Course syllabus
Information from your teacher
A warm welcome to the master programme Craft at HDK - Valand!
The autumn semester starts Monday, August 30, you should plan on being present in Gothenburg. Due to Covid restrictions, the autumn will be a combination of on-campus - with access to the different workshops and your study space and online teaching.
All education on our premises will be adjusted to the prevailing restrictions and recommendations to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. As the authorities change their decisions and restrictions, we will gradually return to all on-campus teaching.
Introduction week
The first day of the semester is August 30. The first week will be a combination of on-campus activities, workshop introductions and presentations of the students and staff.
MONDAY AUGUST 30
10.00-12.00 Welcome Ceremony, Klara Björk prefect HDK-Valand.
Student at HDK-Valand autumn 21 - welcome!
Webinar for all our program students - new and old. Head of Department Klara Björk and representatives of Konståren Student Union welcome all to a new academic year and tell about the opportunities you have as a student at HDK-Valand. Online and in English.
Links and programme
14.00-14.45 CERAMIC ART STUDENTS, round tour at HDK, we meet at the entrance Kristinelundsgatan 6-8. Katarina A
15.00-15.45 TEXTILE ART STUDENTS, round tour at HDK, we meet at the entrance Kristinelundsgatan 6-8. Katarina A
16.00-16.45 JEWELLERY ART STUDENTS, round tour at HDK, we meet at the entrance Kristinelundsgatan 6-8. Katarina A
TUESDAY AUGUST 31
9.00-10.30 Information about the digital workshop and booking system, Arild Hanssen. Via Zoom; https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/62827012016 (Links to an external site.)
11.00-12.00 Library introduction, Linda Sundberg, Via Zoom https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/63987401057?pwd=ZXdtb2JLd3ByQnhzQjgvaUJZTzNvdz09 (Links to an external site.)
13.00-14.00 Introduction to the master studies, Katarina Andersson, Yuka Oyama, Anna Tegeström Wolgers. Via Zoom
14.30-15.30 CERAMIC ART STUDENTS Introduction to the Ceramic workshop, Charlotta Klingström at HDK Ceramic Art Workshop
14.30-16.30 JEWELLERY ART STUDENTS Introduction to the Jewellery workshop, Carolina Claesson at HDK Jewellery Art Workshop
WEDNESDAY, SEPT 1
ACTIVITIES AT THE DEPARTMENTS:
CERAMIC ART STUDENTS
13.00-16.00 Student presentations of all students at BA and MA. Via Zoom; https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/66369945981 (Links to an external site.)
An informal presentation of who you are and what you do. Prepare a five minutes presentation. A pdf or Powerpoint.
Show at most 15 pictures based on these questions:
- What is your geographical and artistic background?
- What have you been working with until now?
JEWELLERY ART STUDENTS
9.00-12.00 Student and staff presentations of all students at BA and MA at Jewellery Art.
Everyone at the Jewellery Art - BA/MA students and faculty members - will give an informal introduction about who we are as people and as artists. The faculty members’ presentations will be approximately 15 minutes long; yours should be 5 minutes. We want to get to know you - you will get to know your fellow students and us (teachers) at the department. Please prepare a pdf, to present some images and information about yourself. Please refer to the following points as a guideline to plan your presentation:
- What inspires you? Maybe it’s a book, a film, an exhibition, a journey that has been special/important to you?
- Show 1-3 images of who you are/your life
- Show 1-3 images of jewellery pieces/objects that you have created.
TEXTILE ART STUDENTS
9.00-12.00 Staff presentations. Via Zoom (the link will be published later)
12.00-16.00 Round tour and Quiz (on location HDK)
THURSDAY, SEPT 2
9.00-12.00 Now we are here! Seminar with all new students at HDK-Valand.
Now that we are here. Sharing Learning Experiences and shared Learning Environments.
Workshop for new program students: Together with programme directors. Online and in English.
Links and programme
13.00-15.00 Equal treatment seminar. Seminar with all students at HDK-Valand.
