Invitation / Lecture by Mah Rana
You are cordially invited to the lecture of Mah Rana, organised by the Jewellery Design department and Precious Dialogue research platform of St Lucas School of Arts Antwerp.
When? Tuesday 27 February 2018 at 19h
Where? St Lucas Antwerp, Sint-Jozefstraat 35, 2018 Antwerp
Free entrance!
London-based artist, curator and writer Mah Rana will present her body of work and art practice in which human relationships, narratives, memory recall and loss, and material and experiential processes are central. In this lecture, Mah Rana will give extra attention to her approach of public participation in an artistic context being the subject of the masterclass ‘People Skills’ she gives to master’s students of St Lucas School of Arts and The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp.
When? Tuesday 27 February 2018 at 19h
Where? St Lucas Antwerp, Sint-Jozefstraat 35, 2018 Antwerp
Free entrance!
London-based artist, curator and writer Mah Rana will present her body of work and art practice in which human relationships, narratives, memory recall and loss, and material and experiential processes are central. In this lecture, Mah Rana will give extra attention to her approach of public participation in an artistic context being the subject of the masterclass ‘People Skills’ she gives to master’s students of St Lucas School of Arts and The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp.
About Mah Rana
Mah Rana develops inter-disciplinary projects that bring people together to engage in social storytelling and making as forms of participatory arts practice. She searches for new ways of active public participation with equal terms between the artists and the participating audience.
‘Meanings and Attachments’ (2001-ongoing) runs as public-participatory events held in different countries creating a text, photography, and film archive of people’s personal connections to the jewellery that they wear.
www.meaningsandattachments.com
‘Tandemize’ is a 'not for profit' 'cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary' learning and teaching programme that supports students and practitioners to develop the social and cultural impact of their creative practice.
cargocollective.com/TANDEMIZE)
Mah Rana develops inter-disciplinary projects that bring people together to engage in social storytelling and making as forms of participatory arts practice. She searches for new ways of active public participation with equal terms between the artists and the participating audience.
‘Meanings and Attachments’ (2001-ongoing) runs as public-participatory events held in different countries creating a text, photography, and film archive of people’s personal connections to the jewellery that they wear.
www.meaningsandattachments.com
‘Tandemize’ is a 'not for profit' 'cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary' learning and teaching programme that supports students and practitioners to develop the social and cultural impact of their creative practice.
cargocollective.com/TANDEMIZE)
More information via liesbet.bussche@kdg.be or www.researchandjewellery.be/
AFTERSCHOOL 18 June 2015
Alumni Talks / Annelies Weinberger
In het kader van het onderzoeksproject ‘Afterschool’ vroegen we aan oud-student Annelies Weinberger welke adviezen ze aan studenten en beginnende ontwerpers wil meegeven vanuit haar eigen praktijk. Onder haar eigen naam maakt ze zowel vrij werk als werk in opdracht. Dit jaar is ze voor de tweede keer in haar carrière geselecteerd voor de HRD-award met het diamantsieraad ‘A Taste of Life’. Daarnaast geeft ze ook les als docent goudsmeden in het volwassenenonderwijs.
AFTERSCHOOL 1 June 2015
Interview / MAKE ME connect
With Jan Boelen (Z33 & Design Academy Eindhoven)
In 2002 you became the artistic director of Z33. In this capacity you introduced a multidisciplinary programme that combines art and design. How did you arrive at this?
In fact I’m a designer by training, which means that I didn’t follow a traditional training in art history where writing, reflecting and making exhibitions have the upper hand. In my early years at Z33, there was a looser approach in the Netherlands: museums had directors with a background in architecture and design, such as Willem Sandberg at the Stedelijk Museum, Jean Leering at the Van Abbemuseum, and Wim Crouwel at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Designers played a crucial role in the debate around art and applied art. They were my examples. Contrary to the situation at the time, the situation today in the Netherlands has become problematic and we no longer need to follow their example.
AFTERSCHOOL 23 May 2015
Workshop / Triple Parade 2015: CH-ewelry, the Chinese archetypes
CH-ewelry, the Chinese Archetypes by Liesbet Bussche
Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, China
23 & 24 May 2015
According to the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, an archetype is 'a perfect example of something, because it has all the most important qualities of things that belong to that type'. It's an original model of something from which others are copied.
