ZADAN – WEARER’S PERSPECTIVE

(Jewellery Art lecture series in Spring 2021)

Over the past two decades in contemporary jewellery art, formal and material explorations have been given much higher priority over how jewellery establishes relationships among people: the maker (artist), the wearer (user), and the viewer (reception/public).

Once jewellery pieces depart from jewellers’ workshops, they start developing lives of their own, away from the makers’ intentions. They are received in hands of owners (wearers), worn on the body, and start developing further personal meanings and jewellery-wearer object histories. Jewellery can subtly but effectively aid wearers to articulate their desired self-presentation; it can elucidate the wearer’s memberships and affiliations in society and publicly demonstrate broad ranges of unspoken messages. Furthermore, through jewellery pieces social and personal histories are remembered, traced, and become accessible. How then should jewellery makers accommodate wearers’ wishes and cosmology in design?

Jewellery Art at HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design hosted the following seven lectures with eight speakers in Spring 2021 as a response to the subject ZADAN LECTURES SPRING 2021—WEARER’S PERSPECTIVE. This ZADAN seriessought to advocate the intrinsic relationship between people, society, and jewellery, by paying close attention to wearers of jewellery. The lectures were funded by the generous support of Göteburgs Slöjdförening (The Gothenburg Society of Crafts and Design).

Tuesday, 26 Jan. 2021, 14.00 – 15.30
Dr.DA. Petra Ade Deal (goldsmith, researcher based in Copenhagen, Denmark)
“Women and Jewelry – A Social Approach to Wearing and Possessing Jewellery”

Tuesday, 23 Feb. 2021, 16.00 – 17.30
Dr. Jorunn Veiteburg (art historian, curator, writer, collector based in Copenhagen, Denmark)
“My Love Affair with Jewellery”

Wednesday, 10 March 2021, 15.00 – 16.30
Prof. Iris Eichenberg (jewellery artist, educator based in Michigan, USA), Jamina Rios (jewellery artist, educator based in Buenos Aires, Argentina)
“Hand Medal Project”

Tuesday, 6 April 2021, 16.00 – 17.30
Prof.Yuka Oyama (artist, educator based in Berlin, Germany and Gothenburg, Sweden)
“Working in the Public Space with Jewellery”

Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 16.00 – 17.30
Vivi Touloumidi (jewellery artist, PhD candidate at Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp based in Berlin, Germany and Antwerp, Belgium)
“Pharmakos”

Tuesday, 11 May 2021, 16.00 – 17.30
Märta Mattsson (jewellery artist, educator based in Gothenburg, Sweden)
“My Treasure”

Tuesday, 25 May 2021, 16.00 – 17.30
Anton Heunis (jewellery designer, CEO of ANTON HEUNIS, South-African Spanish jewellery designer based in Madrid, Spain)
“Connecting Creativity with Commerciality”

ZADAN
The aim of the ZADAN lecture series is to create a common platform, to broaden an understanding of jewellery art based on an exploration of a specific topic. The lectures series title ‘ZADAN’(座談) references the Japanese concept of a conversation among peers. With this in mind, we welcome students and publics to participate as peers in the consideration of Jewellery Art as a relational everyday practice and adornment.

All students studying Jewellery Art on BA and MA levels are invited to take part in this collective educational project, ZADAN – WEARER’S PERSPECTIVE. We hope ZADAN will facilitate stronger ties between our education at HDK-Valand and with communities, local, national, and international.

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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ZADAN – WEARER’S PERSPECTIVE

(Jewellery Art lecture series in Spring 2021)

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