Category Library Interventions
Library Interventions. The Agents Respond: Katya Robin
Library Interventions : Sharon Kivland Katya Robin I propose to act as your Trustee, to work in a self-directed manner for the stated benefit of the project (your Library Intervention). I will commence by investigating the Photo Books and Artists’ Books collections at the two library sites. I plan to review books and other sources […]
Library Interventions. The Agents Respond: Catherine Linton
Library Interventions : Sharon Kivland Catherine Linton : Faith’s whistle I, Faith Hershaft,1 chalk, white wench, slave,2 of age, four tens or so, smile, bare, good set of teeth, put self (head to toe, shred of soul) up for sale. By X sign, black mark, ink bond, I’ll be bound, twelve spring days, on the […]
Library Interventions. A Call for Agents: Sharon Kivland’s Proposal
As part of LIBRARY INTERVENTIONS at LEEDS COLLEGE OF ART, Sharon Kivland issued the following A CALL FOR AGENTS: While I would like nothing better than a month in a library (I had the luxury of a whole day working in the British Library recently), following the kind invitation from Leeds College of Art Library, […]
Library Interventions. The Agents Respond: Lou Hazelwood and Jo Ray
Your invitation for surrogates to gather and impart knowledge relates directly to practice we are developing which explores the struggle to communicate; specifically how this manifests in spoken language, graphic, and text. The two set Venn diagram (where the intersection, the common property, is an ellipse) is recurring motif, a structure through which we speculate, […]
Library Interventions. The Agents Respond: Jane Harris
Library Interventions : Sharon Kivland Jane Harris I will concentrate three days of total immersion in language into three minutes of film. Three minutes that will refuel Dr. Kivland’s love for Jacques Lacan. And then she will be the slave. J. H.
Library Interventions. The Agents Respond: Lesley Guy
Library Interventions : Sharon Kivland Lesley Guy During our first tutorial you told me to find and read Mladen Dolar’s essay ‘I Will Be With You On Your Wedding Night’. It was perfect; it was just what I needed at that time and it took me where I needed to go. This was the first […]
Library Interventions. The Agents Respond: Christopher Gibson
Library Interventions : Sharon Kivland Christopher Gibson I will conduct research on the subject of desire, particularly desire in relation to collection and ownership. The research is informed by the art work Reproductions, and will be carried out in order to understand some of the myriad motivations for the building up of collections. During the […]
Library Interventions. The Agents Respond: Chris Green and Katheryn Owens
Library Interventions : Sharon Kivland Chris Green and Katheryn Owens We are concerned with collaboration as a form of existence. We know, like Deleuze, that we are already multiple, collaborating continually. We desire you to control us (but to an extent). We have an opportunity for rebellion: you will not be there to witness us. […]
Library Interventions. The Agents Respond: Helen Frank
Library Interventions : Sharon Kivland Helen Frank This agent will search shelves to find pictures of stuffed animals noting the anatomy of the little beasts in their various poses. Then will move on to other shelves to look for pictures of tasteful yet fancy apparel, paying particular attention to construction and tailoring. The discoveries will […]
Library Interventions. The Agents Respond: Bryan Eccleshall
Library Interventions : Sharon Kivland Bryan Eccleshall : Steam, Pencil, Paper, and Ink I propose to travel, by train, to Leeds in order to visit the College of Art Library. On arrival, I will seek out Trueherz and Kennedy’s The Railway: Art in the Age of Steam (New Haven and London, 2008).1 This resource will […]
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