Clash Magazine Live Report: No Bounds Festival 2024

No Bounds Festival 2024 has received a review in Clash magazine with comments from Amy Carter Gordon, curator, producer and public art specialist. Amy is a co-curator at No Bounds Festival and has twenty-five years of experience in curating exhibitions, installations, dialogues and collaborations for leading UK research-based festivals.

 

Amy says:

“There’s such a strong community within subcultures, I didn’t realise how much it was going to inform my practice. I was influenced by what people like Liam O’Shea were doing, but also wanted to take my own path by opening my own record store and selling vinyl in clubs and festivals. This idea of ‘taking my own path’ is one that is knitted into the very fabric of No Bounds Festival. It’s something that the city of Sheffield wears as a badge of honour. It’s a post-industrial city that’s always had a little bit of an outsider image, but instead of complaining about existence on the fringes, it embraces it.

Being on the outside of things feels normal to me,” explains Amy. “Seeing the city and seeing these artists through a particular lens that you maybe wouldn’t see otherwise is amazing. I love galleries, but they’re not my normal habitat. For example, we try to create a theatre space in an industrial warehouse. We create an artistic data programming of the confluence of the Rivers Sheaf and Don and project it on the walls of a secret, underground car park. It’s called No Bounds for a reason.”

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