Introduction

The shortest overcoming of our great distance apart would be a trip to the middle of the earth; the biggest common factor would be ceramics - but that is not my point here.

It began in March of 2000, in Denver, where Janet deBoos, Suzanne Wolfe, Georgette Zirbes and I stood together on the podium at the NCECA Conference in order to inform about and to publicly ruminate over "International Collaborations" in the field of ceramics. We knew each other from symposiums, appreciated each other's work and we were interested in the educational profiles of the individual universities represented: The Australian National University, The University of Hawai'i at Manoa, The University of Michigan and the Burg Giebichenstein - College of Art and Design in Halle.

Using the experience of the European Module Programme on the topic of Food and Communication ,in which the ceramics class of the Burg was involved, the plan of common thematic work and reciprocal exchange arose - that without further ado took the globe as its center point. This was an inspired constellation, seeing as all four protagonists reject the commonly held image of the limited, niche-oriented ceramics artist. Canberra - Honolulu - Ann Arbor - Halle: the point of intersection would likely be the center of the earth or, if one took tangents, somewhere in outer space. The idea of a next meeting there was thrown off, instead, we met in the Internet at different stages to exchange ideas.

When winter arrives in Halle, summer begins in Canberra, when the sun sets here, it rises in Honolulu. The connecting space is the difference in time.

The common work topic was obvious:
SPACE BETWEEN

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