No Bounds Festival 11 – 13 October 2024: Programme
Sheffield Hallam partners with No Bounds to showcase world-leading research in culture and creativity.
No Bounds festival returns to venues across Sheffield from the 11-13 October 2024, featuring new installations from artist-researchers at Sheffield Hallam University.
This series of commissions is entitled Entanglement, Commons and Cultural Mycelium, curated and produced by Amy Carter Gordon, Innovation Manager. Associate producer: Lauren McConnell, Innovation Development Officer.
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Base Notes and Place Holders
Curators: TC McCormack & Tommy Støckel
Artists: Renata Casiano Alvarez (Mexico/Italy), Maiken Bent (Denmark), Sunah Choi (Berlin), Antonia Low (Berlin), TC McCormack (UK), Outgoing (Brett Gui Xin & Del Hardin Hoyle) (NYC), Kirsty Russell (Scotland/UK), Amba Sayal-Bennett (UK), Tommy Støckel (Berlin), Eva Taulois (France), Jonathan Trayte (UK), Claudia Wieser (Berlin), Keith Wilson (NYC/UK)
Venue: Site Gallery, 1 Brown Street, Sheffield, S1 2BS
Free entry, tickets not required.
| Opening times: | 11 Oct: 11am-5pm | 12 Oct: 11am–5pm | 13 Oct: 11am-4pm |
Image credit: Milk Roc (2019) by Jonathan Trayte
Base Notes & Place Holders brings together speculative propositions by international artists in a space where sculpture and sound coalesce, to explore the politics and possibilities of presentation.
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Areas of Search
Artist: Helen Blejerman
Venue: Chapel of the Holy Spirit at Sheffield Cathedral, Church St, Sheffield, S1 1HA
Free entry, tickets not required.
| Opening times: | 11 Oct: 10am-6pm | 12 Oct: 11.30am–4pm | 13 Oct: 10am-4pm |
Image © 2024 Maxar Technologies. Landsat / Copernicus
Areas of Search is a short science fiction film set in an alternative Earth. A woman’s soul is searching for her remains in a bizarre, broken town where it seems all the women have been murdered.
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Countering Rhetoric
Artist: Dr. Austin Houldsworth
Venue: Art House, Carver Street, Sheffield, S1 4FT
Free entry, tickets not required.
| Opening times: | 11 Oct: 10am-8pm | 12 Oct: 10am–4.30pm | 13 Oct: 10am-4 pm |
Image Credit: Austin Houldsworth
The political tropes and promises of ‘Trickle down economics’ and ‘Levelling up’ are brought to life; through two interactive wealth redistribution devices that turn rhetoric into reality.
Late night opening: Friday 11 Oct, 5pm – 8pm
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Flow State
Artists: Aron Spall, Daniel Bacchus & Dr Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat
Venue: Basement at Exchange Place Studios, Exchange St, Sheffield, S2 5TR
Free entry, tickets not required.
| Opening times: | 11 Oct: 4pm-9pm | 12 Oct: 10am-4pm | 13 Oct: 10am-4pm |
Image credit: Aron Spall
Flow State – an immersive installation responding to its unique underground location at the confluence of the Rivers Don and Sheaf. Combining soundscapes, 3D imaging and projection, this exhibition explores the networks of hidden stretches of river running beneath the city.
Late night opening: Friday 11 Oct, 4pm-9pm
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Storm-Cloud: Thrown into Form
Artist: Dr Tom Payne & collaborators
Venue: SADACCA, 48 Wicker, Sheffield, S3 8JB
Date: Saturday 12 October at 7pm
Free entry, tickets required.
Image credit: Becky Payne
A powerful immersive performance in a former steel factory, blending live action, projection, and a unique weather inspired soundscape to evoke the climate crisis. Inspired by Ruskin’s 1884 lecture ‘Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century’.
Find out more and book your ticket.
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Green Estate Programme
Sunday 13th October
11am – 4:30pm
From the expansive vistas of Green Estate – the site of Manor Castle – there is no better place in which to immerse yourself in a whole day of imagining new ways of living and being in a more harmonious relationship with nature. This invitation to delve deep into the sovereignty of the natural world, to contemplate the urban environment around us and how it came to be and to hear poetry around an open fire pit, will ignite a spark in all who join us. Free family activities. Bar available. Accessible site.
Visitor information including how to find Green Estate can be found here.
See full range of activities below.
School of the Eclipse: Live Journal issue 0
Artists: Dr Kaisu Koski & Penny McCarthy
Venue: Sheffield Manor Lodge at Green Estate, 389 Manor Oaks Rd, Sheffield, S2 1UL
Date: 13 October 2024, 11am
Free entry, tickets not required.
Image credit: Penny McCarthy
Exploring the human-bear relationship through consideration of real and imagined bears, we extend the understanding of bears through performative and visual gestures that weave in myth and science, developing research that transcends boundaries we once knew.
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There Will Be Mud
Artist: Chris Hall
Venue: Discovery Centre at Green Estate, 197 Manor Lane, Sheffield, S2 1UJ
Date: 13 October 2024, 11am
Free entry, tickets not required.
The first public screening of a documentary by Sheffield Hallam’s staff and students, filmed at Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trusts Ughill Farm. We explore the challenges of sustainable upland farming practices, the impact of climate change on landscape management and the sites biodiversity recovery as overseen by SRWT.
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The Park and the Castle: Imagining Modern Sheffield
Artist: Tim Machin
Venue: Sheffield Manor Lodge at Green Estate, 389 Manor Oaks Rd, Sheffield, S2 1UL
Date: 13 October 2024, 1pm
Free entry, tickets not required.
Image Credit: Tim Machin
A voiced artwork about the building of modern Sheffield, re-constructing the city’s transformation through the testimony of those who were there from the 1950s to the present.
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The Sheffield Beaver Documentary Project
Artist: Chris Hall
Venue: Discovery Centre at Green Estate, 197 Manor Lane, Sheffield, S2 1UJ
Date: 13 October 2024, 2pm
Free entry, tickets not required.
We embarked on an adventure to document how beavers can help South Yorkshire mitigate the effects of the increasingly regular flood events.
This is a story about discovering and exploring the exciting and significant impacts of beavers on our landscape, biodiversity and rivers.
[Further updates will be made to this schedule in due course]
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