'One Night Stands' Wimbledon College of Art, London.

One Night Stands #1

Monday 14th April 2008. 6pm til 9pm

The Gallery, Wimbledon College of Art, London.

Three teams of curators, three provocations, one space.

Curated by:

David Thomas Crawley, Diana Ali, Xin-Shu Li and Cameron Craig.

Hosted and organised by: 

MA Critical Writing & Curatorial Practice, Chelsea College of Art & Design

Featured artists:

David Thomas Crawley and his selected artist Andy Roe

Diana Ali and her selected international artists.

Cameron Craig and his selected artist Felix Gumpoltsberger.

Xin-Shu Li and her selected artists Xiao Bai from Beijing, Harry Xie from Hong Kong and Mei Mei from Australia.

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SCHF images from Site Opening

SCHF meet Chelsea and Essex students

SCHF are now working on their next exhibition with students from Chelsea - MA Critical Writing and Curatorial Practice and Essex - MA in Gallery Studies & Critical Curating titled 'One Night Stands'.

They are continuing with their theme of 'defamiliarization' after giving a brief talk and introduction to all students on their first salon held at Site Gallery, Sheffield. This is the first time that all students from the three institutions had met, all coming from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines. A discussion was held and agreed that a series of three events will be hosted by Wimbledon College of Art (UAL) with a title 'One Night Stands'.

SCHF will be the first to exhibit and curate work by chosen artists at the first event to be held on Monday 14th April 2008 at Wimbledon.

Thank you to Site Gallery for the first SHCF event

We would just like to thank all whom attended our first SHCF event held at Site Gallery, especially to Carol Maund for the superb venue, Victor Simno for the technical help on the night and to Michael Corris for the stage of 'Freedonia', artists that were involved Katy Woods, Becky Shaw, Steve Dutton and Mohd Zahuri Khairani.

We intend our next event to held at Chelsea School of Art, London on Monday 14th April 2008.

SHCF - Salon at Site Gallery

The newly formed Sheffield Hallam Curators Forum invites you to attend the first Freedonia Salon at Site Gallery on Tuesday 12th February 2008. For this event SHCF has taken Viktor Shklovsky’s notion of ‘defamiliarization’ as a starting point for considering specific concerns in contemporary art practice. The curators, all students on the MA Contemporary Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University intend to use Shklovsky’s text ‘Art as Technique’* to facilitate a debate and discussion on his continued relevance to artists, curators and theorists.


Over the coming months The Sheffield Hallam Curators Forum will produce three events. Following the Freedonia Salon at Site Gallery, there will be a one-night event at Chelsea College of Art (UAL) on Monday 14th April 2008. This event will be part of an ongoing collaboration with MA curating students from Chelsea College of Art (UAL) and Essex University. The final exhibition in this series will take place at the END Gallery, Psalter Lane, Sheffield on Tuesday 6th - Saturday 10th May 2008. The curatorial concepts explored through these three events will be discussed and debated by invited artists, curators and SHCF in a live panel discussion at the END Gallery on Wednesday 7th May 2008.

*Lemon, LT et al. (1965) ‘Russian Formalist Criticism Four Essays’ University Press of Nebraska(1917) ‘Art as Technique’ is arguably one century later still a key text in a debate of the role of contemporary art.

Freedonia Salon was initiated in October 2007 by Michael Corris to provide an informal space for conversation about art between staff and invited students of Sheffield Hallam University. The Salon will continue with a programme of events during 2008.











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