Biografie
Mònica Gaspar (geb.1973 Barcelona) ist Kunstwissenschaftlerin, Kuratorin und Autorin. Mit Schwerpunkt auf Design und kritisches Handwerk richtet sich ihre Arbeit auf eine Neudefinierung des ‘Angewandten’ als experimentellen Forschungsfeld. Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Institut für Theorie der ZHdK für das Forschungsprojekt 'Ästhetische Praktiken nach Bologna. Architektur, Design und Kunst als epistemische Kulturen "in the making".
Lehraufträge und Mentorate an mehreren internationalen Hochschulen, u.a.: BA Visual Arts (Oslo National Academy of Arts), MA Jewellery and Corpus (Konstfack Stockholm), MA Metals, Ceramics and Critical Studies (Cranbrook Academy of Art), und im PHD Kolloquien (Bergen National Academy of Arts und Alvar Aalto University, Helsinky). Vorträge und Teilnahme an Forschungsseminare: IASPIS Stockholm, Sheffield Hallam University, V&A Museum London und in mehreren Fachkonferenzen (ICDHS Design History and Studies Conference, SDN Swiss Design Network). Kuratorin für die Angewandte Kunst und Design Sammlung (heutige Design HUB Museum, Barcelona 1998 - 2002). Kuratierte Ausstellungen: 'Nomad Room' (CCB Design Museum, Lisabon), 'Neue Masche' (Bellerive Museum Zurich) und 'Metadomestic' (Landesgalerie, Linz) unter anderen.
Forschungsschwerpunkte: Design und Handwerk als kritische und reflexive Praxis, Ausstellungen als Forschungsdispositiv.
Publikationen / Diskografie / Ausstellungen / Werke
1. UNDER- AND POST-GRADUATE COLLABORATIONS
Visiting lecturer for BA students in following institutions:
HEAD, University of Art and Design, Geneva. (BA Fashion and Jewellery)
ZHdK. University of the Arts, Zurich (BA Design and Z Modules)
HSLU. University of Art and Design, Luzern (BA Products)
Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester (BA Graphic Design and Product)
Visiting lecturer for MA students at following institutions:
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Detroit USA. (MA Metals, Ceramic, Design, Critical Studies)
HEAD, University of Art and Design, Geneva. (MA Spaces and Communication, Fashion and Jewellery)
HSLU. University of Art and Design, Luzern (MA Products)
External examiner at:
MA exam, Object and Corpus Department, Konstfack, Stockholm.
BA exam, Fine Arts, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam.
BA exam, Bijoux et Product, HEAD , Geneva
Guest lecturer for PHD colloquia at:
Bergen Academy of the Arts, Bergen
Arabia Art Department Society in Cooperation with Alvar Aalto University, Helsinki.
2. SELECTED LECTURES (peer reviewed or by invitation)
'Objectography' Cranbrook Art and Design Academy, Detroit USA. 30th October 2013. (public talk)
"Re-defining the applied" KHIB National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, 24. Feb 2012 (public talk)
"Design as Dissent" lecture at the Design Activism and Social Change. Design History Society Conference, Barcelona 8th -10th September, 2011.
"Displaying f(r)ictions. Design as Cultural Form of Dissent" at 6th Swiss Design Network Conference, Negotiating Futures. Design Fiction. Basel (CH); 28th - 30th October 2010.
"A perspective for design criticism" in Design and Craft: A History of Convergences and Divergences. 7th Conference of the International Committee of Design History and Design Studies (ICDHS). 20-22 September 2010, Brussels.
"Versiones de Cosas" for the Symposium Gray Areas, Mexico DF, Biblioteca Nacional, 13th April 2010. (video-conference)
"Critical Objects. Design as Cultural Form of Dissent". Design Museum, Lisbon. 14th April 2009.
"Geographies temporales de l'objet poetique" Triennale Européen du Bijou Contemporain. Mons: World Crafts Council, 2008
"(re)collections: on gathering and discarding". London: Victoria & Albert Museum, Lecture Theatre, 11th February 2006.
