Gray Area Symposium will be held in Mexico in 2010. This five day symposium aims to promote understanding and appreciation of the diverse ways to view, experience, and create jewellery, to encourage cultural exchange among jewellery makers.

At the inaugural event, the dialogue will be focused on practice in two continents – Latin America and Europe. However, participants from all over the world are welcomed to attend.

The symposium will focus on artistic and scholastic encounters between Europe and Latin America, as well as on intra-Latin American exchanges, addressing and reformulating the ideological and practical construction of contemporary jewellery, examining its current state of development in both continents, and respectively exploring and proposing the present and future exchange between Latin American and European individuals and networks.

The symposium is calling for registrations from emerging and established jewellery makers and artists, students from the design, art and jewellery academies, art historians and critics, scholars from the arts, craft and design disciplines, museum and gallery members, art and jewellery collectors, public interested in the subject. Panel and audience will interact through a series of lectures, dialogues and round tables.

The event aims to create a platform that will stimulate friendly, creative, and engaging discussions, to be able to create an interdisciplinary frame of reference for contemporary jewellery and its practices within a truly multinational discourse.

Gray Area will be held 12 to 16 April 2010, and will take place in Mexico City’s Historic Center. Registrations are due 31 December 2009.

For more information and to register your attendance visit here.

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