Estonian artist´s in Hangzhou Contemporary International Jewelry and Metal Art Triennial

21 Grams, 2018 Hangzhou Contemporary International Jewelry and Metal Art Triennial

Under the title 21 grams Ruudt Peters has organized a jewelry exhibition where a large number of artists where asked to make a jewel with the weight and content of the soul 21 grams, to develop specifically for this exhibition. There will be an equal number of western and eastern artists invited to take part at the exhibition.The installation of the art works is an important part of the concept. The works of the 21 grams jewelry will be present on scales to verify whether an artist has succeeded to the weight of the soul 21 grams to meet.

Artist list
Paul Adie, Manami Aoki, Peter Bauhuis, David Bielander, Rudolf Bott, Helen Britton, Beatrice Brovia, Bifei Cao, Carla Castiajo, Guozhen Chen, Shuming Chen, Nicolas Cheng, Xiang Cheng, Florian Chumeng, Shachar Cohen, Erinn Cox, Aaron Patrick Decker, Peter Deckers, Patrícia Domingues, Yanli Duan, Iris Eichenberg, Nedda El Asmar, Benedikt Fischer, Shaoxiong Fu, Sara Gackowska, Jie Gao, Maya Gao, Shan Gao, Wei Gao, Yun Ge, Zhiwei Gong, Niki Grandics, Adam Grinovich, Xin Guo, Rupai Han, Sophie Hangarth, Ann-Kathrin Hartel, Jing He, Nils Hint, Simone Hompel ten, Meiing Hsu, Jun Hu, Shifa Hu, David Huycke, Meiri Ishida, Koen Jacobs, Xuezhi Ji, Chengyu Jiang, Xueling Jin, Junwon Jung, Lauren Kalman, Jiro Kamata, Yeonmi Kang, Heejoo Kim, Young-I Kim, Panjapol Kulpapangkorn, Seulgi Kwon, Heng Lee, Seulki Lee, Helena Lehtinen, Linlin Lei, Danqing Li, Shanshan Li, Tianqing Li, Yinliang Li, Yiping Li, Yunxuan Li, Zifeng Li, Xiao Liang, Enying Lin, Xiao Liu, Urmas Lüüs, Suska Mackert, Lilian Mattuschka, Jasmin Matzakow, Mei Meng, Carla Movia, Eija Mustonen, Kadri Mälk, Chequita Nahar, Xianou Ni, Evert Nijland, Zijun Ning, Ted Noten, Lumy Nouguez, Pavel Opocensky, Seth Papac, Liling Peng, Yiwen Peng, Ruudt Peters, Annika Pettersson, Karen Pontoppidan, Suzanne Pugh, Haiming Ren, Estela Saez, Nina Sajet, Juliane Schölß, Sondra Sherman, Jun Shi, Robert Smit, Nadja Soloviev, Deganit Stern Schocken, Zhongge Sui, Jie Sun, Jieyi Sun, Xiangxiang Sun, Yiping Sun, Tore Svensson, Anneleen Swillen, Fumiki Taguchi, Edu Tarin, Terhi Tolvanen, Vivi Touloumidi, Fabrizio Tridenti, Yiumsiri Vantanapindu, Frank Verkade, Kezhen Wang, Qi Wang, Qiong Wang, Taidi Wang, Xiaojia Wang, Xiaoxin Wang, Zhenghong Wang, Chumeng Weng, Mian Wu, Renjie Wu, Jun Xie, Binglei Xu, Chenqian Xu, Jiaying Xu, Jing Xu, Congcong Yan, Zhao Yang, Xiaoyou Ying, Tala Yuan, Shuang Yue, Christoph Zellweger, Xihan Zhai, Chenzhi Zhang, Fan Zhang, Kun Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yunting Zhang, Zaozao Zhang, Zhaodan Zhang, Zhi Zhang, Yanmin Zhao, Yi Zhao, Hanqi Zheng, Hengfeng Zhou, Mingming Zhou, Ruoxue Zhou, Zhuohan Zhou, Aiyu Zhu, Yijie Zhu, Weiyang Zhuo

This year’s Hangzhou International Jewelry and Metal Art Triennial invited 155 exhibitors who are famous educators, artists and scholars from 25 countries and regions to participate in the One Belt, One Road guidelines and policy, focusing on the China Academy of Art. About 50 well-known institutions in Asia, Europe, and the Americas form a high-level jewelry and metalworking academic feast worldwide. This exhibition has attracted the enthusiastic participation of many domestic and foreign contemporary jewelry and metal artists. It also pays special attention to the incubation of young artists and has become a mature communication platform for the contemporary jewelry art circle. This exhibition also conducts academic discussions with experts from around the world to expand the academic, artistic, technical and aesthetic aspects to promote the development of jewelry and metal art.

