Craft has always had a strong, sometimes underrated, power of formulating resistance. The focus has often come to lie more on the objects that arise from the various actions and transactions of craft, than on craft as a form of knowledge and a way for humans to be in dialogue with their material, physical, and social conditions. The practices of doing that together shape the craft\u2019s \u201ccoming into being\u201d and this dynamic dialogue with the materials lays the foundation for a focus on \u2013 and responsibility for \u2013 our human material-oriented actions. In this emerges a doing-based resistance to the exploitative approach to materials and work that largely characterises today\u2019s global economy. <\/p>\n
The different practices of craft suggest a more elastic way of understanding what resistance can be, beyond simplistic notions, often formulated in dualistic terms. The encounter with the material always includes a measure of listening to its intentions and stories about its origins, both colonial and political as well as purely physical and poetic \u2013 what can be summarised as material biographies. But even the material itself offers resistance. Different negotiations with the material arise in the craft, where this resistance is transformed into artistic power while still preserving the integrity of both the material and the \u201cdoing\u201d human being. <\/p>\n
Among this year\u2019s students in CRAFT!, we are offered a variety of deep insights into this material- and action-based resistance. By highlighting the performative in objects and action, and as an artistic method \u2013 often also with a large portion of humour \u2013 power structures are exposed. Architectural and institutional distinctions vis-\u00e0-vis body and individual are dissolved, with material and craft as elastic structures between them. This also creates the opportunity to uncover and materialise memories and experiences otherwise rendered invisible by the institutional need for alignment and demand for belonging. In the craft \u2013 in the dialogue with the material \u2013 there is therefore also great opportunity for reconciliation and a certain comfort, of which quite a few of the students\u2019 degree projects show fantastic examples. <\/p>\n
Anders Ljungberg
\nProfessor in CRAFT! – Jewellery and Corpus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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