Program

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Last updated: March 31, 2010

Day 1
Monday 12.04

Theme I. What Does It Mean To Us? Jewellery, Identity and Communication

09:00

Registration of participants

11:00

Welcome

11:30

Gray Matter: No Brain, No Gain

Manon van Kouswijk (The Netherlands)
Jewellery maker, head of the jewellery department at the Rietveld Academy
11:45

Walking the Gray Area - Ways of Seeing: The body as an area for experimentation; interaction between jewel, wearer, and viewer

Caroline Broadhead (UK)
Jewellery maker, head of the jewellery department at the Central Saint Martins College of Art And Design
12:30

American Cosmovision through Metals

Dr. Clemencia Plazas (Colombia)
13:00

Lunch break

14:00

Use and meaning of materials for different cultures

Clemencia Plazas (Chile)
Anthropologist, teacher at the Uneiversity of Bogotá, former director of the Museo del Oro del Banco de la Republica
Ramón Puig Cuyas (España)
Jewellery maker, head of the jewellery department at the Escola Massana
Damian Skinner (NZ)
Art historian, freelance curator
15:00

Round Table: What does it mean to us?

Liesbeth den Besten (The Netherlands)
Art historian and journalist, president of the Francoise van den Bosch Foundation
Benjamin Lignel (France)
Art historian, philosopher and jewellery maker
Jorge Manilla (Mexico - Belgium)
Sculptor, jewellery maker, profesor of the St. Niklaas Academy Belgium
Ximena Briseño (Peru-Australia)
Jewellery maker, researcher
José Manuel Springer (Mexico)
Art critic, editor of Replica 21 magazine, attaché culturel of Mexico in the Netherlands
Damian Skinner (NZ)
Art historian, freelance curator

Day 2
Tuesday 13.04

Theme II. Two Sides of the Same Coin: The State of the Contemporary Jewellery in Latin America

10:00

Artist Presentation

Ruudt Peters (The Netherlands)
Jewellery artist
10:30

Versions of contemporary jewellery (teleconference)

Monica Gaspar (Spain)
Art historian and independent curator, member of Think Tank
11:15

Artist Presentation: Work Inventory

Manon van Kouswijk (The Netherlands)
Jewellery maker, head of the jewellery department at the Rietveld Academy
11:45

Coffee break

12:00

Artist Presentation (dual): Group Therapy: Artistic Migration

Jorge Manilla (Mexico - Belgium)
Martha Hryc (Poland - Mexico)
12:55

Artist Presentation: The Labyrinth of Synchrony

Beate Eismann (Germany)
13:25

Artist Presentation: Precise and Precious

Mirla Fernandes (Brazil)
14:00

Lunch Break

15:00

Artist Presentation: Things of Value

Jiro Kamata (Japan - Germany)
15:30

Jewellery in Ecuador: Practices, Dialogues, Flux

Dr. Xavier Andrade (Ecuador)
Anthropologist, director of the Visual Anthropology department at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Quito
16:10

Coffee break

16:25

Round Table: The role of art and design academies in the encouragement of formal and conceptual experimentation in jewellery

Ramon Puig (Spain)
Esola Massana
Marlen Piloto (Cuba)
Academy of Fine Arts of Havana
Andres Fonseca (Colombia, Mexico)
UNAM
Manon van Kouswijk (The Netherlands)
Rietveld Academy
Iker Otriz (Mexico)
Centro Diseño, Cine y Televisión

Day 3
Wednesday 14.04

Theme II. Two Sides of the Same Coin: The State of the Contemporary Jewellery in Latin America

10:30

Artist Presentation: From Chile

Walka Studio: Claudia Betancourt y Ricardo Pulgar (Chile)
11:00

From Shamanism to Laser

Raúl Ybarra (Mexico)
Embryologist, researcher, expert on pre-Columbian metalsmithing techniques.
Dr. Sarah O'Hana (UK)
Jewellery artist and researcher, The University of Manchester
11:45

Coffee Break

12:00

Artist Presentation: The Zoo of Life

Felieke van der Leest (The Netherlands)
12:30

In Search of Identity - Contemporary Jewellery in Colombia and its Contribution to the Craft Field

