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Site Platform 2006
Duncan Higgins, Michael Graham, Hester Reeve & Evangalia Baskedis
15 November - 14 December 2006
Site platform offered an opportunity to Yorkshire-based artists to use the gallery space to undertake explorative, cumulative, interactive, performative, experimental, in-progress or durational work. Creating a space where new ideas or processes could be tested and related to an audience through timed events or by an ongoing schedule throughout the week.
Echo/City
Talk by curator & participants in 10th Venice biennale of architecture
18 October 2006
The exhibition In the City of Last Things ran concurrently with the 10th Venice biennale of architecture which focused on cities and social dynamics.
Transmission Series 6 – Artists’ Talks
Theme: Working from the Collection
11 October 2006 - 14 March 2007
Transmission: Speaking and Listening is an annual series of lectures supported by the School of Cultural Studies at Sheffield Hallam University, in collaboration with the Site Gallery and the Showroom Cinema.
In the City of Last Things
Katya Davar, Paul Noble, Torsten Slama
9 September - 21 October 2006
Katya Davar, Paul Noble,Torsten Slama use drawing and animation to present projections of alternative urban and social possibilities. Skirting dystopia, perhaps closer to the original meaning of utopia as ‘no place’, the artists project personal no places which blend flawed utopian fantasies and altered ecosystems and which question the possibilities for perfected urban-industrial societies.
Jordan Baseman
Sunday Morning
10 June - 29 July 2006
Jordan Baseman’s work, made during a residency at Thorncliffe Football Club, High Green, Sheffield, deals with aspiration, poetry and belief. The work uses the idea of amateur football to investigate identity, desire, dreams and fantasy. Beautiful, funny and touching, Sunday Morning, reflects the local and universal characteristics of the sport.
His Life is Full of Miracles…
Animation Videotheque
11 March - 29 April 2006
An exhibition of international animation works. The project takes the form of a self-selection video lounge in the gallery spaces at Site where visitors can select works to view from a ‘menu’ of international works. Taking in stop-frame, digital, drawn and lens-based animation, the project gives both an overview of work recently produced in this area and also very personal selections from artists and curators.
Wu Chi-Tsung
Artist Residency
1 February - 30 April 2006
Wu Chi-Tsung is from Taipei and studied film and video at the Taipei National University. His work has been exhibited at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea, Experimenta in Melbourne, Australia and at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
Art Sheffield 05
Spectator T
28 October - 18 December 2005
ART SHEFFIELD 05: Spectator T is a city-wide contemporary art event which takes place within Sheffield’s major galleries, project spaces, non-gallery venues and public sites from 28 October to 27 November 2005. The programme includes a mix of emerging and established artists and comprises existing works and new commissions, all responding to a fictional Spectator T who is antagonistic to art.
Transmission Series 5 – Artists’ Talks
Theme: Daily Encounters
19 October 2005 - 15 March 2006
Transmission: Speaking and Listening is an annual series of lectures supported by the School of Cultural Studies at Sheffield Hallam University, in collaboration with the Site Gallery and the Showroom Cinema.
Martin Sastre
Artist Residency
1 September - 15 December 2005
Following his highly successful first UK exhibition, ‘American as Well’ at Site Gallery in 2004, artist Martin Sastre is returning to Sheffield to participate in the gallery’s International Residency Programme.