Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
About the Author Penny McCarthy is a Reader in Fine art in the Art & Design Research Centre. She works primarily with drawing and text and is currently involved in the Beware the Cat multidisciplinary project. In this blog post, she describes her work relating to a visit to the archives of German critic Walter Benjamin. In The Work […]
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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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