Tag: Freud

‘Surrealism & Psychoanalysis: Conquest of the Irrational?’ – Dr Sharon Kivland at conference at The Anna Freud Centre

Surrealism & Psychoanalysis: Conquest of the Irrational? conference featuring Dr Sharon Kivland

Dr Sharon Kivland will be giving a reading entitled The Missed Encounter: A disappointment, an ear, and a snail at the Surrealism & Psychoanalysis: Conquest of the Irrational? conference taking place at The Anna Freud Centre in London on Sunday 27 January 2019. You can find the programme online here and the abstracts here. “It would be very interesting to investigate analytically how […]

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‘Inside the Freud Museums’ – Dr Sharon Kivland features in book exploring art interventions within Freud’s museums

Composite image of 'Inside the Freud Museum' front cover and Freud Museum (WikiCommons)

There will be an event at the Freud Museum to launch art historian and theorist Joanne Morra’s book Inside the Freud Museums: History, Memory and Site-responsive Art  (IB Tauris, 2018) on Thursday 08 March 2018. This will feature a reading by Joanne and discussion on exhibitions at the Freud Museum by cultural theorist and artist Mieke Bal, and artists Susan Hiller and Michelle […]

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Freud on Holiday Appendix V: ‘Freud’s Views’ – Dr Sharon Kivland

Front cover of 'Freud's Views' by Dr Sharon Kivland

Almost every year Sigmund Freud went on holiday, often accompanied by his brother Alexander, an expert on railway transport, timetables, and travel tariffs. Freud made a distinction between the holidays he spent with his family during the month of August, usually in the Alps, and those voyages he took later, most often in September, with complicated itineraries. Freud prepared carefully […]

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Women in Art presents… ‘Freud on Holiday’ by Dr Sharon Kivland (Fine Art) on 17 May

Promotional image of WIA...Presents event featuring Sharon Kivland - with an image of Freud with a cigar (image courtesy of Sharon Kivland)

Women in Art (WIA) presents a talk by SHU’s Sharon Kivland in partnership with Shoreditch House on Wednesday 17 May 2017. Artist Sharon Kivland joins WIA for a discussion on Freud on Holiday, her series of experimental travel writings that reconstruct Sigmund Freud’s trips to Europe. Working with Freud’s published works and archives Kivland has established the routes and itineraries […]

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Dr Sharon Kivland’s ‘To Dream by the Book’ vinyl playing throughout ‘Decorative Dormitories for Sleep Workers’ – Opens 27 April

Image courtesy of Sharon Kivland (Fine Art, SHU) - image of a Marconiphone from two different angles

“Dreams are of course taking us into the future. But this future, which the dreamer takes as the present, has been moulded by his indestructible wish into a perfect likeness of the past.” Decorative Dormitories for Sleep Workers xero, kline & coma 258 Hackney Road London E2 Opens 27 April 2017 7PM – 9PM House of Hysteria presents their latest […]

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Freud on Holiday Volume IV – A Cavernous Defile, Part 1

Cover of Freud on Holiday IV - A Cavernous Defile Part I, courtesy of Sharon Kivland

‘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 […]

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