"Objects in search of a place". Lisbon, Design Museum CCB, 7th July 2005.
"Trends in European contemporary crafts and design", Design Center of the Philipines, Manila. 3.5. 2002.
3. SEMINARS AND PANELS
- concept and organisation seminar 'Curating Craft' with Dr Jorunn Veiteberg, Bergen 23 - 24 th Nov 2012
- Speaker at the seminar 'When the unconscious listens to the unconscious. Architecture, Arts, Design, Fashion and Neuroscience'. Organised by IASPIS, Swedisch International Artists Programe. November 2012.
- Concept and organisation of the international seminar Rethinking Needlework. Diskursive Fäden in aktuellen Kunst- und Designproduktionen. Hosted by the Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts ICS, ZHDK in collaboration with the Museum Bellerive. 20th may 2011 (Speakers: Patricia Waller, Dr. Matilda Felix, Prof. Dr. Verena Kuni, Dr. Jessica Hemmings, Petter Hellsing , frfr-international, Rüdiger Schlömer)
- Speaker at the panel disussion The Speed of Craft. London: Saatchi Gallery, 14th May 2010. (speakers: Glenn Adamson, director of Design Museum New York, Liesbeth den Besten, Chairwoman Françoise van den Bosch Foundation, Mònica Gaspar, independent scholar, Ben Lignel, independent scholar and Dr Jorunn Veiteberg, Bergen Academy of the Arts)
- Moderator of KeyPiece, public exhibition and research event. Art and Design research Centre, Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery, 20th and 21th November 2009.
- Speaker and member of a panel discussion at ARTEFACT. International Symposium. Ceramic. Objects, Furniture, Jewellery. Antwerp: Sint Lukas Art Academy/Karel de Grotte-Hogeschool, 4th November, 2005. (other speakers included David Watkins (head dept RCA, London), Johanna Dahm (Head Deputy Hochschule Pforzheim), Simon Thompson (Art & Design Prof at University College Falmouth), Dinie Besems (product designer Amsterdam).
- Speaker at the panel discussion Mode et accessoires, 21ème Festival International de Mode et de Photographie, Hyères. 29th April 2006. (Speakers: Stéphane Wargnier, directeur de la communication, Hermès ; Pierre Hardy , créateur; Xavier Clergerie, directeur du salon Première Classe; Agnès Barret, directrice de studio, Maison Martin Margiela ; Monica Gaspar, conservateur au musée des Arts Appliqués de Barcelone. Moderated by: Florence Kohler, commissaire section parure pour le prochain Salon Artistes Décorateurs (SAD).
- Moderator in the panel discussion "Quo vadis artesania?". Barcelona, Catalan Crafts Council. 7th february 2006. Speakers: André Ricard, designer; Imma Jansana, architect, Oscar Guayabero, design theorist.
- Speaker and member of the panel discussion "Thoughts on beauty", with Dr Jorunn Veiteberg (University of Bergen and Oslo National College) and Dr Jivan Astfalck (University Central England and Chelsea College of Arts and Design). IASPIS Swedish International Artists Programe. Royal Art Academy, Stockholm, 26th.Nov. 2004.
4. AUTHORED PUBLICATIONS
BAUHUIS, Peter; Monica GASPAR; Pravu MAZUMDAR (eds.) Abecedarium. Schmuck, Gefäss, Gerät. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche, 2012.
GASPAR, M. (ed.) Metadomestic. Linz: Landesgalerie, 2011.
GASPAR, Mònica and Manon Van KOUSWIJK, Lepidoptera Domestica. Amsterdam: (Fonds BKVB, Netherlands Foundation for the Arts, Design and Architecture, 2006). (artist book)
GASPAR, M. (ed.) Christoph Zellweger. Foreign Bodies. Barcelona: ACTAR, 2007.
GASPAR, M, Nomad Room. Lisbon: Design Museum,Centro Cultural de Belém, 2005.