Nuria Carulla (Colombia)
Jeweller, founder of Academy Nuria Carulla
13:00

Artist Presentation: A Rose isn’t just a Rose

Nana Melland (Norway)
13:30

Lunch break

14:30

Artist Presentation: A Trans-Pacific Technique: Filigree in Australia

Ximena Briceño (Peru-Australia)
15:00

Artist Presentation: Encounters and Lost Encounters

Francisca Kweitel (Argentina)
Jewellery maker, co-founder of gallery Metalisteria, member of Peu de Reina
Estela Saez Vilanova (Spain - The Netherlands)
Jewellery maker, member of Peu de Reina
15:45

Coffee break

16:00

Artist presentation: Pure Plantanium

Miguel Luciano (Puerto Rico)
Visual artist
16:30

Round Table: Management and promotion of contemporary jewellery in Latin America

Marina Molinelli Wells (Argentina)
Metalisteria
Ofelia Murrieta (Mexico)
Asociación Mexicana de Autores de Joyas
Mirla Fernándes (Brazil)
Nova Joia
Mónica Benítez (Mexico)
Centro de Información de Moda para Joyería Peñoles
Carolina Rojo (Spain)
Fundación Otro Diseño y Design Flux
Francisco Ceppi (Chile)
Galería Ceppi

Day 4
Thursday 15.04

Theme III. Reshaping the Gray Area: Creating, Connecting, Disseminating

10:00

Just Some Poor Schmuck: The crimes committed against jewellery by the museum and some potential act of reconciliation

James Beighton (UK)
Curator at the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

The Jewellery – The Gallery – The Future

Jurgen Eickhoff (Germany)
Jeweller and co-funder of Gallery Spektrum, Munich
10:50

Round Table: Dialogues of the Gray Aea

José Manuel Springer (Mexico)
Art critic, editor of Replica 21 magazine, attaché culturel of Mexico in the Netherlands
Valeria Siemelink (Mexico - The Netherlands)
Art curator, founder of the Otro Diseño Foundation
Andrea Wagner (The Netherlands)
Jewellery maker, independent curator
Carolina Hornauer (Chile)
Jeweller
Hanna Hedman (Suecia)
Jeweller
Andrés Fonseca (Mexico - Colombia)
Jeweller
Ineke Herkens (Países Bajos)
Jeweller
Miguel Luciano (Puerto Rico)
Jeweller
12:20

Coffee Break

12:35

To Break Down a Wall, is to Open up a View

Cristina Filipe (Portugal)
Jeweller, president of PIN, Portuguese Association of Contemporary Jewellery
13:20

The Art of Collecting Wearable Art

Liesbeth den Besten (The Netherlands)
Art historian, journalist, president of the Francoise van den Bosch Foundation
14:00

Lunch break

15:00

In Search of the Missing DNA: From Contemporaneity to Commercialization

Ricardo Domingo (Spain)
Jewellery maker, marketeer
Introduction by Angélica Espina Tozcano, Project Manager Eurocentro NAFIN México, Program AL-Invest
16:00

Coffee break

16:15

Round table: The positioning of jewellery in a truly global context

Valeria Siemelink (Mexico - The Netherlands)
Art curator, founder of the Otro Diseño Foundation
Cristina Filipe (Portugal)
Jeweller, president of PIN, Portuguese Association of Contemporary Jewellery
Damian Skinner (New Zealand)
Art historian, freelance curator
Mirla Fernándes (Brazil)
Jewellery maker
Francisca Kweitel (Argentina)
Jewellery maker, co-founder of gallery Metalisteria, member of Peu de Reina
Jo Bloxham (UK)
Independent curator, cultural promoter
Carmen Cordera (Mexico)
Founder of Galeria Mexicana de Diseño

Day 5
Friday 16.04

Theme III. Reshaping the Gray Area: Creating, Connecting, Disseminating

10:30

Worktable

Lecturers, organizers and audience will have the opportunity to discuss the results of the symposium and formulate ideas for future cooperation projects
13:00

Closure of Symposium