Marisa Fick-Jordan: The wonders of Zulu wire art

翻译人员: Yuanxuan Wang 校对人员: Yvonne Fu

The decorative use of wire in southern Africa

在南美洲，线手工艺品用作装饰的历史

dates back hundreds of years.

可以追溯到几百年之前

But modernization actually brought communication

而现代化发展带来了更便捷的通讯

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

以及一种用做电话线的全新材料

Rural to urban migration meant that newfound industrial materials

大量人口涌入城市也意味着这种新发现的工业材料

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

开始取代原先的、很难获取的天然牧草

So, here you can see the change

这里你可以看到这种改变

from use -- starting to use contemporary materials.

人们开始使用现代材料

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

这些成品来自四十年代到五十年代末

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

九十年代的时候，我对变迁中的艺术表现形式的兴趣和热情

led me to a new form,

让我想到了一种新的形式

which came from a squatter camp outside Durban.

这种想法来源于德班外的一个居住点

And I got the opportunity to start working with this community

我得到了这个社区的人们一起工作的机会

at that point, and started developing, really,

真正的开始发展手工艺品

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

并在产品比例和设计方面指导他们

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

这个项目在一年左右的时间里就从最初的五人发展到了五十人

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

很快我们的需求超过了这块废弃地所能提供的

so we coerced a wire manufacturer to help us,

于是我们联系了一家电线生产商来帮助我们

and not only to supply the materials on bobbins,

它不仅提供线轴上的材料

but to produce to our color specifications.

还按照我们的颜色要求生产材料

At the same time, I was thinking, well,

同时，我当时想

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

这里很有可以生产一些现代化的产品

away from the ethnic, a little bit more contemporary.

而不是以前那种比较单一的产品

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

于是我扩大了产品范畴

that obviously fitted into a much higher-end decor market

显而易见地，它们很适合一个更高端的装饰市场

that could be exported and also service our local market.

并且可以用来出口，同时服务我们的本地市场

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

接着我们做了一系列实验，正如你所看到的

forms. The scale became very important,

从外形和结构上（尝试），规模变得很重要

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

这也成为了我们的宠儿，它很成功

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

这个项目持续了12年，我们为Conran商店提供了商品

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

另外还有Donna Karan，由此可见它挺不错的

This is our group, our main group of weavers.

这是我们的核心编织组

They come on a weekly basis to Durban.

他们每星期都来德班

They all have bank accounts.

也都有银行帐号

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

他们都搬回了最初过来的农村地区

It's a weekly turnaround of production.

每星期回来上一次班

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

这是我一开始向你们展示的社区

And that's also modernized today,

今天它已经很现代化了

and it's supporting work for 300 weavers.

能支持300个编织员的工作

And the rest says it all.

这也是我想表达的话

Thank you very much.

谢谢大家

(Applause)

（掌声）