Exhibition Review: Craft in the Bauhaus centenary and beyond

Τhe centenary of the Bauhaus in 2019 created a unique opportunity for a re-examination of craft in the Bauhaus movement through many exhibitions in Germany and beyond.

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Staging an Afterglow: Interview with Nwando Ebizie

Nwando Ebizie is an artist, composer, writer, DJ, curator, dancer, ritual creator, Afrofuturist and musician. Working across media and genres, Ebizie’s artforms explore the neuroscience of perception, mythopoesis, alternate possibilities and sensations using experimental performance, ritual and sound.

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Spotlight On: JeeYoung Lee’s surreal sets

JeeYoung Lee is a South Korean visual artist who blends magic, fantasy and reality. Her surreal set designs open up biographical glimpses into the artist’s interior life, creating a series of extraordinary dreamscapes that also function as self-portraits.

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Practice-Based: On Completion, Process and Planning

What if backstage is everything? If the rehearsal is the performance? If there is no moment of completion – how would art look then?

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Spotlight on: Es Devlin’s immersive stage

We spotlight Es Devlin’s stage-level labyrinths, which offer poetic interpretations of pop star shows…

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Larch Bark & Lockdown

This image essay tracks Liz K Miller’s attempt to maintain a connection during times of isolation and confinement…

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Mario Merz’s Cono: The hidden power of craft

Tracing Mario Merz’s Cono through cultural moments and a relationship to modernity, as well as the hidden elements of craft, creation and the maker’s labour, which are all deeply woven into this wicker structure…

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Save Me the Waltz: A peek inside the ballet studio

Zelda Fitzgerald’s Save Me the Waltz offers backstage access inside the ballet studio…

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Impression Management: Mrs. Ashley’s Gayfere House

Interiors such as those of Gayfere House offer a valuable example of the interior as a custom-made, crafted space which took its inhabitant as its starting point…

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Behind the memorial: Teresa Margolles & Jason deCaires Taylor

Behind each memorialisation practice, artists must consider the ethical implications of depicting violence without reproducing it…

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Article editorial issue eleven

Editorial #11 – Care, Craft, and Community

As the Zoom calls continue to loom – too everyday now to even joke about – does craft have the power to keep us connected? Or, what’s more, does craft have the power to model new forms of connection that offer respite from the ‘always on’ socio-economic demands of late-capitalist life?

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A Creative Conversation: Stéphanie Ruth & Anna Perach

Drawing on personal experience and folkloric myths, Anna Perach uses a traditional craft technique called tufting to create wearable sculptures that come to life during performances in front of a live audience.

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Emily Grimble, C19 Text Talk (2020)

‘C19 Text Talk’ is a hand-embroidered diary, comprised of 50 text works, made over a period of 100 days since the enforcement of the UK lockdown on the 23rd March 2020.

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