Contemporary Korean Ceramics: Re-interpretation of its Heritage and Advancement into the 21st Century
Hyeyoung Cho
Korea has a long ceramic history that is more than 7,000 years old. Much of our contemporary work is a reflection on our historical background based on skills that have been handed down by our ancestors for thousands of years. Ceramics today has become something of a Korean symbol. The talk focuses on methods of modernizing the ancient old ceramic making skills of Korea and how we have interpreted them to fit the contemporary taste. Over the recent years, culturally and artistically Korean has become the center of global attention. The talk gives an insight into what is happening with contemporary Korean ceramics today
Decoding Ceramics – the digital transmission of tacit knowledge and expertise
Anthony Quinn
Decoding Ceramics articulates the imperative to save expert knowledge and valorise traditions of skilled artisanship across the world for a sustainable future discipline. It is a new network and open educational resource that maps ceramic knowledge across makers studios, workshops, manufacturers, research centres and universities. It assesses the salience of practice to place, builds a visual and oral record of specialist processes, and leverages digital technologies to decode tacit knowledge and effectively share this across the teaching and learning network to ensure ceramic practices are relevant and accessible to future learners, teachers, craftspeople, and enthusiasts.
WEDGE: The Australian Ceramics Triennale
Bernard Kerr
That which connects us, that which supports us, that which divides us. Bernard Kerr
Wedge, The Australian Ceramics Triennale will explore connections, collaborations, and divisions within the increasingly sophisticated practices of ceramic artists today. How is our ability to manipulate, process, and transform environmental materials and elemental forces reshaping our world and our position within it?
Wedge invites individual or collaborative proposals that explore the ceramic field in relation to how clay practices may connect, support, or divide us. It aims to identify and interrogate the increasingly complex interactions between ceramic practice and current ethical, aesthetic, personal, technological and environmental concerns.
Nerikomi: Historical & Contemporary Practices
Kavita Pandya Ganguly
Kavita Pandya Ganguly discusses the rich history of Nerikomi, the Japanese art of coloured clay. She provides insight into historical and contemporary practitioners from across the globe. She talks about her inspirations and how she has recontextualized the technique in her own practice. Kavita also reflects on Navdhanya, the ambitious work she created for Common Ground.
PERSONAL SPACES: an inclusive arts practice
Neha Pullarwar
Neha divides her time between a studio tucked away in the lush green environs of the Alibag island, and the more bustling suburbs of Bombay. Mumbai is a city where the demands on space are enormous – constructions sprout like mushrooms blotting out the sky and casting shadows over an overpopulated landscape. On the streets, the private and public mingle. This is a city of sharp disparities. Within this battle for space in a concrete jungle, the natural world slowly diminishes from visible encounters, retreating.
Having formulated a means of interpreting urban realities, Neha continues to map outwardly insignificant yet valuable components of the natural world, building bridges that choose to negate the horrors of human trespass.
Beyond White Mughals
Shirley Bhatnagar
Sharing stories of love, friendship and loss through ceramic artifacts from the 1700s in Staffordshire, Shirley Bhatnagar revisits an entangled history of colonial India. The 1700s was a time marked by a porous intermingling of East India company officials with Indian society. Shirley combines historical research with a playful re-imagining of characters from literature, and reinterprets traditional British ceramic artifacts of the time, like Toby jugs, Flatbacks and Wedgwood pottery which were created in the 1700s in Stoke on Trent. She focuses on female characters who embody these narratives, foregrounding a rich alternative feminist history.
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