The Possibility of Research -Föreläsning med Namita Wiggers & Benjamin Lignel

iaspis, Sweden

The Possibility of Research -Föreläsning med Namita Wiggers & Benjamin Lignel

Link: The Possibility of Research -Lecture by Namita Wiggers & Benjamin Lignel

IASPIS, international programme for Visual and Applied Artists, Sweden

Date: Thursday 21 March 2019
Time: 5.45-7 pm
Place: Konstnärsnämnden, The Project Room
Address: Maria skolgata 83, Stockholm, Sweden
Language: English

In this collaborative talk, Namita Wiggers and Benjamin Lignel will share their research process and methodology for Gender and Jewelry, and show how this collaborative project exemplifies ways in which craft history and theory are taught in the newly launched low-residency program at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina.

NAMITA GUPTA WIGGERS (USA) is the Director of the MA in Critical and Historical Craft Studies at Warren Wilson College. She directs Critical Craft Forum,and is engaged in an ongoing research project on Gender and Jewelry with Benjamin Lignel. From 2004-14, Wiggers served as the Curator, then Chief Curator and Director of the Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR. She lives in and works from Portland.

BENJAMIN LIGNEL (FRA) is an artist, writer and curator. He was the editor of Art Jewelry Forum between January 2013 and December 2016, and edited three books under AJF’s imprint, including the first book-length study of jewelry exhibition-making. Benjamin is guest teacher at the Akademie der Bildende Künste (Nürnberg), Alchimia (Florence), Warren Wilson College (Swannanoa) and is currently working with co-editor Namita Wiggers towards a publication on jewelry and gender. His work is represented in several public collections. He lives in Montreuil (France).

For questions contact Iaspis Project Manager Annika Björkman, ab@iaspis.se

IASPIS is the Swedish Arts Grants Committee's international programme for Visual and Applied Artists. Its mission is to work with internationalisation in various ways with the aim of increasing and developing contacts between Swedish artists and international institutions, fellow artists, the general public and the markets with the aim of contributing to artistic development and improved working and income opportunities. This is done by means of studio programmes in Sweden and abroad, informational activities and expert visits, as well as via a public programme of activities which formulate and explore topical issues in contemporary visual art and design from an international perspective.