Site Canteen 3pm – 5pm

What can art learn from technology? Or, what can technology learn from art?

Six weeks into their time as technologists-in-residence at Site Gallery, join Leila Johnston, James Jefferies and the Site team for tea and cake to discuss innovation, testing-out ideas, how need is the mother of invention and how investing in people is an alternative way of working than investing in things.

Find out more http://happenstanceproject.com/blog/

The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture-professionals-network/culture-professionals-blog/2012/apr/26/happenstance-project-digital-arts

Happenstance has been funded by NESTA, Arts Council England and the Arts and Humanities Research Council through the Digital Innovation Fund.

Book a place today!

Thursday 10 May, 6.00 pm – 8.00 pm

What gives you a competitive edge? Do you rely on a lucky charm, a herbal remedy or do you reach for the pillbox?

Jason Minsky’s Advantage, is both an incredible observation of the micro movements of athletes, and a performance space for the viewer to humorously reflect on the range of choices we all make to improve our competitive advantage. Minsky is interested in sport activities as sites of everyday performative interactions; he once turned a gallery into a velodrome and has created this new work through a residency with one of the world’s leading Sports Science departments at Sheffield Hallam University.

Advantage is part of Extraordinary Moves, a strand of Imove, a Cultural Olympiad project for Yorkshire.

Imove is funded by the Legacy Trust UK; creating a cultural and sporting legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games

At 10am on Friday 4th May, Bill Drummond will make 10 limited editions of SCORE number 391, Sheffield Sparrows – now he has 10 buyers.

If less than 10 were sold Bill was not going to make the edition and those who had bought one would be refunded.

We offer a waiting list for all those interested in case any of the above 10 sales fall through. Email jane@sitegallery.org or leave your details at Site Gallery reception.

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What gives you a competitive edge? Do you rely on a lucky charm, a herbal remedy or do you reach for the pillbox?

Jason Minsky’s Advantage, is both an incredible observation of the micro movements of athletes, and a performance space for the viewer to humorously reflect on the range of choices we all make to improve our competitive advantage. Minsky is interested in sport activities as sites of everyday performative interactions; he once turned a gallery into a velodrome and has created this new work through a residency with one of the world’s leading Sports Science departments at Sheffield Hallam University.

Advantage is part of Extraordinary Moves, a strand of Imove, a Cultural Olympiad project for Yorkshire.

Imove is funded by the Legacy Trust UK; creating a cultural and sporting legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games

The evening includes a 30-minute spoken word performance then music, drinks and dancing.

Limited to 100 tickets. You need to bring 4 empty jam jars with you. No jam jars, no entry!

Bill Drummond’s Ragworts has been commissioned by Sensoria Festival in collaboration with Site Gallery

Office space for rent

We have a beautiful first floor office space available for rent with panoramic views over the city.

Suitable for 1 – 4 people the office has floor-to-ceiling windows, a wooden floor, a built in storage unit and shelving.

The office is accessible 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.  Lift access is available during gallery opening hours.

Dimensions: 160 sq foot

Terms and conditions:

Minimum period 6 months

Rent:  £300 per month

Service charge: £100 per month

Deposit £400

Service charge includes heating, cleaning and access to shared facilities.

Rents and service charges to be paid monthly by direct debit.

Site Gallery rents eight units to creative industry businesses in Sheffield including Kiosk, North Marketing Agency, South Yorkshire Film Network and Curly Web.

E-mail jane@sitegallery.org or call Site Gallery on 0114 2812077 for further information.

In the Absence of ‘Real-and-Existing Socialism’

Jeremiah Day introduces Jerichow by Christian Petzold followed by an open discussion

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 6pm

Book a place for the film screening and artist talk

Symposium


Friday 30 March 2012

Delivered in partnership with The University of Sheffield and If I Can’t Dance. Further details to be published soon.

Find out more: happenstanceproject.com

In 2012, Site Gallery, Lighthouse (Brighton) and Spike Island (Bristol), three of the UK’s most vibrant arts organisations, will host six technology residencies, enabling an opportunity to think, make and prototype digital projects within the context of an arts organisation.

Happenstance is funded by NESTA, Arts Council England and the AHRC through the Digital R&D Fund for Arts and Culture

Between 7 – 18 February, ten Sheffield-based artists will take over our galleries, designing and delivering a creative programme for our visitors to get involved with. The activity is being developed over the period, and we invite anybody to come down and get involved. Activity is free and suitable for all ages.

Check out our live blog for up-to-date information on all our events

We look forward to seeing you.

Artists:

A time and a place has been designed to develop a team of artists who are interested participatory practice.

Hannah Knight
Sally Anne Robert
Steve Anwar
Emily Musgrave
Lyn Carruthers
Sarah Smizz
Abi Goodman
Adam Denton
Ruthie Ford
Charlotte Morgan

This project has been funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation

The reading group forms part of the wider programme of events relating to the forthcoming solo exhibition at Site by Jeremiah Day. The sessions are facilitated by Emma Cocker, a writer-artist based in Sheffield and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University.

The first reading group is on Thursday 23 February from 6.00 – 7.30 pm, and will begin with two texts by Brian Massumi: (1.) The Autonomy of Affect, available here and (2.) Concrete is as Concrete Doesn’t available here. There will also be reference to the introduction chapter ‘An Inventory of Shimmers’ from The Affect Theory Reader, (ed.) Melissa Greg and Gregory J. Seigworth, Duke University Press, 2010.

Book your place on the reading group and to receive the texts

Dates
23 February – Introduction
8 March – Mobilizing Everyday Life/Fragments and Refrains
22 March – Affect and Memory: the possibility and problematic of prosthetic memory
5 April – postponed
19 April - Affective Labour; the Politics of Witnessing
3 May – Final reading group

Time
6.00 – 7.30 pm