So do you remember how I thought I could knit five pair of knee high stockings in six weeks? Yeah that didn't happen so much. It was more like half that. Five socks. Five performers. What is a resourcefull knitter to do? This would be a great time to show you a photo of five men, two wearing a pair of socks, me wearing one sock while furiously knitting the other. Unfortunately that photo doesn't exist s so we'll just have to look at the ones I do have.
The performance is called "The Body Parlor: Rudimentary rituals for biological self-production" and it's a collaboration between myself and Katrina Erickson. Why am I showing a bunch of knitters performance art you ask? Well, because it happens to be about sheep.
We've been working with the idea of sheep and humans as combined sacrificial bodies in religion and science, the products produced from their bodies turned into sacred objects and medicines.
These are the lamb masks Katrina made. They're cast foam felted with lambs wool.
Here the sheep's socks are removed and collected before his feet are washed in lamb fat soap and milk.
The milk was then syphoned from the basin and is now in being processed into cheese.
This sheep is being sheared and his fleece is collected as a relic.
So that's what I've been doing lately. Later on in the week I'll show you guys how I made the soap from butcher shop to bars, er... art. Yeah that's it.
Till then I need to get my ass knitting.
4 comments:
I want to see the performance.
You are so clever, this looks like a really interesting piece--did you get good feedback?
wow.
those masks are amazing.
I like those masks too.
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