These events relate to the ‘After the Missionaries’ issue of Artlink, which includes articles about how artists are negotiating their paths through a more reciprocal world. For more information go here. 10 June FORUM Has the world changed? Has the Kyoto Protocol changed how rich and poor countries relate to each other? Is Australia moving [...]
Posts under ‘notices’
The ‘Art of Making’ in Castlemaine
While much of regional Victoria is recovering from the devastation of recent bushfires, something positive beckons in the horizon. The central Victoria town of Castlemaine is home to a long tradition of making. Artisanship continues from its early days as a gold town to the present population of artists and makers who keep the foundries [...]
Floating Land drifts back
One of the most dramatic outcomes of climate changes is the submersion of islands like Tuvalu. So how does an entire community deal with the eventual lost of its land? It’s like that material culture will play an important part in sustaining links after the diaspora. The concern for this in nearby countries like Australia [...]
Tradition For Modern Times: Selling Yarns workshop
Here’s an outline for the workshop that’s being offered for the Selling Yarns conference. This will be the first in a series of workshops taking place across the South this year. They will lay the ground for the development of the Code of Practice for Craft-Design Collaborations that aims to bolster the ethical value of [...]
Journal of Modern Craft 1.3
The final issue for 2008 is now out. Articles Cleverest of the Clever: Coconut Craftsmen in Lamu, Kenya Author: Wright, Kristina Dziedzic Disavowing Craft at the Bauhaus: Hiding the Hand to Suggest Machine Manufacture Author: Marcus, George H. Russel Wright and Japan: Bridging Japonisme and Good Design through Craft Author: Kikuchi, Yuko British Interventions in [...]
The Year to Come
Designed by Renato Imboisi in Jalapao, Brazil Well, time to draw breath and look ahead to what 2009 will unfold. There are reasons to think that it will be a full year, particularly for thinking about craft. Ideas Early next year, a new networking platform Craft Talk about contemporary craft in the antipodes will be [...]
From trash to spectacle
Shinique Smith, Arcadian Cluster, 2006. Installation view from P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. Clothing, fabric, found objects, acrylic, collage & binding. Approx 8′ h x 11′ w x 8′ d, (500-600 lbs) Here’s an interesting discussion about new craft that eschews skill in favour of collaboration and randomness. It raises an important question about the place [...]
Garth Clark in top form
I heartily recommend that you listen to Garth Clark’s lecture at Portland’s Museum of Contemporary Craft. It’s typically witty, droll, informed and sharply polemical. He takes Glenn Adamson’s line that 20th century craft went astray by trying to dress itself up as visual arts. Like all good conservative critics, Clark polices the social boundaries for [...]
Signs of Change – are you interested?
The election of Barack Obama seems to have galvanised the world at a time of great social risk. Some have seen the current financial crisis as an important opportunity to ‘re-boot’ the system, to develop more constructive bilateral relations and initiate more inclusive policies. With the glow of change in the air, there is a [...]
Making Futures craft conference
This seems an important event for our time: MAKING FUTURES: THE CRAFTS IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES CONFERENCE WEBSITE AT: http://makingfutures.pcad.ac.uk CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKER: PROFESSOR RICHARD SENNETT (USA) ‘Making Futures’ will be held on Thursday 17th and Friday 18th September 2009 within the magnificently sited Mount Edgcumbe estate on the River [...]
