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A Living Practice
€32
Keyword: 2020s, artistic research, art, crafts, design, graphic design, textiles, queer, paper, shifu, transposition, creation, collaboration, printmaking, letterpress, weaving, materiality, ritual, poetry, syncretism
Authors: Victoria Cleverby, Tova Fransson, Heather Jones, Ever Lavén, Lisa Rydell, Lisa Sander, Ida Isak WesterbergSize: 150 x 210 mm
Pages: 176
Format: softcover (American cover which can be removed, and folded as an A3 poster)
Edition: 200
Illustration: in colour
Language: English
Editor: Lisa Rydell
Text: Maja Gunn + authors
Book design: Lisa Rydell, Julius Lindahl
Publisher: Self published, Research Lab Craft! 2025
Pub Year: 2025
Weight: 326 gr
ISBN: 9789153160724
Description
Article no.: 9789153160724
In A Living Practice, seven artists from Konstfack’s Research Lab CRAFT! (2024–2025) explore artistic research as a living, unfolding event—where textiles, memory, ritual, and materiality converge in deeply personal and experimental practices.
From the publisher:
Victoria Cleverby, Tova Fransson, Heather Jones, Ever Lavén, Lisa Rydell, Lisa Sander och Ida Isak Westerberg have during the course Research Lab CRAFT! (2024–2025) at Konstfack approached artistic research not as a linear path toward a conclusion, but as an event in itself – a living practice.
The publication traces their individual explorations, articulated through personal formats and methods. It encompasses encounters with faith and ritual that open new ways of relating to the textiles around us, an intimate portrait of the forest industry in Värmland, a road trip to a queer bog in Tornedalen, and a stitch-bystitch unveiling of the darker chapters of US history through a quilt. It also documents the discovery of one’s creative practice through the abandoned remnants of other artists, the care embedded in wrapping, transposition and what makes the hidden desirable, and reflections on what the verb “to create” means – figuratively, literally, and materially. The book is designed by Lisa Rydell and is wrapped in a hand-assembled folded poster made of yellow or transparent paper.
From the publisher:
Victoria Cleverby, Tova Fransson, Heather Jones, Ever Lavén, Lisa Rydell, Lisa Sander och Ida Isak Westerberg have during the course Research Lab CRAFT! (2024–2025) at Konstfack approached artistic research not as a linear path toward a conclusion, but as an event in itself – a living practice.
The publication traces their individual explorations, articulated through personal formats and methods. It encompasses encounters with faith and ritual that open new ways of relating to the textiles around us, an intimate portrait of the forest industry in Värmland, a road trip to a queer bog in Tornedalen, and a stitch-bystitch unveiling of the darker chapters of US history through a quilt. It also documents the discovery of one’s creative practice through the abandoned remnants of other artists, the care embedded in wrapping, transposition and what makes the hidden desirable, and reflections on what the verb “to create” means – figuratively, literally, and materially. The book is designed by Lisa Rydell and is wrapped in a hand-assembled folded poster made of yellow or transparent paper.