International Conference
of Contemporary Jewellery in Bratislava

Lieta Marziali: THE HIDDEN BURDEN OF THE “PERSONAL OBJECT”: A LINGUISTIC DIGRESSION

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Lecture: THE HIDDEN BURDEN OF THE “PERSONAL OBJECT”: A LINGUISTIC DIGRESSION”

Language shapes the way we think and act as much as much as we shape language. And language ends up using us as much as we use it. Language is a powerful mechanism through which we construct and express, but also through which we perpetuate worldviews. And so culture is expressed in language, but culture is also formed through language. And then there is of course the question of using a foreign, common language, such as English, to express worldviews that are perhaps not consonant with it.


While we discuss the role, the power and the value of jewellery and of art in general, how attentive are we to the seemingly simple everyday words we use In our discourse? How critical are we of the terms that we employ? Of the worldviews that lie behind them and who constructed them? And of how language so easily makes us willing accomplices in perpetuating them? And willing victims in accepting them?

Lieta Marziali

Lieta Marziali (Italy, 1973 / UK) is a jewellery artist and independent writer, researcher and mentor. Recently she has been exploring individual and collaborative curatorial projects. Her jewellery work has been exhibited internationally. Her writings, which span articles, reviews, interviews and catalogue essays, are regularly featured in international art publications both in print and online. She holds Bachelor’s Degrees in English Literature (Roehampton/University of Surrey, UK, 1997) and Three-Dimensional Design and Craft (Colchester School of Art, UK, 2015), and a practice-based research MA (School of Design, Art and Architecture/ex-Cass, UK, 2018). She continues to further her research and professional interests through the study of philosophy, art history and cultural studies, and anthropology.
With a varied background in publishing, hospitality and archaeology, she regards all the current facets of her practice not as separate but as integral and interdependent manifestations and extensions of creative praxis. Her research interests focus on ideas of the found and of provenance, and the intersection between search and research; reflection and reflective practice; the existentialist and phenomenological functions of art and its practice; the liminal aspects of art and its practice; the intersection between the personal, the social and the political; and theories of thinking as praxis.

3. Oct

18:00

Galéria MEDIUM

4. Oct

12:00 - 15:00

A4 - Priestor súčasnej kultúry

4. Oct

15:30

A4 - Priestor súčasnej kultúry

4. Oct

16:00

vPRIESTORe

4. Oct

17:30

Galéria Cit

4. Oct

20:30

A4 - Priestor súčasnej kultúry

5. Oct

10:30

Galéria MEDIUM

5. Oct

11:00

Galéria MEDIUM

International Conference of Contemporary Jewellery in Bratislava