Hi Access Space has two events coming up next week, Pseudo Random, a workshop on Tuesday (£5 a place) led by artist Hestia Peppe who will take you on a journey through divinatory reading and making, and on Friday, the opening of On The Surface Of Things, an art exhibition with 24 contributing artists with the themes of the environment and climate emergency, together with a large scale film projection on the front of Access Space's building showing the film work of 17 international artists.
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Pseudo-Random Divinatory reading and making: a neurodivergent workshop with our Artist in Residence, Hestia Peppe Exploring divinatory, oracular and speculative approaches to reading and making in relation to neurodiversity. Tuesday 17th September, 12 noon-5pm at Access Space. Divination is the name given to the ways in which people have, throughout history, sought answers to questions for which they otherwise unable to determine an answer. Common forms of divination are pendulum dowsing, tarot card reading, palm reading, and the I Ching. Artists, writers, readers, and makers are invited to come together to explore the potential of working with the mistakes, troubles, and mysteries of process rather than against them. We will examine ideas such as debugging, hacking and self diagnosis in relation to divination. Hestia Peppé is a neuro-atypical artist, researcher and writer, working on a PhD concerned with divination as an expanded practice of speculative reading, at Sheffield Hallam University. In July this year she was Access Space Artist in Residence. This afternoon workshop will introduce the ancient and resurgent practice of divination in relation to the computational application of pseudo-randomness in contemporary technology. Together we will try out some divinatory gestures and methods and investigate what can open up in process whenwe do not attach significance to outcomes or mastery. We will consider the challenges presented by divination to goal directed assumptions about making in relation to the emerging paradigm of neurodiversity, which through the self-diagnosis and self-advocacy of neuro-atypical people seeks to understand and support 'all kinds of minds'. Neurodiversity is understood to be intersectional with existing movements in disability,decolonisation, anti-racism, anti-fascism, feminism, climate justice, and LGBTQIA and worker solidarity. Workshop places are £5 Book a place here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pseudo-random-divinatory-reading-and-making-a-neurodivergent-workshop-tickets-71539507593 Info: j...@access-space.org <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On The Surface Of Things This exhibition is the first of a series of events at Access Space over the coming year which invite artists to respond to the extraordinary contemporary circumstances. On The Surface Of Things is an exhibition of artworks that relate to our environment, either through our dependency on it, our relationship to it, our interactions with it, or our experiences of it. It is an action affiliated with Extinction Rebellion Sheffield, in response to the declaration from Sheffield City Council of a climate emergency. https://access-space.org/portfolio/on-the-surface-of-things/ Exhibition Opening Event - Friday 20th September 2019, 7-10pm With large scale film projection on the front exterior of our building. Short films by: AsproZingel, Kayla Parker & Stuart Moore, Joshua Evan & Antonis Sideras, Alessandro Carboni, Lorraine Clewlow, Matteo Zamagn, alittlepieceofland.org.uk, Dan Shipsides, Andrew Payne, Eva Rudlinger, D-Fuse, Nichola Rodgers, Richard Bond, Isabella Martin, Amy Wilson. Exhibition Open 21st Sept to 4th Oct (Tue-Sat) 11am-6pm Exhibiting artists: alittlepieceofland.org.uk, Krishna Alageswaran, Lizzie Alageswaran, Annie Anthony-Mays, Anthony Bennett, John Brokenshire, Daniel Bustamente, Stephen Carley, Claire Jane Carter, Jennifer Clowes, Krystal Collison, Cath Dunn, Alex Ekins, Paul Evans, Gill Gathercole, Ellie Harrison, Rachael Kidd, Tessa Amy Lyons, Anne Parfitt, Julia Parks, Sadie Renwick, Katherine Rhodes, Dan Shipsides, Ric Warren. Closing Party Friday 4th October starting at Access Space at 6pm (followed by fundraiser for Extinction Rebellion at venue tbc) Exhibition curated by Sadie Renwick, Rachael Kidd & Access Space. More info email j...@access-space.org <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< The arts programme at Access Space is funded with public money by the National Lottery through Arts Council England <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< -- All the best Jake >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Jake Harries, Director of Arts and Innovation www.access-space.org +44(0)114 249 5522 @accessspace facebook.com/accessspace 3-7 Sidney St, Sheffield, S1 4RG, UK j...@access-space.org >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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