Schedule updated on 8.September, 2023. click HERE (FINAL)
Note: sometimes the schedule on TimeEdit comes with a slight delay due to technical reasons. Please refer to this PDF instead of the TimeEdit.
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After 1.September, the schedule on Time Edit will be fixed. During the semester, if there are any changes in schedules, Yuka will communicate with you via email and over the section, 'weekly schedule' on module. Please check your GU email account daily.

Course Summary:

Welcome to KHMK10 H23 Method and Context in Craft Practices!

This course (22 hp) is an introduction to the Master’s Programme in Crafts – Ceramic Art, Jewellery Art and Textile Art. The course activities will start on Monday, 28. August 2023 and end on Tuesday, 9. January 2024.

The main focus of this course is to introduce basic tools and concepts of inquiry-based craft practices, which aid to design and conduct independent artistic studio practices throughout the master study. There are two mandatory sub-courses that run parallel during this course:

1. Introduction to Practice-Based Artistic Research (inquiry-based artistic practice) 12,5 hp
2. Introduction to Writing in Artistic Practice (theory) 10 hp

Introduction to Practice-Based Artistic Research aims to support you expand your previous practice/material knowledge and discover areas of your interests by guiding you to learn various artistic methods, methodology, and structures to undertake experiments in artistic studio work. Introduction to Writing in Artistic Practice will start with introducing you to use the GU library, look for information you will need in multifarious media. Through two writing seminars, you will learn definitions and examples of inquiry based artistic practices, how to analyze, reflect upon results of your studio explorations. You will also learn how to contextualize and deepen your artistic interests through writing. You will also attend three lectures that introduce current debates and discourses that are embedded in the contemporary crafts. Please make sure to read several texts before attending seminars and lectures.

Note: On Fridays, you will also attend your elective course.

Lecturers
The course leader is Prof. Yuka Oyama. Yuka will lead the Introduction to Practice-Based Artistic Research. The following guest lecturers will also join the course: Mielle Harvey (jewellery artist based in USA), Dr. Petra Ahde-Deal (jewellery artist, researcher based in Copenhagen), Gustav Thane (PhD candidate in Craft, blacksmithing), Dr. Theodor Harper Davis (Senior Lecturer Ceramic Art).

Linda Sundberg (GU librarian) will start  Introduction to Writing in Artistic Practice with a tour in the GU library. Writing seminars will be taught by Ben Lignel (ceramic artist, writer, curator, cook). Three lectures will be given by Prof. Jessica Hemmings (writer, researcher, curator).
Your individual tutorial supervisors throughout the semester are Yuka Oyama (Jewellery Art), Åsa Norman (Textile Art), and Dr. Theodor Harper Davis (Ceramic Art).

Schedule

Find your course schedule by searching on the course name or course code in TimeEdit.
Also see section in Module, 'schedule'.

 

The First Week: 28.Aug. - 1.Sep.

In the first week, you will get to know your fellow students and faculty members, go on studio tours, find your studio space, register to necessarily IT systems to start your education at HDK-Valand. There will also be an introduction meeting for MA program, subject-specific specialization's get-to-know activities, and introduction for this course, KHMF10 - Method and Context for Craft Practices.

 

Monday, August 28

10.00 – 12.00   
Welcome Ceremony - Klara Björk prefect at HDK-Valand in the Baulan (library/aula) which you find at the entrance.

13.00 – 14.00  
Introduction to academic studies by Hans Eklund and Lena Collin, room 301.

14.00
Welcome Craft students, MA1 Yuka Oyama (Professor, Jewellery Art) will meet you and give you a tour around the school. Meeting point: main entrance.

Find your classroom/studio at Textile, Ceramic and Jewelry departments. Meet fellow students at your specialization.

Tuesday, August 29

11.00 – 12.00  
Information about the digital workshop and booking system. Arild Hansen, room 347.

13.00 – 15.00  Introduction to the Master studies, Jeniffer Forsberg, Yuka Oyama and Åsa Dybwad Norman (Senior Lecturer Textile Art), room 307.

Wednesday, August 30

10.00 – 16.00
This day is dedicated for activities within subject-specific fields: BA-students, MA-students and staff members. Keep an eye on emails that will be sent to you by your department.

For Jewellery Art students, click here

For Ceramic Art students:

At 10.30, both BA and MA students, will meet to present themselves and get to know each other. We will ask everyone to share a five-minute presentation of their work. You can use the same slides you put together for the Friday presentation. 

 

Thursday, August 31

11.00 – 12.00
Introduction of this course, KHMF10, room 338.

13.00 – 15.00   
Equal treatment seminar & workshop, room Studenternas hus.

