Projects
Building
Barn Razing
Betty Rymer
Tapping the Audience
with.draw
FLO(we){u)R
Past Present Perfect
re.pur.pose
Work-In-Progress
site:WARE:Chicago
Johnny Appleseed
PastTimes
Practical Culture
K[ne(e){a}d]
Excavating History
Watershed
Souvenir
redress [ree-dres]
verb
- to dress again
- to set right; remedy or repair (wrongs, injuries, etc.)
- to correct or reform (abuses, evils, etc.)
- to remedy or relieve (suffering, want, etc.)
- to adjust evenly again, as a balance
A collaborative work with Lia Rousset and Carla Duarte
Eight bicycle wheels are dressed with yarn. The wool from unraveled sweaters becomes re-knit, activating a system of doing, undoing, and redoing. Stringing the gallery like a machine, the labor from harvesting second hand sweaters threads the room, while knitting translates the space into a sustained function.
All are invited to add to redress by coming into the space to knit, skill-share, learn, converse, or contemplate. As we all struggle to feel connected to the systems that make up our lives, the line of thread, moving through readymade materials and into our hands, activates us as participants and, interestingly, provides a place of comfort.
This durational work is marked in word, sound, and length. With each tug of the yarn, the sound of the wheel turning creates a public announcement that documentation is in progress.Timecards mark our time together, for everyone becomes a “worker” to the greater system. As the knitting grows, our combined efforts are marked in stitches, tension and a new material forms an open-ended document.
This work has no definable goal. We opened the question of, “What should these become?” to participants. While a few people hoped for function, blankets for the homeless or hats for the chilly, most found freedom in the lack of purposefulness. As the documents grew and they became a bit bulky, people began to stray from a tidy scarf width and playfulness emerged. The more we knit, talked, and watched the forms change, we recognized the need for inefficiency and purposelessness, in short, time to play.
REDRESS
