The Slow Movement is having success. Slow food and slow cities have become familiar terms for most of us. Craft based production plays a central role in this movement, but is it in this ideological frame that contemporary studio craft is to be understood? Does craft first and foremost represent the aesthetics of slowness? We also ask: Is slow better than fast? Is handmade items of greater emotional and cultural value than industrial produced goods? In connection with the opening of the exhibition Speed at Galleri Format in Bergen, an exhibition produced by the Think Tank A Eurpoean Initiative for the Applied Arts, the research group K-verdi (www.k-verdi.no) arrange an open seminar at West Norway Museum of Decorative Arts in Bergen.
Program
09.00 Velcome: Anne Britt Ylvisåker, Jorunn Veiteberg
09.30 Love Jönsson: Letting Slow Go
10.00 Monica Gaspar: Out of Control (almost)
10.30 Coffe break
10.45 Liesbeth den Besten: Fragments
11.30 Felieke van der Leest: Introduction to exhibition
12.00 Lunch (and possibility to see Feliekes exhibition at VK)
13.30 Jorunn Veiteberg: Speed as Stimulation, or reflections on a coffee cup
14.00 Gabi Dewald: No title
14.30 Ezra Shales: The Social Life of Craft. Beginning by probing the enigmatic categorization of ‘functional pottery,’ this presentation speculates on the modes of sociability that sustain and subvert such a fictitious and altogether too tidy phrase.
15.30 Discussion
16.00 End
17.00 Opening of the exhibition Speed, Galleri Format Bergen
Arbeidsform:
Forelesinger
Krav til forkunnskaper:
Ingen
Kurset starter 03.06.2010 / Uke 22, og varer til 03.06.2010 / Uke 22
Sted: Vestlandske Kunstindustrimuseum, grønn sal, 3 etg.
Tilbyder: Speskunst
Målgruppe: Alle studenter
Årstrinn: Alle årstrinn
Antall plasser: 80
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