Stockholm Craft Week

“Collective Processes”

During the Stockholm Craft Week, October 1 – 4, 2020, the Craft Programme at the HDK – Valand Academy of Art and Design invited the audience to explore ongoing participatory projects in education and research.

In the Jewellery Workshop of Caroline Lindholm & Helena Sandström at Högbergsgatan 12, former MA students and current PhD candidates hosted workshop-based craft projects, where the audience was invited to engage in the process of making various craft objects. The public participation was both essential for the realization of the workshops and for the exchange of ideas on craft and craft practices.

All images by Katarina Andersson

Title: “COLOUR JUMBLE – A Fun Way to Experience Colour”

by Angela Melito Working group members: Danielle Goulé, Angela Melito, Emmeli Rolleberg, Magdalena Svensson, David Bramham

We are able to hear a single tone, but we almost never see a single colour, unconnected and unrelated to other colours. Colours present themselves in continuous flux, constantly related to changing neighbours and changing conditions.

Josef Albers, Interaction of Colour (1963)

Inspired by Josef Albers’ work with colour theory, the workshop provided a space for young people to experience colour theory in a playful and experimental way. Visitors – both children and adults – were invited to create their own compositions and play a variety of games connected to colours and the Bauhaus School

Angela Melito is an Italian artist based in Gothenburg. With a background in Fine Art, she graduated from the Master’s programme in Ceramic Art at HDK-Valand in 2020.

All images by Katarina Andersson

Title: “Leave your Mark”

by Oskar Summerton

In metalworking and jewellery making, putting your makers mark on your work is often the finishing touch, it’s like a ritual that affirms that “this object was made by my hands” and the sense of empowerment you get from this gesture is something I want others to experience.

Oskar Summerton

Oskar invited workshop participants to leave their ‘marks’ on a large sheet of aluminium using metalworking engravers and punches.

Oskar Summerton completed his Master’s degrees in Jewellery Art at HDK-Valand in 2020. For his MA degree project he explored making tools out of recycled materials and the workshop as a place of experimentation, play and collaboration.

For the Stockholm Craft Week workshops Summerton sought to share understanding of basic metalworking techniques and metal crafts.

All images by Katarina Andersson

Title: “Ways into Weaving”

by Merja Hanne Ulvinen, Subani Melin and Rosa Tolnov Clausen

A study group is a format of shared learning that is initiated and developed by a motivation to work collaboratively.

Artists and researchers Subani, Merja and Rosa share a common interest in hand-weaving and are all concerned with the question of craft and the emergent politics of the commons.

In Spring 2020 they established the study group Ways Into Weaving as a platform to discuss and share thoughts, approaches and work around weaving during the restrictions of COVID19

During Stockholm Craft Week they had their first in-person meeting and invited everyone with an interest in weaving, with or without experience, to join.

Merja Hannele Ulvinen graduated in fashion design. Currently her creative practice focuses on design as a catalyst for discussion that encourages and challenges young people to think style and trends differently.

Subani Melin has a BA in Textile Art and is currently doing her MA at HDK-Valand. She works as an art educator at the Göteborgs Konsthall. In her artistic work Melin focuses on hand weaving and is interested in the therapeutic aspects of making art.

Rosa Tolnov Clausen is educated as textile designer. Through her current PhD research at the HDK-Valand she investigates the histories and future potential for hand weaving in the Nordic countries as a mode of storytelling.

All images by Katarina Andersson

Title: “CRAFT STORIES”

by Staffan Jonsson at the Nordiska Museet

Staffan Jonsson completed his master’s degrees at the HDK-Valand in 2020. During the Stockholm Craft Week, Jonsson displayed his master’s degree project in a window exhibition in the museum shop at the Nordiska Museum.

Arts and crafts as bearers of meaning, collective memory and story. How do we face and challenge these aspects within contemporary arts and crafts? Meeting the everyday through materials and objects and the exclusivity of the craft.

