What's on
Thursday 3 May, 6pm
In Conversation: Daria Martin and Sara Cluggish
We welcome artist Daria Martin and curator Sara Cluggish for a screening and discussion around Martin’s newly commissioned film A Hunger Artist (HD, 16 minutes), currently on view at Sheffield’s historic Abbeydale Picture House.
13 April - 4 May 2018
Daria Martin: A Hunger Artist
Daria Martin’s most ambitious short film to date, A Hunger Artist is based upon Franz Kafka’s last short story edited from his death-bed in 1924. Futility and endurance are entwined in a story of a durational performance artist whose act of fasting is going out of fashion.
14 March - 6 April 2018
City of Ideas: Urban Realm Commission #1 – The Busan Exchange
This March we welcome three international artists to Sheffield to launch the second stage of our Busan/Sheffield cultural exchange project. The first stage saw us take two artists from Sheffield (Paul Morrison and Ben Tew) to make new work in Busan.
Forthcoming
2018
See You In September
The writing is on the wall (windows) – See You In September! The new Site Gallery building is complete, we have the keys and are looking forward to reopening this Autumn, bigger and better.
13 April - 4 May 2018
Daria Martin: A Hunger Artist
Daria Martin’s most ambitious short film to date, A Hunger Artist is based upon Franz Kafka’s last short story edited from his death-bed in 1924. Futility and endurance are entwined in a story of a durational performance artist whose act of fasting is going out of fashion.
14 March - 6 April 2018
The Busan Exchange – Artists
This first City of Ideas urban realm commission brings together three of South Korea’s leading artists to produce new works which investigate forgotten or overlooked spaces in Sheffield’s Cultural Industries Quarter.
Archive
Sat 16 December, 2 - 5pm
Society of Explorers 2017 End of Year Party
Join The Society of Explorers as they celebrate a year of creativity and collaboration.
Thurs 23 Nov, 5.30 - 8pm
Site Sessions: Artificial Intelligence and creativity
How should the art world respond to Artificial Intelligence? Does it make sense to describe the output of a computer algorithm as ‘creative’? Join us on 23 Nov for a lively discussion around these themes.
1 August 2017 – 31 March 2018
Site Gallery / South Korea
This October, we swap Sheffield for South Korea, as we launch new art works commissioned from two artists from Sheffield.
