Crafty Play with Lorna Brown, Garnet Hertz and Christian Huizenga

Описание: Craft practices are sometimes more than satisfying and challenging activities that are fulfilling and meaningful for their own sake. Craft can also be a hands-on means to rework the world: a tool for critical engagement, political advocacy, and social action. This discussion brings together three contemporary artists whose work expresses the sometimes-subversive power of handmaking, direct experience, citizen initiative, and DIY activity.

The three speakers will draw on their own experiences using craft and making as a way to build agency, solidarity, and community. Artist and curator Lorna Brown, formerly Associate Director of UBC’s Belkin Art Gallery, uses laborious processes such as hand embroidery to mark personal and collective time and overlooked cultural phenomena. Media artist, designer, and skateboarder Garnet Hertz argues in his book Art + DIY Electronics (MIT Press, 2023) for the value of kludging one’s own technology and revealing the rough edges of media artworks; most recently, he has brought this hands-on approach to operate within the graffiti community. Artist, architect, and filmmaker Christian Huizenga, from the Zenga Bros. family of makers, builds meticulously crafted, often skateable, public art and leads the initiative School of Direct Experience, providing hands-on experience in architectural design and construction.

This event was part of the UBC Green College Leading Scholars Series.

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