PROPOSTA KARIN + TORE

What material tells about identity and how to make it your own!
It will be a workshop in which the focal point lies on the properties and stories of material. We will bring material from our countries and tell about the background of these pieces, where they are from, what kind of meaning they have, in which surrounding they are used before.
We will find out, how to make `foreign´ material your own? Does it get a South-American expression when used there, even if it comes from Europe? What is the difference in expression of European and South-American material? Is there at all an identity of material and what does it tells about its origin? When it is `used material´, does it has an own story?
Try to find out the story of the material and give expression to it!
Each participant will get a bag with 4 pieces from Sweden and 4 pieces from Germany.
To start with, everybody has to chose two materials and make two pieces of jewellery out of it.
The second part will be that we are going to chose two materials you brought and make two jewels out of it.
Within the last part it is the meaning to mix the European and Brazilian pieces and bring them together in one piece.
Within this process you can add other thinks like glue, wire, thread, needle nail, tape etc. all material you need to connect the pieces together and connect them to the body.
It would be fine if you can bring this kind of stuff together with some basic tools.