- Anni Albers is a renowned Bauhaus artist who experimented new materials for weaving as well as making jewelries from basic hardware materials - In 1940, she has created a collection of ‘anti-luxury’ jewelries with Alexander Reed, in which they have redefined what people thought of as ‘valuable’ - During their trip in Oaxaca, Mexico, they encountered the pre-Columbian jewelry of Monte Albán, which are made over a thousand years, formed of unusual material combinations of precious and non-precious elements, such as pearls and seashells, rock crystals and gold - They have later produced hardware necklaces, such as using washers, screws, angles and coloured jacks. In the photo on the left, they have made a necklace by attaching paper clips to a sink strainer - They have proposed a new definition for ‘value’: “From the beginning we were quite conscious of our attempt not to discriminate between materials, not to attach to them the conventional values of preciousness or commonness. In breaking through the traditional valuation we felt this to be an attempt to rehabilitate materials. We felt that our experiments perhaps could help to point out the merely transient value we attach to things, though we believe them to be permanent.” (Albers and Albers, 1942) Afterthought - In my own performance, I have made a pair of earrings using earring converters joined with a syringe and newspaper inside. To me, I value her straightforwardness, which is like syringes, as it goes directly to one’s bloodstream. Although she critics a lot and is opinionated like newspapers, she does care about others. Instead of making necklace, I have chose to make a pair of earrings because she rarely wears necklace, instead she tends to wear earrings more. To make it resemble her more, I have made these earrings on the left.
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