Makers' Tale
Manopoulou, Loucia and Golden-Hann, Mirka (2021) Makers' Tale. In: Identity, Collaboration, Sustainability: an online, international festival of craft, 27-30 September 2021, Online. (Unpublished)
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This joint presentation between a curator and a ceramic artist, accompanied by audio-visual materials, investigates contemporary approaches to craft knowledge through the lens of collaboration. The paper considers Makers’ Tale exhibition part of the Salisbury International Arts Festival 2020 (SIAF 2020), at Salisbury Arts Centre part of Wiltshire Creative.
The main theme of SIAF 2020 is movement, inspired by the octocentenary of the relocation of Salisbury Cathedral from its original and no longer suitable site to its current iconic position. Makers’ Tale is the result of collaboration between University for the Creative Arts and Wiltshire Creative in association with Salisbury Cathedral. The Cathedral has witnessed a continuum of learning and the passing on of craft skills for the last 800 years.
The creative enquiry into the legacy and current practice of the Cathedral Works Department is a pivotal component of the project. Sennett (2008) expresses the importance of transferring the knowledge of skilled practice, while Harrod suggests that craft is dependent on knowledge that is ‘tacit, practical or embodied’ (Harrod 2018:15). The modern crossovers from the areas of music, new technologies, and interactive sound installation are used to integrate craft knowledge into an innovative, lived or embedded experience for audiences.
Old Stories, New Narratives presented three convened panels, on the themes of identity, collaboration and sustainability; themes that underpinned international maker residencies and collaborations and resulted in works exhibited at Meet Make Collaborate.
It was a strand of Identity, Collaboration, Sustainability: an online, international, festival of craft, which took place Monday 27 - Thursday 30 September 2021.
In each panel, makers, curators, historians and researchers considered the future of making practices and process through sharing new ideas about craft practice, research-in-progress and case studies concerning both maker-led and theoretical strategies and what these might have to offer in a global context. Papers provoked and stimulated discussion by asking an array of critical questions about the values we invest in craft and how these values represent who we are, how we are seen and what craft can change.
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