[aha] Fwd: Craftivism, Arnolfini

[Dedalus]

For information:

C R A F T I V I S M

Saturday 12 December 2009 - Sunday 14 February 2010
Preview Friday 11 December 6pm - 8pm

http://www.craftivism.net/

Invited artists/collectives: Kayle Brandon + Heath Bunting, Rhiannon   
Chaloner + Manuel Vason, glorious ninth, GOTO10, Rui Guerra,   
Household, Christine + Irene Hohenbüchler, JODI, Mandy McIntosh,   
Gloria Ojulari Sule, Trevor Pitt + Kate Pemberton, Janek Simon,   
Stephanie Syjuco, Clare Thornton, and projects produced with  
workshop  participants + local residents

Craftivism is an Arnolfini/Relational contemporary art project that   
responds to the resurgent interest in craft as it relates to  
socially- engaged art practice. It involves fourteen projects  
developed by  artists and collectives that work with craft-based  
traditions and  activist practices, and who employ the tactics of   
'craftivism' (combining crafting + activism) to question and disrupt   
the prevailing codes of mass consumerism.

The project attempts to collapse the distinction between 'making'  
and  'doing' - the former associated with craft, the latter with  
human  action. It places an emphasis on interaction and participation  
in the  wider social realm, and employs aspects of self-organisation  
and 'open- source' principles. The artists involved engage with craft- 
based  traditions through diverse practices including art, technology  
and  fashion. Selected works exemplify 'innovation' in the general  
sense  that newly invented forms might diverge from established rules  
and  perceived norms.

Craftivism is developed in relation to a range of contexts and   
includes nine artist-led participatory projects developed with local   
communities, the outcomes of which are shown as part of a gallery-  
based interactive exhibition, online and in free software-related   
projects, workshops, talks and the uncurated satellite event   
UnCraftivism. Events also take place locally at Brandon Hill Park,   
Colston Hall, Full Circle St. Paul's Youth and Family Centre, Knowle   
West Media Centre and The Mall Bristol.

The project will invite public interaction and provide opportunities   
to take part, make work and learn craft-based skills to customise   
products. It encourages wider communities to embrace the 'freedom'  
to  create, modify and distribute products, and in so doing  
demonstrates  the possibilities for people to modify their own lives.

Craftivism is part of the Artist/Activist season, a series of   
Arnolfini projects in Autumn/Winter 2009/2010 which provides a   
socially-active forum for debate and learning around issues of  
climate  change and alternatives to the culture of consumerism.

Arnolfini
16 Narrow Quay, Bristol, UK
http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/

Craftivism is an Arnolfini/Relational project curated by Zoë  
Shearman,  Director, Relational, Geoff Cox, Associate Curator of  
Online Projects,  Arnolfini, and Ann Coxon, Assistant Curator, Tate  
Modern. It has been  developed with the support of a Crafts Council  
Spark Plug Curator  Award and is funded by the National Lottery  
through Arts Council  England, Bristol City Council - Single Project  
Fund, The Crafts  Council, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Mondriaan  
Foundation and Polska!  Year. Additional support and partnership from  
Arnolfini Café Bar,  Bradley Stoke Library, Bristol City Council  
Park’s Department, Bristol  Rope & Twine, Cameron Lee Carpets, CLIC  
Sargent Cancer Care for  Children, Colston Hall, The Cookery School  
at Bordeaux Quay,  Craftspace, CSF Wrestling, Full Circle St. Paul’s  
Youth and Family  Project, Galerie Martin Janda Vienna, Galsworthy  
Graphics, Knowle West  Media Centre, Labour Behind the Labour, The  
Mall Bristol,  Naturepaint.com, POD Projects, West Country Knotters  
and Wicklea Youth  & Community Centre, Brislington.

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