Vote for a better future together with the faith of craft
Crafts are always concrete and subtle, in the continuous interaction and coexistence of objects, people and the world, suiting it’s measures according to local conditions with its own unique beliefs and ideas and thrives in time. If craft has a tense, do you think it belongs to the past, the present, or the future?
Craft seems to belong to a certain past, but in fact it belongs to every present. The craft, from the visible into the invisible, in the seemingly static objects, contains a variety of dynamic thinking to help us face, change and solve all kinds of contemporary problems. From the Industrial Revolution, globalization to the Anthropocene, does this linear view of time represent real progress as time goes on and technology advances? And where does this storm of progress bring us?
We will rediscover the value of craft today in a fragile future. Especially when the industrial solution is no longer the best solution, how should we redesign and propose different re-solution, determined to bridge the gap and fracture between the modern industry and crafting?
In the exhibition "Craft Land", craftsmanship will propose five new solutions to our future: in the generation inheritance of "惟物"(believing in things), craftsmanship becomes the concrete material evidence of invisible culture, anchoring humanistic values; Reclaimed the innate ability of "維物"(restoration of things),the concept of "Bricolage" bond between hand and material that brings us back from virtual network to the real landscape; Drawing on the "為物"(doing and making things) characteristic of cooperation in the craft, we should rebuild the sense of social alliance by co-working, sharing benefits and local creations. Explore the technological thinking ”微物”(subtle things) like “the god of small things", excavate the new production and renovation introduced by design; Finally, we should face the "危物"(things in danger) situation of the Anthropocene, subvert the technological determinism and the cognition that man can conquer nature, and rebuild the technological view of the cosmos that man is small environment is big.
Welcome to join this gathering of subtle things, and vote on the future together with the faith of craft !
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