SAN Sheffield is excited to invite you to an online event with invited guest speakers. Open to everyone interested in the intersection between art & society, and the themes of monuments and memorial.
SOCIAL GOLD:
MONUMENTS & MEMORIAL
An online event and workshop exploring monuments and memorial through mail art.
Wednesday 24th February 2021, 6:30 – 8:30pm
Online – Register via eventbrite
We invite you to join us alongside our guest artists – Maria Chrisá, Yuen Fong Ling, Zoyander Street, and Sile Sibanda – who will present their responses to monuments and memorial, followed by a workshop making our own mail art.
This event accompanies our open call mail art project, Social Gold: MONUMENTS & MEMORIAL, which will be published as a zine, April 2021. More details can be found at: www.socialartnetwork.org/monuments
This event and project is hosted by Social Art Network Sheffield (though we welcome you to join us from wherever you are in the world!).
ABOUT MONUMENTS & MEMORIAL
This event looks directly towards monuments and memorial in our present time, as well as individual, personal and private artefacts and practices. It responds to current debate and action in the context of COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, Decolonisation, and efforts to memorialise under-represented and persecuted communities and civil rights activists. The event will draw upon local histories such as campaigns to memorialise early gay rights and social activist Edward Carpenter, and the prominent Sheffield Cholera Monument dedicated to the epidemic of 1832.
We are excited to present our guest artists, who will share their own contributions to theme:
Maria Chrisá
Maria Chrisá is a photographer and film-maker currently based in Barcelona. Maria will present her work ‘Between Times’ which considers checkpoints as monuments to passage and control – of time, and of people – explored through short films and photography, documented while residing in Palestine.
Yuen Fong Ling
Yuen Fong Ling is an Artist, Curator, Researcher, based in Sheffield. Drawing from his project ‘Towards Memorial’ Yuen will share with us how the wearing of sandals can become an alternative form of public memorial.
Zoyander Street
Zoyander Street is an artist, researcher and critic, based in Sheffield/Rotherham. Zoyander will share with us how modern-age computer games memorialise and remember those who have died or gone.
Sile Sibanda
Sile Sibanda is a Poet and Broadcaster, based in Rotherham. Sile will share with us a personal perspective of monuments, a spoken memorial reflecting on her Zimbabwean culture.
MAIL ART – WORKSHOP
Fluxus artists of the 1960s used the form of mail art to subvert and bypass the structures of the art world, for political comment, and to find new ways to share their art, connect and converse with others.
Following in this vein, we will make our own mail art in response to the themes of Monuments and Memorial. At the end of the workshop there will be an opportunity to share your work, and we encourage you to submit work to be include in our mail art zine – Social Gold: MONUMENTS & MEMORIAL – for more details visit: www.socialartnetwork.org/monuments
For the workshop we recommend having some A4 paper and some drawing or writing materials at hand – though we encourage you to use whatever you want: perhaps materials to collage with, some photos, or even a found or ready-made object which resonates with you and themes of the event.
HOW TO ATTEND THE EVENT
To attend this online event visit, please register for a free ticket via eventbrite: _______________
Please note:
There is limited capacity for the zoom meetup. The presentation sessions (not including the workshop session) will be recorded and later made available for a wider audience via YouTube and the Social Art Network website.
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Please visit the Social Art Network website for more information, and for other national and regional meetups, events and activities.