lambert, matt

lamberts research is an investigation of crusiing with craft as a companion to explore how its languages and discourses contribute to processs of equity such as decolonization and can challenge ivory tower academic structures through its cracks and margins, the place of the undercommons. Thinking with craft becomes essential in scyborgism. As la paperson defines in A Third University is Possible a scyborg "is a queer turn of word that I offer to you to name the structural agency of persons who have picked colonial technologies and reassembled them to decolonizing purposes." La paperson uses the scyborg within the academic institution to use the resources given for decolonial purposes when reconfigured. There is interest in how this idea can be expanded to other institutions such as the archive and the museum as well as the academy and artistic practice based research with craft as a companion.
Collaborating and kinship making with artists and institutions of a vast array of disciplines has the potential to reassemble or reconfigure the current cultural systems of queerness and body politic while shattering the boundaries academically imposed on craft as a field. Unpacking the witnessing of toxic intimacies and the embedded systems of oppression rooted into the geological strata of cultural institutions and land there is an urgency to develop ways to disrupt and subvert these mechanisms. Through Natalie Loveless's development of polydisciplinamory a chimerical practice of making, collaborating, writing and curating creates systems for platform building and methodologies to talk with and not at in regard to the othered body, allowing joy and pleasure to become crucial in developing alternative models of instituional existence.

matt lambert is a non-binary, trans, multidisciplinary collaborator and co-conspirator working towards equity, inclusion, and reparation. Their practice is based in polydisciplinamory, entangling making, writing, curating, collaborating, and performing. They have published, curated, exhibited, and are collected internationally. Their work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Art and Design (New York), Homografiska Museet (Dals Långed, Sweden) The Havgapet Collection, (Sleneset, Norway) and published in texts such as Cultural Affairs: Art Without Borders published by Degruyter. lambert was a 2020 Curatorial Fellow at Center for Craft (Ashville, U.S.) and holds an MA in Critical Craft Theory from Warren Wilson College and an MFA in Metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art. lambert has actively contributed writing to Studio Magazine (CA), C Magazine (CA), Metalsmith (US), Klimt02 (ES), The Vessel (NO), Surface Design Journal (US), Art Jewelry Forum (US), and Garland (AUS) and maintains a running column titled Settings and Findings in Lost in Jewellery Magazine (ITLY). They were the guest editor of Decorating Dissidence Journal, issue #15, Tools, Use, Mastery.

Principal supervisor: Michell Zethson
Assistant supervisors: Rebecca Hilton and Ellen Røed
Admitted to Konstfack
Project period: 2020-2025