“Contact: craft and everyday entanglement. Art/craft practice as an act of resistance by defying the certainty of classification"

the note on the flip side of the book:

This publication constitutes about half of the master project in Ceramic Art, completed by Zuz Wilkirska in 2023 in Gothenburg, Sweden, at HDK-Valand's Craft Program (or: hopefully, maybe, completed: as I'm writing these words around the end of April, the spring comes into full bloom and my sore throat still doesn't get better, despite a week at home).

This project deals with: the real-life side of craft making. It traces the desire for contact / relation / connection, which manifests differently on various stages of the practice. Does the dominant art-centric narration of the craft field correspond to the needs of a maker?

On the exhibition, there are sculptures on the table. You can sit down and take them in your hands, they are friendly. There's no need to read this booklet in order to understand them - there's nothing to understand. What matters is the contact that you make and what how it feels for you.

However, if you're curious about how and why I worked - welcome to my island.


︎︎︎ download the pdf here