(taken from Site Gallery)
Walks, Symposium and Book launch
9 September, 11am - 6.30pm Tickets £20/£10 (concessions)
9 September, 11am - 6.30pm Tickets £20/£10 (concessions)
Brutalist Speculations and Flights of Fancy is a publication
plus a day of exploration of six of Sheffield’s Brutalist
buildings. Starting with guided walks to some of the buildings, followed
by a symposium, book launch and reception, the day will explore proposals and
enquiries, speculations, and flights of fancy based around the position that
these six Brutalist building hold in Sheffield today.
In his book ‘A Guide to The New Ruins of Modernism’ architectural
commentator and Guardian journalist Owen Hatherley says that Sheffield ‘just
doesn’t seem to know how good it is’ and that its modernist
architectural heritage is ‘what make Sheffield different from Leeds, or
Manchester, or Birmingham’.
Twenty artists and writers from Sheffield and Berlin have been invited
to contribute to the publication, to consider the position that these buildings
hold now (part of a much loved landscape or irrelevant, robbed of their utopian
ideals) and speculate on their possible futures (for this project budgets are
without ceiling, building regulations hold no barriers). These extraordinary
buildings are sometimes forgotten, often reviled, loved, misunderstood, and
contested, but form a vital part of Sheffield’s architectural heritage.
The project, curated by artist and lecturer Julie Westerman, includes
the following artists:
Artists
From Berlin: Christl Mudrak, Dominique Hurth, Olivia Reynolds with Jon Moscow, Ines Lechleitner, Irene Pätzug, Antonia Low, Oliver Zwink, Valentin Hertweck, Peter Klare, Stephan Husch, Yuen Fong Ling.
From Berlin: Christl Mudrak, Dominique Hurth, Olivia Reynolds with Jon Moscow, Ines Lechleitner, Irene Pätzug, Antonia Low, Oliver Zwink, Valentin Hertweck, Peter Klare, Stephan Husch, Yuen Fong Ling.
From Sheffield: Michelle Atherton, Chloe Brown, Matthew
Harrison,Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Professor Sharon Kivland, T C McCormack, Penny
McCarthy, Becky Shaw, Gary Simmonds,
Hester Reeve, Andrew Sneddon, Julie Westerman.
Hester Reeve, Andrew Sneddon, Julie Westerman.
Writers & Speakers
Owen Hatherley
(Guardian journalist, Author of A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain & Uncommon a book on Pulp)
(Guardian journalist, Author of A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain & Uncommon a book on Pulp)
Steve Pile
Professor of Human Geography, the Open University and author of Real Cities: modernity, space and the phantasmagorias of city life.
Professor of Human Geography, the Open University and author of Real Cities: modernity, space and the phantasmagorias of city life.
Professor Jane Rendell
Professor of Architecture and Art, and Vice Dean of Research at the Bartlett, UCL, an architectural designer, historian and writer. Books include Site-Writing (2010), Art and Architecture (2006), and The Pursuit of Pleasure (2002)
Professor of Architecture and Art, and Vice Dean of Research at the Bartlett, UCL, an architectural designer, historian and writer. Books include Site-Writing (2010), Art and Architecture (2006), and The Pursuit of Pleasure (2002)
Timescale
10.30 Registration
11am – 12.30 Guided walks to Park hill Flats and some of
the city centre buildings
12.30 – 2.00 Book launch – Brutalist Speculations and Flights of Fancy
(plus lunch break – lunch not provided but can be pre-booked at registration
and catered by Site Canteen)
Symposium
Three consecutive panels led by Professor Steve Pile, Professor Jane Rendell, and Owen Hatherley
2.00 Professor Steve Pile, with Sharon Kivland, Michelle Atherton, Hester Reeve
3.00 Professor Jane Rendell with Jaspar Joseph–Lester, Andrew Sneddon, Chloë Brown
4.00 Owen Hatherley with T.C McCormack, Penny McCarthy, Gary Simmonds
5.00 Plenary session
6.30pm Optional dinner to continue the days discussion.
Three consecutive panels led by Professor Steve Pile, Professor Jane Rendell, and Owen Hatherley
2.00 Professor Steve Pile, with Sharon Kivland, Michelle Atherton, Hester Reeve
3.00 Professor Jane Rendell with Jaspar Joseph–Lester, Andrew Sneddon, Chloë Brown
4.00 Owen Hatherley with T.C McCormack, Penny McCarthy, Gary Simmonds
5.00 Plenary session
6.30pm Optional dinner to continue the days discussion.
Tickets
Students / concessions
£10
Students / concessions
£10
Full price
£20
£20
Optional dinner
£25 per head, to be reserved at time of booking
£25 per head, to be reserved at time of booking
Booking
Places are limited so
booking essential. Please purchase tickets viawww.brutalistspeculations.eventbrite.com,
or alternatively call into Site Gallery. For further information contact Site
Gallery on 0114 281 2077