AFTERSCHOOL 20 May 2015
Lectures & exhibition / Triple Parade 2015, Tianjin, China
From 19 May till 29 May, the Jewellery department of St Lucas Antwerp took part in Triple Parade, an international jewellery festival that ran during the Tianjin Design Week. Triple Parade consisted of an exhibition, a symposium, two keynote lectures and two workshops.
AFTERSCHOOL 13 March 2015
Lecture / Re-Public Jewellery Seminar
The seminar Re-public Jewellery was held at Galerie Handwerk during Schmuck in Munich, next to the exhibition From The Coolest Corner. Four international speakers analyzed different aspects of social potential in contemporary jewellery and investigated strategies to convey and communicate jewellery art in public space. The seminar was produced by Martina Kaufmann, Prof. Ingjerd Hanevold and Prof. Anders Ljungberg at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Metal and Jewellery Department in collaboration with The National Museum of Art, Design and Architecture and the Norwegian Association for Arts and Crafts.
Liesbet Bussche, researcher at the Jewellery Design department of St Lucas Antwerp, gave a lecture at the seminar. The talk 'A magazine and a party' focused on the artistic outcome within the last two research projects of the department. Other speakers were Yuka Oyama (JP/DU), Nanna Melland (NO) and Helen Carnac (UK).
AFTERSCHOOL 2 February 2015
Review / Masterclass Liesbet Bussche & Margit Didelez: An image of an artist
Contemporary jewellery designer and researcher Liesbet Bussche and art scientist Margit Didelez organized the week-long masterclass: ‘Een beeld van een kunstenaar’ (An image of an artist), in connection with the ‘Afterschool’ research project by the St Lucas University College of Art and Design Antwerp, Jewellery Design|Silversmithing department. A total of 11 master students from various disciplines – jewellery design, photography, fine arts, graphic design and advertising – took part in the masterclass.
AFTERSCHOOL 22 January 2015
Review / Workshop Pieter Boons (Heimat): Gone Girl
Ringed roots in a cardboard box, a plastic bracelet next to a fresh mackerel in a polystyrene container, bowtie brooches on a leaf of lettuce in silver dishes, a computer screen on which the time ticks away …
AFTERSCHOOL 21 January 2015
Invitation / Presentation workshop Pieter Boons (Heimat): Gone Girl
BEST BEFORE: An extremely temporary presentation of jewellery in the HEIMAT project space (22 January 2015 - 4 PM - Eliaertstraat 16, Antwerp).
AFTERSCHOOL 19 January 2015
Invitation / Workshop Pieter Boons (Heimat): Gone Girl
GONE GIRL (19 tot en met 23 januari 2015)
AFTERSCHOOL 15 January 2015
Alumni Talks / Jelka Quintelier
In het kader van het onderzoeksproject ‘Afterschool’ interviewden masterstudenten Charlotte Van de Velde en Saskia Van der Gucht ontwerper Jelka Quintelier. Jelka Quintelier volgde een bacheloropleiding Juweelontwerp|Edelsmeedkunst aan Sint Lucas Antwerpen en behaalde in juni 2013 een Masterdiploma in Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork and Jewellery Design aan de Royal College of Art (RCA) in Londen.
AFTERSCHOOL 8 December 2014
Publication / MAKE ME party (posters)
This publication consists of a series of five posters, all photographed during MAKE ME party in Antwerp.
AFTERSCHOOL 7 November 2014
Publication / MAKE ME party (magazine)
MAKE ME party is a research publication by the Jewellery Design department of St Lucas University College of Art & Design Antwerp and was launched at the University College symposium of the Karel de Grote-Hogeschool (Antwerp) and at SIERAAD Art Fair (Amsterdam).