Through the 21g exhibition, we will present the most avant-garde metal art creations at home and abroad from a professional perspective, and promote the development of the overall discipline of jewelry and metal art. Through exhibitions, to understand the different areas of jewelry and metal art in the international and domestic, to explore the development of jewelry and metal art in the era of new technology, to reflect on how artists should face and eliminate the boundaries between art and crafts. At the same time, through the academic research of international art creation, combined with art history, modern and post-modern art theory, sociology and anthropology, the interdisciplinary discussion on the rhythm of art jewelry and other related issues.

Exhibition Theme: “21 grams”
With the intention to prove the existence of the human soul scientifically MacDougall introduced in 1907 a medical experiment by six patients roads during their dying process. The beds were positioned on an industrial scale so that the weight of the patient before, during, and could be held in the holes after death. The patients lost directly or minutes to hours after death 21 grams weight. This minimal research shows that the soul has a substantial weight. The concept of 21 grams has a mysterious imagination that is attractive to artists. The weight of 21 grams is both imaginative and literally for jewellery makers a challenge.

This triennial is scheduled to travel to European countries in 2019.
– 2018.11.07-2018.12.10 (China)
– 2019.03.11-2019.04.20 (Germany)
– 2019.05-2019.06 (Poland)
– 2019.07-2019.08 (Belgium)
– 2019.10-2019.11 (Netherlands)

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More:

https://klimt02.net/forum/articles/why-do-you-wear-jewelry-triennial-ping-zou

Erinn M. Cox_John Carl Cox 1919-1992_forty-one cast sterling silver baby teeth of artist`s late grandfather, sterling silver, rhodium plating, 21 grams_2018

Nils Hint_brooch_Elephant_leather, blood, sweat, oil, dirt, stainless steel_2018

Urmas Lüüs_Filled Emptiness_bone, iron chloride, sodium silicate, water, video documentation_ 2018_Photo by Valdek Laur and Urmas Lüüs

On Tuesday, December 11th at 5PM French artist and inventor Chienpo will do a presentation in an open space A300 at The Estonian Academy of Arts (Põhja pst 7, Tallinn).

Jérémie Cortial, with an artist name Chienpo, is a celebrated digital artist, who uses drawing as a technique to connect virtual with the future. He is a founding member of artistic group Elshopo, which has a fun and experimental approach to screen printing, expanding the technique to different unconventional materials and mediums. They print on pancakes with food coloring and a performative approach to their work is often important. Playing with the boundaries of art, entertainment, DIY and exploration, his works are often playful and carried out with a pop aesthetic.

Chienpo is in Tallinn for the LVLup! museum event Chienpo Drawing Laboratory.

Kolmapäeval 12.12 kell 19 avame Vent Space projektiruumis (Vabaduse väljak 6/8) näituse “Avamine”.
Tegemist on Eesti Kunstiakadeemia fotograafia osakonnas 2. aastat õppivate tudengite esimese ühisnäitusega.

Osalevad: Kristiina Aarna, Ben Caro, Gerda Nurk, Diana Olesjuk, Anna Pazucha, Pille-Riin Vihtre & Lisann Lillevere.

Grupinäitus “Avamine/ Disassemble” läheneb osadeks võtmise teemale läbi noorte autorite pilgu. Me analüüsimine, avame, opereerime, uurime, jälgime, teeme tükkideks, kasutades selleks kaamerapõhiseid meediume. Seejärel paneme tükid kokku nii, et omandame uusi teadmisi, uue suhtumise või saavutame uue viisi osade ühendamiseks tervikuks. Meie eesmärk on uurida enesele hetkel kõige olulisemaid nähtusi visuaalsete töövahenditega ning jagada oma vaatlemistulemusi teiega.

Avamisel 12.12 kell 19:00 ning 15.12 kell 15:00-17:00 toimub Ben Caro performance.

On Wednesday, the 12th of December at 19 o’clock, we will open the exhibition “Dissemble” at Vent Space (Vabaduse väljak 6/8). The exhibition is open from 13 to 19 of December from 14-20 o’clock.

It is the first group show of the students of the 2nd year of photography department.

