Slow or Fast (eller: Intro til fartsfylt kunsthandverk)

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

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Forelesinger

Prequalifications:

Ingen

The course starts 03/06/2010 / Week 22, and ends 03/06/2010 / Week 22

Location: Vestlandske Kunstindustrimuseum, grønn sal, 3 etg.

Provider: Speskunst

Target group: Alle studenter

Target year of study: Alle årstrinn

Capacity: 80

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