This also makes us things about the new questions being made of that craft process and how that phenomenon is meeting with the new technologies or new historic junctures. New crafts? New mediums? and trough that new dialogues? Which sometimes one can tell how them fails. For me not all the works in the show meet as well as others. For example, I can understand the potential of the "projector boxes", but personally I can tell that they do not work and I feel they were out of context (place, theme, object, technology), they poorly connects and after all trying to look at the projected image can be frustrating.
Otherwise, other work were great not in the way they were crafted only but because of the subject matter for example the Radical Cartography for me is an amazing social deconstruction and the way craft approach to the project was super well managed. In other way, Piper Shepard's work was a great example on how to see a regular beautiful craftsmanship, easy to enjoy and gorgeous, the fact I personally did not like was her work in the middle with the pins. I thinks that was a curatorial mistake (the placing was to central and that tends to make more weight in the single artist).
Anyways at the end I felt that having a show like this between Philagraphika was a necessity. At the end there should be a space for new definitions and new questions every time you visit the subject of the contemporary art as this festival did.
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