movie day: Dhaka Art Summit 2020 Existence-emitting Movements

by | Apr 8, 2020 | movie day

Dhaka Art Summit 2020
Existence-emitting Movements
is an action in which a group
of women walk directly on an installation comprised
of hundreds of raw clay vessels in different shapes and sizes inspired by traditional cerâmica traditions of Bangladesh. Most cultures, including those of the artist’s native Mexico as well as Bangladesh, perpetuate the iconic image of a woman bearing a vessel on her head to transport water or food; a symbol of the hard domestic labour weighing down women in society. Héctor Zamora disrupts the order of things by placing the vessel not upon the women’s heads, but rather beneath their feet.
By inverting the equation, what occurs is a shared space of liberation where women can turn the tide of patriarchy and recover pleasure in their lives.
Text by Diana Campbell Betancourt
Dhaka Art Summit and Samdani Art Foundation

Clay for Clay Community

by | Apr 6, 2020 | Uncategorized

The ability for potters and ceramic artists to earn their usual income has been greatly affected during the COVID-19 pandemic. Exhibitions, teaching, markets and selling opportunities have ceased. The time has come for us to help each other through this difficult time. Building on the success of Clay For Australia, I would like to offer a way to keep sales happening – CLAY FOR CLAY COMMUNITY, #clayforclaycommunity. It is up and running on Instagram !

www.instagram.com/clayforclaycommunity

It’s simple.

* An artist can post on Instagram up to 5 works (at any one time) on their IG, using #clayforclaycommunity as one of their hashtags.

* Anyone can buy the work. Artist keep the payment!!

* Every time the artist has 5 sales, they buy 1 work by another artist (valued at 20% of total of the 5 sales).

* Follow #clayforclaycommunity to see all the work being offered for sale.

* Keep an eye on the @clayforclaycommunity for news, opportunities and announcements.

* Repost our campaign and tell your family, friends, colleagues and collectors. * Be generous and share the love! More detail on ww.instagram.com/clayforclaycommunity

I hope Clay For Clay Community will help you deal with this difficult time a little easier and hope that you will take part on this project. \

Best wishes

Vipoo Srivilasa

 

upcoming online Curator talk: It’s Still Political: Gender, Sexuality, and Queerness in Contemporary Ceramics

by | Apr 6, 2020 | Uncategorized

Mar 6 to Jun 21
Emily Galusha Gallery

Curated by Mac Star McCusker with Kelly Connole

REMOTE Curator Talk with Mac Star McCusker
Join the curator of It’s Still Political: Gender, Sexuality, and Queerness in Contemporary Ceramics, Mac Star McCusker, for a lecture and conversation surrounding topics of the associated exhibition.

Thursday, April 16, 6 pm
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It’s Still Political, curated by Mac Star McCusker with Kelly Connole as Curatorial Advisor, revisits the themes addressed by Sexual Politics: Gender, Sexuality, and Queerness in Contemporary Ceramics, an exhibition originally on view at Northern Clay Center in the spring of 2015. In that exhibition, Kelly Connole wrote, “Artists have the potential to freeze a moment in our collective cultural history, record it, interpret it, and help us breathe in the truth of our own time.”

The theme is just as relevant today. It’s Still Political focuses on gender fluidity, specifically, gender expression. McCusker offers, “We are all forced to participate in narrowly defined gender roles. Feminine men and masculine women have assumptions immediately made about their sexuality even though gender expression and gender identity have nothing to do with sexuality.” Five years after the original exhibition, it is still a misconception frequently held in our culture.

This exhibition features works by artists who actively engage in and promote insightful dialogue about gender expression and identity and provides much-needed current perspectives on the subject within the context of both human experience and ceramics.

Participating artists include: Shane Elliot Bowers, Dekalb, Illinois; Shannon Gross, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Arthur Halvorsen, Somerville, Massachusetts; G.V. Kelley, Lincoln, Nebraska; Mac Star McCusker, Durham, North Carolina; Marval Rex, Los Angeles, California; and Maya Vivas, Portland, Oregon.

About the curator
A maker themself of wheel-thrown, slab-built, and sculpted ceramics, McCusker’s work “spotlights the policing of gender, anti-discrimination laws, Bathroom Bills, and issues addressing the LGBTQ community.” The artist has produced work in such series as The Transition Series, Project Canary: The Gender Magnet Drop, Trans-Action Figures, among others. McCusker lives and maintains a studio in North Carolina and currently teaches at Odyssey Clayworks. They hold an MFA from Georgia State University in Atlanta and a BA from Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia.

Of their practice, McCusker says, “Living and working in the state of North Carolina has forced me to address things affecting my community, making me the subject of my own work. I have become, for better or worse, visible and vulnerable through making and creating ceramic sculptures. I am generating a dialogue about my life, my own narrative, political, and social concerns, and through that process I am educating others.”

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