The Lost Diagrams of Walter Benjamin – Edited by Dr Sharon Kivland and Helen Clarke

Front cover of 'The Lost Diagrams of Walter Benjamin' edited by Sharon Kivland

In A Berlin Chronicle Walter Benjamin describes his autobiography as a space to be walked (indeed, it is a labyrinth, with entrances he calls primal acquaintances). The contributors to The Lost Diagrams respond to the invitation to accompany Benjamin in reproducing the web of connections of his diagram, which, once lost (he was inconsolable), was never fully redrawn. They translate […]

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Researcher Blog by Dr Claire Craig: Lab4Living 10th Anniversary, Looking Back, Looking Forward

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About the author Claire Craig is Reader in Design and Creative Practice in Health in the Art & Design Research Centre (ADRC) and Co-Director of the interdisciplinary research group Lab4Living. Claire’s research focusses on the role of creative practices in improving quality of life and well-being for people living with dementia.   Claire recently took part in a number of events to mark […]

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Prof Lise Autogena to feature in ‘Perpetual Uncertainty’, an exhibition of contemporary art in the nuclear anthropocene this September

Poster for Perpetual Uncertainty exhibition, property of Z33/Nuclear Culture

Lise Autogena, Professor of Cross-Disciplinary Art at Sheffield Hallam, will have her work exhibited as part of Perpetual Uncertainty, an exploration of contemporary art in the nuclear anthropocene. The exhibition will bring together international artists from across Europe, the USA and Japan to investigate experiences of nuclear technology, radiation and the complex relationship between knowledge and deep time. The exhibition […]

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Association for Contemporary Jewellery’s 20:20 Visions Conference in Sheffield 07 – 09 July 2017

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The Association for Contemporary Jewellery (ACJ) is bringing an agenda of promoting the artform, supporting the makers and developing the audience in the UK and abroad this week, as part of a 3-day conference between Friday 07 July and Sunday 09 July 2017. Association for Contemporary Jewellery’s 20:20 Visions Conference Cantor Building Sheffield Hallam University S1 2NT Friday 07 July […]

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Emptiness & Silence. A Supplement to Reading Nana – Dr Sharon Kivland

Photograph of Dr Sharon Kivland's 'Emptiness &Silence. A Supplement to Reading Nana' courtesy of the author.

Sharon Kivland’s Emptiness & Silence. A Supplement to Reading Nana, follows READING NANA. An experimental novel, in which Emile Zola’s novel Nana is re-read and re-written, ghost-written, condensed according to soft furnishings, lighting effects (including metaphor), other women, death and dying, cats, anti-semitism, money, odour, and many other categories. In Emptiness & Silence she abstracts references to disappearance, deafness, desertion, […]

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Rose Butler (Fine Art) to give lunchtime talk on her work in ‘Everything Flows’ at Millennium Gallery on 13 July 2017

Still from dual-screen mockup of Come & Go by Rose Butler

Rose Butler, Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar in Fine Art at SHU, will present a lunchtime talk relating to her work in the Everything Flows exhibition. Both the exhibition and the talk are at Sheffield’s Millennium Gallery. The talk will take place on 13 July, with the exhibition running until 03 September. Everything Flows Artist Talk – Rose Butler and […]

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Dr Sharon Kivland (Fine Art) to perform at ‘DEEP ANGER TRUE LOVE TENDER CARE’ at The Horse Hospital, London on 15 July 2017

Still from Daniel Brathwaite-Shirley’s video titled MOISTURIZING - Property of Daniel Brathwaite-Shirley

Dr Sharon Kivland, Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University, has been invited to perform as part of a screening and performance event entitled DEEP ANGER TRUE LOVE TENDER CARE at The Horse Hospital in London on 15 July 2017. DEEP ANGER TRUE LOVE TENDER CARE The Horse Hospital Colonnade Bloomsbury London WC1N 1JD 15 July 2017 Self-defence workshop […]

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Researcher Blog by Joanne Lee: Neepsend Lane and the relationship between art practice and place

Joanne Lee, Neepsend1, 2017

About the author Joanne Lee is a senior lecturer in Graphic Design in the Art & Design Research Centre (ADRC). Much of her research develops through a serial publication, the Pam Flett Press, which explores the visual, verbal and temporal possibilities of ‘essaying’ the everyday.   Joanne was recently invited to take part in Practising Place, an event curated by […]

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Dr Sharon Kivland’s ‘Armel Beaufils, le Regard des femmes’ exhibition opens 01 July

Exhibition invitation image for Armel Beaufils, le Regard des femmes (courtesy of Sharon Kivland, SHU)

As part of the Festival d’art, the commune of Saint-Briac-sur-Mer, which holds a significant collection of works by the sculptor Armel Beaufils (1882-1952) has invited the artist and SHU’s Reader of Fine Art Dr Sharon Kivland to curate an exhibition based on this collection, titled Armel Beaufils, le Regard des femmes. The project highlights an exceptional but little-known collection, and […]

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