in the gallery, during which the projects change and develop or incorporate events or performances.
For the Birds
Group exhibition
11 September - 30 October 2010
Site Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition For the Birds, featuring artists Emily Bates (UK), Justin Bennett (UK), Luke Fowler (UK), Haroon Mirza (UK), Vladimir Nikolic (SRB), Rory Pilgrim (UK), Support Structure (Celine Condorelli (FR) and Gavin Wade (UK)) and Katarina Zdjelar (SRB).
Talk and Film Screening
with curator Denise Robinson
Thursday 24 June 2010, 6pm
Free – Booking Essential. Book via events@sitegallery.org or call 0114 281 2077
Denise Robinson is an independent curator and writer and previously Head of Artistic Programme at Arnolfini and Visiting Fellow for Historical and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College and Visiting Fellow at Tate Britain. Denise curated the [...]
FrenchMottershead book launch
People, Places, Process: The SHOPS Project
Monday 21 June 2010
The publication documenting the two-year international SHOPS project was launched in London at The Ratiu Foundation and included a talk about the project from artists Rebecca French and Andrew Mottershead, hosted by British author, historian and curator Dr Mike Phillips OBE.
Haris Epaminonda
Chronicles
11 June - 21 August 2010
For her first solo exhibition in a UK independent gallery, Site Gallery is pleased to present newly commissioned video work from the Cypriot born artist Haris Epaminonda, who is simultaneously showing new work at Tate Modern (29 May – 30 August).
Sol LeWitt
Artist
8 – 29 May 2010
Site Gallery presents the exhibition Sol LeWitt: Artist’s Books, the only UK venue of this international exhibition. Featuring more than 80 publications by LeWitt, the exhibition will be a chronological display of the artist’s visual books dating from 1967 to 2002.