From Walter to Valerie / Anneleen Swillen

Anneleen Swillen (b. 1992, BE) holds a master’s in Object and Jewellery Design from PXL-MAD School of Arts (Hasselt) and a postgraduate degree in Curatorial Studies from Kask School of Arts (Ghent). She is currently conducting doctoral research in the Arts into presentation within contemporary art-jewellery practices (Hasselt University and PXL-MAD School of Arts, Hasselt). Through her artistic practice, which consists in the creation of jewellery, objects and (moving) images and in organizing curatorial projects and group conversations, she explores topics and interactions related to how contemporary art jewellery is created, presented and experienced.

Inspired by the various ways in which chains are used, worn and shown via popular media, by both ‘amateurs’ and ‘professionals’ alike, Manual explores the format of the YouTube tutorial as a platform for both presentation and perception. In these Manual tutorials, the focus is on chains as material and their endless potential to be transformed into and experienced as wearable jewellery pieces rather than on the creation of ‘finished’ and ‘static’ jewellery pieces. Manual balances between maker and model, presentation and perception, DIY and prefabricated, fiction and reality, demonstration and improvisation, physical and virtual, product and process, self and other, private and public.

www.anneleenswillen.be/
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