Την προσεχή Τεταρτη 14 Δεκεμβρίου κανω μια διωρη, διαδικτυακή, παρουσιαση (μαλλον, παρα διαλεξη) στα αγγλικά, ανοικτή στο κοινο.

Η προσκληση εχει ως εξης:

ΔΗΜΟΚΡΙΤΕΙΟ ΠΑΝΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΟ ΘΡΑΚΗΣ

ΤΜΗΜΑ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΘΝΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ

ΕΡΓΑΣΤΗΡΙΟ ΛΑΟΓΡΑΦΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΗΣ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ

Το Εργαστήριο Λαογραφίας και Κοινωνικής Ανθρωπολογίας σας προσκαλεί στο Α ́ Κύκλο Διαδικτυακών Διαλέξεων, με τίτλο «Crafts», σε επιστημονική επιμέλεια της Επίκουρης Καθηγήτριας Λαογραφίας με έμφαση τη Λαϊκή Τέχνη, Νάντιας Μαχά- Μπιζούμη.

Τετάρτη, 14 Δεκεμβρίου 2022, 19.00-21.00: Loukia Richards, Visual Artist and Curator.

Craft as Political Art

Θα εστιασω, προβαλλοντας ταυτοχρονα φωτογραφιες και βιντεο, στα εξης θεματα:

1. How the choice of a specific style or theme, or of particular techniques, can turn objects into political statements.

2. Connecting the crafts’ narrative to a political cause; enhancing a state’s cultural identity. The examples of Stitchathon, Myths and Initiation international jewelry exhibitions (Greek crisis) / Trash safary, Wert/voll, Metamorphosis (boosting environmental awareness) / SMCK ON REEL_Chain…

You can still watch all SMCK ON REEL videos LIVE at Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein Munich_SCHMUCK 2022_7-16 July 2022.

Now, you can also watch the videos online and read the artists’ statements and details. Click on the names:

https://smck.org/smck-reel.html

Photo: NERINGA POŠKUTĖ-JUKUMIENĖ_SMCK ON REEL_Credit: Rudolf Maximilian Becker

Editorial, SMCK Magazine #7 WAR & PEACE

online/digital/print magazine will be available soon

“(…) Applied arts and crafts, disciplines focusing on decorative and useful objects are ambassadors of peace. We become aware of it when it is only too late.

War turns objects, memories, lives into ashes.

Art can build bridges even between enemy countries, and can assist the purposes of diplomacy even when negotiations seem futile.

Art can also emphasize the duty of each citizen to defend his country and values when action is needed.

Jewelry events should also envision the promotion of the benefits of peace.

At the same time, they should offer their unconditional solidarity to the victims of aggression. If fairs and weeks fail to respond to the challenges born on 24 February 2022, then they may soon find out that, in this new era, they have become obsolete, if not meaningless (…)”

http://www.smck.org

SMCK On Reel takes place 7-10 July 2022 in Galerie Weltraum and Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein during Munich’s international jewelry week “Schmuck” and 20-23 October 2022 during Grassimesse at the Grassi Museum, Leipzig.

SMCK On Reel, the first international video festival inspired by jewelry and wearable art, presents video works in the context of rapidly changing social and aesthetic values. More than sixty international artists and designers, galleries, and institutions speak in SMCK On Reel.

SMCK On Reel highlights tradition and future, memory and identity, environmental destruction and material awareness, femininity and feminism, gender, and social conventions.EightUkrainian artists tell the story of working and living in the war zone: of the spiritual experience of cameo engraving, the omnipresence of destruction and death, the consolidation of one’s own identity, the determined resistance, or the ancient rituals to connect with nature.

The video medium became indispensable to artists, designers, and crafters during…