Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
News from CCRI researchers and their projects
First Hand is an exhibition by /origin\forward/slash\ at Flat Time House, London, running between 29 September–5 November 2023. It is the culmination of a four year research project lead by Hester Reeve, Reader in Fine Art, in association with the Centre for Philosophy and Art, Kings College London. The title of the exhibition, First Hand, refers to John Latham’s naming of his artist […]
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Professor John Goodby (Professor of Arts and Culture, Sheffield Hallam University) will be a main contributor to three upcoming events that are being held to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the death of poet Dylan Thomas in 1953. Thursday 19 October 2023 – ‘Dylan Thomas: 70 Years On’ talk in the York Alive cultural festival. In this special event for […]
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Handy (1) What is touched when we encounter touchscreens? Our relationship with technology, particularly smartphones, resonates through the entirety of our senses and bodies. The manner of carriage, grip, and even the specific regions of skin contact exert influence. Embedded within the concept of Screen Time lies a comprehension of fragmented and repeated periods of attention as a performative touch […]
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Michelle Atherton was invited to present her research ‘Errant Vibrations with the Underground’ at Fiction Machine IV Symposium at Bath Spa University considering methods of fiction and personification within art practice to engage with, and give voice to, more than human lifeforms and materials. Michelle’s exploratory paper was based on her new practice-based art project Ecstatic Rot and the Soil […]
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Anja Louis, Professor of Transnational Popular Culture at Sheffield Hallam University, has recently had an article published in The Conversation. The article, ‘World Cup kiss: feminist progress is always met with backlash, but Spain’s #MeToo moment shows things are changing’ was published on 31st August 2023, and explores the backlash against Luis Rubiales after non-consensually kissing victorious Jenni Hermoso at […]
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LIBá Collective is the collaboration of digital artist & BA, MA, FHEA of Sheffield Hallam University Danny Bacchus, filmmaker Dominic Green and multi-disciplinary artist Marcel Schreur. Their exhibition at London Art Biennale 2023 features two VR works and an accompanying display of artefacts that expresses aspects of the life experience of 98 year of Ukrainian and Gulag survivor, Ivanna Maszczak. […]
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In this final part of the Researcher blog, Phil Waterworth, The Disabled Flâneur and Fine Art PhD candidate, completes his odyssey across Sheffield city centre as part of a film project with filmmaker Dorothy Allen Pickard and support worker Joe. In this final part, the journey continues through The Moor to Cumberland Street. Part Three << Back to Part One […]
Read moreDr Ruth Deller, Reader in Media and Communication, and Dr Sheldon Hall, Reader in Film and Television, spoke to BBC Radio Sheffield to discuss what makes a good classic film and the resurgence of old classics amongst young people. As well as talking about this year’s Clearing process. Listen back from 2:18:58.
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Totally Thames’s artistic commission for 2023 is the extraordinary Saltley Geyser by the installation artist David Cotterrell. As one of the key events for the London-wide Thames Festival cultural program, this represents a dramatic return for one of Cotterrell’s first public projects. 25 years after its original installation (in a small park in Birmingham), it will be witnessed again in East London’s Royal Albert […]
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Phil Waterworth, The Disabled Flâneur and Fine Art PhD candidate, continues his odyssey across Sheffield city centre as part of a film project with filmmaker Dorothy Allen Pickard and support worker Joe. In this second part, the journey continues from the High Street to the Peace Gardens on Pinstone Street. Part Two << Back to Part One >> Ahead to […]
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