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
It doesn’t have a Shape, it has a Shadow Michelle Atherton, Jette Gejl, TC McCormack Most stories have a shape to them, well this story doesn’t have any shape, but it does have a shadow. We could try to describe the shadow (of it), but by the time we get to the end… the sun will have shifted position and […]
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SHU Reader in Fine Art Dr Becky Shaw has been named artist-in-residence at Sarah Wigglesworth Architects, a design-led architecture firm active in the education, housing, cultural, civic & urban design sectors with sustainable design at the heart of their work. Becky was chosen from more than 150 applications for the residency, which is part of a series of the SWA25 events series […]
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Following the success of the inaugural symposium launching the Centre for Contemporary Legend research group in 2018, we are hosting a larger, themed conference at “Folklore on Screen”, 13-14 September 2019. This conference will bring together scholars for two days of discussion about folklore in its many forms: its history, present and complex future in relation to cinema, television, photography, […]
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We are pleased to announce that on Sunday 16 March, Professor Virginia Heath‘s Lift Share won the Best Drama Short Award at the Annual Copenhagen Film Festival. The festival, hosted in order to promote and highlight filmmakers and individuals that have contributed to the global effort of making the world a more entertaining and competitive environment for filmmaking, screened each nominated film at Huset-Biograf in Copenhagen. You can […]
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Voyage Around My Room Athens Municipality Art Centre Monday 18 March – Sunday 21 April 2019 Opening event on Monday 18 March, 7PM Free admittance The Voyage Around My Room exhibition embarks from Virginia Woolf’s legendary essay A Room of One’s Own, written in 1926, and its relevance to newly introduced sociological and political concepts like digital feminism and the #metoo movement. The […]
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C3RI Professor of Sculpture Keith Wilson was recently featured in conversation with curator and inaugural Executive Director of the Holt/Smithson Foundation Lisa Le Feuvre for the The Brooklyn Rail. The two spoke about the necessity of a clear mission statement, the importance of the word “creative,” and what it means for a foundation to honour an artist’s work at the James Gallery at the […]
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The world’s first ever English novel – a little known satire of magic and religious controversy written during a time of immense political and social change across England and Europe – has been brought to life by researchers at the Universities of Sussex, Sheffield, and Sheffield Hallam. The novel, Beware the Cat, was written in 1552 before many of the more […]
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How ‘smart objects’ can bring cultural heritage to life When the first visitors arrived at Atlantik Wall, an interactive World War Two exhibition in The Hague, they were presented with an unusual choice. Would they prefer to carry around a miniature beer mug, a box of sugar, a food coupon, or one of three other items? These replicas were all […]
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What does arts and humanities research have to offer in our current socio-political climate? The NAFAE (National Association for Fine Art Education) Research Student Conference takes as its focus the way arts research methods and practices might be put to use in our contemporary moment. We ask, what ‘work’ can a PhD do? By this we do not mean how might […]
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Professor David Cotterrell’s Mirror III: Horizon and Mirror IV: Legacy will be shown as part of the upcoming event Alternate Languages: Confronting Boundaries at the Royal Academy. Alternate Languages is a day-long festival taking place at the Royal Academy on Saturday 16 March 2019 that invites a critique of our relationship with one another and with our spaces. Through immersive spatial activations, artworks, performances, workshops and discussions […]
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