Lecture: Namita Wiggers - Knowledge is a Shifting Form: Japanese Craft at the Core of Modern Sculpture

Join us for a free, public lecture from writer, curator, and educator, Namita Wiggers. Please enter the deSalle auditorium through Cranbrook Art Museum. The museum galleries will be open free through 8pm. Richard Serra’s iconic “Verb List,” 1967, now in MoMA’s collection, is a popular pedagogical tool to consider materials and process. Yuichiro Kojiro’s “Forms in Japan,” translated by Kenneth Yasuda, was published by East-West Center Press, Hawaii in 1965. The lists are strikingly similar. Sharing research-in-process from the past decade, Wiggers poses a critical question: what must shift to recognize that action-based sculpture is based on Japanese craft?