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

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

For the fourth seminar, the panel will contemplate the following topic:

Performance and Materiality - January 27, 2021 6:15 pm CET

To define performativity is to look both at performativity as an act of social or artistic manifestation and as the inherent feasibility of any entity to perform within or outside a given context.

Are material interaction and the process(ing) of material per definition forms of performativity?

This seminar will try to approach the different semantic presumptions and how artistic practice can be a tool or a result of performativity and materiality.

Artists

Sam Chua, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)

Ella Fischer Leventon, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (IL)

Expert

Carly Rose Bedford, KABK, Den Hague (NL)

Moderators

Karen Donnellan, Alfred University, Alfred (USA)

Jens Pfeifer, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)

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.