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: The Natural Forms Part II: The Readers, The Foxes, The Tracts, Some Coquetteries. Speaker: Dr Sharon Kivland (Reader in Fine Art SHU) Dr Sharon Kivland will talk about The Natural Forms Part II: The Readers, The Foxes, The Tracts, Some Coquetteries, her current exhibition at the Kunstverein Tiergarten. Berlin. There are women in négligées and in bed-jackets (liseuses), copied […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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‘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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