Friday, September 1

9.00 – 12.00.  
Master's presentations, room 527.
See instructions and schedule below!

13.00 – 15.00.  
Introduction to Elective courses. See separate schedule of each course for locations.

MASTER STUDENT PRESENTATIONS 

Friday, 1.September, 9.00-12.00, room 527

Prepare a five-minute presentation of your work using power-point, a PDF document, or something equivalent.

Åsa Norman (asa.dybwad.norman@gu.se) will bring a computer to show the presentations from. Please your presentation by Thursday, 1. September noon the latest.

Show max.15 pictures based on the following four questions:

• What are your geographical and artistic background(s)?
• What have you been working on (artistic practices) until now?
• What work do you hope to develop at HDK during your master studies?
• Show one picture of a work of art that you have been influenced by.
  
  

Presentation Schedule (A list for MA1 will be made after all the students have been registered)

Maria Widegren, Ceramic MA2

Kristina Zetko, Jewellry MA2

Anna (Irys) Kluska, Ceramic MA2

Sofie Karlsson, Textile, MA2

Klara Lord, Ceramic, MA2

Malin Mattebo, Textile MA2

Tobias, Berntsson, Textile MA2

Jiyang Huang, Jewellry, MA2

Alva Markusson, Textile, MA2

Katla Runarsdotter, Ceramic MA2

Alexandra Hedberg, Textile MA2

Risgaard- Nielsen Ann-Maj, Textile MA2

Lana Natassja Leon Rodriguez, Jewellry MA2

Lena Milicevic, Ceramic, MA2

Sofie Alm Nordsveen, Textile, MA2

Xuying Chen, Textile, MA2

Oktawian Dawid Bohdziewicz (MA1 Ceramics)

Karolina Konarska (MA1 Ceramics)

Malin Lidén (MA1 Ceramics)

Marie Verger (MA1 Ceramics)

Sofia Fredriksson (MA1 Jewellery)

Shiyao Sun (MA1 Jewellery)

Shen Zhang (MA1 Jewellery)

Lina Gabrielsson (MA1 Textile)

Klara Helin (MA1 Textile)

Emma Holmgren (MA1 Textile)

Maria Östblom (MA1 Textile)

 

Literature List

Before the course starts you many have more time to read. Below please find a list of literature that we will be reading:

For Jessica Hemmings' lecture series

Lecture 1: Writing on Making
Read before 28.September

Julia Bryan-Wilson (2013) “Eleven Propositions in Response to the Question: ‘What is Contemporary about Craft?’” The Journal of Modern Craft, volume 6, issue 1, March, pp. 7-10.
PDF DOWNLOAD HERE: Click
FULL TEXT HERE:
https://gu-se-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1c6n021/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1473722505

"WRITING ON MAKING" LECTURE SLIDES download here

Lecture 2: The Sensory Turn
Read before 9.November

Hsu, Hsuan L. (2020) “Introduction” The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics (New York: NYU Press) pp. 1–26.
PDF DOWNLOAD HERE: Click
FULL TEXT HERE:
https://gu-se-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1c6n021/TN_cdi_askewsholts_vlebooks_9781479808144

Lecture 3: Time
Read before 23.November

Claire Twomey (2022) “Post-Studio Ceramics” Post-Craft vol, 3 (London: Sternberg Press)
pp. 135–142.
PDF DOWNLOAD HERE: Click
FULL TEXT HERE:
https://gu-se-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/17rktu2/46GUB_KOHA2761782

Maria Fusco (2017/2023) “machine oil smells sweet (piecework)” The Textile Reader – second edition (London: Bloomsbury) pp. 247.
PDF DOWNLOAD HERE: Click
FULL TEXT HERE:
https://gu-se-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/17rktu2/46GUB_KOHA2754336

Dave Beech, Ingrid Elam & Anders Hultqvist (2016) “Introduction to Times” PARSE journal, pp. 8–11.
PDF DOWNLOAD HERE: Click
FULL TEXT HERE:
https://parsejournal.com/article/introduction-to-times/

"TIME" lecture slides download here

For Ben Lignel's Seminars
Seminar 1
Read before 16. - 18.October
Leemann, Judith. "Pragmatics of Studio Critique" (2017)
PDF DOWNLOAD HERE: Click

Seminar 2
Read before 13. - 14.November
PDF DOWNLOAD HERE: ClickFor Ben Lignel's Seminars

For Theo Harpers Seminars

Theo Harper, Seminar on experiments

PDF DOWNLOAD HERE: seminar on experiments.pdf

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If you have problems with the registration or questions about your studies please contact admission@hdk-valand.gu.se. 

Course Syllabus and Literature List

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