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Objectspace National Craft, Applied Art and Design Symposium
Join Objectspace and Auckland Museum
for a two-day national symposium exploring the state of contemporary practice
in the fields of craft, applied art and design. International speakers will be
joined by a range of local voices discussing the forces of most influence on
making today.
Full programme download available here:
Object Unrest: Auckland Museum Smart Talk in collaboration with Objectspace
Saturday August 27, 10am
Objectspace National Craft, Applied Art and Design Symposium
Auckland Museum, Auditorium, Level 1
10am opening remarks: Kim Paton, Director Objectspace
10.15am: Keynote 1 / Misun Rheem (Sth Korea)
Shaped by the impact of the colonisation and post-colonisation
process, curator Misun Rheem’s keynote maps the contemporary situation for
craft based practice in South Korea. Traditional art forms and histories of making
practice, diminished throughout a period of modernisation reside today in the
present but demand re-thinking and a re-imagination.
Misun Rheem graduated from the department of ceramics in the Hong-ik University with a master's degree in crafts and design and has a PhD in Art Criticism. She is now working as director of the Made in Korea-craft, a major touring exhibition throughout cities in Sth Korea.
Misun’s travel to New Zealand is supported by Asia New Zealand Foundation
11am: Panel discussion / Object_Memory_Archive: art histories, formal
knowledge and the power and problem of what we remember
Panelists
including art historian Barbara Garrie, curator Sean Mallon and artist Julia Holderness will examine accepted
methodologies for recording art histories and material culture.
11.50am: Keynote 2 / Goliath Dyèvre (France)
Designer Goliath Dyèvre will
present on the nature of his own journey as an object designer and the
paradoxical nature of this kind of work. Situated within an international
industrial design practice Dyèvre’s presentation addresses his own
uncertainties and questions about the
responsibilities designers face located within consumer-based contemporary
society.
Since his degree at ENSCI he has been the recipient of several prizes including the Cin na contest, The Jardin, the Agora Bordeaux and The International City of Aubusson tapestry. Dyèvre has been awarded several fellowships, including CRAFT of Limoges and Villa Kujo yama Japan, and regularly works with major companies such as Hermes.
Goliath is in New Zealand as part of the Te Ataata residency at Colab, funded by Auckland University of Technology and the Cultural Office of the French Embassy in New Zealand.
12.30pm: Break
Light refreshments, tea and coffee will be served in the auditorium entranceway
1.20pm:
Blumhardt Foundation announcement
The Blumhardt
Foundation is New Zealand's only charitable trust dedicated to contemporary
craft/object art. Trustees Kaye McKinlay & Philip Clarke announce
the Foundation's exciting new five year programme of support for the New
Zealand craft/object art sector.
1.40pm: Practice / Practise: 5 perspectives on making now
An individual's creative practice is situated within a local and
global context of change, disruption and upheaval (culture, economy, gender,
politics, environment). We hear perspectives from artists, designers and makers
regarding what is most pressing, important or vital for them, operating from a
place within this context.
Panelists include artists Luisa Tora and Jasmine Te Hira, fashion designer, Areez Katki, and architect Sarosh Mulla.
2.30pm: Threaded
Magazine Issue 20
Threaded magazine
shares insights into a range of practitioners and their practice to bridge the
gap between established and emerging practice, across the creative industries.
This international collaborative project curates these insights into practice
through discussion and presentation of practice, thinking and process. In this presentation we take this time to acknowledge a collaboration
and co-edition with Ngā Aho, the network
of Māori Design Professionals.
Kyra Ta-Waka Clarke is of Ngāti Hau decent and has worked with many iwi and marae on design projects based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Clarke is the founder and co-Creative Director of the International award-winning publication Threaded magazine.
Carin Wilson is a furniture maker, sculptor and design educator. He was a leader in the country’s craft movement in the 1970s, 80s and 90s and was one of the inaugurators of the design showcase Artiture in 1987. The Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design conferred Wilson with an Honorary Diploma in Art and Design; in 2002 he received an inaugural Toi Iho mark, a registered Māori trademark of authenticity.
3.20pm Keynote 3 / Pravu Mazumdar (Munich)
Philosopher Pravu Mazumdar will
present an historical and philosophical reflection on gold in the context of
the cultural sedimentations impeding any artistic access to it, along with
examples from contemporary jewellery showing how practices today not only
resist expectations concerning form and content, but also our habitual
interpretations of the materials they play with. Pravu studied physics in New
Delhi and Munich and has a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of
Stuttgart, West Germany. His book on jewellery was published in 2015 under the
title Gold and Mind: Prolegomena towards a Philosophy of Jewellery. Berlin:
Matthes & Seitz.
Pravu is in New Zealand as part of a partnership between Objectspace and the Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic.
4.15pm Closing remarks
Evening continues at Objectspace
5.30pm
Exhibition openings
Beauty is in the
Street, curated by Elle Loui August
Forged, Johanna Zellmer
Threaded ED. 20 Launch at Objectspace
Sunday 28 August
Workshops
10am – 4pm Curatorial workshop with Misun Rheem
For practicing curators with a specialist interest in
craft, applied art and design
11am – 3pm Writing workshop with Pravu
Mazumdar
For early career writers and curators with a specialist
interest in craft, applied art and design
Very limited places are available for both of these workshops, to register your interest please contact: info@objectspace.org.nz or call 09 3766216