Ceramics: Models of Collaboration is a conference, a think tank, a presentation venue, a publication, and a tea party. It examines collaborative trends across ceramic practices. Using history as an expansive point of entry for a variety of practices and technology as a window into potential, this weekend offers a look at ceramics in the broadest possible context.
What would the ceramics field look like without barriers between makers, designers, industry, scientific research, historical research, and theory? What would a collaborative effort that took us out of our studios, our offices, and our laboratories yield?
Ceramics: Models of Collaboration provides an opportunity to experience ceramics as a site of inquiry. This three day conference offers a platform on which to explore the plurality of the material, using themes of collabortion. Ceramics has always crossed the boundaries of architecture, technology, and history. By coming together and presenting or enacting our own collaborative endeavors, models and recipes will emerge.
Your works will be compiled into a booklet
Categories for submission include but are not limited to:
Ceramics and:
Collaborative practice
Technology
Community
History
Theory
Politics of craft
Gender evaluation
Another collaborative model
Submissions may include but are not limited to:
Tours
Panels
Interventions
Derives
Scavenger hunts
Round table talks
Papers
Research
Collections
Presentations of Solo works
Presentations of Group works
Joint Ventures
Collaborative success stories
Works in development
Monday, February 9, 2009
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Submission Guidelines
Please submit a proposal that includes documentation and contact information. Documentation my include by is not limited to: abstracts, proposals, sketches, CDs, and DVDs. Digital images can be in jpeg, Powerpoint, or pdf format. If you are submitting jpeg or Powerpoint images, please set the resolution to no larger than 150. Supporting materials (VC, resume, artist statement, website address) are not required by very helpful.
If you would like your proposal returned, please include sufficient postage and a self-addressed return envelopes.
Submission my be sent by post, email or delivered in person to:
Then please send submission to:
SAIC Ceramics Department
Ceramics: Models of Collaboration
C/O Amber Ginsburg
280 South Columbus Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60603
Or
amberginsburg@gmail.com
If you would like your proposal returned, please include sufficient postage and a self-addressed return envelopes.
Submission my be sent by post, email or delivered in person to:
Then please send submission to:
SAIC Ceramics Department
Ceramics: Models of Collaboration
C/O Amber Ginsburg
280 South Columbus Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60603
Or
amberginsburg@gmail.com
Daily Structure
Daily Structure:
Each day 10 core participants will present their work. Depending on the themes that emerge, sessions will be grouped into two to five presenters.
Down time is built into the format to allow for spontaneous interactions and collaborative connections to form. Teatime offers the time for relationships to begin.
Session 1 AM 9-10:30
Session 2 AM 11-12:30
Lunch 12:30-1:30
Session 1 PM 1:30-3:00
Session 3 PM Tea Time
At least one communal dinner
Each day 10 core participants will present their work. Depending on the themes that emerge, sessions will be grouped into two to five presenters.
Down time is built into the format to allow for spontaneous interactions and collaborative connections to form. Teatime offers the time for relationships to begin.
Session 1 AM 9-10:30
Session 2 AM 11-12:30
Lunch 12:30-1:30
Session 1 PM 1:30-3:00
Session 3 PM Tea Time
At least one communal dinner
Conference Format
Format:
The call format opens the question of collaboration within ceramics to the widest possible group. We will form a curatorial committee from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, art spaces, and artists engaged in collaborative practices. We will then select a core group of 30 participants from an online call, distribution of posters, emails to academic departments, and blogs. This core group of 30 will present projects and discuss works. Within this group, everyone will be both a presenter and commentator.
The core group of 30 will also function as social sculpture. The presentations, discussions, and round tables will be sculptures in themselves. Morning and afternoon sessions will be organized thematically. Anyone interested in the topics presented is welcome to attend. In this way, presentations of collaboration become models of practice for anyone interested. Gathering a diversity of collaborative methodologies across a single material sets up a mechanism for the exchange of ideas. Opening these ideas to those interested suggests pollinization and a potential for these models to be used.
Accepted entries will be published in a conference catalog.
The call format opens the question of collaboration within ceramics to the widest possible group. We will form a curatorial committee from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, art spaces, and artists engaged in collaborative practices. We will then select a core group of 30 participants from an online call, distribution of posters, emails to academic departments, and blogs. This core group of 30 will present projects and discuss works. Within this group, everyone will be both a presenter and commentator.
The core group of 30 will also function as social sculpture. The presentations, discussions, and round tables will be sculptures in themselves. Morning and afternoon sessions will be organized thematically. Anyone interested in the topics presented is welcome to attend. In this way, presentations of collaboration become models of practice for anyone interested. Gathering a diversity of collaborative methodologies across a single material sets up a mechanism for the exchange of ideas. Opening these ideas to those interested suggests pollinization and a potential for these models to be used.
Accepted entries will be published in a conference catalog.
Ceramic Presence
Ceramic Presence:
All participants will be asked to bring their own ceramic place setting. By simply placing these 30 settings on a table between activities, a history of use and function will be displayed. Volunteer helpers will wash the dishes.
During teatime and meals we will use our place setttings. This simple act shifts ceramics into a radical waste reduction program.
All participants will be asked to bring their own ceramic place setting. By simply placing these 30 settings on a table between activities, a history of use and function will be displayed. Volunteer helpers will wash the dishes.
During teatime and meals we will use our place setttings. This simple act shifts ceramics into a radical waste reduction program.
Sites
Sites:
Ideally, this conference will take place in three different sites that engage in ceramic events. For example, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, and the Chicago Cultural Center. By shifting sites, the dynamic ceramic culture of this city is highlighted and collaboration is enacted.
Ideally, this conference will take place in three different sites that engage in ceramic events. For example, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, and the Chicago Cultural Center. By shifting sites, the dynamic ceramic culture of this city is highlighted and collaboration is enacted.
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