Visions, Ventures & Valuables

Abstract

Visions, Ventures & Valuables presents the artistic research of jewellery artists Liesbet Bussche, Maria Konschake and Anneleen Swillen, which they are developing as PhD or postdoctoral scholars. All three are affiliated with Hasselt University and PXL-MAD School of Arts Hasselt (Belgium) and members of the MANUFrACTURE research group within MAD-Research.

In the joint presentation, Liesbet Bussche, Maria Konschake and Anneleen Swillen share visions from their research process, ventures they initiate and challenges they encounter along the way. They show their artistic process and outcomes in which making and thinking, perceptions and reflections, physical valuables and metaphorical values alternate and influence each other. All three depart from jewellery – as discipline, discourse, object, practice, perspective – to unfold their artistic identities and, in doing so, shape their research and related questions.