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19 September 2009–21 Mars 2010

Craftwerk 2.0:
New Household Tactics for the Popular Crafts
Over the last decade there has been a surge in crafts among young practitioners,
often combined with political aspirations and networked efforts over
the internet. From being a personal hobby the textile crafts have gone public
and methods, techniques and tools are shared among users in ways similar to
what we have seen in internet phenomena like Facebook and Wikipedia.

Craftwerk 2.0 is an exhibition that explores the new “updated” textile crafts that
are developed by a new generation of serious amateurs, innovative craftsmen,
engaged entrepreneurs and political practitioners. Once again the home, the
Greek Oikos, is the workshop where economic and ecologic innovation happens
– not only in the labs of the industrial expertise. After decades of outsourcing
the new modes of production are in the hands of the layperson.
It is here, among the professional-amateurs, the Pro-Ams, we can see the
seeds for new forms of practice and where craftsmanship is developed into innovative
and high standards – parallel to the dominant industrial or knowledge
economy. Here, the division of labour between producer and consumer, expert
and dilettante, work and hobby have been blurred and once again the love of
the amateur (from the French root Amare – to love) is the driving work ethic.
Craft and activism merges into craftivism and the politics of the future are
shaped hands-on by the kitchen table. This is where micro-utopias are formed
through new shared and distributed household tactics. Welcome to Craftwerk
2.0.

Participating artists:

Erin Dollar, US
Melanie Howard, US
Joern, US
Amy Canadien/ButtonEmpire, US
Faythe Levine US
Stephanie Syjuco, US
House of Diehl, US
Zoe Sheehan US
Cat Mazza US
Lisa Anne Auerbach, US
Rüdiger Schlömer DE
Åsa Ståhl och Kristina Lindström SE
Laura Splan US
Sabrina Gschwandtner, US
Studio 5050 US
Leah Buechley, US
Amy Twigger Holroyd UK 
Masquerade SE
Ulrika Erdes SE
Radical Cross Stitch

Craftwerk 2.0 is curated by Clara Åhlvik and Otto von Busch

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