Conference Schedule
Welcome to IOTA24 Futuring Craft: The Value of Craft
3-6 September 2024
Four days of craft inspiration and intersection with technology, health, science, economies and the environment.
All presentations are 'in-person', unless noted otherwise as ** 'online'.
School of Design & the Built Environment, Building 418, Curtin University, 1 Koorliny Way, Bentley, Perth, Western Australia
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** denotes an online presentation.
DAY 01
Tuesday, 3 September
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Registration & Networking Moaj Trio perform beautiful intercultural Persian music from Iran and Australia featuring Reza Mirzaei on saz, Saeed Danesh on daf and tombak, and Camille Lalanne on cello. |
15:15 – 16:00 | Level 3 | |
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Conference Opening Welcome Keynote Speaker: Asim Waqif / India In Conversation with Jimmy Thompson, MJA Studio / Australia |
16:00 – 17:00 | Level 3 | |
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Stitch as Code Exhibition Opening (formal proceedings). Welcome to Country: Uncle Noel Nannup Exhibition open until 7:30pm. |
17:15 – 17:45 | DBE Collaboration & Exhibition Space | |
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Cultural Celebration Salama is a dynamic music and dance group that features Indian Ocean members from La Réunion, Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar, singing in Malagasy and Creole languages. Led by Muriel Hillion Toulcanon, Salama perform traditional Reunionese music and dance, born from slavery, developed clandestinely, and banned by authorities until as recently as late last century. Music & dance performances produced by Saraswati Mahavidhyalaya (SMV) and Kaleidoscope Multicultural Arts Management. |
17:45 – 19:30 | Ground Floor |
DAY 02
Wednesday, 4 September
| Registration | 08:30 – 09.00 | Level 3 | |
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Social Net-weaving Facilitator: Aden Date |
09.00 – 09.45 | Blue Carpet Area Level 3 | |
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Codes in Parallel - Meanings on the Move Sacred spaces and the codification of cloth Presenter: Wafa Ali, Muhammad Umer Rehman / Pakistan Madras Check: Colour, Circulation and Consumption Presenter: Uthra Rajgopal / India Moderator: Maggie Baxter |
10:00 – 10:50 | Room 01 | |
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Truth-telling through Objects Impact of colonialism on Western Art-Craft distinctions Presenter: Emeritus Professor Richard Read / Australia The Pacific and the Indian Ocean - threads of modernist movements in the collection of the Iwalewahaus Presenter: Dr Katharina Greven and Sarah Boellinger / Germany Moderator: Susanna Castleden |
10:00 – 10:50 | Room 02 | |
| Break | Morning Tea | 10:50 – 11:20 | ||
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The Evolving Compass: tradition, decolonisation, industrialisation Tangible and intangible qualities in craft development: A Global North- and Global South perspective Presenter: Mr Fauzy Prasetya Kamal / Indonesia ** Art, Alam, and Adat: Creative Bornean responses to traditional practices and contemporary realities Presenter: Catriona Maddocks and Sonia Luhong Wan / Malaysia Unweaving the fabric of hierarchy. Decolonisation in curatorial practices Presenter: Christine Toelle / Indonesia / UK ** Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Tod Jones |
11:20 – 12:30 | Room 01 | |
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Inspiring Stories Interlacing the known and unknown: lace, ancestry and practice led research, Presenter: Molly Ryan / Australia Inspiring the World from Village India. Presenter: Sonu Yadav (aka Kabir), MORII Design / India Moderator: Mary Ellen Cliff |
11:20 – 12:00 | Room 02 | |
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Value of Craft: Forum Facilitator & Provocateur: Dr. Kevin Murray |
11:20 – 12:30 | Room 03 | |
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Pecha Kucha 6 Australian IOTA alumni artists speak for 6 minutes about their work: Maggie Baxter, Melissa Cameron, Jacky Cheng, Holly O’Meehan, Tania Spencer, Susie Vickery. Moderator: Carola Akindele-Obe |
12:00 – 12:30 | Room 02 | |
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Drop-in Workshop: with Lea Taylor Karrbung Madji Participants will learn to make string in traditional manner towards a collaborative outcome. |
