Podcasts
Georgina Follett Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland.
Louise Valentine Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland.
This podcast is intended for educational use only.
The visibility and the viability of craft research has until 2007 been subsumed as a subset of design and applied art. Craft researchers have had to tailor their thinking to fit accordingly.
In craft writings and communication in general, the subject of aesthetics is often discussed through material and technologies rather than the visual and experiential intent. What has been missing is comparability or evidence of the values that unite the crafts discipline and communication of the critical thinking. Craft is a dialogue concerned with development of a body of work created over a significant period of time, with incremental shifts of knowledge, which build cumulatively. New Craft Future Voices is about shattering the perception or reality of craft as an instrument of discourse where the maker's voice is locked in the object and the interpretation is 'gifted' to the viewer.
A concern for craft research is the bifurcation between the visual and written content. Why? There appears to be a continuing disjuncture of quality in terms of communication of the holistic methodology of craft. We observe that the written content of exhibition writings expose the need to develop visual references and deeper visual contextualisation. Historical and theoretical references and research frameworks are communicated but there remains a gap in terms of visual referencing. However, most impressively the research culture is impacting on visual objects, moving practice at a greater speed than has been visible since the 1980s. It has arguably taken us collectively 22 years to see this culture emerging in practice.
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Les auteures exposent les lacunes que l'on retrouve au niveau de la recherche sur les pratiques de métiers d'art, oł le discours est base sur les matériaux et les techniques, plutôt que sur l'expèrientiel et le visuel.