Melting Pottery

We are a diverse group of Students and Faculties, coming from different countries, relating to diverse cultures. In the past – and still now – trade has been an activity that allowed exchange, contamination, hybridization of customs and aesthetics.

If you think of contemporary trade, shipping containers and crates might be what comes to your mind. But it hasn’t always been like that. All ancient civilizations overlooking the seas in the Mediterranean and Middle-Eastern region made large use of ceramic jars, amphorae and vessels of sorts to ship all kinds of goods. While being a standard way for packing and shipping goods, those ceramic vessels were also aesthetically characterized according to their provenance, function and epoch.

Starting from this notion of the ceramic vessels as artefacts that connect different people and culture.

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Art Direction:
Marco Bruno & Giovanni Innella, VCUarts Qatar

Computational Design:
Andrea Graziano, Co.De.It

Digital Ceramist:
Bruno Demasi, Clay Code

Video;
Pepefotografia

Firing:
Antonio Russo

Participants:
Abdulrahman Al Muftah (Qatar)
Alaa Albarazy (Syria)
Anurag Wallace (India)
Ayah Elnour (Sudan)
Faheem Khan (Bangladesh)
Gabrielle Tesfaye (USA)
Genta Retkoceri (Kosovo)
Giovanni Innella (Italia)
Marco Bruno (Italia)
Rab McClure (USA)
Reema Abu Hassan (Palestine/Canada)
Somaia Dorzadeh (Iran)
Steffi Braganza (India)
Stella Colaleo (Italia)
Tharwa Dalansi (Tunisia)
Yasmeen Suleiman (Palestine/Jordan)