Making Matters - A Vocabulary for Collective Arts

Making Matters - A Vocabulary for Collective ArtsThe world today faces overwhelming ecological and social problems and the concern for material existence on earth is more pressing than ever. Making Matters spells out various roles that visual artists and designers play facing these issues. Collective action is necessary and inevitable. Collective action often changes the artists identity and working habits: from individuality and autonomy to collectivity and collaboration, both locally and globally.

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He elaborates a key according to which these books need to be chosen

as part of an effort to disseminate Confucian principles throughout the kingdom

the artist brings together unexpected connections and windings

its name a reference to an imaginary place

from women liberation slogans to dishwashing instructions

The colonial era still has an impact on today’s society

Traces of Autism is about an understanding of public space

when they work on sculptural objects: before they start cutting into a stone they contemplate its surface to anticipate the structure and natural growth beneath it

Yet it cleverly retains its subtle visual charm

and I was horrified by the noise of an airplane flying low spraying insecticide

having recently graduated the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht