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A post-consumer subjectivity: a future for the crafts in the twenty first century?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Ross Annels Nov 2.
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It has been a while since September's Plymouth Making Futures crafts conference, giving me some time to digest my experience there. If I were to make a broad assessment of what appeared to be the dominant current(s), I would say it was a drift in fo…
For anyone interested, I've recently posted the full text of the presentation Tamsin Kerr and I gave to the making futures conference Memory keepers, map makers, and material thinkers: the
sustained offerings of craft objects online at http://www.ro…
Hi Kevin,
yes interesting how reality catches up with ideas in unexpected ways. I guess I would argue that the Craft fetishisation of workmanship tends (tended?) to narrow the range of possibilities, to make making the subject and a very, very part…
It's interesting Peter to consider your view of the 'craft fetish' with the new DIY craft movement in the states, which is parallel with the politics that you are presenting, not perhaps not tied to any particular critical position. I wonder what yo…
Hi N E,
Bioregionalism and ecoregionalism refer to the notion that human communities should live, at least largely, within the means provided by the 'bioregion' that they are situated in. The bioregion is a geographical entity that is identified by…
Hello. Sennett's idea is that making (as per your point 3) is both an intellectual and an expressive activity. It's a process, a rhythm, of problem-solving AND problem-finding.
I have no idea what bioregionalism or ecoregionalism means and how it i…
Peter
thanks for your comments.
Personally, ecoregionalism IS a response of resistance to our recent (bloody) colonial history and our post-industrial and gobalised economic system.
And yes, more than that, we have to build a new relationship to l…
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- What is your role in the world of craft?
- I have been curator of decorative arts at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery since late 1999. The TMAG is a small museum and my position gives me responsibility for the decorative arts of all times and places, or at least those that are represented in the collection. This includes contemporary craft and design. Previous to assuming this role I completed a Masters Degree at Canberra School of Art (ANU) in art theory. This research focussed on the work of the C19th art and social critic John Ruskin. My interest in his work arose out of his ability to link and synthesise various and diverse concerns, from ornament to social and environmental issues. This synthesis, connecting craft and design to the broader world, remains important to me.
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MakingFutures conference
It has been a while since September's Plymouth Making Futures crafts conference, giving me some time to digest my experience there. If I were to make a broad assessment of what appeared to be the dominant current(s), I would say it was a drift in focus from the finely crafted object and the more recently dominant cult of 'design' toward a more diffuse, collective and socially engaged understanding of the crafts. At times presenters sailed dangerously close, in my opinion, to disregarding the obj… Continue
Posted on December 26, 2009 at 8:15pm —
Craft and design
The position of mainstream craft in the industrial world seems to become increasingly untenable. For many years now, at least in certain media, crafts practitioners have tried to imitate the level of finish that is produced by machines. This is a level of finish that the public has come to expect from objects. An examination of historic furniture, from the first half of the nineteenth century, reveals the wonderful economy of effort that was once to norm for craftpersons. We find that none of th… Continue
Posted on February 7, 2009 at 7:50pm — 2 Comments
A big claim for craft?
This text is taken from some hastily scribbled thoughts, please accept my apologies for lack of clarity etc, but I thought it time to get blogging.
Craft is the experience of resistance from a world that is not made specifically for human beings. It is an encounter with the otherness of the world through attempts to bend its concrete as-is-ness to our intentions. With the possible exception of cyberspace, this resistance is something we always experience, but the practice of craft makes it clea… Continue
Craft is the experience of resistance from a world that is not made specifically for human beings. It is an encounter with the otherness of the world through attempts to bend its concrete as-is-ness to our intentions. With the possible exception of cyberspace, this resistance is something we always experience, but the practice of craft makes it clea… Continue
Posted on January 20, 2009 at 9:29pm — 8 Comments
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- At 4:15pm on August 16, 2009,
Peter Hughes said…
- Dear all,
thanks to the miracle of Google Books I have found this quote that I have been searching for for years and years. I thought I might share it with you:
“I never met with a question yet, of any importance, which did not need, for the right solution of it, at least one positive and one negative answer, like an equation of the second degree. Mostly, matters of any consequence are three sided, or four sided, or polygonal; and the trotting round the polygon is severe work for people in any way stiff in their opinion.” (John Ruskin, Collected Works, Vol 16, p. 187)
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