WEDNESDAY 20 March 2024 – ‘OVERSPILL: PRESENCES, PROCESSES, PERSPECTIVES’ – In conversation with performance artist Nando Messias

All are warmly invited to this in conversation with Nando Messias. This event is part of the research seminar series Overspill: Presences, Processes & Perspectives hosted at Sheffield Hallam University by Dr Sophie Swoffer (Lecturer in Performance). __________________________________ Nando Messias’ work straddles performance art, dance and theatre. Their performances combine beautiful images with a fierce critique of gender, visibility and violence. Nando has […]

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Wednesday 11 October 2023 – ‘Overspill: Presences, Processes, Perspectives event’ – in conversation with Rosana Cade

All are warmly invited to this screening and in conversation with Rosana Cade. This event is part of the research seminar series Overspill: Presences, Processes & Perspectives hosted at Sheffield Hallam University by Dr Sophie Swoffer (Lecturer in Performance). The event includes a screening of the creative documentary film ‘Walking:Holding’ by Rosana Cade, Claire Nolan and Charlie Cauchi. This film […]

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Tuesday 6th June 2023 – ‘OVERSPILL: Presences, Processes, Perspectives’ event – in conversation with Dr Jungmin Song

All are warmly invited to the second event in the series of Overspill, which is online in conversation with special guest speaker innovative interdisciplinary artist Dr Jungmin Song. Overspill is a series of in conversation events and sharings with interdisciplinary artists working within the creative arts industry. This research series focuses on celebrating the practice of artists who are making […]

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OVERSPILL: A new interdisciplinary research seminar series convened by Dr Sophie Swoffer (Lecturer in Performance)

Overspill logo, courtesy of Sophie Swoffer

Overspill is a new interdisciplinary research seminar series which consists of in-conversation evenings and practice sharing events with artists and individuals working across the creative industries. This research series focuses on celebrating the practice of artists who are making important work that also pushes against and explodes beyond the understood boundaries of creative work. Presence and agency will be considered […]

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‘Comes the Flood’: New exhibition reflects on Sheffield’s floods

'Comes the Flood' exhibition, with Ark Sheffield at Millennium Gallery. Image credit - Becky Payne

Academics and students from Sheffield Hallam University have added to the new Ruskin Collection displays at the Millennium Gallery reflecting on the impacts of flooding in Sheffield. Find out more on the SHU News website here. Comes the Flood is a redisplay of the Ruskin Collection which reimagines objects from Sheffield’s major floods and artworks of Venice as fragments from cities destroyed […]

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