matt lambert lecture at Haxthäuder Hof Jewellery Symposium

Lecture from matt lambert (Stockholm) – PhD student at Konstfack, jewellery artist and author – Unpacking Constellations and Possible Cartographies.

“This talk centers around the question of: What shifts when we decenter the object and consider it as material. How does this position animate histories, create narratives and shift the ways we think of mastery, craft, materiality and capitalistic consumption.”

In the 2024 symposium, the Haxthäuder Hof Jewellery Symposium will explore the evolving status of material culture in society, crafts, and the arts, influenced by a "Material Turn" and "New Materialism." The study and production of objects, once overshadowed by a focus on the mind, now considers the 'agency' and 'obstinacy' of things, as well as their narratology and intrinsic 'thingness.'