Comments on: Native Funk and Flash (part one) http://journalofmoderncraft.com/responses/native-funk-and-flash-part-one Academic research on craft Sun, 20 May 2012 15:36:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Alexandra (Jacopetti) Hart http://journalofmoderncraft.com/responses/native-funk-and-flash-part-one/comment-page-1#comment-20781 Alexandra (Jacopetti) Hart Sun, 20 May 2012 15:36:42 +0000 http://journalofmoderncraft.com/?p=120#comment-20781 I found reference to this blog in Elissa Auther and Adam Lerner's "West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965-1977", just out. Both fascinating to me, mainly to find the impact that Native Funk & Flash has had over time. Of course, a single response to a 2009 blog does not indicate much, and that by the author of the mentioned work, but it is surprising to me to find myself/work once again of interest to young people, people of the approximate age I was when I was doing it. In April this year I found myself in Seattle being filmed and speaking with 31-year-old Michael Cepress' college class Counter-Couture, not in his Design Department, but in the History Department of University of Washington, Seattle. The buzz of interest seemed to have mostly to do with the values underlying the work and the "looks", and this is the most interesting part to me. I think it's pertinent that the naiveté and honest freshness of those makers and those times rings up something for us now as the result of world cultures having traveled a different path is hitting home so hard. Taking care of each other, the earth, the amazing face of peace and love reflected back from strangers, the creativity of play, and the joy of being simple and transparent and outrageous all at once! Why wouldn't that spark something deep inside to leap up and dance? Thanks to all of you for a bit of new life to this old one! -Alexandra I found reference to this blog in Elissa Auther and Adam Lerner’s “West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965-1977″, just out. Both fascinating to me, mainly to find the impact that Native Funk & Flash has had over time. Of course, a single response to a 2009 blog does not indicate much, and that by the author of the mentioned work, but it is surprising to me to find myself/work once again of interest to young people, people of the approximate age I was when I was doing it. In April this year I found myself in Seattle being filmed and speaking with 31-year-old Michael Cepress’ college class Counter-Couture, not in his Design Department, but in the History Department of University of Washington, Seattle.

The buzz of interest seemed to have mostly to do with the values underlying the work and the “looks”, and this is the most interesting part to me. I think it’s pertinent that the naiveté and honest freshness of those makers and those times rings up something for us now as the result of world cultures having traveled a different path is hitting home so hard. Taking care of each other, the earth, the amazing face of peace and love reflected back from strangers, the creativity of play, and the joy of being simple and transparent and outrageous all at once! Why wouldn’t that spark something deep inside to leap up and dance?

Thanks to all of you for a bit of new life to this old one!
-Alexandra

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