商品簡介
Contemporary craft, art and design are inseparable from the flows of production and consumption under global capitalism. The New Politics of the Handmade features twenty-three voices who critically rethink the handmade in this dramatically shifting economy.
The authors examine craft within the conditions of extreme material and economic disparity; a renewed focus on labour and materiality in contemporary art and museums; the political dimensions of craftivism, neoliberalism, and state power; efforts toward urban renewal and sustainability; the use of digital technologies; and craft’s connections to race, cultural identity and sovereignty in texts that criss-cross five continents. They claim contemporary craft as a dynamic critical position for understanding the most immediate political and aesthetic issues of our time.
作者簡介
Nicole Burisch is a critic and curator based in Montreal, Canada. Her writing has been published in Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, Cahiers metiers d’art-Craft Journal, No More Potlucks and dpi: Feminist Journal of Art and Digital Culture. She has worked with organizations such as Mentoring Artists for Women's Art, Artexte, and Centre des arts actuels Skol and was a 2014-2016 Core Fellow Critic-in-Residence with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Since 2005, Black and Burisch have written collaboratively on contemporary craft. Their text on curatorial strategies for craftivism is included in The Craft Reader and Extra/ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art. Anthea Black is an artist and cultural worker based in Toronto, Canada. Her writing has been published by Bordercrossings, No More Potlucks, Carleton University Art Gallery, and FUSE magazine, where she was a contributing editor from 2008-2014. She has exhibited in Canada, the US, Norway and The Netherlands and curated exhibitions No Place: Queer Geographies on Screen and PLEASURE CRAFT. In 2012, she was the Viola Frey visiting scholar at California College of Art, and teaches at OCAD University in Toronto.
