Pas de deux: Commission
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From May 2010 to March 2011 I will be working on a collaborative commission with Lin Cheung. The project is part of museumaker, a national partnership between makers, museums and visitors involving 16 museums across the country.
One of the aims of the project is to utilise the collections and expertise available across three Middlesbrough museums: mima, The Dorman Museum and the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum. Together with local Middlesbrough residents, we will be using the museum collections as a means to explore issues around commissioning contemporary craft.
There are a number of stages to our project, which we have called Pas de deux. Initially, we will deliver a series of participatory workshops. These will be followed by a participant-driven collaboration, where selected local residents will commission a piece of jewellery for themselves. These commissioned objects will be made twice: one piece will be given to the commissioner and one will be housed within mima’s contemporary jewellery collection.
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Pas de deux: Blog
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Workshop 1: 19/05/10
Workshop 2: 02/06/10
More about the participatory workshops
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