Craft is Political

281 Pages·2021·13.624 MB·English

by  D Wood

Craft is Political
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Craft is Political
Edited by D Wood
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Subjects: LCSH: Handicraft–Political aspects. | Decorative arts–Political aspects. | Handicraft
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Contents
List of figures viii
Acknowledgements x
Introduction: Re-crafting an unsettled world D Wood 1
PART 1 Craft Legacy
19
1 Politics of tea furniture: Invention of ryˉurei style in
late-nineteenth-century Japan Yasuko Suga 21
2 (Dis)playing politics: Craft and the Caughnawaga
Exhibition, 1883 Lisa Binkley 34
3 Indigenous craft is political: Making and remaking
colonizer–colonized relations in Taiwan Geoffrey Gowlland 51
4 Coexistence of craft and design in Turkey as two separate
epistemes Çiğdem Kaya 65
5 Leisure and livelihood: A Socioeconomic reading of
craft in Australia and Egypt Anne-Marie Willis 79
vi CONTENTS
PART 2 Craft Practice
95
6 The politics of craft and working without skill: Reconsidering
craftsmanship and the community of practice Alanna Cant 97
7 From ‘making flowers’ to imagining futures: Rohingya
refugee women innovate a heritage craft Lurdes Macedo,
David Palazón, Shahirah Majumdar and Verity Marques 109
8 Liminality: The work of Monica Mercedes Martinez,
PJ Anderson and Habiba El-Sayed Heidi McKenzie 123
9 Jewellery is political: Ethical jewellery practice
Elizabeth Shaw 136
10 Networks of economic kinship in Aotearoa New Zealand
craft markets Fiona P. McDonald 148
11 It goes without saying: Craft talks politics D Wood 165
PART 3 Craft World View
179
12 Crafts as the political: Perspectives on crafts from design
of the Global South Fernando A. Álvarez R. 181
13 Chilean arpilleras: Hand-stitched geographies and the
politics of everyday life in Santiago’s poblaciones
Nathalia Santos Ocasio 198
14 From essential skill to productive capital: Perspectives
on policies and practices of craft education in Finland
Anna Kouhia 212
CONTENTS vii
15 Sincerity not authenticity: Craft’s political path out of a
modernist trap Leopold Kowolik 225
16 Bellwether: Fingerprinting your woollies Seema Goel 237
Epilogue D Wood 250
Author biographies 253
Index 258
Figures
1.1 Tea items made by Gengensai: bamboo flower container
and raku tea bowl 24
1.2 Gengensai’s sketch of the ryūrei style 26
1.3 Ryūrei style furniture 27
1.4 Tea ceremony at Miyako Odori by Geishas 28
2.1 W. S. Tanner, St. Regis (Akwesasne) Indian Show Company,
1894 37
2.2 George Barker, Tuscarora Squaws, Luna Island, Niagara Falls,
c. 1870 38
2.3 Indian European Team, 1883 at Scarborough, 28 July, Scarborough,
England 43
3.1 Ceramic pot made by Paiwan artist Masegseg Ruladen,
on the model of those revived by Sakuliu Pavavalung 59
3.2 Members of the Kavalan Indigenous group (Hsin-she village)
demonstrating the preparation of fibres from the banana plant
at a cultural centre in Hualien City, Taiwan 60
5.1 Tasmanian Craft Fair: Glass Manifesto and Tasmanian Glassblowers,
and Crick Hollow Pottery 82
5.2 Fayoum Pottery School: Platter or wall plaque; Bowl by
Mahmoud Elsherif 90
7.1 Camp Life, 2020 116
7.2 Under My Skin: Self-Portrait by SA, 2020 118
7.3 Friendship: R by SA, 2020 119
8.1 Return Atacama, 2016, Monica Mercedes Martinez 128
8.2 Glorification #3, 2019, PJ Anderson 130
8.3 Would I Have Called You Teta?, 2017, Habiba El-Sayed 132
10.1 Hayley Lowe Designs, 2011 152
10.2 Devonport Craft Market and Coatesville Craft Market, 2011 155
10.3 ‘I TOOK THE HANDMADE PLEDGE’, Devonport, 2011 157
13.1 Arpillera #17 205
13.2 Arpillera #17 reverse 207
FIGURES ix
16.1 Wool spinning on a spindle 241
16.2 Irish GDP in US$ billions 242
16.3 Irish CO production in parts per million 243
2
16.4 Correlation between Irish CO and GDP 243
2
E.1 Kurshida. Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh 251