AFTERSCHOOL 6 November 2014
Project / MAKE ME party (Antwerp & Amsterdam)
The MAKE ME party took place again on 6 November 2014 during the University College symposium of the Karel de Grote-Hogeschool in Antwerp (the party) and simultaneously at the SIERAAD Art Fair in Amsterdam (the live stream). The stored video is permanently available onstreaming.kdg.be
AFTERSCHOOL 5 November 2014
Invitation / MAKE ME party (Antwerp & Amsterdam)
The Afterschool research team of the Jewellery Department, St Lucas University College of Art & Design Antwerp invites you cordially to MAKE ME party!
Come party in Antwerp and during Sieraad Art Fair.
AFTERSCHOOL 23 October 2014
Publication / The YellowPress Periodical
On Thursday October 23th 2014, the first YellowPress Periodical of St Lucas University College of Art & Design Antwerp was presented at Campus Congres. The YellowPress Periodical is a magazine about artistic research in the academy. We are proud to inform you that Afterschool has contributed to the first issue. Both the complete MAKE ME show-interview with Organisation in Design as a report of MAKE ME party in Idar-Oberstein have been published.
AFTERSCHOOL 25 June 2014
Article / MAKE ME party in the newspaper
GOLD AND JEWELLERY USED AS BAIT
Originally published in Nahe Zeitung, Saturday, 28 June 2014, page 26
Text by Jörg Staiber
AFTERSCHOOL 24 June 2014
Project / MAKE ME party (Idar-Oberstein)
Within Afterschool, MAKE ME party is the most important artistic project to follow directly from the MAKE ME series. The research team – composed of Clarisse Bruynbroeck, Liesbet Bussche, Hilde Van der Heyden, Pia Clauwaert and Hilde De Decker – collected tips and advice from the MAKE ME interviews but, contrary to all expectations, did not apply them literally in their individual artistic practices. On the contrary, the team turned this information into an autonomous project that is now touring internationally as MAKE ME party. The aim is that this artistic approach to research will have a greater impact on an audience than an illustrative interpretation of a number of concrete facts.
AFTERSCHOOL 23 June 2014
Invitation / MAKE ME party
The Afterschool research team of the Jewellery Department, St Lucas Antwerp invites you cordially to MAKE ME PARTY!
Where: Villa Bengel, Wilhelmstraße 42a, Idar-Oberstein, Germany
When: Tuesday June 24th 2014, from 6 PM
Entrance: free
The MAKE ME PARTY will be streamed live and the ustream link will be posted on 24th of June, 6 PM.
AFTERSCHOOL 30 April 2014
Interview / MAKE ME a face
Monday 31 March 2014, 2 p.m.
With Thierry Brunfaut (BaseDesign), Hugo Puttaert (visionandfactory), Hilde De Decker, Hilde Van der Heyden, Pia Clauwaert, Liesbet Bussche, Shana Teugels, Clarisse Bruynbroeck, Sandra Buyck, Octave Vandeweghe, Charlotte Van de Velde and Eline Willemarck.
This interview is a report of the round-table discussion with Thierry Brunfaut and Hugo Puttaert, attended by the Afterschool research team, master students and alumni of the Jewellery Department of St Lucas University College of Art and Design Antwerp.
AFTERSCHOOL 28 March 2014
Review / Masterclass Benjamin Lignel: 'Exhibitionism(s)'
French contemporary jewellery designer, curator, lecturer and editor of Art Jewelry Forum, Benjamin Lignel came to Antwerp to lead ‘Exhibitionism(s)’, a week-long masterclass linked to the research project Afterschool by the St Lucas University College of Art & Design Antwerp, Jewellery Design department. Jewellery professionals and master’s students from various disciplines were invited to take part.
AFTERSCHOOL 26 March 2014
Interview / Heaven Tanudiredja
Datum: 26 maart 2014
Interviewers: Sandra Buyck (masterstudent) & Shana Teugels (oud-student)
Locatie: Atelier Heaven Tanudiredja in Antwerpen
Foto: © Heaven Tanudiredja (designer) & Zeb Daemen (fotograaf)
AFTERSCHOOL 24 March 2014
Masterclass / Benjamin Lignel: 'Exhibitionism(s)'
Any exhibition must contend with the physical constraints of the medium you work in and with the ongoing discussion the wider field of art is having regarding display conventions: less critical than complicit, current curatorial trends treat those conventions like a toolbox of endless combinatory possibilities. As a result, exhibition set-ups dialogue with their heritage (the white-cube, the wunderkammer), incorporate strategies borrowed from other fields in the distribution business (the shop, the vending machine) and employ various penetration methods (installation, occupation, infiltration).
