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This performance draws upon the artist’s personal ‘ballroom culture’ experiences and bodily memories. This degree project develops a distinct language through a performance practice and investigates the jewellery discourse, to capture the contradictory, dynamic relationship between people and society. The performance “The Never-Ending Category: Incompleteness as a Nonverbal Survival Strategy” is structured in three acts;… Continue reading Yu-Chen Chang (Y.C. Lucchi ICON 007)

i forged a hammer today. i am unsure how it fits into my art but i forged a hammer today. and it feels important it feels like a small act of defiance towards a society that still does not expect me to be able to forge a hammer. so, when i was done i made… Continue reading Vivian Manzardo

I explore the emotional abilities of objects, particularly within the domestic space. I focus on the inherent qualities they hold and investigate how these can be brought into a more public space. Returning to objects of childhood and memory becomes a way of approaching their capacity to hold emotion and meaning. As my hands work,… Continue reading Vera B. Zornat

My degree project explores and questions traditional notions of material value through a series of brooches made from discarded plastics. I work with waste as a starting point; instead of viewing it as a product to discard, I see it as a valuable material that can, and should, be reused. Jewellery has historically been associated… Continue reading Siri Hansen

Dear J, I’m honoured, excited and honestly a bit nervous to receive your invitation. I’ve watched you grow up and been waiting for this moment a long time, worried you’d never break your silence. I’m confident we all will listen, look and learn from these relics. This might be a revelation to some, but I… Continue reading Jonathan Gard

In my degree project, I explore various futuristic scenarios and the types of protective qualities our bodies might need for survival. This work is grounded in two core theoretical and conceptual frameworks, “Speculative Craft” and “The Hybrid Laboratory”, drawing inspiration from speculative thinking and science, as well as posthuman and more-than-human philosophies. From this foundation,… Continue reading Helene Kask

My degree project is about alternative ways of communicating with the future about the dangers of storage sites where spent nuclear materials are stored. Symbols and signs hold a certain degree of power but could be misinterpreted in the distant future. I have looked into religion and secrecy as a different way. Religion, myths, stories,… Continue reading Eric Lagergren

‘The forest’. No mirrors encountered. No sudden body dysmorphia. No excluding public bathrooms. Just moss, trees and blueberry bush. There your pee travels from body to ground, nurturing everything around you. All of which you are part of. You fucking love the forest. ‘Your shoes’. You wore them out, because of the power they gave… Continue reading Ebba Bruce

This body of work is an exploration of the physical and metaphysical subterraneal world in an attempt to illustrate the interconnectedness of all things through the eyes of stone. Here stone is approached not as inert material but as an active participant in its own narrative and history. Geological ‘horizons’ act as a methodology where… Continue reading Catriona Donald