KORU 2

Remarks

Workshops

Tutor: MS. MANON VAN KOUSWIJK (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

ON COLLECTING
Dates: 12. - 15.6.2006
Fee: 80 €
Number of participants: 12

Collect.
to gather together; assemble
to accumulate; make a collection of

Collection.
that which is collected; a set of objects, specimens,writings etc, gathered together
group of things belonging together

Group.
number of persons or things belonging or classed together The workshop will explore different aspects of collecting;

* Collecting as an activity prior to the making, collecting materials / sources of inspiration

* The nature of a collection as an outcome of the making process; working with groups of objects that are somehow connected.

Through a series of exercises and questions participants will explored the possibilities of collecting as a starting point for a working method. It will be explored variety and diversity, but also similarity as a way to achieve a link between a group of things. By means of sketching in diverse materials we will take the theme of the collection through various stages of translation and transformation. Each stage will be documented in a suitable way, according to the nature of the specific collection.

Which visual means are there to establish connections between different objects? How can you translate existing methods of selection, arrangement, classification, presentation from other disciplines or from daily life into your own work?


Tutor: MS. LIN CHEUNG

Signs of life

Dates: 12. - 15.6.2006
Fee: 80 €
Number of participants: 12

If our jewellery could speak, what would it say?

We know jewellery to be a vehicle for personal expression; designed, made, and used to express artistic thought, status in society, belief, wealth, fashion trends, customs and rituals etc. But despite these different prior forms of ‘designed expression', all jewellery has in common a propensity for a secret life: the capacity to hold personal, unique meaning that ultimately defines the piece.

By wearing, owning and interacting with jewellery, we breathe life into it. We activate it and set it on a life-long journey to collect and absorb its surroundings – eventually becoming a unique piece even if it started out as one of a thousand other identical items.

In this workshop we will consider how a piece of jewellery becomes unique, the transition from anonymous object to unique personal belonging, how we define ‘unique', how meaning is attached and changed, how ‘value' is added and how these thoughts can be deliberately expressed into an ‘anonymous jewellery blank' to start it on its journey as a sign of life.


Tutors: HELENA LEHTINEN AND TARJA TUUPANEN (Lahti/Lappeenranta, Finland)

CAMEO TODAY
Dates: 12. - 15.6.2006
Fee: 80 €
Number of participants: 12

The workshop's aim is to give a new life to traditional cameo.
Cameos have their origins in seals, which were already made over 7000 years ago in ancient Middle East . First known cameos are from Alexandria , from 2nd century BC. We know our grandmother's portrait cameos best, but in other times the subjects have been various from gods and goddesses in Ancient Greek to philosophers and political subjects in Hellenistic Rome.
Reflecting on what it has been in the past, participants will search the meaning of cameo today. What it has been? Is there any significance left? What it could be? What is your cameo? With new materials and ways of working, participants will create a new tradition in cameos. Materials are not limited, using stone is also possible.


Tutor: MR. NOBORU ANDO (Tokyo, Japan)

TRADITIONAL JAPANESE METAL TECHNIQUES
Dates: 12. - 15.6.2006
Fee: 80 € + materials and tools 80 €.
Number of participants: 12

Practice of nunome zougan (texture inlay) as the main theme, with introduction to various zougan (inlay) techniques and colouring technique of different kinds of metal such as shibuichi (an alloy of copper and silver) and shakudou (an alloy of copper and gold)
The class include making tools, designing and making the inlayed metals, though to finishing and polishing.


Tutor: Mr. TED POLHEMUS, cultural theorist, (London, Great Britain)

JEWELLERY AS ADJECTIVE

Dates: 15.6.2006
Fee: 50 € (includes the symposium fee)
Number of partisipants: 30

Once upon a time fashion designers, stylists, journalists and other 'professional experts' set rules about how the different components of appearance - garments, jewellery, accessories, hairstyle, make-up, etc. - should be 'co-ordinated. Today's creative consumer, however, wants to sample & mix his or her own 'style statement' - often deliberately juxtaposing what would previously have been seen as contradictory and clashing styles. This new freedom (and responsibility) for the consumer reflects a more individual and less conformist approach to appearance. But it also derives from a greater inclination (as the term 'style statement' implies) to use appearance to 'say' (indeed, to advertise) something about ourselves - each garment, ornament or accessory constituting an 'adjective'.

This one day workshop will explore how the creative process extends beyond the design stage to look at how individual items of jewellery take on new meanings in relationship to specific garments, accessories, hairstyles, make-up, etc.