Rylander Speed.
Slow or Fast? A seminar on crafts identity and social function
The Slow Movement is having success. ?Slow food and slow cities have become familiar terms for most of us. ?Craft based production plays a central role in this movement, but is it in this ideological frame that contemporary studio craft is to be understood? Does craft first and foremost represent the aesthetics of slowness? ?We also ask: Is slow better than fast? ?Is handmade items of greater emotional and cultural value than industrial produced goods? ?In connection with the opening of the exhibition Speed at Galleri Format in Bergen, an exhibition produced by the Think Tank A Eurpoean Initiative for the Applied Arts, the research group K-verdi (www.k-verdi.no) arrange an open seminar at West Norway Museum of Decorative Arts in Bergen. ?The seminar will be in English. Thursday 3 June 2010
Vestlandske Kunstindustrimuseum, green room, 3rd floor.
Time 09-16
Program
09.15 Velcome: Anne Britt Ylvisaaker, Jorunn Veiteberg
09.30 Love Jönsson: Letting Slow Go
10.00 Monica Gaspar: Out of Control (almost)
10.30 Pause
10.45 Liesbeth den Besten: Fragments
11.30 Felieke van der Leest: Self-presentation
12.00 Lunch (and possibility to see Feliekes exhibition)
13.30 Jorunn Veiteberg: Speed as Stimulation, or reflections on a coffee cup
14.00 Gabi Dewald: No title
14.30 Ezra Shales: The Social Life of Craft
15.30 Discussion
16.00 End
17.00 Opening of the exhibition Speed, Galleri Format Bergen
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