Sybille hotz biography samples
•
Extreme Embroidery: Art and Craft Meet On the Verge
Extreme Embroidery: Art and Craft Meet On the Verge
In 2007, the Museum of Arts & Design in New York City embarked on a series of exhibits examining ways in which contemporary artists are reinventing the age-old techniques and styles of traditional handcrafts. The first show in the series, Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting, opened in January 2007.1 Pricked: Extreme Embroidery, the second installment, proves to be even more provocative, with a range of artists and works that challenge long-held views of embroidery as a socially acceptable, benign form of practical and decorative art. While it is true that embroidery figures prominently in the 60 works displayed, visitors will note many other surprising materials used by the 48 exhibiting artists: human hair, Welsh slate, brass badges, laundry bags and an antique doll bed among them.
Representing 17 countries from America to Transylvania, Korea to England, and Egy
•
WOW, a Mailing List
Yesterday i went to a very exciting show at Museum of Arts & Design in New York. Pricked: Extreme Embroidery has invited 48 artists to demonstrate the diversity of new approaches to needleworking technique.
As they did with their previous show Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting, the Museum demonstrates that contemporary artists are exploring new ways to bring centuries-old handcraft traditions into the 21st century.
Phrenology III (child)
One of the works that most impressed me was Morwenna Catt Phrenology Heads. Phrenology, developed bygd German physician Franz Joseph Gall around 1800, and very popular in the 19th century, fryst vatten a discipline which claims to be able to determine character, personality traits and criminality on the basis of the shape of the head (i.e., bygd reading “bumps” and “fissures”). Catt’s soft sculptures of heads have long animal ears, Frankenstein-like stitches all over their face, one eye is shut by
•
[Add-Art's] Double Act
The Hustler and The Carer
w/ Extensions
For the sake of clarity, this project focuses on two modes of presentation of art online, which we're calling The Hustler and The Carer. The Hustler refers to the form of reciprocity in which a product or service is being presented (for sale) to a potential user (based upon analytics culled from taste-expressing consumers). A great example of this kind of reciprocity is the virtual context - the ad spaces - in which Add-Art operates (i.e. The Banner Ad Surrogate). In contrast, The Carer refers to a form of reciprocity in which personal requests for intimate communication are offered as a form of support. These requests are typically not associated with economic transactions but rather a reciprocity of attention.
Through the Internet, non-spatial attributes of virtual communication create a conceptual double of artists' work, work which would otherwise be primarily interpreted via object-ness and/or through an intim