Stitching Revolutions: Shane Waltener with Craftspace and Husqvarna Viking at the Stitching and Knitting Show 2010
Encounter craft as a performance. Shane Waltener works live with participants on six Husqvarna Viking overlocking machines in the Palm Court Foyer at Alexandra Palace.
Reworking fabric from old clothes, a group of stitchers acted as one to create Stitching Circle #1, a piece commissioned for Alexandra Palace during the Knitting and Stitching Show. They simultaneously passed and received their continuous creation negotiating the pace of the stitching to keep the work flowing. The stitched installation evolved forming a growing suspended circular display over the course of the exhbition.
The circle of stitchers celebrated the histories and memories of cloth and made new conversations through fabric and stitch.
Craftspace and Husqvarna Viking presented this exciting event.
The event linked to the touring exhibition Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution.
Labels: craftspace, knittng and stitching show, sewing, stitching, stitching revolutions
