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I am very fascinated by transforming industrially produced materials such as straws and nails into something organic. Nikoline Liv Andersen: I really love experimenting with materials and fabrics and I try to give them new aesthetic qualities. You create installations and clothing designs that challenge people's perceptions of the world – which are your favourite materials?

But I know that I am working more with clothing as an artist than as a designer.

I actually think that too many calls themselves artists, while that is a title that you have to live up to. I tell them that I am a designer because I am educated as a designer. Nikoline Liv Andersen: People often ask me if I am an artist or a designer. Your practice is suspended between art and fashion design: do you consider yourself an artist or a fashion designer? For Mindcraft I will be presenting 3 monkey wigs from my project 'The Dance of the Deaf and Dumb Eye'. I recently won Remix 2014 in the category 'Pimp my Coat', in collaboration with Saga Furs, and also this event took place in Milan, but this is the first time I join the Milanese design week. Nikoline Liv Andersen: Yes, it is and I look forward to it. Is this the first time you're part of the Mindcraft event at Ventura Lambrate and what do you expect from this experience?

Craft is a powerful response – as well as an important source of inspiration for renewal and development in industrial manufacturing'. In her practice craft is definitely the added value to an otherwise future of replicants.Īs Nina Tolstrup also states in a Mindcraft press release: 'Global industrial manufacturing is becoming increasingly uniform, simplified and thus also more vulnerable to plagiarism. Her installations and one-off pieces require many hours of work and are often made with unconventional materials and with techniques including embroidering, painting and surface elaboration processes that radically transform a material to make it look like something else. After graduating in fashion design in 2006 she opted to develop her personal research into different fields, creating installations suspended between design, crafts and art and made following haute couture techniques. The pieces combine the three wise monkeys Mizaru, Kikazaru and Iwazaru, with references to the French court under Louis XVI, while commenting upon the consequences of shutting against the outside world by refusing to see, hear or speak, and hinting in this way at the globalisation conditions of today's blind consumers.īorn in Copenhagen, Andersen was educated at The Danish Design School.

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Supported by the Danish Arts Foundation and curated by acclaimed designer Nina Tolstrup (from design firm Studiomama and well known for collaborating with fashion brand Marc by Marc Jacobs), Mindcraft brings to Milan's Fuori Salone pieces created by 12 craftspeople.īetween lamps produced using thermoforming/moulding ( Iskos-Berlin's 'The Birth of Marilyn'), a piece of meta-jewellery consisting in a long 'ribbon' of pencil lead stitched/woven together ('iLoveLetters' by Katrine Borup) and a collection of ceramic works that reinterprets the archetypal jar shapes ('Horror Vacui' by Morten Løbner Espersen), there is also 'The Dance of the Deaf and Dumb Eye', a series of three papier-mâché, yarn, fabric, glass and acrylic wig sculptures, by Nikoline Liv Andersen. This is the theme of Mindcraft14, the yearly event organised during Milan Design Week by Danish Crafts, an institution of the Danish Ministry of Culture aimed at promoting local art and crafts internationally. While inspiration may be sudden, creating an object or a specific design in a workshop may indeed take quite a long time and several stages between experimentation, research into materials and development of innovative approaches. A craftsperson's artistic process can be uniquely complex.

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