Silas Marner
- The Weaver of Raveloe Parlour
Besty Greer?
- form of activism
anti-capitalism
environmentalism
3rd wave feminism
- centred around craft
mostly knitting - cross-stitch introduced
Graffiti Grannies
Gorilla Gardeners
"engaged creativity"
"making a difference one person at a time"
"creativity to expand previous boundaries + enters the area of activism"
"after 9/11 rising sense of hopelessness been released"
-1970's - 2nd wave of feminism - away from domesticity
-term craftivism -> C21st
-bring back the personal into daily lives - replace some of the mass produced
-craft as subversive - throughout history
-3rd wave feminism - language of choice + freedom - want to be respected whether they work at home or not
-craft seems less important as art - embroidery, dollies to decorate homes
-"public knitting" -men knitting on a grand scale
-using cranes to knit
-women didn't weave - just men - women spun - done at home
-until after the industrial revolution - done in factories
-environmentalism + sustainability
-"bunny love" project - Eden centre
-organic fabrics, vintage, thrifted, repurposed goods
-craft - pre-capitalist - before industrialisation - everything has a "use-value"
-a very useful tool - more expensive than stuff not useful
-now - "exchange-value" - less emphasis on time + skill - more important to make it available to the public
-DIY - resistence to capitalist nature of fashion industry
-great British sewing
-making own clothes or buying handmade
-protest unfair labour practices
-gap between galleries + craftivism
wants skill / \ focused on the 'doing'
-knitoscope
-efforts of craftivism - dependant on the internet
-"stitch for senate"
-group of people to stitch for solider's helmets
-"knit-in"
-group of people go to a public place and knit
-make a point -protests - Revolutionary Knitting Circle of Calgery
-Besty Greer - away from domestic action
-Jermaine Greer - rubbish not doing anything
-The Lonely Craftivist
-politics shouldn't be involved
-don't confuse politics + craft
-"the personal is political" - 2nd wave feminist slogan
-Besty Greer believes
web links
-labour + product - very different
artist's product but not labour
-Robin Wood - William Morris + Craftivism
-Relational Aesthetics/Relational Art
mode or tendency in fine art practice
- highlighted by French art critic Nicholas Bourriard
-intersubjective encounters
-perspective - viewer owns the whole painting
-what they get from it
-relational art began to question it
collectively making a meaning
-Ritvit Tiravanija + Carsten Höller
-makes food + gives it to people that come to the gallery
-art is in the making + consuming -trace of what's left
Höller - slides at the Tate - stainless steel structure - art of participating
-Antagonism + Relational Aesthetics
-Claire Bishop -October 04
-where is the aesthetic in relational art
-relational art produced human relations -what types of relations?
-people terrified of community where everyone knows everyone's business
-happy clappy -everything will be lovely when they get together - Bishop is questioning that
