SADACCA F.M. is a selection of films brought together by Memory Dance, White Teeth and Ashley Holmes.
The programme of films feature a combination of archival material, installation art and experimental sound and moving image work exploring Sheffield’s rich musical and social histories.
The films will be played on a loop throughout the weekend.
A Weekend in ‘84
A Weekend in ‘84 by Memory Dance is an archive activation using exclusive BBC Radio Sheffield collections to reflect on 40 years since the tumultuous coal dispute in South Yorkshire. From trade union meets, to picket line violence, pop music, Smash Hits and Sounds, A Weekend In ‘84 runs through rare tape collections from October of that year, played back in real-time in 2024. A celebration of the power and importance of local media, archives, and documentation – then and now.
Agency and Revelation
In Agency and Revelation, White Teeth responds to the latest research project from the Bantu Archive Programmes, From Soundsystem to Pirate Radio, Music from the Front Room. This installation, developed by Ella Barrett and Jashan Walton of White Teeth, explores the impact of Sheffield’s pirate radio scene. It delves into how this subculture redefined third spaces for the Black community and for the youth in the city, while also reshaping and subverting concepts of freedom, direct action, and Black entrepreneurship.
What Your Sound Can Do
What Your Sound Can Do is an experimental short film and visual poem by multidisciplinary Sheffield-based artist Ashley Holmes that continues his ongoing work and research around the genealogies of Black music to explore social histories and the politics of space. Written, edited and soundtracked by Holmes and narrated by Jamaican-British poet Danae Wellington, What Your Sound Can Do ruminates on the DIY ethos, and historical impact of soundsystems occupying public space. Consisting of 35mm film photography and warped audio recordings, Holmes brings together a range of his interests around Dub and post-war Britain, illuminating the inner workings and relationships between displacement rootedness and locality.
Commissioned by No Bounds Festival 2024: Agency and Revelation
Access Information
The screenings will take place in Studio I, which on the ground floor of our building. Studio I is is wheelchair accessible and there are accessible toilets on the same floor. If you have any questions or if there is anything we can do to improve your visit please email rosie.thompson@sitegallery.org.
Image: Courtesy of Ella Barrett and Jashan Walton.
Artists
Alex Wilson / Memory Dance
Memory Dance was founded by Audio-Visual archivist Alex Wilson in 2016. The project works with festivals, arts and heritage venues, programmers, artists, and curators, locating rarely seen archival collections in new and exciting contexts. Memory Dance aims to build a greater community understanding of forgotten cultural heritage. Beginning his career in 2008 at the British Library Sound and Vision Archive, Alex/Memory Dance has since collaborated with a host of organisations including The National Jazz Archive, Bridgeman Images, Villon Films, English Folk Dance Song Society, Sheffield Museums, and Goldsmiths University.
He works on historical footage and stills research for independent documentaries such as Eno. (2024), Strike: An Uncivil War (2024), Yorkshire Cop: Police, Racism and Me (2021), and runs an AV digitisation studio in Sheffield. He has worked in the music industry for Warp Records and Rough Trade and has founded two independent record labels. He was born and raised in Hull and is proud of that fact.
White Teeth
White Teeth 98 are an audio-visual art practice formed by archivist & curator Ella Barrett and filmmaker & photographer Jashan Walton. Grounded in visual documentation, oral histories and community centred practices, they seek to uncover untold stories of the global majority. Experimenting with mediums of archive, their installation work conveys time textually, approaching history as physical and present, linking to ideas of ‘a living archive’.
Their work has respectively been shown by Worldwide F.M (2024), DocFest (2024), Dig Where You Stand (2024) No Bounds (2024), SADACCA (2023).
Ashley Holmes
Ashley Holmes is an artist with a practice that blends elements of visual art, sound and music. His work ranges across sound compositions, radio broadcasts, exhibitions, listening events, sonic lectures, visual essays and DJ sets. Ashley hosts Tough Matter, a monthly show on NTS Radio and is a resident on Mondo Radio and at No Bounds Festival. He has shown work, facilitated workshops and performed with arts organisations and festivals including Factory International, V&A Museum, We Out Here Festival, Primary, Arts Catalyst, Turner Contemporary, Horst Arts & Music Festival, FACT Liverpool and Frieze London.