A project directed by Professor Robert Baines of RMIT School of Art and the Design Research Institute in conjunction with Craft Victoria
This two day event includes seminars and lectures which will focus on the ways in which makers make meaning, which in turn changes inner and outer environments.
A crafted object can be a bearer of cultural and historical meaning and memory. In particular it is concerned with the relations of those meanings with the personal and urban settings, acting as a way of defining or interpreting place. Making objects personal explores ways cultural artefact opens our engagement with, and understanding of the personal and external places we inhabit. Making objects personal conveys settings of human identity and presence leading to the intimate. It also takes us to external settings such as urban and domestic spaces with a broader significance as place itself becomes an expanded notion.
Speakers include Guest and Leading International Presenter Dr. Rüdiger Joppien from Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg with Adj. Prof. Kevin Murray.
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Dates: 27 & 28 October 2010
Venue: Casey Plaza Lecture Theatre, Building 10, Level 4, Room 27, RMIT City Campus, Melbourne
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Cost: $40 / $20 Craft Victoria Members, students and groups of 10+.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Wednesday 27 October 2010
Event 1: Contemporary Professional Practice in Decorative Arts
2-4pm
Adj. Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Joppien and chaired by Prof. Robert Baines
The international experience and trends. Possible topics include exhibition venues, fairs, awards and prizes, collecting, acquisitions for public collections, museum budgets, and funded by donations.
Event 2: DESIGNING ENVIRONMENTS – New Ways of thinking and Being
5.30-8pm
See recent work by cutting edge practitioners in ceramics, jewellery and metalsmithing, sculpture, printmaking, and other craft practices.
Introduction by Dr Sophia Errey (School of Art, RMIT University)
Presenters include: Nicholas Bastin, Nina Oikawa, Kasia Lynch, Jane Walton, Tim Clarkson, Natalia Milosz-Piekarska, Katie Jacobs and Dougal Haslem.
Chaired by Prof. Robert Baines, Adj. Prof. Dr Rüdiger Joppien and Adj. Prof. Kevin Murray
Thursday 28 October 2010
9am-4.30pm
This seminar will focus on the ways in which makers make meaning, which in turn changes inner and outer environments. Contemporary personal objects are bearers of cultural and historical meaning and memory, acting as a way of defining and interpreting topos (‘of place’).
Recent discoveries in neuroscience have given us a more detailed understanding of how minds, selfhood and being in space are structured and developed. Artists, through material engagement and object production, and the objects in turn as they are viewed and engaged with, utilize, modulate, and create new functionalities.
The seminar will explore the ecology and economy (oikonomia) of the object as materialized form with its own agency/thingness and physicality in patterns of exchange between makers, owners and viewers and the places they inhabit – the materially derived affectivity of making and meaning.
Introduction by
Professor Elizabeth Grierson (Head of School of Art, RMIT University) Joe Pascoe (CEO and Artistic Director of Craft Victoria)
Presenters include: Adj. Prof. Kevin Murray, Dr Kirsten Haydon, Renee Ugazio, Professor Robert Baines, Linda Hughes, Claire Humphries, Dr Sophia Errey
Event 4: Lecture – Adj. Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Joppien
5.30-7.30pm
Senior curator from Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (Hamburg)
Supported by RMIT School of Art, Design Research Institute, RMIT Foundation, and Craft Victoria