Equal treatment at HDK-Valand, we are each other's work environment. Online and in English.
Links and programme
FRIDAY, SEPT 3
9.00-12.00 Master students presentations Join Zoom Meeting
We like you to prepare a five-minute presentation of your work on Zoom. You will share the presentation with the other students at the Craft master programme. Ceramic Art, Jewellery Art and Textile Art.
Prepare a digital presentation, PowerPoint or something equivalent.
Show at most 15 pictures based on these four questions:
- What is your geographical and artistic background?
- What have you been working with until now?
- What work do you want to develop at HDK?
- Show one picture of a work of art you have been influenced by
Speaking order 5 minutes /student
Erik Torstensson
Marilen Rauch
Klara Albertsson
Lili Lu
Tekla Bergman Fröberg
Anna-Maria Saar
Fanny Schwarz
Antonia Haglund
Terese Molin
Johanna Löwenhamn
Klara Albertsson
Laura Hanisch
Anna Hulth
Anne-Marie Dehon
Amanda Kranz
Imad Rashdan
Naomi Sussex
Markus Hvass
Alva Markusson
Xuying Chen
Therese Johansson
Angelica Strandberg
Zuzanna Wilkirska
Jenny Jansson
Zeinab Hosseini
13.00-16.00 JEWELLERY ART STUDENTS
Student and staff presentations of all students at BA and MA at Jewellery Art. ZOOM LINK: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/61063392140?pwd=ZUNaYWp6RTd1Mlg5S2xLeTVkSzhZdz09 (Links to an external site.)
Everyone at the Jewellery Art - BA/MA students and faculty members - will give an informal introduction about who we are as people and as artists. The faculty members’ presentations will be approximately 15 minutes long; yours should be 5 minutes. We want to get to know you - you will get to know your fellow students and us (teachers) at the department. Please prepare a pdf, to present some images and information about yourself. Please refer to the following points as a guideline to plan your presentation:
- What inspires you? Maybe it’s a book, a film, an exhibition, a journey that has been special/important to you?
- Show 1-3 images of who you are/your life
- Show 1-3 images of jewellery pieces/objects that you have created.
The first course KHMA1A Introduction master 7,5 hec
This course is the starting point for your master studies. We want you to reflect upon your artistic choices – what are your reasons to study Ceramic, Jewellery or Textile Art?
You will discuss your aim and expectations of your studies together with teachers, professors and your fellow students. You will start your studio work in the workshops through sketching and improvisation. You will research and write on a topic that informs your artistic practice.
We will introduce you to the GU Library and academic writing.
WORKSHOP TOOLS, SEPT 6-10
Key words: Experiment, sketch process, idea generation, studio work, collaborative learning, shared knowledge, documentation, tools.
The aim of the workshop is to give you the possibility and some tools to explore, reflect, verbalize and materialize thoughts, questions, hope and visions connected with the studies and the field you now entered.
The teachers at the Craft Unit will host one 1 ½ h morning seminar each. The student get a new assignment for each day and will have time until the next morning to sketch and document the process and the experiments.
Monday September 6, 9.00-10.30 Introduction seminar, Katarina Andersson, senior lecturer and programme manager
Zoom link:
Meeting ID: 614 0060 0706
Passcode: 439701
CRAFT THINKING, FIRST SEMINAR SEPT 15
Craft Thinking is series of discussion seminars that consider key international debates in contemporary craft practice that will run through the whole semester.
The seminars are open to MA1 students at the Craft programme at HDK-Valand and Steneby. The seminars are led by Jessica Hemmings, Professor of Craft at HDK-Valand. Each seminar starts with an intro lecture by Jessica Hemmings with the whole group, followed by seminar discussion in two separate groups with a mix of Steneby and HDK Craft students. Before each seminar, the students should read the reading material provided.
WRITING ON MAKING
Writing on Making proposes that practitioners hold their writing practice as close to their making practice as possible. Treating words as materials – and approaching their shaping in similar ways to strategies undertaken in the studio or workshop (repetition, trial/error and experimentation) may help to bring life and personality into academic writing. This lecture considers the many ways and reasons to write and proposes words as yet another material to play with in practice.
