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OPEN LECTURE: Jessica Hemmings, Meaningful Craft

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Jessica Hemmings Meaningful Craft lecture tries to understand the place of contemporary craft across a number of diverse international contexts where economic inequalities are now exacerbated by the ongoing pandemic. Practitioners who address topics such as immigration, the value of labour and the importance of community are considered in the hope of better understanding the place and purpose of contemporary craft today.

Seminar,
Webinar
Date
10 Feb 2021
Time
15:00 - 16:30
Location
Online

Register in advance: https://gu-se.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fTFpt8BjRF-sKceYRgGE9w

Time: Wednesday February 10, 15.00-16.30

Arranged by: the Craft programme at HDK-Valand, Academy of Art and Design

ABOUT: Jessica Hemmings writes about textiles. She studied Textile Design at the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating with a BFA (Honors) in 1999 and Comparative Literature (Africa/Asia) at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, earning an MA (Distinction) in 2000. Her PhD, awarded by the University of Edinburgh in 2006, is published by kalliope paperbacks under the title Yvonne Vera: the Voice of Cloth (2008). In 2010 she edited a collection of essays titled In the Loop: Knitting Now published by Black Dog and in 2012 edited The Textile Reader (Bloomsbury) and wrote Warp & Weft (Bloomsbury). Her editorial and curatorial project, Cultural Threads, is a book about postcolonial thinking and contemporary textile practice (Bloomsbury: 2015) accompanied by a travelling exhibition Migrations (2015-2017). Jessica is a member of the Editorial Board of Textile: the journal of cloth & culture (Taylor & Francis) and Craft Research (Intellect). She is currently Professor of Craft & Vice-Prefekt of Research at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and the 2020-2021 Rita Bolland Fellow at the Research Centre for Material Culture, the Netherlands.

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