We are working on something special for International Yarn Bombing Day – this year it is 9th June. We have planned to add a little surprise to one of Belfast’s well-known sculptures. I will add final images when it is finished but here are a couple from our meetings to keep you going until then!
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a few more images of the Christmas Project, tomorrow night we are meeting to discuss the next project – bring whatever you are working on or wool and needles if you want to learn!
John Hewitt
Belfast
7.30
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images from Writers Square, Belfast of decorations knitted and hung up by group on our last meeting of the year.
Who: Knitglected – get your knit together.
What: Knitting in the pub
we are making Christmas baubles to hang on some trees after this meeting ( the last for 2011)
bring any spare wool and needles you have. Everyone is welcome.
email me knitglected@gmail.com for the bauble pattern if you want to get started or for any more info.
Where: John Hewitt, Belfast
When: 20th December 7.30 pm
Why: we like knitting and pub going simple as that.
I thought it might be useful (for me and anyone else struggling with written work) to include a few posts on my Master text. On the MA Art in Public you have a choice of format for your text including catalogue essay, PhD proposal and journal article. I would love to do a PhD at some point but I am really keen to situate my work in a wider context and write self-critically and self-reflexively so I have chosen a journal article. I often do things in the abstract and to tackle that I am focussing on an e-journal and will submit the text on its completion These posts will include research on the possible journals and on the texts I am using to situate my work.
I have looked briefly at Billion Art Journal, papervisualartist and Art and Research, I need to pitch my text specifically for a journal so I will research further and see which one would best fit my text and give me a realistic chance for inclusion. The texts I am reading currently are Mika Hannula’s The Politics of small gestures and Ted Purves What we want is Free. Hannula’s book is amazing and I am searching everywhere for a copy to buy but no luck yet.
I will update with further developments as I continue and if anyone has read these books I would love to hear your thoughts.
Get you knit together!
We have started up meetings again and they are now on Tuesdays (just sorting how often these will be) I will post up some pics of the next meeting so if you cannot make it at least you know what you are missing!
knitglected, The John Hewitt Bar, Belfast
http://makingsomethingsmallhappen.wordpress.com/2011/11/12/good-intentions-fix-2011-day-3/
This project is ongoing during FIX 2011
It is the first in a series of 12 tracts which make up my Masters project.
http://makingsomethingsmallhappen.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/good-intentionsfix-2011-day-1/
new blog of Masters project
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The practicalities of ironing other people’s clothes are still becoming evident even after the show. Yesterday I received a message from one of the participants to say there were stains on two of his shirts. the message said:
Hi Julie there are stains on two of my shirts. Do you know what this is and is it removable?_______
I replied:
Hi _______, if it is from the iron I’m so sorry but it should wash out I honestly did not notice any or I would have told you. Sorry again, Julie.
Later with no reply and I’m starting to feel awful I text again saying:
I’m feeling terrible about your shirts can you let me know if it doesn’t wash out and I hope this doesn’t put you off participating in other odd art projects. I can’t be sure that the stains weren’t already there but if you are positive I did it and hey don’t wash out I will buy you two new shirts, sorry again, Julie
At this point I’m feeling like this is a bad end to my exhibition, I realise it is all part of completing an action like this but I also have an underlying question, should I have asked participants to sign to allow for the possibility of clothes being stained? or should I have checked each garment before hand to record any marks that were there when they arrived? After several hours of increasingly becoming worried that this participant may feel that I had intentionally stained people clothes as a twist in the project, I received another message saying:
It’s ok don’t worry about.(sic)I’m sure they’ll wash out. Thanks ______.
Right after this I received an email from Bronagh Lawson at Creative Change NI to say she had picked me as Artist of the Week on http://www.creativechangeni.com/ which was a surprise and really nice to feel that action I had completed in the exhibition really worked on the level that I hoped. Although I often talk of the importance of the everyday, seemingly trivial (often domestic) activities that become or influence my work the worry is that without publicity they remain invisible.
And lastly I received this comment on Facebook from a participant:
Unexpected consequence of ur exhibition . . . . realised i couldn’t put all bex’s lovely ironed clothes in her messy drawer so ended up tidying all her drawers and finally getting her room looking lovely instead of a dumping ground! woo hoo
I was sure that many people would think this offer of free ironing was too good to be true I did not expect however that people would participate then drop in gifts afterwards these included:
and 3 buns – one coconut, one plain and one sliced almond iced finger.
I think giving my time and labour as art has opened so many questions for me to continue with. Throughout the show I had worried I would not be able to complete the action as I suffer from both Madelungs Deformity and osteoarthritis in both my wrists, I am currently on the waiting list for another surgery. This was a personal challenge but I did not want it to affect people participating so I did not mention it to participants during the exhibition.
The other questions that have arisen have been listed in previous posts on the exhibition and will continue to affect the actions I work with in the future.
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