Manuf®actured: From ReadyMade to Alreadymade
Regis Mayót, Grand Magazin, 2001; carved plastic containers, metal, Plexiglas; 71 x 43 x 9.25 in.; Collection of the artist.
See this show. And tonight, hear the distinguished curators behind-the-scenes lecture.
Curators of the Museum of Contemporary Crafts’ current show Manuf®actured:
The Conspicuous Transformation of Everyday Objects, discuss the making of the show tonight at the MCC Craftperspectives Lecture “Manuf®actured: From ReadyMade to Alreadymade” tonight, Thursday, September 18, 6:30 PM at the University of Oregon White Stag Building (70 NW Couch). The event is $5, free for members and students with ID.
Steven Skov Holt and Mara Holt Skov deliver a lecture on “how artists, craftspeople and designers are using labor-intensive craft practices to create new works from mass-produced objects and materials.”
POSTED: September 18th, 2008 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: art, craft, museum of contemporary craft | 1 Comment »Steven Skov Holt is the distinguished professor of industrial design at California College of the Arts. He is former editor of I.D. Magazine, co-founder of the product design program at Parsons the New School for Design, and was a design leader at agencies Smart Design, Zebra Design and frogdesign. Mara Holt Skov is an art historian and worked for several years in the fashion industry. Together, they authored Blobjects & Beyond: The New Fluidity in Design (Chronicle Books 2005).
A podcast of the lecture can be downloaded from the Museum’s website at http://www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org
The publication is still on a slow boat from China — literally held up by typhoons and other crazy things — but can be pre-ordered from the Museum, too.
Namita