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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 […]

ARTIST RESIDENCY ATHENS_Summer 2023_SPECIAL OFFERS

Fees for down town Athens studios with excellent light conditions in vivid and artistic neighborhoods start at 29,00 euro/ night for artists residencies during the period: 22 May to 18 June 2023 and 1 August to 10 September 2023. Minimum stay is two weeks. For more information, please contact: favelab.info@gmail.com

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 […]

SMCK ON REEL 2023 // Civilization Rebooted

SMCK ON REEL 2023 // Civilization Rebooted presents a video program consisting of three parts – CIVILIZATION REBOOTED / EXPERTS TALK / ART IN THE LAND OF WAR – answering the question: How will the future of jewelry look like? Videos shot by jewelry artists focus on topics, such as environmental catastrophe, war, fear, death, new values and new […]

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 […]

OPEN CALL_THE ROAD TO ELEFSINA_ARTIST RESIDENCY

For 2,000 years a farming community was the spiritual center of the ancient world. Pilgrims from all over came to Eleusis (modern-day Elefsina) to be initiated to mysteries befriending them with death. Men, women, free people, and slaves, Greeks and foreigners. It did not matter who you were. The rituals of initiation were kept secret […]

SMCK 8: Rejected APPROVED

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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 […]

OPEN CALL_SMCK ON REEL 2023_Civilization REBOOTED_SCHMUCK MUNICH

OPEN CALL for SMCK ON REEL 2023 – Civilization Rebooted – The first video festival inspired by jewellery, design and applied art. Schmuck/Jewellery Week of Munich ( 8-10 March 2023, Galerie Weltraum) If our civilization perishes, or dies in a nuclear accident or war, how will it reemerge? SMCK ON REEL 2023 – Civilization Rebooted invites […]

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 […]

Memory of a place

Loukia Richards participates with St.Barbara I/ St.Barbara with Trinity of Creatures/ Neo-nomad in Biennial Vilnius_Lithuania_Memory of a place_30 Sept 2022 – 28 Feb 2023.