Marisa Fick-Jordan: The wonders of Zulu wire art

Prevoditelj: Romana Perković Recezent: Bojan Hodap

The decorative use of wire in southern Africa

Korištenje žice u dekorativne svrhe u Južnoj Africi

dates back hundreds of years.

traje nekoliko stotina godina.

But modernization actually brought communication

Ali modernizacija je donijela komunikaciju

and a whole new material, in the form of telephone wire.

i potpuno novi materijal u obliku telefonske žice.

Rural to urban migration meant that newfound industrial materials

Migracija iz sela u gradove značila je da su novopronađeni industrijski materijali

started to replace hard-to-come-by natural grasses.

zamijenili rijetke prirodne trave.

So, here you can see the change

Ovdje vidite promjenu

from use -- starting to use contemporary materials.

u korištenju - početak korištenja modernih materijala.

These pieces date back from the '40s to the late '50s.

Ovi komadi datiraju iz četrdesetih i kasnih pedesetih godina.

In the '90s, my interest and passion for transitional art forms

U '90., moje zanimanje i strast za prijelaznim umjetničkim oblicima

led me to a new form,

doveli su me do novog oblika

which came from a squatter camp outside Durban.

koji je potekao iz ilegalnog naselja kod Durbana.

And I got the opportunity to start working with this community

Dobila sam priliku početi raditi s ovom zajednicom

at that point, and started developing, really,

u tom trenutku i počela sam ih razvijat

and mentoring them in terms of scale, in terms of the design.

i podučavat o odnosima veličine, o dizajnu.

And the project soon grew from five to 50 weavers in about a year.

Projekt je uskoro porastao sa 5 na 50 tkača za oko godinu dana.

Soon we had outgrown the scrap yards, what they could provide,

Uskoro smo prerasli otpade i ono što smo tamo mogli naći,

so we coerced a wire manufacturer to help us,

pa smo zatražili pomoć od jednog proizvođača žice,

and not only to supply the materials on bobbins,

i to ne samo da nam isporučuje materijale na kalemima,

but to produce to our color specifications.

nego i da nam proizvodi posebne boje.

At the same time, I was thinking, well,

U isto vrijeme sam mislila da

there's lots of possibility here to produce contemporary products,

ovdje ima dosta mogućnosti za proizvodnju suvremenih proizvoda,

away from the ethnic, a little bit more contemporary.

ne toliko etničkih, nego suvremenijih.

So I developed a whole range around -- mass-produced range --

Tako sam razvila čitavu masovnu proizvodnju,

that obviously fitted into a much higher-end decor market

koja se očito uklapala u najkvalitetnije tržište

that could be exported and also service our local market.

i koja se mogla izvesti ali i prodavati lokalno

We started experimenting, as you can see, in terms of shapes,

Kao što vidite, počeli smo eksperimentirati sa oblicima,

forms. The scale became very important,

formama, proporcije su postale važne,

and it's become our pet project. It's successful,

i to je naš mali projekt. Uspješan je,

it's been running for 12 years. And we supply the Conran shops,

traje već 12 godina i opskrbljujemo "Conran" prodavnice

and Donna Karan, and so it's kind of great.

i Donnu Karan, tako da je super.

This is our group, our main group of weavers.

Ovo je naša grupa glavnih tkalja.

They come on a weekly basis to Durban.

Jednom tjedno dolaze u Durban.

They all have bank accounts.

Sve imaju bankovne račune.

They've all moved back to the rural area where they came from.

Sve su se odselile u sela iz kojih su potekle.

It's a weekly turnaround of production.

To je radno vrijeme jednom tjedno.

This is the community that I originally showed you the slide of.

Na početku sam pokazala slajd ove zajednice.

And that's also modernized today,

I ona je danas modernizirana,

and it's supporting work for 300 weavers.

tu radi 300 tkalja.

And the rest says it all.

A ostalo vam sve govori.

Thank you very much.

Hvala vam puno.

(Applause)

(pljesak)