Dr Eve Kalyva (academic profile)

Eve works on art, politics and language in a global context, with a regional focus on Latin America.

Research interests

Eve undertakes international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral research on art, word and image studies, decolonial studies, discourse analysis, museum pedagogies and politics. She has published on art history and theory, conceptual art, Latin American art, social semiotics, exhibition design, new media, activism and feminism.

Her PhD, funded by the AHRC, examined conceptual art, institutional and socio-political critique, exhibition practices and artists’ publications; and her postdoctoral research focused on art and activism in Latin America, the social dimension of art, the use of the media by dictatorial regimes, and issues of memory, identity, human rights, coloniality and transitions to democracy.

Between 2019 and 2023, Eve was co-coordinator of the research group Global Trajectories of Thought and Memory: Art and the Global South at the University of Amsterdam, where she successfully secured external funding to establish a European research consortium dedicated to examining Europe's colonial past and legacies of enslavement. At Kent, I directed the research initiative Decolonial Practices in Art and Culture with funding from Research England and the University of Kent's Migration and Movement signature research theme.

Supervision

Eve can supervise researchers working on any of her research topics, including art and politics, activism, feminism, social practice, Latin American art, word and image studies, discourse analysis, semiotics, exhibitions, museums, decolonial studies and practice-based research.

Teaching

Eve has taught at the universities of Leeds, Buenos Aires and Amsterdam before coming to Kent in 2020. Until 2024, she was Lecturer in Art History at the School of Arts, and Employability Lead for the Division of Arts & Humanities. She has developed undergraduate and postgraduate courses, supervised PhD students, evaluated HE programmes, created and implemented Divisional strategy, and secured inter-sectoral partnerships with the cultural and creative industries and the heritage sector. Her classes foster dialogue, respect, diversity, critical thinking and collaboration; and implement Visible Thinking pedagogies developed at Harvard University, helping students identify and use suitable learning dispositions to learn better (active learning) and learn further (independent learning). Eve has a PG Cert in Higher Education and is a HE Advance Fellow.

Eve is also a museum educator and a curator, and has collaborated with the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis, the van Abbenmuseum, Eindhoven, and the Henry Moore Institute.

Publications

Books

Guest edited journals

Book chapters

Articles

Conference and workshop items

  • Kalyva, E. (2021) ‘The Siluetazo: Absence as Presence and as Political Force’, in. Dynamics of Time and Memory in Art and Literature. View in KAR
  • Kalyva, E. (2020) ‘Zones of Disobedience. In discussion with Elen Braga and Steven Jouwersma’, in. Guest talk. View in KAR
  • Kalyva, E. (2020) ‘Writing Assembly’, in. Workshop. View in KAR
  • Kalyva, E. (2019) ‘Away with the basics? Stedelijk’s BASE and the white cube 2.0’, in. Exhibition Design: Methods, Issues, Conceptual Shifts. View in KAR
  • Kalyva, E. (2017) ‘Embodiment and the semiotics of creative disobedience’, in. Art & Activism: Resilience Techniques in Times of Crisis. View in KAR
  • Kalyva, E. (2017) ‘(Re)semiotisation as appropriation of public space and knowledge production’, in. Images and Text Reproduced (International Association of Word and Image Studies triennial conference). View in KAR
  • Kalyva, E. (2015) ‘Creative activism: A new paradigm for art?’, in. Global Cultures of Contestation (Amsterdam Centre for Global Studies). View in KAR
  • Kalyva, E. (2013) ‘Arte y violencia al aire libre: Inscripciones políticas en el espacio público del arte [Art and violence in the open air: political inscriptions in the public space of art]’, in. XVII Jornadas de Investigación en ARTES. View in KAR
  • Kalyva, E. (2013) ‘The artist as social investigator in 1970s Argentina’, in. International Visual Semiotics Association IVSA2013 annual conference. View in KAR
  • Kalyva, E. (2013) ‘Across North & South: Conceptual art practices in a variety of contexts.’, in. College Art Association annual conference CAA2013 (International Association of Word and Image Studies affiliated session). View in KAR
  • Kalyva, E. (2011) ‘A critical shift or a trend? Exhibiting and publishing textual artworks’, in. American Imagetext. View in KAR
  • Kalyva, E. (2010) ‘Whose intention is it? Manipulating interrelations between image and text’, in. Displaying Word & Image (International Association for Word and Image Studies focus conference). View in KAR
  • Kalyva, E. (2009) ‘Textual counterparts: A performative beyond visual attention?’, in. Association for Art History AAH2009 annual conference. View in KAR

Exhibitions

  • Kalyva, E. (2021) ‘Parallel Lives, Parallel Aesthetics. In dialogue with León Ferrari and Gülsün Karamustafa’. Parallel Lives, Parallel Aesthetics – Gülsün Karamustafa and León Ferrari (exhibition, van Abbemuseum). View in KAR
  • Kalyva, E. (2009) ‘The Whereabouts of the Work’. The Object of Photography, Leeds, UK: Burton Gallery, pp. 14-17. View in KAR View full text