Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Update – 16 October 2017 Sharon Kivland has now been shortlisted for the Bob Calle Prix du livre d’artiste prize. The two winners will be announced today at a reception and exhibition at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Dr Sharon Kivland‘s book A Lover’s Discourse / Un discours amoureux has been pre-selected for the Bob Calle Prix du […]
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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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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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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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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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SHU Reader of Fine Art Dr Sharon Kivland will present at this year’s Miss Read: The Berlin Art Book Fair on their Conceptual Poetics Day, taking place in Berlin on Saturday 15 July. The Conceptual Poetics Day is an annual event that explores the imaginary border between visual art and literature. The event will also feature readings, talks and performances […]
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From 25 May to 06 June 2017, in the Festival Rendez-vous à Saint-Briac, the Frac Bretagne, Le Modèle, a solo exhibition by Sharon Kivland will be presented. “Sharon Kivland is an artist who collects, a gleaner in search of a feminine imagery that could be called popular. Using images (engravings from old journals, postcards, illustrations, photographs from women’s magazines) and […]
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Zola’s novel, his ‘true story of the demi-monde’, was published in instalments, first appearing in October 1879 in Le Voltaire. The definitive version in book form was published on 15 February by Charpentier. 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, smell, and […]
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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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“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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