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Jewelry artists, leave your ivory tower asap!

This is ZLR Betriebsimperium’s jewellery art manifesto. Jewellery artists should leave their ivory tower and open up to the challenges of the real world. Working on your emotions and thematising it, as many jewellery artists do, is great and therapeutical, but after all, who cares about how you feel? Look around you and wonder: Why […]

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EXPERTS TALK

Photo credit: Sigurd Bronger. Contemporary jewelry as a genre or art discipline must open up to the broader public. This is a task for individual artists, but it also requires a collective effort. Before professionals join forces, they should be aware that the lack of communication between the different agents and sectors of the contemporary […]

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Rejected/Approved

SMCK Magazine No.8 Rejected / Approved  Capitalism is the economic system dominating Western societies for the last four centuries. It has shown remarkable resilience, though not necessarily fairness. Nevertheless, this school of thought produces wealth. Being ‘anti-capitalist’ as a jewelry artist – the latest trend – is like shooting yourself in the foot.  The explosion […]

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Rejected/Approved

The very word rejection spreads dread through the art world. Rejection looms over every step the artist takes on their journey; every application for exposure, funding, or support sows the seed of potential rejection. Every inch forward toward success and fame is paved with tears and – not rarely – self-doubt about one’s merit and […]

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CRAFT AS POLITICAL ART

Την προσεχή Τεταρτη 14 Δεκεμβρίου κανω μια διωρη, διαδικτυακή, παρουσιαση (μαλλον, παρα διαλεξη) στα αγγλικά, ανοικτή στο κοινο. Η προσκληση εχει ως εξης: ΔΗΜΟΚΡΙΤΕΙΟ ΠΑΝΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΟ ΘΡΑΚΗΣ ΤΜΗΜΑ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΘΝΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ ΕΡΓΑΣΤΗΡΙΟ ΛΑΟΓΡΑΦΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΗΣ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ Το Εργαστήριο Λαογραφίας και Κοινωνικής Ανθρωπολογίας σας προσκαλεί στο Α ́ Κύκλο Διαδικτυακών Διαλέξεων, με τίτλο «Crafts», σε επιστημονική επιμέλεια […]

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