The participating artists: Kristiina Aarna, Ben Caro, Gerda Nurk, Diana Olesjuk, Anna Pazucha, Pille-Riin Vihtre & Lisann Lillevere.

Through their individual visions they propose unique viewpoints of their surroundings. By looking closer they have re-constructed reality within the photographic frame to ask us to question hierarchies both inside and outside the image. Furthermore they have de-constructed reality and built a meditative space into which they invite us into. De-constructing familiar places through a rather personal view. Using a historical viewpoint to highlight overlooked traces visible under close looking.

The final speaker of EKA open architecture lecture series’ 2018 autumn semester is Patrik Schumacher, the director of Zaha Hadid Architects. His completed projects include the MAXXI Centre of Contemporary Art and Architecture, Rome, which won the Stirling prize in 2010 and one of the practice’s first completed constructions, the Vitra Fire Station (1992). He is currently involved in several master plan projects, including Kartal Pendik in Istanbul and Singapore One North. In 2017, Zaha Hadid Architects’ proposal titled ‘Streamcity’ was selected as the winner of the international competition to masterplan the revitalization of Port of Tallinn’s Old City Harbour area. The lecture will take place at the EKA main hall on Thursday, 13 September at 6 pm.

Patrik Schumacher is principal of Zaha Hadid Architects and has been leading the firm since Zaha Hadid’s passing in March 2016. He joined ZHA in 1988 and was seminal in developing

Zaha Hadid Architects to become a 400 people global architecture and design brand. Schumacher studied philosophy, mathematics and architecture in Bonn, Stuttgart and London and received his Diploma in architecture in 1990. He has been a partner since 2003

and a co-author on all projects. In 2010, Patrik Schumacher won the Royal Institute of British

Architects’ Stirling Prize for excellence in architecture together with Zaha Hadid, for MAXXI, the

National Italian Museum for Art and Architecture of the 21st century in Rome. He is also Member of the Academy of the Berlin Academy of Arts.

In 1996 he founded the Design Research Laboratory at the Architectural Association in London

where he continues to teach. In 1999 he completed his PHD at the Institute for Cultural Science,

Klagenfurt University. Patrik Schumacher is lecturing worldwide and is currently a guest

professor at Harvard’s GSD. During the last 20 years he has contributed over 100 articles to

architectural journals and anthologies. In 2008 he coined the phrase Parametricism and has

since published a series of manifestos promoting Parametricism as the new epochal style for

the 21st century. In 2010/2012 he published his two-volume theoretical opus magnum “The

Autopoiesis of Architecture”. Patrik Schumacher is widely recognized as one of the most

prominent thought leaders within the fields of architecture, urbanism and design.

Architect Sille Pihlak, one of the curators of the Architecture Open Lecture series, says that

both Zaha Hadid ja Patrik Schumacher were highly inspirational throughout her studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna: “When giving feedback to students’ projects they didn’t merely cover the full design scale from a city to a furniture, but also always pushed you to pay attention to the sociopolitical, technological, economical and culture innovation tendencies. Patrik – in his statements often antagonistic and objectionable in the eyes of the wider architecture community – is currently one of the most important practitioner, whose statements pull architects out of their comfort zone, pushing us to argue our actions in a constructive and context-sensitive manner. This kind of approach towards the art of building and acknowledgment of wider context is essential for our students to witness.”

The architecture and urban design department of the Estonian Academy of Arts has been curating the Open Lectures on Architecture series since 2012 – each year, a dozen architects, urbanists, both practicing as well as academics, introduce their work and field of research to the audience in Tallinn. All lectures are in English, free and open to all interested.

The series is funded by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.

Curators: Sille Pihlak, Johan Tali

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Pille Epner

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Tel. +372 642 0071

Gudy Herter will give a lecture about “Current lifestyle trends for 2019/2020” on Monday, 10^th of December at 12 am at the EKA auditorium A101 and an additional masterclass for fashion department MA and 3rd course BA students.

Gudy Herder is an international trend consultant, keynote speaker, and certified trainer based in Barcelona, Spain. She helps brands and businesses anticipate trends and use them to develop products that inspire, tell a story, and ultimately, sell. First and foremost, Gudy considers herself a visual creative passionate about scouting trends in interior design & lifestyle. With a sharp eye honed by years of hands-on experience in international retail management, she observe trends as they emerge.