12:00 – 15:00 | Ground Floor / DBE Collaboration Space | |
| Break | Lunch | 12:30 – 13:30 | ||
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Crafting Wellness The Magic of Making or Crafting as Cure: supporting resilience in Middle-Grade girls through creativity and craft practice. Presenter: Sarah Hutt / USA The Olfaction Collar Presenter: Joanna Quake / Australia Tactile Sensory Skills - Ceramics for Blind People Presenter: Fitorio Leksono / Indonesia / Australia Moderator: Jenny Kerr |
13:30 – 14:30 | Room 01 | |
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Stitch as Code: Exhibition Forum Stitch as code: non-traditional practice in research. Presenter: Aleksa Bijelovic / Australia / Serbia ** Followed by panel discussion in the exhibition space with the artists and their work. Artists: Ishan Khosla, Irfan Hendrian, Bic Tieu, Moira Doropoulos, Rae Walter, Lea Taylor, Davina Jogi Moderator: Anne Farren |
13:30 – 14:30 |
Room 02 & Exhibition Space |
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| EXTRA-CURRICULA ACTIVITIES | 14.30 - 15.00 | ||
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Codes in Parallel exhibition Artist Floor Talks with Fatemeh Boroujeni & Emma Buswell. Curator Tour with Carola Akindele-Obe & Jude van der Merwe. |
15:00 – 16:00 | John Curtin Gallery | |
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Makers’ Film Festival: 2024 edition TBC Premiere of short film festival about craft, makers, making & materials. Delegates: free of charge. Bookings required. |
16:30 – 18:00 |
Bankwest Theatre John Curtin Gallery |
DAY 3
Thursday, 5 September
| Registration | 08:30 – 09.00 | Level 3 | |
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Feet on the ground Message Sticks project intergenerational storytelling Presenters: Marina Baker, Colleen Drage, Mauretta Drage / Murchisonm Australia Healing Country the 5 elements Presenter: Dr Helen Bodycomb / Australia Landscape is no longer relevant (and Nature is dead) Presenters: Dr Annette Nykiel, Dr. Nien Schwarz, Dr. Perdita Phillips – Australia Moderator: Ron Bradfield |
09.20 – 10.40 | Room 01 | |
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Recycle and reuse - the circular economy Dissolvable design objects, 3D printing, circularity Presenter: Dr Matthew Harkness / Australia ** USED and the creative circular economy Presenter: Dr Niklavs Rubenis / Australia ** In Our Hands: Nepali nature inspired climate solutions in the Anthropocene Dr Inge Panneels, Dr. Robert Philips, Saurav Dhakal, Anil Chitraker, Sujan Chitrakar / UK ** Moderator: Dr Joseph Lo |
09.20 – 10.40 | Room 02 | |
| Break | Morning Tea | 10:40 – 11:10 | ||
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Lace as Provocation - Forum In conversation: Cecilia Heffer Tania Spencer Bic Tieu Moderator: Anne Farren |
11:10 – 12:30 | Room 01 | |
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Organisations in the 21st Century - Forum In conversation Roopa Mehta, Sasha Collective / India Andrea Tomasi, Homo Faber Guide, and Lexi Fadina, Michelangelo Foundation / Italy ** Moderator: Jude van der Merwe |
11:10 – 11:40 | Room 02 | |
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Pecha Kucha 6 Australian arts organisations speak for 6 minutes about their purpose and activities: Aboriginal Art Centre Hub WA, Art On The Move, Community Arts Network, Regional Arts WA, World Crafts Council AU Moderator: Jude van der Merwe |
11:40 – 12:30 | Room 02 | |
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Drop-in Workshop: With Melissa Cameron rapidlyclosingwindow #6 Participants in this workshop will collaboratively create a large-scale artwork from recycled materials. Encoding a binary message about the urgent need for a sustainable future. |
12:00 – 15:00 | Ground Floor / DBE Collaboration Space | |
| Break | Lunch | 12:30 – 13:30 | ||
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Valuing Local knowledge Craft Village along the Red River Delta in Vietnam: nurturing tradition, community, and modernity Presenter: Prof. Andreas Sicklinger, Chi Le Quynh, Federica Natalia Rosati, Federica De Vigili / Italy ** Tea leaves, Clouds, Rice: Object Making, place and Identity Presenter: Dr. Bic Tieu / Australia Crafting Belief: unraveling cultural narratives of temples in Himachal Pradesh Presenter: Lalita Waldia / India Moderator: Dr. Kevin Murray |
13:30 – 14:30 | Room 01 | |
