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Garland magazine
by Stories behind what we make
The stories behind what we make.Over a five year journey of the Indo-Pacific, we explore beautiful and thoughtful objects. What do these objects tell us about our world today? We see a striking revival of ancient traditions that re-orients us to the future.
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Ngozi Omeje ✿ For the love and joy of it
Ngozi Omeje is a ceramicist who teaches at the Department of Fine and Applied Arts at University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She has been directly influenced by the work of El Anatsui. She has exhibited overseas in exhibitions such as the Cheongju Craft Biennale, but continues to live in Nsukka. In our...
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Steal This ✿ Melissa Cameron confesses to her role in a lawless jewellery gang
Kevin Murray interviews one of the key instigators in Melbourne's street jewellery scene, Melissa Cameron. How did Part B evolve? What does the name mean? What were its other projects? What is its enduring influence? For more details and images, see https://garlandmag.com/loop/steal-this/.
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Pamela Hall on the Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge
Pam Hall has extended her practice as an artist in Newfoundland to create an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge. The three chapters written so far feature the living crafts of Northern Penninsula and Bonn Bay, Fargo and Change Islands and Miawpukek Middle River. We invited Pam to share the story of...
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Urmila Mohan on the Jugaad Project
Urmila Mohan is an anthropologist who established the Jugaad Project, an open platform for publishing articles on material culture. Here are some of the topics covered in our conversation: The meaning of jugaad as everyday innovation The need for an open global platform to share articles in...
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The Mashrabiya Project at the Museum of Art and Wood
We speak with Jennifer-Navva Milliken, director of the Museum of Art and Wood about a fascinating project inspired by the iconic lattice wooden screen of the Islamic world.
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Lavina Baldota on Sutr Santati
We speak with the curator of the magnificent exhibition Sutr Santati, in celebration of the 75th anniversary of Indian independence. This exhibition consists of 100 textile works representing an impressive range of techniques including Kutch embroidery, patola, brocades, sequin work, applique,...
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Biopolymer fibre in basketry: An interview with Paula Camiña about Co-Obradoiro Galego
Co-Obradoiro Galego is a collaborative project by three basketmakers and designer Paula Camiña, looking at biotechniques to help regenerate and revive Galician craft heritage. We speak with Paula about the origins of this project and how it stems from her own roots in the region. We learn about…
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Hand makes hand: Hanne Brøbech Sønnichsen on Danish craft education
Hanne Brøbech Sønnichsen is the chairperson of Danish Crafts and Design. For the organisation's Formkraft publication, she recently wrote Greasy Fingers and Practical Research Help Craft Out of the Display Case which reflect on the student revolt against the lack of technical education in their...
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1 square metre of linen: Life begins where the Internet ends
We speak with Hillevi Skoglund about a Swedish project involving thousands of participants who each plant and process a plot of linen. See our website for more information.
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Patrick Webb ✿ A generous coat of craft thinking
Our current issue, titled Know How: The Grammar of Making, features an article by Patrick Webb, titled Maker Mythologies Classical Origin Stories for the Crafts, which is a fascinating overview of the key role played by craft in the ancient understanding of the world as a divine creation. This is…
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Neke Moa ✿ How to make deities for everyday use
We interview Neke Moa to learn about being a custodian of pounamu and how she uses it to connect with atua as guiding spirits. More info: https://garlandmag.com/loop/neke-moa-deities/
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Glenn Adamson on Material Intelligence and the scientific turn in crafts
Glenn Adamson speaks about the new publication project, Material Intelligence. He reflects on how this project evolved from his return to the Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee. Adamson describes the need in craft writing to keep in mind the publication as an object, in this case, a PDF which will...
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Jesse Adams Stein - Do we still need to make things?
We speak with Jesse Adams Stein, the author of Industrial Craft in Australia: Oral Histories of Creativity & Survival (Palgrave Macmillan 2021) For more information, see our post: https://garlandmag.com/loop/jesse-adams-stein/
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Masters of Craft - five years later
We interview Richard Ocejo, author of Masters of Craft: New Jobs in the Old Economy (2017). This intriguing book described a trend among white middle-class men in taking on manual trades. These included bartender, barber, butcher and distiller. We explore how this differentiates from the hipster...
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The spirit of Mingei in MUJI and manga
Yuko Kikuchi, Professor of Craft History at Kanazawa College of Art, shares her professional journey beginning with the Beat Generation in California. Moving to England, she was introduced to the Arts and Crafts Movement, through which she re-discovered the Mingei folk craft movement of her home...
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Hamza El Fasiki ✿ Lockdown reveals the enduring crafts of Morocco
Hamza El Fasiki is a geometer, brass smith, bookbinder, Andalusian Oud musician, and founder of a Morocco arts studio. He offers an important perspective as a young person who has embraced the world of Moroccan traditional crafts. This gives him particular insight into the differences between...
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Kaamya Sharma ✿ A salutary lesson for us craft snobs
Kaamya Sharma is an academic who has recently turned knowledge worker for the crafts. We speak to her at home in Madurai, after leaving a secure position at the Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, and embracing an independent practice building technologies for artisans. Kaamya is a talented writer...
