Comments on: Knit graffiti http://www.spaceandculture.org/2005/12/22/knit-graffiti/ Welcome to Space and Culture - the international journal and weblog dedicated to social spaces of all kinds. Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:07:05 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jeremy http://www.spaceandculture.org/2005/12/22/knit-graffiti/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Jeremy Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:08:00 +0000 http://www.spaceandculture.org/?p=389#comment-57 See also Meredith Warner's site-specific knitting work at <a HREF="http://www.knittingcommunity.org/projects.html" REL="nofollow">knittingcommunity.org</a>. She actually knits these in the round on location and the knitting has a real permanence (no buttons)--the work has to be cut away and is sometimes left in place for months. There is also a publically performative dimension to these projects which contradicts the usually clandestine nature of graffiti.<br/><br/>I'll also plug an essay of hers entitled <a HREF="http://knittingcommunity.org/thesis.pdf" REL="nofollow">"Bearing Meaning: Women and the Perception of Handicraft"</a> which applies a Feminist Aesthetics critique to the mystification of women, craft, and the "warm and fuzzy." See also Meredith Warner’s site-specific knitting work at knittingcommunity.org. She actually knits these in the round on location and the knitting has a real permanence (no buttons)–the work has to be cut away and is sometimes left in place for months. There is also a publically performative dimension to these projects which contradicts the usually clandestine nature of graffiti.

I’ll also plug an essay of hers entitled “Bearing Meaning: Women and the Perception of Handicraft” which applies a Feminist Aesthetics critique to the mystification of women, craft, and the “warm and fuzzy.”

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