#7 Social Club Members Newsletter
Dear Social Club Members,
As we wrap up 2024, we are happy to connect with you one final time this year to share an overview of the latest articles and activities available to our members.
We sincerely thank you for your meaningful support throughout the year. With your help, we have been able to deliver new articles each month and successfully close our second Open Call for Writers. We are now collaborating with 12 talented international writers from the fields of art, design, and jewellery to present a new series of online articles on the theme of Visual Language.
Looking ahead to 2025, we are preparing extensive programming for Munich Jewellery Week, including the accompanying MJW Paper, new printed chapters of our magazine, and another edition of the Obsessed! Paper and Obsessed! Jewellery Festival in Amsterdam. Don’t forget—all upcoming printed publications for 2025 are included in the I’M OBSESSED subscription. If you’d like to receive these publications delivered to your doorstep at a discounted price, consider upgrading to the I’M OBSESSED plan before their release.
COLLABORATION WITH THE INVISIBLE
Interview with Michaela Pegum
Michaela Pegum (Opens in a new window)’s work is rooted in material experimentation, where fabrics, stitching, and electro-forming merge to create evolving, hybrid sculptures. Her pieces inhabit the threshold between the known and the unknown, incorporating performative elements that engage the body and movement, fostering interaction between the artist, audience, and environment. Pegum’s practice is driven by a continuous exploration of invisible forces that shape our perception and understanding of the world.
Read the full interview with Michaela here (Opens in a new window).
SOFT IN THE WATER
The Pearl And Queerness
‘The first time I touched a real pearl, I was 18 years old, and I immediately put it in my mouth. This action wasn’t entirely spontaneous: a classmate of mine in a community college jewellery studio gave me a handful of half-drilled freshwater pearls as a gift and informed me that I could verify their authenticity by rubbing them against my teeth and feeling for grit. However, in the fictionalised theatre of my memory, I imagine that I put the pearl in my mouth not to determine its authenticity, but because it was born within flesh, and it felt fitting for it to return to flesh.’
Writes J. Taran Diamond, metalsmith and craft educator based in Baltimore, Maryland, in their two-part essay, closely examining the work of Lilly Luft and Margo Csipő.
Via these links, you can access the first (Opens in a new window)and the second part (Opens in a new window).
SOME DISTANCES CANNOT BE MEASURED
Essay by Anita Van Doorn
Ordinary objects and materials often hold profound beauty and untold stories, carrying memories and connections across time and space. Through historical artefacts created in hardship and contemporary jewellery inspired by resilience, Anita Van Doorn uncovers how the mundane transforms into powerful symbols of human experience, endurance and creativity.
Read the full article via this link (Opens in a new window).
UPCOMING
December 2024
• Interview by Margaret Munchheimer (Opens in a new window) with Corrina Goutos (Opens in a new window)
• New DAZZLED editorials featuring work of Ondrej Stara (Opens in a new window) and Maayan Sophia Weisstub (Opens in a new window)
• BODY AS MEASURE: A throwback article reflecting on the jewellery and body symposium at Stockholm Craft Week 2024
• Current Obsession quarterly newsletter
As always, we would love to hear from you in case you have any membership related questions at veronika@current-obsession.com (Opens in a new window)!
