FORUM SEMINAR
EENY, MEENY, MINY, MOE...
Seminar curated by Heidi Bjørgan dealing with issues relating to contemporary crafts. Organised in relation to the opening of the exhibition That was then... This is now.
Speakers are Glenn Adamson (art historian and Head of Graduate Studies at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and author of Thinking Through Craft), Synnøve Vik, (art historian, critic and exhibition coordinator at The Norwegian Association of Arts and Crafts, Oslo), Hans Stofer (designer-maker working in the field of the Applied Arts and professor at the Royal College of Art, London) and Anders Ruhwald (artist, London/Detroit). Moderated by Anne Thomassen.
Register by October 20th: hks@kunstsenter.no
NOK 100 payable at the entrance
The seminar will be in English.
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Seminar programme:
10.00 - 10.05 Anne Szefer Karlsen, director Hordaland Art centre, introduction
10.10 - 10.30 Heidi Bjørgan, curator, introduction to the exhibition That was then... This is now.
10.30 - 11.15 Hans Stofer, designer-maker working in the field of the Applied Arts and professor at the Royal College of Art, London, presents his own work and discuss the status of crafts at the College of Art.
Break
11.30 - 12.15 Synnøve Vik, art historian, critic and exhibition coordinator at The Norwegian Association of Arts and Crafts, Oslo, about how the Nordic crafts has changed the last five years.
Lunch served at Hordaland Art Centre to all seminar participants.13.15 - 14.00 Anders Ruhwald, artist, London/Detroit, artist talk.
14.00 - 14.45 Glenn Adamson, art historian and Head of Graduate Studies at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Thinking Through Craft.
Break
15.00 - 16.00 Debate with all participants, moderated by Anne Thomassen.
----------Anne Thomassen, artist and part of the artist group Temp. Thomassen is Head of studies BA Visual Arts programme, Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO), and is on the board of Oslo Fine Art Society as well asi n its election commitee. She has been part of the aquisition committe of Public Art Norway (KORO), and has produced several exhibitions, such as Momentum 2004 in Moss and International Academy of Art Ramallah at the Oslo Fine Art Society in 2006 in collaboration with KHiO. Temp ran a gallery space for two years, between 2000 and 2002, and is still active as an artist group.