Staffan Jonsson

All images by Stockholm Craft Week

Title: “Vid strandkanter, väggrenar, utkanter (Handwoven Rya Tapestries)”

by Emelie Röndahl at the Fiberspace Gallery

IMAGE CAPTIONS & CREDITS

01 – 04
“COLOUR JUMBLE – A Fun Way to Experience Colour” by Angela Melito
Photo by Katarina Andersson

05 – 08
“Leave your Mark” by Oskar Summerton
Photo by Katarina Andersson

09 – 12
“Ways into Weaving” by Merja Hanne Ulvinen, Subani Melin and Rosa Tolnov Clausen
Photo by Katarina Andersson

13 – 14
“CRAFT STORIES” by Staffan Jonsson at the Nordiska Museet
Photo by Katarina Andersson

15 – 20
“Vid strandkanter, väggrenar, utkanter (Handwoven Rya Tapestries)” by Emelie Röndahl at the Fiberspace Gallery
Photo by Stockholm Craft Week

Anna Tegeström Wolgers
Professor of Craft, Textile Art

Anna T. Wolgers works across multiple disciplines in arts and craft. For the last 15 years Anna has worked mainly in the textile field exploring the semiotics of textiles and their narrative values. Textile materials, tactile and visual recognition are elements that Wolgers works with.

Wolgers has participated in numerous international and national exhibitions including public commissions and collaborative works with museums, where she has curated projects/exhibitions. Wolgers is chairwoman of the textile network Fiber Art Sweden

Email:

www.fiberartsweden.nu
www.annatw.se
www.kasiden.se

Dr. Jessica Hemmings Professor of Craft Vice-Prefekt of Research Jessica Hemmings writes about textiles. She studied Textile Design at the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating with a BFA (Honors) in 1999 and Comparative Literature (Africa/Asia) at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, earning an MA (Distinction) in 2000. Her PhD, awarded by the University of Edinburgh in 2006, is published by kalliope paperbacks under the title Yvonne Vera: the Voice of Cloth (2008). In 2010 she edited a collection of essays titled In the Loop: Knitting Now published by Black Dog and in 2012 edited The Textile Reader (Bloomsbury) and wrote Warp & Weft (Bloomsbury). Her editorial and curatorial project, Cultural Threads, is a book about postcolonial thinking and contemporary textile practice (Bloomsbury: 2015) accompanied by a travelling exhibition Migrations (2015-2017). Jessica is a member of the Editorial Board of Textile: the journal of cloth & culture (Taylor & Francis) and Craft Research (Intellect). She is currently Professor of Craft & Vice-Prefekt of Research at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and the 2020-2021 Rita Bolland Fellow at the Research Centre for Material Culture, the Netherlands. Email:

www.jesicahemmings.com

Yuka Oyama PhD
Professor of Craft, Jewellery Art

Yuka Oyama is a Japanese-German artist who grew up in Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, USA and Germany. Oyama’s artistic practice incorporates sculpture, jewellery, video, photography, public interventions, choreographic experimentations and performances.

Her life-sized, wearable sculptures, object-human hybrids – objectified humans and personified objects – display disconnections often felt in contemporary life: the degeneration of human-to-human emotional communication and our sense of belonging. Oyama employs everyday objects to upset these disconnections, facilitating our ability to act beyond set conventions.

Oyama was one of the core members of the artistic research, Critical Costume 2000 -Costume Agency (2020) based at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, where she acted as the curator and the creative director. Oyama’s research considers critical adornments, material culture, and identity.

Email:

www.yukaoyama.com
www.costumeagency.com

Katarina Andersson Photo_ Karin Björkquist

Katarina Andersson
Senior Lecturer and Programme Director MA Craft

Katarina Andersson is a senior lecturer and since 2016 is the programme director for MA Craft. She is an artist and designer and her work extend between sculptural objects and tableware. Ceramics and glass are her main materials. Her work involves both semiotics, the relation between materials, objects in relation to space and objects as mediators.

Katarina Andersson has worked as a curator and project leader for various craft projects. She was previously senior lecturer at Konstfack at the Ceramic and Glass department, where she led the pilot project in artistic research Keramiska väggmaterial i offentlig miljö.

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Stockholm Craft Week

“Collective Processes”

Title: “COLOUR JUMBLE – A Fun Way to Experience Colour”

Title: “Leave your Mark”

Title: “Ways into Weaving”

Title: “CRAFT STORIES”

Title: “Vid strandkanter, väggrenar, utkanter (Handwoven Rya Tapestries)”

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