AFTERSCHOOL 2 February 2014
Interview / Paul Derrez (Galerie Ra)
Datum: februari 2014
Interviewers: Eline Willemarck (masterstudent) & Clarisse Bruynbroek (oud-student)
Locatie: Galerie Ra in Amsterdam
Foto: © Paul Derrez (designer) & Marianne Gassier (fotograaf)
AFTERSCHOOL 31 January 2014
Interview / MAKE ME show
With Margriet Vollenberg (Organisation in Design)
How did Organisation in Design (OiD) come about?
I graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2000. After that I immediately left for Milan where I worked as a designer for the Italian jewellery brand Pellini. While there I noticed that my heart was not so much in designing as in organising. After five years I returned to the Netherlands where I founded Organisation in Design. Margo Konings graduated from the Design Academy in 2006. It was after her internship with Tord Boontje that we first met in Milan during the Salone del Mobile and then in Tokyo, where we realized that we had a similar approach to business. So in 2007 we became partners.
AFTERSCHOOL 21 October 2013
Interview / MAKE ME work
With Kirsten Spuijbroek and Jelmer Noordeman (Studio ZWARD)
How did Studio ZWARD come about?
Kirsten: I graduated from the department of product design of ArtEZ Arnhem with a collection of mourning jewels. It did relatively well; the work was sold, bought and published. But I want to be able to earn a living from my work. I am from a family of entrepreneurs and for me being your own boss is a natural thing. With ZWARD, Jelmer and I have created the opportunity to produce commercially attractive jewels. This means that we sell more jewels and that we can remain independent.
AFTERSCHOOL 12 June 2013
Interview / MAKE ME a future
With Luc d'Hanis and Sofie Lachaert (Galerie Sofie Lachaert & SLLD)
AFTERSCHOOL 7 March 2013
Participation / Schmuck, Munich
During Schmuck, the annual gathering of hundreds of international jewellery designers in Munich, students and teachers of the Jewellery Design department of St Lucas University College of Art & Design Antwerp distributed cotton bags. A cut out of the Facebook page of the department was printed on the bags. With a total of ten different designs, a glimpse of the departmental activities was given to the users and visitors. Subsequently, a comprehensive report of dozens of portraits was placed on... the Facebook page of the Jewellery Design department.
AFTERSCHOOL 18 February 2013
Review / Masterclass: Cultural Entrepreneurship
The masterclass ‘Cultural entrepreneurship’ was organised by Prof. Annick Schramme PhD of the University of Antwerp, Faculty of Applied and Economic Sciences / Cultural Management, and the St Lucas University College of Art and Design Antwerp, Jewellery Design|Silversmithing department (SLA), headed by Hilde De Decker. Master’s students of both institutions were welcome to attend, as well as Master’s students of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp.
AFTERSCHOOL 5 February 2013
Lecture / Confrontations 2: Benjamin Lignel: ‘Under the influence’
The second Confrontations lecture of this academic year, organised by the St Lucas University College of Art and Design Antwerp, Jewellery Design|Silversmithing department, was held to support the department’s research project ‘Afterschool’. This project concentrates on strengthening a postgraduate practice and all its implications, through a variety of means.
Contemporary jewellery artist and researcher Liesbet Bussche briefly introduced the audience to French jewellery artist, writer and recent editor of Art Jewelry Forum, Benjamin Lignel. In the context of ‘Afterschool’ he was invited to hold his lecture ‘Under the influence’.
AFTERSCHOOL 6 November 2012
Lecture / Confrontations 1: Marcel van Kan (Atelier Ted Noten) & Lucia Massei (Alchimia)
This academic year the ‘Confrontations’ lecture series started on 6 November 2012 and was organised by the St Lucas University College of Art and Design Antwerp, Jewellery Design|Silversmithing department and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Jewellery Design department.
AFTERSCHOOL 1 September 2012