We are contemporary

1.

Minou Lejeune

My inspiration came from today's digitizing. The digital is volatile and can be quickly deleted. Once it is deleted, it can not be retrieved. however, I’m someone who wants to create something tangible.

I fear that in 100 years not much of this digital age will be left, which makes people no longer able to empathize with this digital age. I find it very interesting and beautiful if you can empathize with a time that has been elapsed, and so I made this jewel for the future. This jewel holds printed facebook pages, text messages, e-mails and tweets. I think these are daily rituals, but beautiful to preserve for the future. Give this Jewel on to your daughter and your daughter back to her daughter, so it arrives in the future. The longer the jewel keeps alive, the more interesting and more beautiful it becomes.

2.

Monique Schraven

LIVE-LIKE

Nowadays, humans are constantly busy with updating there status and personal social network.

Everybody wants to be "liked", "followed" and have comments with no negative thougts.

But in fact, all of this isn't very social and "like-ly" and people aren't really busy with being social

and have contact with friends. 

Why don't we have a smal window, to update your're social status/photo's/stuff, and be liked

in real life, so people on the street you don't even know can "like" your window and comment

on your last update.

Now you can be social, up to date and liked all day long without your smartphone or tablet, glued

to your hand.

3.

Anke Huyben

My take on contemporary jewellery is about that thing that is going on in the world these days;

'the economic crisis'.
 The value of gold is currently very high

 because the people are hoarding it.
They want to keep the value close to themselves.
With this piece of jewellery, one can keep their valuables even closer.
The injection needle is filled with gold filings,

 so instead of keeping it in a safe,

 you can directly inject it into your veins.

4.

Anne Eissen

Sysiphos

In contrast to the perception that contemporary means fast, digital and short-lived, there is another one, which is all about craftsmanship and staying busy by making things with your own hands.

Thereby objects are able to constantly change under your influence.

I enjoy having this influence and stay close to my work. Even if it is a never ending business sometimes.

5.

Jessie Beurskens

It’s all about doing things easy and fast; we just take – away.

Inspired by the fact that nowadays everything has to be easy and fast, especially when it comes to our food, I made a DIY kit to create your own piece of jewellery, based on easy take away meals.

6.

Julia Fischer

Thinking about contemporary,

I think about time.

Time is relative.

Time comes and goes.

So do things.

I had the idea to transform material into a jewellery

that just has a temporary relation to the body.

7.

Sangji Yun

I made a brooch.

It is an intersection of two circles.

When I read a book, I found a very interesting sentence.

“The contemporary jewellery is about this time” it said. Because the word 'Contemporary' means now.  

It plays with now.

It gave me inspiration for my jewellery.

One circle of this brooch means the 'past', and the other circle means the 'future'.

 Therefore, the intersection part(middle) is the 'present'. 

The present lives between the past and the future. The intersection part of this brooch reflects the present state of a person. This brooch tells where I am now and what I see now.

8.

Lea Haueisen

My piece of jewellery is literally a statement. A statement concerning all the discussions about a proper name for what jewellery designers create today. In my opinion, the quotation by Benjamin Lignel strikes the crucial point of the problems in giving jewellery a name nowadays, as there are several new terms as author jewelry, studio jewelry and contemporary jewellery. However they all describe at least one thing: jewellery. If they are made by hand, mass produced or if their designers are only known by a few selected people.

Furthermore, not only, we need to determine a common name, but we also have to think of new manners to promote our collections. Therefor I've chosen for the image of a facebook status, since it symbolize one of the most popular ways to communicate today. Though it also stands for the fast momentariness of the internet.

By chosing for an almost ancient craft - embroidery - I want to highlight those opposites of consistency and fugaciousness and maybe create an intersection between them.

A statement can be a jewelry.

And a jewelry is surely a statement.

9.

Christie Schellings

I think we need the word “contemporary” to let the audience know that we are different from the others, and the fact that we need a name to be understood is a pity. Perhaps there will be a time that we don’t need a title to be good in what we do. The only one who can make a difference are the jewellery designers themselves.   

The question, what is contemporary jewelry is easy to answer. Everything what is made these days by a jewellery designer is contemporary.

