Freud on Holiday
Freud on Holiday is a series of experimental travel writings in which Kivland meticulously re-constructs Sigmund Freud’s journeys to European sites
Exchange Brooches
The brooches pictured belong to a series of over 100, made for The Campaign for Objects in Purgatory. They were given to contributors to the Objects in Purgatory exhibition (Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery 2011) in exchange for contributing their story or drawing of an uncherished gift. The project has been initiated and developed by designer Julia Keyte.
Alone Together: the social life of benches
Through a series of oral testimonies and carefully composed portraits, Alone Together, the Social Life of Benches explores how individuals and groups spend time in two distinctive public London locations
The Archive
Compiled entirely from archive materials including a de-classified FBI file, The Archive tells the incredible story of David Drucker, a lawyer in 1940s America.
Folles de leur corps / Crazy about their bodies
This solo exhibition continues Kivland’s longstanding enquiry into ‘the material relations between persons and the social relations between things’, following Marx.
Human Simulation
The research ‘Human Simulation’ investigates how the human body, a person and various health concerns are being simulated in medical education by using standardized patients (SP).
The Natural Forms I II III
This solo exhibition, realised in three evolving, discrete iterations, addresses questions of role attribution, gender construction, and economic exchange (value forms, after Marx).
TTURA
Open loop solutions for recycled glass from the consumer, construction and automotive stream
Vaccine Hesitancy
The research ‘Vaccine Hesitancy’ explores the health beliefs of vaccine critical parents.
Transfer
The process of making work is like a large-scale act of reverse engineering, attempting to unpack aspects of social life and especially values. An example of this was the work Transfer, made in response to Manchester Royal infirmary.