Wednesday Sept 15
ZOOM LINK FOR LECTURE & SEMINARS: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/65706562734?pwd=VnJvN2FYaWR2NUhRTVNjZHArMllYQT09
Meeting ID: 657 0656 2734
Passcode: 534457
11.00-12.00 lecture
13.00-14.00 seminar group 1
Karin Bäckström (Textile-Body-Space), Hannes Blixt (Wood Oriented Furniture Design), Charlotte Ewing (Textile-Body-Space), Leonardo Perina (Wood Oriented Furniture Design), Urmo Teekivi (Metal Art), Chrisse Karlsson (Metal Art), Johanna Löwenhamn (Ceramic Art), Imad Rashdan (Ceramic Art), Laura Hanisch (Jewellery Art), Lili Lu (Jewellery Art), Xuying Chen (Textile Art), Alva Markusson (Textile Art), Carina Cresta (Ceramic Art).
14.30-15.30 seminar group 2
Coralie Bergese (Metal Art), Daniel Freyne (Metal Art), Hannah Jervelind (Textile-Body-Space), Lukas Lorey (Wood Oriented Furniture Design), Banchao Lu (Wood Oriented Furniture Design), Tekla Bergman Fröberg (Ceramic Art), Zuzanna Wilkirska (Ceramic Art), Markus Hvass (Jewellery Art), Jenny Jansson (Jewellery Art), Zeinab Hosseini (Jewellery Art), Fanny Schwarz (Textile Art), Naomi Sussex (Textile Art).
Reading:
Sabrina Gschwandtner, “Statement of Practice: Knitting Is…” Journal of Modern Craft (volume 1, issue 2, July 2008)
SKILL AND VALUE
Wednesday October 13 (week 41)
11.00-12.00 lecture
13.00-14.00 seminar group 1
14.30-15.30 seminar group 2
A generic dictionary definition of craft is an activity involving skill in making things by hand. Does this definition continue to hold any relevance when we are faced with movements such as sloppy craft, which celebrate an intentional rejection of skill? Making by hand takes time. If we agree that one component of a definition of craft may involve working by hand (and we may not!) then how does the cost of craft – personal, financial, societal, material – square with late capitalism? How might we define, or redefine, the value of contemporary craft today?
Reading:
Jools Gilson "Navigation Nuance and half angel's Knitting Map: A series of navigational directions" Performance Research, 17:1, 9-20, DOI: 10.1080/13528165.2012.651858
Elaine C. Paterson and Susan Surette Introduction to Sloppy Craft (London: Bloomsbury, 2015) pp. 1-19
COLLABORATION
Wednesday November 10 (week 45)
11.00-12.00 lecture
13.00-14.00 seminar group 1
14.30-15.30 seminar group 2
Contemporary craft has been criticised for its investment in the perspective of the solitary practitioner. What place do the distinct identities of solitary production and collaboration have in craft’s contemporary identity? Are solitary production and collaboration mutually exclusive? Has craft always been collaborative?
CULTURAL APPROPRIATION
Wednesday December 8 (week 49)
11.00-12.00 lecture
13.00-14.00 seminar group 1
14.30-15.30 seminar group 2
What is the difference between inspiration and cultural appropriation? Today the term is often used to suggest something negative or inappropriate. May it also be inevitable? What does authenticity really mean in material culture? And finally, is the craft person’s identity – as much as what they are referencing – how we arrive at ethical judgements about who has the right to borrow from the traditions of others.
Literature list and reading material
Week 37 Seminar "Writing on making"
Reading: Sabrina Gschwandtner, “Statement of Practice: Knitting Is…” Journal of Modern Craft (volume 1, issue 2, July 2008)
Sabrina_Gschwandtner_Knitting_Is.pdf
Zoom
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Study Counselling
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Contact information
For further information please contact the programme director of the master programme in Craft; Katarina Andersson katarina.andersson.2@hdk.gu.se