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AcademyNewsEnglishJewellery and Blacksmithing Artists Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the specialty with “Blackout”

Jewellery and Blacksmithing Artists Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the specialty with “Blackout”

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This year, the Jewellery and Blacksmithing Department of the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) is celebrating its 100th anniversary with a representative international exhibition “Blackout”, from October 26 to December 1, at the Narva Art Residency. Although both the university and the specialty have changed their names several times in the last hundred years, the fact remains that metal art has been taught at a high level for a hundred years in a row. Which is also a big reason to invite metal art friends from Estonia and abroad to the exhibition. The exhibition at the Narva Art Residency is accompanied by a symposium, field trips and a sauna that help to get the discussions going. They all come together under the common name blackout. We are not referring to mental blindness or stronger cat anxiety, but asking How to get there without knowing exactly where you are going?, because the artistic quality lies in capturing the invisible and discovering the surprising for yourself and others. “The fear of being lost disappears, because even if you don’t know what you’re looking for, you can recognize it when you find it,” says associate professor Piret Hirv, head of the Jewellery and Blacksmithing Department of EKA. Symposium 25.-26. at the October symposium, answers to the above-mentioned question will be sought from three different points of view: a practitioner, a theoretician, and an educator. Speakers ask: what techniques do you use to encourage and build trust; by means of which the student can start the path towards; whose target has not yet revealed itself; how to ask the right questions; with which to discover something new; how to deal with ignorance; how to keep the courage to continue searching and research in a situation where setting too clear a goal could be rather an obstacle to research; how to recognize the right things? EKA’s oldest specialties are celebrating their jubilee together with the 110th anniversary of the Academy of Arts, the celebration of which takes place from 4 to 8 of November at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Artists: Jorge Manilla (KHIO/NO), Olaf Hodne (KHIO/NO), Erinn M. Cox (US), Daniel Strandow (HDK Valand/SWE), Siri Tolander (HDK Valand/SWE), Tarja Tuupanen (FI), Jenni Sokura (LAB/FI), Flora Vagi (MOME/HU), Taavi Hallimäe (EA), Urmas Lüüs (EA), Sander Haugas (EA), Taavi Teevet (EA), Hansel Tai (EE), Liisbeth Kirss (EE), Erle Nemvalts (EE). The working language of the free symposium is English, and pre-registration is required for participation.
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