Transmission is a series of artists’ talks organised by Sheffield Hallam University in association with Site Gallery. In this series of lectures, staff from the department of fine art have each invited a friend to speak. The series is convened by Dr Jaspar Joseph-Lester and Dr Sharon Kivland.
Wednesday 17 March 2010
Guest: ‘Sound Threshold’
Sound Threshold’ was established in 2007 by Daniela Cascella and Lucia Farinati, as a long-term research project which explores the relation between site, sound, and text. The project is grounded on a shared background in literature, experimental music, art history, and on over a decade of experience in writing and in curating visual and sonic arts projects. Since its inception, Sound Threshold has developed a programme of events, talks and artists' commissions in collaboration with international organisations: Music and Sound Through The Landscape, Italy 2007/08; The Listening Project, London, forthcoming, 2010
Host: Jaspar Joseph-Lester
Jaspar Joseph-Lester's work explores the role that images play in determining urban planning, social space, and everyday praxis. Recent work has focused on the conflicting ideological frameworks embodied in architecture and urban planning. He has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad with solo exhibitions at Asprey Jacques Gallery and The British School at Rome. His video work was nominated for ‘Pilot: 1’ in 2004 and selected for ‘All for Show: an international retrospective of UK Video’, 2005-6. Recent exhibitions include ‘Afterwards’ at the Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, and ‘Epidermis’, Kaohsiung Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan. He is author of Revisiting the Bonaventure Hotel (Copy Press, 2009), co-editor of Episode: Pleasure and Persuasion in Lens-based Media (Artwords, 2008), and a director of the Curating Video research group.
www.jasparjosephlester.com