North-West Ceramics Foundation Speaker Program

A reminder to put
on your calendars -
free talk and slides

by Amy Gogarty

7:30 p.m., Thurs., June 12
Room 245NB, North Building,
Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design

Amy Gogarty has taught Visual
Arts History, Theory and the History
of Ceramics. She has published
extensively on issues relating to
contemporary art and craft, and
has participated in conferences and
symposia relating to craft issues
nationally and internationally.

In her talk, Amy will discuss
the main ideas in French curator
Nicholas Bourriaud’s book Relational
Aesthetics, using those ideas to
propose a different way to think
about functional ceramics as well as a

different way to think about function
in ceramics.

By focusing on what functional
ceramics do—generate social rela-
tions; construct and signal identity;
connect individuals and communities
to sensual experiences as opposed to
what they look like or how they are
made—we can examine how they
perform, by generating new links
to how other forms of relational art
perform.

Using slides of contemporary
functional ceramics as illustration,
Amy will suggest that consideration
of these ideas emphasises the
commonalities of functional ceramics
with other forms of relational art
and refutes the arguments used
by educational institutions and
museums to eliminate ceramics from
programming or collections.

FingerPlay:
People’s Choice
Award

Pat Schendel’s entry (above) in the
FingerPlay: BC in a Box exhibition at
the Blackberry Gallery was chosen by
gallery visitors for the People’s Choice
Award. Pat is president of the Fraser
Valley Potters Guild.

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