Museum of Contemporary Craft
Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn, installation view. Photo: Jake Stangel

CRAFTPERSPECTIVES LECTURE
Philip Tinari: Postures in Clay
Tuesday, October 19, 6:30 pm
Swigert Commons at Pacific Northwest College of Art
1241 NW Johnson St.
Free and open to the public.

Philip Tinari discusses the practices of Jingdezhen porcelain production in the context of Ai Weiwei's approach. Tinari is founding editor of LEAP, a new bimonthly journal of contemporary Chinese art based in Beijing and published by the Modern Media Group. Since 2007, he has run the publishing imprint, editorial office, and translation studio Office for Discourse Engineering. He is a contributing editor to Artforum, and founding editor of artforum.com.cn, the magazine's Chinese-language website.

He has written and lectured widely on contemporary art in China, for publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Magazine, and Parkett.




Program Archives

The CraftPerspectives Series provides a forum for today's leading craft artists, professors and curators to share their knowledge of and ideas about issues in contemporary craft. Craft Conversations allow for open round-table discussion. Topics range and focus on important issues in craft and often explore the work of upcoming speakers.

Craft Conversation: Dawn Odell
Culture Clash: Understanding Value in Chinese Antiquities Now
October 2010
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Craft Conversation: Reading the Land
Daniel Duford (PNCA) and Matt Johnston (Lewis & Clark College)
April 2010
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William Gilbert
Land Arts of the American West
March 2010
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Vicki Halper
Choosing Craft: The Artist's Viewpoint
November 2009
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CraftPerspectives Open Conversation
Sloppy Craft
October 2009

Anne Wilson
Liminal Networks
October 2009
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CraftPerspectives Conversation
Handmade Nation
April 2009
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Glenn Adamson
Craft in the 21st Century: Directions and Displacements
February 2009
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CraftPerspectives Panel
Curating the Work of Mandy Greer and Darrel Morris
January 2009

Garth Clark
How Envy Killed the Crafts Movement: An Autopsy in Two Parts
October 2008
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This lecture is available for purchase as a print on demand book.

Steven Skov Holt and Mara Holt Skov
Manuf®actured: From Readymade to Alreadymade
September 2008
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Paul Smith
Reflections: Twentieth Century Studio Craft Movement – Current Observations
April 2008

Ellen Lupton
The Design It Yourself Revolution
March 2008