5. SELECTED ARTICLES
GASPAR, M. ' Craft in its Gaseous State' in Breuer, G. und Oestereich, C. (eds.) Seriell - Individuell. Handwerkliches in Design. Wuppertal: Bergische Universität, 2014.
GASPAR, M. 'Keypiece: Research Exhibition and Seminar.' in Journal of Craft Research, Vol.4, Number 2. p. 277 - 288. Intellect, 2013.
GASPAR, M. "Design as Dissent" in papers of the Design Activism and Social Change. DHS Design History Society Conference, Barcelona 8th -10th September, 2011.
GASPAR, M, "Displaying F(r)ictions. Design as Cultural form of Dissent" in Negotiating Futures Design Fiction. Papers of the 6th Swiss Design Network Conference. Basel: FHNW, 2010. (pp. 106 - 117)
GASPAR M, "Craft in its gaseous state or a perspective for design criticism" in GIMENO-MARTINEZ, Javier and Fredie FLORÉ (eds.), Design and Craft: A History of Convergences and Divergences. 7th Conference of the International Committee of Design History and Design Studies (ICDHS). Brussels: KVAB, 2010. (pp. 198-201)
GASPAR, M , foreword for the catalogue Ruudt Peters. Anima /Platina. Galerie Karoline van Hoek, Design Miami Basel, 15th - 18th June 2010.
GASPAR, M and Christoph ZELLWEGER, "Living en garde!" in MORANDI, Pietro and Brigitte Liebig, Neue Selbständige in IT, Medien und Kultur. Chancen und Risiken einer neuen Erwerbsform. (to be published in Summer 2010)
GASPAR, M "Power Objects", foreword for PETERS, Ruudt , Lingam. Fertility Now. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche, 2009. (exhibition catalogue, Utrecht: Museum Catharijneconvent, 2009. (traveling to WCC. Mons)
GASPAR, M "Tord Boontje and Emma Woffenden: A Shadow Play", foreword for the exhibition catalogue Anima Animus. Tord Boontje and Emma Woffenden. Ebeltoft: Glasmuseum, 2009.
GASPAR, M "Craft in its gaseous state: Wouldn't it be nice... Wishful Thinking in Art and Design", exhibition review for Journal of Modern Craft. Volume 2 Issue 3, November 2009. (pp.355- 358)
GASPAR, M "Long live the beginners!" in GUINARD, Carole, From hand to hand.Passing on skill and know-how in European contemporary jewellery. Lausanne: Mudac / 5 Continents, 2008
GASPAR, M. "About excess and other relative needs" in BELKAÏD NERI, Leyla (ed) Access to Accessoire. Geneva: Haute École d'Arts Appliqués, 2005. (pp.120-123)
GASPAR, M, "The portable museum" in BYL, Henk (ed.) ARTE FACT. Proceedings of the International Symposium Jewellery -Wearables / Ceramics - Objects. Antwerp: Sint Lukas Art Academy, 2006. (pp.47-51).
GASPAR, M, "Some places for beauty" in SANDQVIST, T. (ed), The impossible fridge. Thoughts on beauty, crafts and art. Stockholm: IASPIS/Craft in Dialogue, 2005. (pp.2 -11)
6. SELECTED CURATING (c) = catalogue
Metadomestic. Landesgalerie, Linz (A), 22 Sept- 20 Nov, 2011 and MIMA, Institute of Modern Art Middlesbrough (GB) July - November 2012. (c)
Neue Masche. Gestrickt, gestickt und anders. Museum Bellerive, Zurich, 28 April - 24 July, 2011.
(co-curating with Tanja Trampe)
Nomad Room. Intimate Space and Public Domain. Organized by Design Museum,Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisboa. 5th July/4th September 2005. (c)
Inner Luxury. International Contemporary Jewellery. Organized by Fundació "la Caixa".Caixaforum, June- September, 2003. (Year of Design Barcelona 2003.) (c)
Curator at the historical furniture, industrial design and modern jewellery collection. Museum of Applied Arts. Barcelona. 1997 - 2002.