My piece of jewellery is a poster of all the jewellery that we have made. With the silver frames you can choose the best part of the poster. You'll always make a choice with more than one design in it. You can wear a combination of contemporary jewellery, because we are contemporary!

10.

Anne Büscher

Can we talk about jewellery if a digital picture is the only reference to the physical existence of an object?
The only body-relation we have with the jewellery is looking at it – neither wear nor touch it.
Nowadays we are used to trust in the existence of things we can only access through using screens. However, actually it's nothing more than a lot of “ones and zeros” pretending to be objects.

11.

Joske Schim

Contemporary for me:

It is something of the present. But what happens right now, is no longer present. 

Contemporary is impermanent. Just like food. 

What you ate this morning, will be gone the next day.

Even the next meal.

I made this cupping glass which you can wear to show your impermanence, by carrying your meal with you. Every single day.

12.

Mariska van Dijk

Jewellery is no more only a manufactured handicraft, the computer plays an increasingly important role in the creation of jewellery, and these techniques change fast.

By working with new techniques and materials you can create a new dimension to jewellery, but also to other forms of body related jewellery.

Contemporary jewellery means to me a renewal of techniques, materials and the present moment.

I created a necklace at the time of making, so for me it is the present moment. Instead of printing a jewelry on paper, I printed a necklace directly on the skin, only this necklace doesn't exist long.

At this moment, when you’re watching this series of photo’s the piece is no longer here.

This series gives me the temporary represent of contemporary jewellery in which the necklace in the course of time disappears.

13.

Anika Gwosdz

Contemporary is like a glimpse of light.

  You can try to catch it just for a short moment.

14.

Anne de Vries

Dear Phone,

You are so smart,

you complete me.

Together we are perfect.

I was common to use you only in case of emergency,

but now you have become my alter ego,

my virtual identity, my agenda, my network.

You mean the world to me.

You are the accessory,

I am wearing everydag.

There is no life without you.

I am stuck on you,

we have become one.

Love,

I.Phowner

15.

Rowan Falchi

Feelings are contemporary.
A lot of people use social media to explore their feelings to the outside world.
These feelings are allmost always positive. We get a twisted image from people.
This jewellery is made for those people.
You can write your feelings down with a non-permanent marker. On the outside you can write your good feelings, feelings that you want to share with everyone. On the inside you can write your bad feelings that you don’t want to share with the outside world.  You can update your jewelry every moment, that’s why this is contemporary.

16.

Romina Hermans

'For me Contemporary is anything that is here and now but temporary, 
something that decays.


I am Contemporary.'

17.

Lidwien Deuss

(con)TEMPORARY

This bracelet is the state of mind for the present.

People nowadays love to wear beautiful jewellery and they like to showoff with it, but a year later the ‘new jewellery’ is just an old thing that they used to wear and the modern people want something new.

The stones from the bracelet are made from milk and vinegar, this is a way of making bioplastic. This is not something that wil last forever, and it wil slowly biodegrade itself, so  when the new stones become old, you can just replace them for new things and then you have a whole new bracelet!  It’s environmentally conscious, It’s easy to repoduce it is temporary and mostimportant: CONTEMPORARY

18.

Chrissie Pepels

I am contemporary

I make the timeless temporary

the presence disappear

the living die

Collar made of wool and sternocera beetle wings

19.

Maartje de Kam

Goudkoers 12-03-2012 €41,80 per gram

20.

Ilona Brand

Contemporary. Digital and fast. I went back to the basics of the digital world. Binary codes, only ones and zeros. That’s the communication of now. Simple but effective. On the broche I designed you can see the word ‘Contemporary’ in binary code.

 Material: Silver and transparent acrylate.

21.

Artur Ziaja

concept: 

Jewellery is food for the soul

working method: 

intuitive coincidence

Material: 

Aluminum

22.

Babs Zwanink

‘Gebakken lucht’

For me contemporary jewellery is everything and nothing at the same time. It doesn’t have a definition and because of that it will never become clear on what’s it all about.

Because of these confusions I came up with a Dutch phrase: 
‘Gebakken lucht’  
(literal translation is baked air). It’s something what’s actually real but made bigger and unclear then the real essence of contemporary jewellery.

In a broche I attempted to catch the baked air and store it. In the end it turned out that it was as unreachable as contemporary jewellery itself.