Making Equivocal Meaning with Dr Marta Ajmar
Free, booking is required
This research seminar is inspired by the exhibition, Takuro Kuwata, Tea Bowl Punk.
Join University of Warwick's Associate Professor of History of Art Dr Marta Ajmar for a seminar that explores the indomitable nature of contemporary ceramics.
Before joining the University of Warwick, Marta Ajmar was Deputy Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum's Research Institute. She has collaborated with artists and makers internationally and her research explores histories and practices of craft and making.
In this fascinating talk, she unpacks what we can learn from contemporary ceramics as "workmanship of risk".
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