7TH TALLINN APPLIED ART TRIENNIAL
Seminar
21.04.2017
SEMINAR
Modes of mediating applied art and design
21.04.2017 | Sõprus Cinema
The seminar invited everyone to listen and discuss the topic of how to talk about and introduce applied art in a way that it would attract a wider audience as well. How to mediate applied art and design to different audiences and provoke meaningful discussions that would develop an overall design literacy? How does the small number of analytical texts about applied art affect artists?
The seminar wished to provide a platform for artists, curators, gallerists and marketing and communications specialists.
Top experts from both Estonia and outside the country shared their experience and success stories. Moderators were a gallerist, writer, translator and lecturer Keiu Krikmann and a historian of design and a lecturer Triin Jerlei.
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The Abstracts
Presenters at the seminar were Norwegian art critic and editor André Gali, a Los Angeles based glass artist and educator Sarah Gilbert, a freelance journalist and researcher Karin Paulus from Estonia, a museum educator specializing in design Hanna Kapanen from Finland and a critic, editor, curator and lecturer Liz Farrelly from United Kingdom.
André Gali
Critical Issues in Contemporary Crafts: It’s time to Think Through Materials
Contemporary crafts, art and design are valuable and meaningful tools of communication that go beyond language and engage the public – viewer or user – in various ways, conveying meaning to our surroundings and suggesting ways of being in the world.
Sarah Gilbert
Materials Push Back: Cultivating Naivety at the Intersections of Art, Craft and Design
Art and design are often considered divergent even antithetical practices. Function, or utility, creates the primary division, defining the designer and excluding the artist. Taken further, this division appears in more blatantly ideological terms: the artist aims to question the dominant culture, while the designer aims to create it.
Karin Paulus
Surviving practice: Mixing and Multitasking
In the stress of these fast-paced times“slow living”, which also involves taking joy in everything you do, is a brave and beautiful philosophy. How can we achieve such joy? My recipe is seemingly contradictory: it is also possible to juggle things and combine a wide variety of practices.
Liz Farrelly
Mediating Design: a case study in diversity at London’s Design Museum
During a career that began as desk-top-publishing reinvented print (it never died), London’s Design Museum has been a constant presence for me. As a design journalist and editor, lecturer to design students and (occasional) curator, the Museum has been subject, collaborator and educator, and most recently also partner institution and case study for my doctoral research.
Hanna Kapanen
Design Matters: Learning about the values and impact of design
Design aims to improve life, making it more beautiful, more functional and appropriate to its purpose. Nordic functionalism and the principles of democratic design are still relevant today. They are composed of sustainable design on a human basis taking into account not only the aesthetic dimension but also the environmental, social and the functional aspects.