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Malika Verma on the Śilpa series
We talk to Malika Verma about the origins of Border&Fall and the values that underpin the Śilpa series profiling Indian artisans. See Kanta Kadse ✿ Khajur ki pattiyo
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Anna Battista, the woman behind Irenebrination
In our series of interviews with key figures of the craft world, we talk to Anna Battista, an Italian writer whose Irenebrination has published nearly 3,000 stories of the world through an intelligent fashion lens. We learn what sustains such as committed independent voice. Anna Battista is a...
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Jay Thakkar ✿ The fourth wave in craft education
Our first podcast of 2021 features one of the most innovative forces in Indian craft, reflecting Ahmedabad’s status as a unique cultural centre. We speak to Jay Thakkar on the eve of the legendary kite festival in Ahmedabad, and we begin by learning what the city is like during this spectacular...
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Laila Al Hamad ✿ The craft of smell
Kuwaiti designer Laila Al Hamad speaks about the meaning of smell in Arab cultures and how it connects people together. One of the enduring themes of our journey is the meaning of ephemeral objects. We tend to see value in objects of lasting worth - as artefacts that survive millennia to rest in...
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Art for life: The hanging garlands of Pompeii according to Dylan Rogers
We talk to Dylan Rogers about his discovery of the true significance of the garlands that feature in Pompeii murals. Pompeii offers a snapshot of Roman life in 79AD. It reveals the prevalence of murals, not just as decoration, but as instructions for living. As part of his investigation of "lived...
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Maikel Kuijpers on material thinking and the Future is Handmade
Maikel Kuijpers an Assistant Professor of the Archaeology of Early Europe at Leiden University as well as a research coordinator for the Centre of Global Heritage and Development, a collaboration between Technical University Delft, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Leiden University. Kuijpers is…
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Ashoke Chatterjee - We must revive the villages
Ashoke Chatterjee is an Indian craft leader. He was executive director of National Institute of Design (NID) from 1975-85, Senior Faculty Advisor for Design Management and Communication from 1985 to 1995, and Distinguished Fellow at NID from 1995 until retirement in 2001. In 1975, NID was invited...
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Chandan Bose ✿ The rich social world of patam art in Telangana
Our latest podcast interview with leading craft scholars includes Chandan Bose, whose study of naqqash artisans in Telangana reveals the rich social world of this narrative art form. There is a new generation of craft scholars who seek to work in partnership with artisans. Chandan Bose recently...
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Love across the Indian Ocean
Object-tellers from our current issue came together to reflect on their stories and consider some of the issues that they evoke, particularly about the Indian craft of love. The speakers were: Shirley Bhatnagar and Ishan Khosla Eina Ahluwalia Aarti Kawlra Manasee Jog Mitraja Bais Varuni...
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A romance between a "white" and "black" Jew in southern India: Interview with Bony Thomas
We go to Kochi, the ancient port city in the southern tip of India, to visit its most renowned historian, Bony Thomas, who features in our current issue Uphaar with an article about the history of the Jewish populations in the city and its touching presence today with the young Muslim man, Taha...
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To meet makers in distant lands: A global discussion
Craft travel packages are booming. As well as companies offering specialist tours of craft centres, many practitioners are sharing their local knowledge and contacts with specialist travel packages. Such tours can have many benefits. For the participants, they help deepen their appreciation of…
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Genevieve Weber on "radical empathy" as an archivist
Genevieve Weber follows up her article Gratitude in the Archives with an account of how she became an archivist and the role that "radical empathy" plays in her custodianship of historical Canadian documents. We learn about the history of Residency Schools and the resulting Truth and…
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A conversation with Indian craft scholar Aarti Kawlra
We talk with Aarti Kawlra, author of We Who Wove the Lotus Thread, about her intellectual journey in the crafts and the development of a pan-Asian sensibility. Kawlra reflects on the nature of caste in India as a social construction. She also talks about the "kimono body" and how textiles in Asia...
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Rosie Cook's journey to an Indonesian village in search of the melodious bundengan
Rosie Cook reflects on the story behind her article Lessons learned from a duck herder’s gamelan. She recounts her journey to become a conservator and how this was radically changed by her encounter will villagers in Wonosobo, Indonesia. Her story also reveals a surprising capacity of Instagram.
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Working in China as an artist
22 June 2019, National Gallery of Victoria This panel was an opportunity to learn from those who are engaged with China as artists or curators. What are the challenges in connecting with audiences in mainland China? What opportunities make the effort worthwhile? How can we maintain contact with…
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A Conversation between Dragons
Conversation between dragons Saturday 22 June 2019 This panel explores the creative substance of a dialogue with China. As a nation that seeks to revive its traditional culture, how does this parallel the trajectory of nations around the Pacific Rim? We learn from the dragons not only in China…
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Interview with Brian Parkes about the epic Art Design Architecture series of touring exhibitions
We chat with Brian Parkes, CEO of Adelaide's Jam Factory Craft & Design Centre, about an ambitious series of touring exhibitions that have helped define Australian craft and design in the 21st century.
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