Strata
€32
Keyword: contemporary craft, artistic research, materials, cultural heritage, Konstfack Artists: Victoria Cleverby, Tova Fransson, Heather Jones, Ever Lavén, Lisa Rydell, Lisa Sander, Ida Isak Westerberg
Size: 185 x 245 mmPages: 196
Format: hardcover
Language: English
Illustration:richly in colour
Editor: Adriane Dalton
Foreword: Maja Gunn
Text: Victoria Cleverby, Tova Fransson, Heather Jones, Ever Lavén, Lisa Rydell, Lisa Sander, Ida Isak Westerberg
Book design: Hai Fang Hu
Printing: K-Print OU
Publisher: Konstfack
Pub Year: 2026
Weight: 676 gr
ISBN: 9789153507178
Description
Article no.: 9789153507178
Material-based investigations from Research Lab CRAFT 2026 at Konstfack
From the publisher:
What is closest to us is not necessarily what we understand. In STRATA, eight artists from Konstfack’s Research Lab CRAFT! (2025–2026) take the idea of digging where you stand as a point of departure, exploring how lived experience, embodied knowledge and material practices can become sites of artistic inquiry.
What can a mountain tell us about a moving body? How might a ceramic construction give form to the struggle to speak? STRATA moves between Karelian spells and speculative worlds, tactile explorations of craft beyond sight, altered experiences of time after illness, a woven rug exploring memory and loss, and the translation of cultural knowledge into edible materials. It also asks what becomes of a garment when it is no longer intended to dress a body. STRATA takes its name from the layers that accumulate over time, reflecting how experience, memory and material knowledge build upon one another.
Designed by Hai Fang Hu, STRATA features silkscreen-printed greyboard covers and an exposed, gradient-coloured spine with visible black stitching.
From the publisher:
What is closest to us is not necessarily what we understand. In STRATA, eight artists from Konstfack’s Research Lab CRAFT! (2025–2026) take the idea of digging where you stand as a point of departure, exploring how lived experience, embodied knowledge and material practices can become sites of artistic inquiry.
What can a mountain tell us about a moving body? How might a ceramic construction give form to the struggle to speak? STRATA moves between Karelian spells and speculative worlds, tactile explorations of craft beyond sight, altered experiences of time after illness, a woven rug exploring memory and loss, and the translation of cultural knowledge into edible materials. It also asks what becomes of a garment when it is no longer intended to dress a body. STRATA takes its name from the layers that accumulate over time, reflecting how experience, memory and material knowledge build upon one another.
Designed by Hai Fang Hu, STRATA features silkscreen-printed greyboard covers and an exposed, gradient-coloured spine with visible black stitching.