Summary
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Reskilling
Winter 2012
Questions of “know-how,” “skill,” and “technique” have resurfaced in artistic discourse. Many practices are revisiting applied arts—ceramics, textiles, glass, etc.—, transgressing boundaries between craft, design, and contemporary art and disrupting normative values associated with such hierarchical categories. This issue will examine significant transformations that have resulted from this exploration of traditional media and the revival of the “well-made” object.
Editorial
Feature
Reskilling
Technics and Tradition Inside Out
Handling the Technical and Theoretical Paradoxes of Moulding
Current Interventions on the Porcelain Object
Un-designing: Serge Murphy, Architecture and Felt Time
When the Belly Is Full the Brain Starts to Think: Craft and Criticism in the Work of Daniel Halter
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Current Issue
Tourism
Spring Summer 2024
Because it is essential for it to be open to the world, art is particularly affected by concerns related to planetary travel. From a position at the intersection of contemporary art, leisure, ecology, and destination culture, Esse no. 111 observes artists’ and critical thinkers’ strategies for revisiting the very notion of tourism. Although the harmful impacts of the tourism industry are beyond question, the thematic section avoids falling prey to tourismphobia and simply pointing out its failures. Rather, this issue offers a guided tour of situations and places where art and tourism converge.