Is your contemporary jewellery body positive? mit Gina Nadine Müller (BFA 2019)

Gina Nadine Müller: Bellyfold | Halsschmuck | Emaille auf Kupfer, Seide, Stahl | 2019

"If Contemporary Jewellery is a body-site specific art form - then surely it has to have a stance on body positivity? So, ARE WE BODY POSITIVE? And what is our responsibility in this discussion?  

TempContemp wants to know how the body relates to artists’ work and ideas: Do you consider it? How important is it? What are the choices, compromises, discoveries, and inventions you make to include (or reject) bodies in your practice?

Is Contemporary Jewellery sufficiently inclusive? Is Contemporary Jewellery unashamedly, or unconsciously choosy about the body that wears it?

If contemporary jewellery is about the body, why do we (TC included) instinctively model it on a blank wall or a square, usually white, plinth? If contemporary jewellery is about the body AND about being non-precious - why lock it away from the bodies behind glass and a paywall? 

We’re asking jewellers, artists, makers, thinkers, dabblers, and also collectors and wearers to explore these and more ideas with us through whatever way they relate their thoughts: Jewellery, object, performance, installation, curation, and words."

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