Symposium SchmuckDenken (thinking jewellery)

‘Thinking-Jewellery’

‘Schmuck-Denken’ is an attempt to reflect on what jewellery is. It concerns
an interdisciplinary approach which extends beyond the respective
categories of art or craft, applied or free: the exploration of what jewellery
means – not what it looks like.
In 2005 ethnologists, philosophers, cultural and natural scientists
participated in an interdisciplinary discourse, in order to develop initial
lines of thought. In 2006 the approach was more concerned with analysing
the works and activities of conceptual jewellery artists, such as
Astfalck, Mackert or Nisslmüller, and in 2007 the multi-layered relationship
between beauty and uniformity was persued. A debate about the
importance of ornamentation for jewellery ensued in 2008. ‘Schmuck-
Denken 2009’ concentrated on jewellery as an object.

A book ‘Schmuck-Denken. Eine Theorie des Schmucks. [A theory of
jewellery]’ will be published by the ARNOLDSCHE Verlagsanstalt Stuttgart
to mark the 6th colloquium. The book includes a large number of articles
from 2005 - 2009.