On 11 November, we went to 'The joy Of Collecting'; a manifestation organized by SSC and Current Obsession on collecting contemporary jewellery and collectors. It was organized as a part of the first ever edition of 'Obsessed, jewellery in The Netherlands'. The SSC's (foundation for Jewellery Collections) mission is "to protect and present private jewelry collections as cultural heritage and see them as an inspiration source for future generations." Current obsession is first of all known to many of us for their magazine 'Current Obsession', but also organizes several jewellery related events like 'Obsessed'; a festival that unites different jewellery events in The Netherlands during the month of November 2017.
The speakers during 'The Joy of Collecting' were: - Cees Leijenhorst, who had a very interesting talk about why we collect stuff. It was not specifically about jewellery but fitted right in with the theme! He talked about three kinds of collectors: the prince (who has more money and collects to show his wealth), the citizen (who also has some funds to be able to collect something) and the fool (basically a hoarder). - Mathylda Krzykowski organized two rounds of 'Design Date'; a format inspired by the 'Blind Date' game show on TV. Each time their was a fictional jewellery designer and three potential partners to form a collaboration with. During the first round, the three 'potential partners' had nothing to do with contemporary jewellery. Because of this, I think they couldn't really answer all of the questions completely, just by a lack of background knowledge. During the second round, there was more of a dialogue between the candidates, one of whom was Marianne Unger. This made it a lot more interesting to listen to. I think that the idea of having a dialogue on contemporary jewellery in a playful way is very interesting and the Design Date was a great first attempt and I do hope a similar discussion will be repeated in the future, but with some changes made to the format... - Judith Torzillo talked about her project 'Young Collectors' in which she interviewed people under 40 who (don't) think of themselves as collectors. I was very happy to be part of this second project of hers. She talked about why younger people often don't think of themselves as collectors and how they acquire their pieces. She also presented pictures of (parts of) these young collectors' collections and their interviews. I think this was a great initiative and hope to see more of the 'Young Collectors' in the future! - Liesbeth Den Besten talked about the way museums handle collections they receive or collect. Do museums do something with their pieces of jewellery or do they end up in an archive? They should think of ways to be able to show these pieces like the Rijksmuseum in The Netherlands did; they photographed all the jewellery and put these pictures online so everyone can look at them. Also, there's no copyright on these pictures, so anyone can use them without restriction! - Pet Van de Luijtgaarden is an artist who makes installations with big collections of different kind of objects and materials. Outside, he also presented a part of a mobile installation that exists out of caravans filled to the ceiling with collections of objects. - Lisa Whittle talked about digital archives; something quite popular nowadays. By tagging pictures with useful tags, they can help create connections you didn't think of initially, creating new groups that weren't there at first. She uses this kind of categorizing on a website on fashion, but it would also be applicable on jewellery. Being a collector myself, I hope there will be more manifestations, symposiums, discussion panels... around this theme in the future! And hopefully Obsessed will be a returning event next year! Maybe there will even be an 'Amsterdam Jewellery week' in the future...? Website Obsessed: www.current-obsession.com/obsessed/
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