Welcome to our third seminar of the Glass Virus' Seminar Series 2020 !

Every last Wednesday of the month up to February 2021, the Glass Virus will organize an online seminar with invite young artists, who will present their work and discuss their practice, interest and future endeavors with experienced experts.

For our third seminar, our panel will contemplate the following topic:

Writing as a Way of Making - December 16, 2020 6:15 pm CET

For many students and artists, writing became an important form of artistic expression during the lockdown. How can essays and poems best be included in the visual work?

How can we make the written texts more accessible to a wider audience?

How can writing as a tool interact interestingly with physical making?

Artists

Madeli Viljoen, PXL/MAD, Hasselt

Ella Oppenheimer, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem

Expert

Maria Barnas, artist, writer, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam

Moderators

Bert Willems, PXL/MAD, Hasselt

The Glass Virus wants to discuss various examples of artists practices and the future of (recently graduated) artists and designers and glass-art education.

It is difficult enough for young artists to conduct a practice in which they are economically and socially independent immediately after their studies. However, this year's graduates are facing even more challenges because social and economic structures are partially or completely absent and they have to build a professional life in an incomparable situation.

Young artists rightly have questions, doubts and concerns about their personal future as artists, within a transforming society that seeks to redefine itself. The consequences of the pandemic, social and ecological fairness, cultural equality; are all subjects, which are often addressed in the work of the young artists.

The Glass Virus wants to make these concerns accessible in the seminars and share it with a large audience, including educational and professional institutions, individual makers, curators and students.