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
Abstractions
Spring Summer 2025
Yet what about abstraction today? Long confined to formalist and self-referential imperatives, abstraction has gradually freed itself from the modernism yolk to recapture its evocative power. This issue proposes to turn away from the dogma of Abstraction as a historical genre to consider its various plastic and semantic avenues. In this invitation to explore abstractions, we wish to re-establish a dialogue between content and form, between the political and the poetic, by engaging with works that evoke reality differently. Whether they are qualified as abstract, non-figurative, or non-objective, these works certainly tell us stories.