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Doing what comes naturally The embodiment of feeling in stitch and cloth Presenter: Dr Joy Denise Scott / Australia “Our veins swallow”: exploring ecological fragility through corrosion casting Presenter: Tineke Van der Eecken / Australia Re-imagining the social lives of materials through play: Balsa Wood Presenter: Laura-Jane Atkinson / UK ** Moderator: Lia McKnight TBC |
13:30 – 14:30 | Room 02 | |
| EXTRA-CURRICULA ACTIVITIES | 15.00 - 18.00 | ||
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IOTA24 International Exhibition Visit 'Codes in Parallel' at Fremantle Arts Centre. Book a seat on the bus at registration desk. |
15:30 – 16:30 | Fremantle Arts Centre | |
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IOTA24 Festival Exhibition Make your way to special evening viewing of ‘Woven Together and Mara Jinbi Ngurra’ at FORM gallery, 4 Shenton Road, Claremont. RSVP |
17:00 – 19:00 | FORM gallery |
DAY 4
Friday, 6 September
| Registration | 08:30 – 09.20 | Level 3 | |
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The 3Rs: Re-membering, Re-making, Re-learning Slow fashion in action: Creating value in hand crafted textiles through consumer experience of Indian traditional textile communities’ making processes and social fabric Presenter: Deborah Emmett / Australia Does tradition have a timeline? A dialogue on collaboration between urban designers and rural weavers Presenter: Gunjan Jain / India Futuring handloom weaving in the Indo-Pacific. Balancing digital technologies with artisan practices Presenter: Cecilia Heffer / Australia Moderator: Roopa Mehta |
09.20 – 10.40 | Room 01 | |
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Alive and kicking - Craft futures Craft in our economy (ARC research) Prof. Susan Luckman / Australia Crafting communities, crafting policy- the formation of craft policy networks in Australia Bridie Moran / Australia Crafting Knowledge: The art of mapping and the new craft of data visualization for cultural and creative industries Lorela Mehmeti, Simona Colitti, Andreas Sicklinger / Italy ** Moderator: Qassim Saad |
09.20 – 10.40 | Room 02 | |
| Break | Morning Tea | 10:40 – 11:10 | ||
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Baubles, bangles and beads Sharing: craft, skill, design and art Marian Hosking / Australia Memento Mori Adorned: Aesthetics Death Supavee Sirinkraporn and Khajornsak Nakpan / Thailand Contemporary Body Ornament in a Global South Asian Context Anvita Jain / Germany ** Moderator: Melissa Cameron |
11:10 – 12:30 | Room 01 | |
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Care-fully; materials and making A Cosmology of care: the creative and curative expression of Balai Pancur of the Semai people of Malaysia Presenter: Wen di Sia / Malaysia ** Followed by conversation: Madoda Fani / South Africa Warrick Palmateer / Australia Moderator: Bernard Kerr |
11:10 – 12:30 | Room 02 | |
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Drop-in Workshop: With Emma Buswell Social Scarf: collaborative machine knitting Learn the magic of punch cards and last century knitting machines. Working with the artist you will learn the basics of knitting machines and how to translate an idea into a stitched image. Bring along your ideas for a simple design that will be added to a communal length of cloth. |
12:00 – 15:00 | Ground Floor / DBE Collaboration Space | |
| Break | Lunch | 12:30 – 13:30 | ||
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Plenary Wrap Up Where to next for the future & value of craft? |
13:30 – 14:15 | Level 3 | |
| EXTRA-CURRICULA ACTIVITIES | 15.00 - 19.00 | ||
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IOTA24 International Exhibition Visit 'Codes in Parallel' at Holmes à Court Gallery @No.10. Book a seat on the bus at registration desk. |
15:30 – 16:30 | 10 Douglas St, West Perth | |
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IOTA24 Festival Exhibition Preview Conference delegates are invited to the preview & opening of ‘Stuffed, Bolstered & Upholstered’ at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. Book a seat on the bus at registration desk. |
17:00 – 19:00 | University of Western Australia |
Image credit: YEE I-LANN, Harunan Motol 2021 (Boat's Ladder). Woven by Omadal Island Bajau Sama DiLaut weavers Kak Budi, Kak CT Aturdaya, Adik Darwisa, Kak Kinnuhong, Adik Koddil, Kak Roziah, Kak Sanah and Kak Norbaya.
Photo: Sue-Lyn Moyle, John Curtin Gallery.