Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
The State Library of Victoria in Australia has just acquired a copy of Sharon Kivland’s artist’s book Encore un Effort. Encore un effort was published in 2012 in an edition of 100 at the invitation of Noreen Grahame, for the exhibition Lessons in History Volume II – Democracy at Grahame Galleries and Editions. In it, cropped images from a set […]
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Contributors: Ameena Anjum, Ameera Al-Aji, Andrea Berry, Emma Bolland, Luke Chapman, Helen Clarke, Louise Finney, Rebecca Jagoe, Sharon Kivland, John McDowall, Debbie Michaels, Rachel Smith, Rachel Taylor, Lunzhao Wu Writing, Walking, Dreaming… Walking (literally and figuratively, one might say sleepwalking) is explored herein. Walking and dreaming provide ways of knowing a place. They lead to encounters with strangers and with […]
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Dr Sharon Kivland read and collected unsolicited ‘encounter’ emails as if they were intended for her alone in a sincere desire for a real love relation, until their repetition bored her. She posted them on Facebook, while she sought their form. Her friend A. C. wrote to tell her how much he was enjoying her lover’s discourse. The form became […]
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Contributors: Jivan Astfalck, Julia Borossa, Anouck Cape, Angélique Christaki, Catherine Desprats-Péquignot, Vincent Estellon, Suzanne Ferrières-Pestureau, Angélique Gozlan, Yannis Grammatopoulos, Xavier Gassmann, Sharon Kivland, Simone Korff Sausse, Silvia Lippi, Céline Masson, Yulia Popova, Caroline Rooney, Silke Schauder, Dimitri Weyl, Monique Zerbib How are images formed in contemporary creation? How do artists capture their dream images to compose their works? What are […]
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Walking Cities: London launches at the Showroom Gallery on Wednesday 15 March, and features a chapter titled Freud in London by Sheffield Hallam Reader of Fine Art, Dr Sharon Kivland. The book launches at: 6:30PM – 8:00PM The Show Room 63 Penfold Street London NW8 8PQ Through bringing together a new interdisciplinary field of artists, writers, architects, musicians, human geographers […]
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Walking Cities: London launches at the Showroom Gallery on Wednesday 15 March, and features a chapter titled Freud in London by Sheffield Hallam Reader of Fine Art, Dr Sharon Kivland. Through bringing together a new interdisciplinary field of artists, writers, architects, musicians, human geographers and philosophers Walking Cities: London considers how a city walk informs and triggers new processes of […]
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The Problem of Perspective is a series of screenings illuminating a distinctly northern perspective on the history of artists’ moving image in England. The project surveys an array of production strategies deployed by video artists and filmmakers across Yorkshire and the Humber, the North East and Cumbria from the ‘60s to the early 2000s. This edition of the project includes […]
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The poet and psychoanalyst Ulf Karl Olov Nilsson has read a series of books about Sigmund Freud’s holiday habits. As part of the series broadcast on Swedish radio Sverigesradio on 22 August 2016, he discussed Sharon Kivland’s book series, Freud on Holiday. You can access the item on Swedish Radio’s website here. Working with Freud’s published works and archives Kivland […]
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The Dieselkraftwerk museum in Cottbus, Germany has acquired three sets of works by Sharon Kivland from her body of work entitled The Natural Forms, a series of works developed in three parts for three venues addresses gender constructions and economics. Sharon Kivland had a solo exhibition at the museum in Autumn 2015. The Museum has a collection of 30,000 works […]
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Title: Mary Ellen Carroll in conversation with Dr Sharon Kivland Speaker: Mary Ellen Carroll (AIA’s Artist of the Year) Hosted by: Dr Sharon Kivland (Fine Art, SHU) Mary Ellen Carroll lives and works in Houston, Texas and New York. Her career as an artist spans over twenty years across a range of disciplines including architecture, public policy, writing, performance and […]
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