Eleven propositions to the question: What is contemporary about craft?
Julia Bryan-Wilsonarts.berkeley.eduSaved by Elena Lo Presti
Eleven propositions to the question: What is contemporary about craft?
it’s important for artists to engage with these conditions, but if the response is too tethered to the present, that does sometimes foreclose the possibility of imagining alternatives. Likewise, if the response is set too far into the future, it can quickly disintegrate into something abstract - like far-flung science-fiction vs the more recognizab
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When you start to disentangle production, identity, and the matter of survival from one another, that relationship to doing can become much clearer, especially for those in the spaces of art and craft.
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reason.comThe yearning to feel capable and in control shows up all over contemporary culture. We see it in the growth of cooking classes and of mixed martial arts, of weight lifting and craft hobbies, even blacksmithing. ‘It’s all things that make us use our hands, make us use tools, make us master something that seems beyond us at first’, Elizabeth Kronfiel... See more
Radical friends reject the fantasy of exemplary self-sovereign autonomous individuals optimized for efficiency and productivity. They know that this is a poisonous projection by materially advantaged individuals who seek to leverage their competitive edge within the austerity conditions they co-created.