Look at: https://youtu.be/rpCO5-dA6nw

More info: Piret Puppart
Head of Fashion Department
Estonian Academy of Arts
+372 5074243

On 27th of November at 5pm artist Johann Arens will give a public talk about his art practice at EKA Sculpture department’s monumental studio.

Johann Arens (b.1981) is an artist based in London. He received his MFA in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London. Since then he was awarded the Fellowship in Contemporary Art by the British School at Rome and has been resident at Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Space London and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Last year he received the Prize for Young Art by the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein. Recent exhibitions include ‘These Rotten Words’, Chapter Arts, Cardiff (2017); Anxiety Impress, Neuer Aacherer Kunstverein, Germany (2016); ‘Somatic Matter’, Le Foyer, Zürich; ’New Acquisitions’, Fondazione Fotografia Modena; ‘Pillar Huggers’, Or Gallery, Berlin (2015); ‘TTTT’, Jerwood Space, London; ‘Emotional Resources’, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland (2014) and ‘Internet Centre & Habesha Grocery’, Paradise Row, London (2013).

Johann Arens is invited to Tallinn to give a workshop “Sculpting the Moving Image” on November 26-28th at the EKA Installation and Sculpture department. Arens’s public artist talk will also be part of the event program of student-run International Sculpture and Installation Month called SkulpaKuu.

The next lecturer of the Open Lecture Series this autumn will be Stockholm-based writer, editor, designer and broadcaster James Taylor-Foster. Taylor-Foster will be stepping on the stage of the main auditorium of the new EKA building on the 29th of November at 6 pm to talk about the role of display, exhibitionism, words, and speech as instruments of architectural practice.

James Taylor-Foster is working in the fields of architecture, design, e-culture and technology. He is curator of contemporary architecture and design at ArkDes, Sweden’s national centre for architecture and design. Formerly European editor-at-large at ArchDaily, the world’s most visited architecture platform, he has practiced architecture in the UK and The Netherlands. In 2016 he co-curated the Nordic Pavilion at the 15th Biennale Architettura di Venezia.

With bylines at Metropolis, PIN-UP, Domus, Volume, Monocle, Mousse, Disegno, and Real Review, he is also a regular voice on Monocle 24 radio. James has been a visiting critic or lecturer in architecture at the University of Cambridge, The Bartlett (UCL), University College Dublin, the Architectural Association, the CASS, the Strelka Institute, TU Delft, the Berlage Institute, and MIT. He sits on the advisory board of the Future Architecture Platform.

According to Taylor-Foster architecture is a practice of referencing, referring to, mimicking, and communicating. Architects—and those who operate in and around the sphere of building environments for people and things—hunt and gather in order to absorb and represent. This talk will explore the role of display, exhibitionism, words, and speech as instruments of architectural practice.

The architecture and urban planning department of the EKA has been curating the Open Lectures on Architecture series since 2012 – each year, a dozen architects, urbanists, both practicing as well as academics, introduce their work and field of research to the audience in Tallinn. All lectures are in English, free and open to all interested.

The series is funded by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.

Curators: Sille Pihlak, Johan Tali

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“Art Direction and Fashion Communication: Post Truth – Addressing New Form of Authenticity”

The question that always remains the same is “What is the key to success in business of fashion?”. Fashion is inevitable – it’s everywhere and has a part in everything around us. But what are we able to see in the bigger picture and in the end: what do we want to see? We have ideas, creativity, knowledge of craftsmanship and even knowledge of branding. But usually they are all theoretical facts that don’t create the expected results. How to see the bigger picture and turn it into successful reality?

WE PRESENT: POLIMODA tour in the Baltic countries and for the first time ever open lecture of POLIMODA representatives in Tallinn in the Estonian Academy of Arts! Polimoda is a highly prestigious international institute of fashion, which according to international ratings ranks as nr1 fashion institution in Italy and 5th in the world. Don’t miss a chance to hear international fashion expert Marco Bartolucci together with Lithuanian fashion industry professional Marija Palaikyte.

The content of the lecture invites you to experience new way of understanding fashion and includes most recent knowledge of global fashion industry, art direction and fashion communication.
This event is the opportunity to learn from the experience of internationally successful experts, both in theory and most valuable practical knowledge.  

PROGRAM:
Marija Palaikyte: “Business of Fashion: Beyond Knowledge”
Introductional presentation based on the understanding of global fashion system and contemporary approach to culture, fashion and the success in creative industries.

