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Reskilling
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.
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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
Family
As the basis for social organization and the primary site of socialization, the family has drawn particular attention in the visual arts since the inception of art history. As contemporary art seems well engaged in an examination of cultural practices, the family, in all its forms, is returning to the spotlight. Many artists today revisit family traditions, sites, and taboos, challenge what has been held as unspeakable by digging into archives, and invent new, intimate forms of sociability out of biographical experiences. This issue reflects on family histories as they are rewritten in contemporary art.
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