Sharon Kivland: Reports on Knowledge

A curated project for Leeds College of Art Library, 13th April - 12th June 2015 In February and March 2014 Sharon Kivland took part in a new series of “Library Interventions” at Leeds College of Art. In response to our own call she extended a further invitation, asking artists to carry out research on her behalf, working in our library, reporting back to her and documenting their findings. In a performance at the culmination of the project, Sharon and her eighteen agents presented the library with their “Reports on Knowledge”. This exciting collection of documents, artists' books, postcards, drawings, a library game and map was donated to the library’s Artists’ Book Collection where it forms a separate special collection. Sharon is a Reader in Fine Art and Principal Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University and a Research Associate of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research in London. Her books in the library’s collection include the series “Freud on Holiday”, the exquisitely hand-drawn text of “Ma Nana: une Histoire Naturelle” and an elegantly produced series from 2013, “Reproductions III: Du Monde/Of the World”. All of these will be exhibited alongside the works produced by her agents for her Library Intervention. Sharon's agents: Abbie Canning, Alison J. Carr, Gin Dunscombe, Bryan Eccleshall, Helen Frank, Joanna Geldard, Christopher Gibson, Chris Green & Katheryn Owens, Lesley Guy, Jane Harris, Lou Hazelwood & Jo Ray, Katya Robin, Rachel Smith, Holly Stevenson, Isabella Streffen and Madeleine Walton.