Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Title: Folles de leur corps / Crazy about their bodies Speaker: Dr Sharon Kivland (Fine Art, SHU) In a footnote in Capital, chapter 2: The Process of Exchange, Karl Marx writes: ‘In the twelfth century […], very delicate things often appear among these commodities. Thus a French poet [Guillot de Paris] of the period enumerates among the commodities to be […]
Read more
Title: The Work and the World Speaker: Prof Keith Wilson Keith Wilson completed a major new commission Steles ready for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, works that remain as a key part of the new Queen Elizabeth Park. His most recent curatorial project (with Penelope Curtis) was Modern British Sculpture at the Royal Academy in 2011, and as part of […]
Read more
Title: Remapping Dissensus in Cognitive Capitalism: The Glossary of Cognitive Activism Speaker: Warren Neidich Warren Neidich is a Berlin and Los Angeles-based post-conceptual artist and theorist who exposes the interfaces between Marxist inspired cultural production and its interrelationship to the brain and cognitive capitalism to produce an Emancipatory Materialism. His interdisciplinary anarchic experimental works combine photographic and video elements, Internet […]
Read more
Title: Critical Care: the position of artist and patient in artworks made in care contexts Speaker: Dr Becky Shaw I explore the relationship between individual and society through live artworks made in care, education and production contexts. Works are made through rigorous responsiveness to situation, with no prior known outcome. I teach undergraduate creative art practice and MA Fine Art […]
Read more
After leaving the Slade in the late 1980s, Keith Wilson worked for a year with deaf-blind adults as art instructor. Drawing two spaced fingertips in a wave motion across the forehead of a student, a tactile ‘brainwave’ sign announced the arrival of the artist, the subject of art, and the imminent activity of making art. This modification of the British […]
Read more
Hester Reeve’s YMEDACA: 28 June 2014 – 07 September 2014 The artist’s concerns are documented in two exhibitions – ‘The Temple of the Muses’ in the NAEA and ‘The Game Plan’ in the Upper Space. YMEDACA is the name for Reeve’s experimental open-air academy which, on 30 August 2014, will offer visitors a unique chance to experience creative activities inspired […]
Read more
Transmission Annual #4: Labour, Work, Action is framed by Hannah Arendt’s reflections on three important themes of human agency. Arendt refused to be called a philosopher, for philosophy, she said, deals with the singular, while she addressed the plural, that humans not man inhabit the world. She proposes that freedom is constructed in community, in common space, and it is […]
Read more
‘Kivland invites us to go on Holiday, with Freud: up mountains, we walk; through streets, along the lake. We pick mushrooms. We go on adventures. Sometimes, we lose our way home. We digress. Interweaving meticulous historical research, Kivland’s own retracing of Freud’s steps, and her personal memories. This is a creative reimagining not just of Freud on Holiday, but of […]
Read more