The Dreamers – Features chapter by Dr Sharon Kivland
| Title: | The Dreamers |
| Publisher: | Ma Bibliothèque |
| Editors: | Helen Clarke and Dr Sharon Kivland |
| Authors: | Multiple, featuring Dr Sharon Kivland |
| Publication date: | March, 2017 |
| Print ISBN: | 978-1-910055-29-8 |
| Format: | 130mm x 190mm, perfect-bound |
| Number of pages: | 148 |
Contributors: Ameena Anjum, Ameera Al-Aji, Andrea Berry, Emma Bolland, Luke Chapman, Helen Clarke, Louise Finney, Rebecca Jagoe, Sharon Kivland, John McDowall, Debbie Michaels, Rachel Smith, Rachel Taylor, Lunzhao Wu
Writing, Walking, Dreaming… Walking (literally and figuratively, one might say sleepwalking) is explored herein. Walking and dreaming provide ways of knowing a place. They lead to encounters with strangers and with ourselves. The city is the stage for autobiographical encounters; where houses and memories meet; where the uncanny is both home and away; where the stranger leads us down the rabbit hole. There are drifts through Jacques Lacan’s Seminar on ‘The Purloined Letter’ and Walter Benjamin’s ‘A Berlin Chronicle’; urban nightmares; the homesick child; enigmatic staircases; snapshots of the past and lost objects; reflections on writing; seeing words as images; and prophetic dreams. Amsterdam slips into a New York bar, and a dystopian group recounts its anxieties.
The contributors to this book are doctoral and MA/MFA students in Fine Art, with accompanying essays by Sharon Kivland, Rebecca Jagoe, and John McDowall. Dr Sharon Kivland is a Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University.
The Dreamers will be available at:
Pages Leeds, International Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair
The Tetley, Leeds, 4-5 March 2017, 10AM to 5PM
and on
Ma Bibliothèque’s table, Miss Read: Berlin Art Book Festival 2017
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 14-16 July 2017