To close the exhibition An Elastic Continuum, please join us this Thursday for the New Materialist Reading Group’s accompanying symposium featuring screenings & presentations by artists: Victoria Lucas, Ellie Barrett, Bethan Hughes, Sinéad Kempley and Stephanie Rushton.
Image courtesy of the artist: Victoria Lucas
Join us for the preview of An Elastic Continuum, an international group exhibition & symposium featuring the work of 17 contemporary artists presented by the ‘New Materialist Reading Group’ (NMRG), curated by co-leads Rebecca Howard & Victoria Sharples.
For more information on An Elastic Continuum, please click here
Image credit: James Clarkson
To mark the end of our international group exhibition Traces of a Cathode, please join us this Saturday evening for a drink at the final viewing of our show, as we also look at the impact of our developing e-waste recycling programme of over 75 donated electronic goods, soon to be recycled at our partner venue Aspire Sheffield. As part of this event, S1 Artspace is delighted to host a unique performance from 7pm by Sheffield based artist Flight Coda.
Flight Coda is “Dreamtime micro-symphonies, for fans of Steve Roach, Iasos, Celer”. Artist Jonathan George Fox (they/he) is responsible for multiple cross-genre musical experiments. From playing torn up guitars in the “genuinely deranged” Sheffield hardcore band Scum Bastard to their “corroding liquid synth squiggle(s)” under the caustic beat-driven guise SENTRY. In their latest “nocturnal, mysterious” EP entitled ‘a window at night the 27th’ released by Warm Winters Ltd, Fox’s project Flight Coda favours a gentle approach.
For more information on Traces of a Cathode, please click here
Image ref: Flight Coda performance. Image credit: James Clarkson
Join us as we welcome artist Vibeke Mascini for a two-part session including both an artist talk on Mascini’s practice (part 1) and a participatory reading group of the online journal Instarring (part 2), more details to follow.
Instarring is an electric story of destruction and incomplete metamorphosis. It contains 2 PDF’s. One is more energy consuming than the other, based on white/light values of the layout. Which one will you choose?
We look forward to having you join a conversation about electric memory, energy transference and a “mode of being that is becoming” and we encourage you to read the journal’s 11 pages in advance of this session.
Instarring was originally part of Fault Lines Online (2020), an ongoing critical celebration of research by tutors who have participated in the KABK Research Groups, convened by the KABK Lectorate Design.
Image ref: Instar (2021). Image credit: Vibeke Mascini
Join us for the official preview of Traces of a Cathode, an international group exhibition of recent works by Paulo Arraiano, Diogo da Cruz, Olga Grotova, Gweni Llwyd, Daniel de Paula & David Rickard, curated by artist Joseph Cutts.
For more information on Traces of a Cathode, please click here
Image credit: James Clarkson
Join us for the soft launch our forthcoming exhibition Traces of a Cathode, meeting UK and Lisbon/Munich based artists Diogo da Cruz, Olga Grotova, David Rickard and artist/curator Joseph Cutts for an informal discussion and exhibition tour.
For more information on Traces of a Cathode, please click here
Image credit: James Clarkson
S1 Artspace is delighted to be introducing Olga Grotova as the next artist in the Tranmission: Frictions lecture series.
Olga Grotova is an artist, poet and activist living and working in London. Her practice collects and maps stories of the Soviet and Eastern European women erased from established historical narratives. Grotova’s work serves as a feminist interruption of Russia’s political narratives plagued by extraction, patriarchy and imperialism. She will talk about her ongoing research project, ‘The Friendship Garden’, which uses the history of her grandmother’s garden in the Urals as a prompt to explore alternative economic systems based on friendship, cooperation, and care across diverse communities, diasporas and generations.
This years Transmission series focuses on the entanglements of humans and our more than human kin and explore the need for complex responses to an overwhelming social and environmental emergency.
We ask: How can the frictions we encounter make possible the imagining of alternative visions? How can art foster the curiosity, openness and action we need to work with and through these problems?
Transmission: Frictions is convened by Rose Butler & Joanne Lee and is in partnership with Arts Catalyst
VENUE: Stoddart Lecture Theatre (7140), Sheffield Hallam University
Image ref: Our Grandmothers’ Gardens, Les Rencontres d’Arles (2022)
S1 Artspace is pleased to announce the seventh S1 Salon screening: a programme of artists’ film and moving image. The programme welcomes thework of seven UK and international artists exploring areas of mineral mining and the risk of mine effluent seeping into our natural bodies of water and the impact to the aquatic ecologies and environment. The programme also highlights the impact of waste residue emerging from redundant and unused electrical appliances and nuclear toxicity. S1 Salon 2022 is curated by artist Joseph Cutts.
VENUE: Showroom Cinema
Image ref: Trapped in the Dream of the Other (film still), 2017
To mark the end of the S1 | Chatsworth Residency, please join us for an informal in conversation between artist in residence Alicia Paz and Sash Giles, Curator of Decorative Arts, Devonshire Collections (Chatsworth-Bolton Abbey-Compton Place-Lismore Castle).
Alicia and Sash will discuss the research underpinning Alicia’s practice and her time at Chatsworth researching the social and architectural history of the collection, house and garden. Alicia will also give a brief insight into what to we can expect to see in her exhibition at S1 Artspace next spring. The event will be moderated by Joseph Cutts – Curator, S1 Artspace.
This event is free to attend but booking is required due to limited capacity.
To coincide with Sheffield DocFest this week, S1 Artspace, Lono & Crossover Labs are delighted to welcome you to join us for drinks and an opportunity to develop your professional network, meeting local, national and overseas based artists and filmmakers.
