Alice Kettle

Collaboration Through Craft

Hardcover

Design, Art, Social Science, Crafts & Hobbies

0857853910

9780857853912

Yes

Trade

0.9 in

9.3 in

20.5 Oz

6.1 in

TT149

English

280 Pages

2013

Bloomsbury Publishing

"Collaboration through Craft adds to the growing number of publications that investigate and describe contemporary craft theory and practice [...] This book would be a good acquisition for institutions or individuals wanting an overview of the breadth of contemporary ideas in collaborative craft and for artists who are interested in exploring collaborative possibilities." -- L. L. Kriner, Berea College, CHOICE, Collaboration Through Craft is a ground-breaking book. It sets out what we have known for some time but nobody has yet articulated - that the crafts are distinguished by their collaborative nature and the willingness of makers to share experience, knowledge and skills. From its insightful introduction, which eloquently sets the context for craft as a collaborative process and experience, this book's collection of essays maps the hugely diverse territory of contemporary crafts via the framing mechanism of collaboration., Nothing is ever made without collaboration. Yet we continue to believe that every work is the product of a single hand. This book turns the belief in single-handed creation on its head. It shows that collaboration is not incidental to the crafting of things but the very power that drives it forward. Together, the contributors succeed in raising craft from its backward-looking association with traditional skills to where it belongs, as a dynamic, generative principle at the core of social and cultural life., " Collaboration Through Craft is a ground-breaking book. It sets out what we have known for some time but nobody has yet articulated - that the crafts are distinguished by their collaborative nature and the willingness of makers to share experience, knowledge and skills. From its insightful introduction, which eloquently sets the context for craft as a collaborative process and experience, this book's collection of essays maps the hugely diverse territory of contemporary crafts via the framing mechanism of collaboration." --Matthew Partington, V&A Museum Senior Research Fellow, University of West England, UK "Nothing is ever made without collaboration. Yet we continue to believe that every work is the product of a single hand. This book turns the belief in single-handed creation on its head. It shows that collaboration is not incidental to the crafting of things but the very power that drives it forward. Together, the contributors succeed in raising craft from its backward-looking association with traditional skills to where it belongs, as a dynamic, generative principle at the core of social and cultural life." --Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen, UK "This book is a compelling critical appraisal of the friction and risk in collaboration, posing new forms of collaborative expertise through craft that are both challenging and immensely productive. These 16 chapters have deep relevance to makers in art, design, and craft as well as educators and practitioners within any field where working together is essential. This is an extraordinary resource!" --Anne Wilson, Professor Department of Fiber and Material Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA " Collaboration through Craft adds to the growing number of publications that investigate and describe contemporary craft theory and practice [...] This book would be a good acquisition for institutions or individuals wanting an overview of the breadth of contemporary ideas in collaborative craft and for artists who are interested in exploring collaborative possibilities. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers." --L. L. Kriner, Berea College, CHOICE, This book is a compelling critical appraisal of the friction and risk in collaboration, posing new forms of collaborative expertise through craft that are both challenging and immensely productive. These 16 chapters have deep relevance to makers in art, design, and craft as well as educators and practitioners within any field where working together is essential. This is an extraordinary resource!, Collaboration through Craft adds to the growing number of publications that investigate and describe contemporary craft theory and practice [...] This book would be a good acquisition for institutions or individuals wanting an overview of the breadth of contemporary ideas in collaborative craft and for artists who are interested in exploring collaborative possibilities.

Offering a challenging new argument for the collaborative power of craft, this ground-breaking volume analyses the philosophies, politics and practicalities of collaborative craft work. The book is accessibly organised into four sections covering the cooperation and compromises required by the collaborative process; the potential of recent technological advances for the field of craft; the implications of cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural collaborations for authority and ownership; and the impact of crafted collaborations on the institutions where we work, learn and teach. With cutting-edge essays by established makers and artists such as Allison Smith (US) and Brass Art (UK), curator Lesley Millar, textile designer Trish Belford and distinguished thinker Glenn Adamson, Collaborating Through Craft will be essential reading for students, artists, makers, curators and scholars across a number of fields.

1. Collaboration Tthrough Craft: An Introduction Amanda Ravetz, Alice Kettle and Helen Felcey Part 1: Modes of collaborating 2. Collaboration: A Creative Journey or a Means to an End? Lesley Millar 3. Making Anew... Collaboration and Dynamic Change Helen Carnac 4. Triangulation Theory, Working as Three Jane Webb, David Gates, Alice Kettle 5. The Creation of a Collective Voice Brass Art: Chara Lewis, Kristin Mojsiewicz, Anneké Pettican Part 2: The Generative Power of Craft 6. Catalytic Clothing and Tactility Factory: Crafted Collaborative Connections Trish Belford 7. The Aesthetic of Waste: Exploring the Creative Potential of Re-cycled Ceramic Waste David Binns 8. Designing Collaboration: Evoking Dr Johnson Through Craft and Interdisciplinarity Jason Cleverly, Tim Shear 9. Skinship: An Exchange of Material Understanding Between Plastic Surgery and Pattern Cutting Rhian Solomon Part 3: Institutional Collaborations 10. Department 21: The Craft of Discomfort Stephen Knott 11. Skills in the Making Simon Taylor, Rachel Payne 12. Project Dialogue Barbara Hawkins and Brett Wilson 13. A Question of Value: Re-thinking the Mary Greg Collection Sharon Blakey and Liz Mitchell Part 4: Collaboration in an Emerging World 14. Expanded Battle Fields Allison Smith 15. Crafts and the Contemporary in South Asia Barney Hare Duke & Jeremy Theophilus 16. Circling Back Into That Thing We Cast Forward Judith Leemann and Shannon Stratton 17. Craft Knowledge and the Craft of Human Life: A South Asian Residency CJ O'Neill and Amanda Ravetz 18. Epilogue: A Response Glenn Adamson

General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Decorative Arts

Bloomsbury Publishing

9780857853912