‘Luck is believing you’re lucky.’ Tennessee Williams image Luck is not something that sits well with a modern way of life. Modernity is largely defined against superstitious practices of the past. Magical folk remedies have been replaced by far more reliable medical science. We no longer make sacrifices to rain gods; we have more responsible [...]
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Grass to Gold – Delhi Feb 2011
clip_image002 “Grass to Gold” WCC—International Jewellery Convention, February 2011 Jewellery through the ages has mirrored society. How jewellery is worn, the reasons for wearing it, and the material it is made of—all are reflections of the societal values, and prevalent beliefs of the times. From Sumerian queens, Egyptian pharaohs, and Indian royalty, to the Cleopatras, [...]
Share your charms
Southern Charms: New Power Jewellery Across the Pacific Exhibition in development Announcing a project to reveal new developments in ‘power jewellery’ that bring together craft cultures across the Pacific ocean. ‘Power jewellery’ claims to not only to be an object of beauty, but also to have an effect on its wearer. Most commonly, it protects [...]
Where to put baskets in an art gallery?
Announcing an upcoming panel session: The place of collective craft in the modern museums and art galleries of the Global South This panel session is part of the conference: Mobility, Circulation, Transnationalism: Art History and the Global South South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH) and Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA) University of the Witwatersrand, [...]
Carbon Issue: Sustainability in Craft & Design
Here’s a call for an upcoming issue of a new craft journal that I’m involved in. I hope it brings together some new and thoughtful perspectives on the way designing and making engage with the re-valuation of the planet’s resources. clip_image002 CALL FOR PAPERS Carbon Issue: Sustainability in Craft & Design craft + design enquiry [...]
A Fair Trade for Creative Labour – forum
The following forum is an opportunity to bring together critical perspectives on cultural partnerships with the real-life demands of those working in the field. It will provide the context for the development of a Code of Practice for Craft-Design Collaborations Title: A Fair Trade for Creative Labour: How to sustain trust in north-south collaborations Date: [...]
On the one hand Spring, and on the other, Autumn
twohands Today in the South our calendars tell us that this is the beginning of spring. But as trees come into blossom here, the leaves will begin to wither and die in the North. In his novel Rasselas, Samuel Johnson attempted to discover the secret of happiness. After many adventures, he concluded that any happiness [...]
Journal of Modern Craft – coming to you
Craft Unbound provides stories about craft practice on the ground, particularly in ways that introduce craft into new contexts. At the same time, it is very important to understand how this relates to the longer term history of craft intervention. To this end, it’s wonderful to welcome an opportunity to engage with the newly established [...]
Craft jumps out of the box in South Korea
image The 2009 Cheongju International Craft Biennale under its current director Dr. Ihnbum Lee seeks to position craft broadly within the arts as a unifying element. Ihnbum Lee claims that various art forms have been ‘boxed in’ to separate disciplines, making it difficult to experience their common nature. For Lee, craft offers an alternative to [...]
Craft Without Borders – waking up together
image According to Plutarch, "All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own." So it seems in the sphere of world craft. Many of us have our own personal engagement with a craft community or tradition in a [...]