Marco Bartolucci: “Art Direction and Fashion Communication: Post Truth – Addressing New Form of Authenticity”
Vide spectrum lecture, based on international experience in understanding fashion phenomena, fashion anthropology and how this knowledge should be translated into practice in fashion communication.

CONTENT:
– Contemporary consumer – anthropological approach
– Connecting with the audience to a deeper level: what if truth and transparency are not enough anymore
– Diversity as normality: when allegiances and differentiations become key role in aesthetics and communication
– Embracing new forms of iconographical and iconoclastic spirituality: the ability to broaden up all the discussions around beauty, ethic, aesthetics, disrupting the concept of right or wrong

Duration of the event: 1,5 hour + questions
Organizers of the event: Marija Palaikyte, POLIMODA
Partners: EKA

About the lecturers:
Marija Palaikyte: fashion trend forecaster, organizer of “Men’s Fashion Week” in Lithuania, author of radio talk show “mission of fashion with Marija Palaikyte”, lecturer, fashion writer. From the beginning of her career she is successfully growing new alternative understanding of fashion phenomena and fashion anthropology in the local society. For the past 5 years Marija is organizing various fashion businesses oriented events both in academic and commercial fields. Marija Palaikyte believes that there can’t be limits for dreams same as for goals. The key to success is sincere passion for life, wide global view on cultural climate and constant investment into personal experience. “Fashion is not only a charming, glamorous institution – it is and it must be valued as a unique sociocultural phenomena. But as to truly understand the unseen depth of this phenomena  we have to look through way wider spectrum” – says Marija and invites to experience a new way of understanding fashion.

Marco Bartolucci: fashion trend forecaster, lecturer in POLIMODA international fashion institute. Marcos unique approach to fashion was noticed in the early stage of his studies. He got not only noticed but eventually earned respect of the colleagues that brought him straight to the position in academic field as a lecturer in the prestigious institute – POLIMODA. “I have always been a person viscerally impassioned by every form of human expression. I believe that the film rouge that has traveled through my life, and continues to do so, has been the extreme interest and curiosity of understanding how man can shape, concretize, materialize and translate his own interiority – that is through the art, music, fashion, literature. I work and research with a phenomenological  approach combined to a deep psycho-sociological research structure in the field of cross-cultural and countercultural fashion and human manifestation. Working with the intersections among every human visual expression and representation (fashion, art, photography, cinema….) therefore among all the topics related to the research field the deepest focus is about the formation of the subjectivity and the role of the body, the post-human interactions within the real/unreal dichotomy, psychoanalysis and fashion, construction and de-construction of human expressions, contemporary ritualism and liminal events.” With this description Marco Bartolucci creates a unique intrigue about the upcoming lecture and leaves open space for creative thinking and interpretation.

The Estonian Academy of Arts, Curriculum of Art and Design’s PhD student Varvara Guljajeva will defend her thesis “From interaction to post-participation: the disappearing role of the active participant”(“Interaktsioonist osalusjärgsuseni: aktiivse osaleja kaduv roll”) on the 21st of December 2018 at 12.00 at Põhja pst 7 building, room A101.

Supervisors:dr Raivo Kelomees (Estonian Academy of Arts) and dr Pau Waelder (The Open University of Catalonia)

Pre-reviewers:prof dr Christa Sommerer (Interface Cultures, The University of Art and Design Linz) and prof dr Moises Mañas Carbonell (Faculty of Fine Arts, Polytechnic University of Valencia)

Opponent: prof dr Christa Sommerer (Interface Cultures, The University of Art and Design Linz)

The practice-based dissertation analyses and contextualises passive audience interaction through the lens of post-participation. Research explores the shift from active to passive participation in interactive art. By exploring interactive art history and the discourse of identity within the field, this dissertation investigates how artworks that demonstrate no audience involvement, but still incorporate an internal system interaction with a data source, are addressed. In other words, the research tracks down the interest shift from human-machine to system-to-system interaction, and explores the reasons behind this.

In this thesis, a differentiation is made between direct and indirect post-participation. Hence, the selected artworks are analysed from the perspective of concept, direct or indirect post-participation components, and realisation. In addition, related artworks by other artists are introduced and discussed under each subcategory of post-participation.

In the end, the dissertation contributes to the evolution of interactive art, by analysing and contextualising passive audience participation in the form of post-participation. Author argues that the concept of post-participation helps to address the shift from an active to a passive spectator in the complex age of dataveillance, an age in which humans are continuously tracked, traced, monitored and surveilled without our consent.

Please find the PhD thesis here.

The defense will be in English.