Knitworking: Networking

March 4, 2017

Knitting- the art of drawing together a single thread in consecutive loops to create fabric-creates networked forms that serve as structures of support for many different ideas. These ideas can include practical applications for individual and collective bodies. 

Knitting Together Communities- realms of human interaction and their social contexts literally stitched interpersonal exchanges and actions together. The work democratizes the relationship between those with ‘expert’ and ‘lay’ knowledge. Constructing meanings collectively, participants make and live the necessary changes to change situations.

BIO

Nancy Popp is a Los Angeles-born and -based artist, educator, and organizer. Her work draws upon the rich traditions of durational, corporeal performance, and political intervention to explore relations between the body as site, the context of the site that envelopes the body, and the constant fluctuations that connect the two. Her practice engages both architectural and public space to wrestle with political and social boundaries of geography and identity through risky, playful, endurance-based performance interventions. Other forms she employs include photography, drawing, site-specific installation and video as well as political and community organizing.

Sara Daleiden focuses on cultural production and exchange through creating social interactions in developing landscapes. With bases in Los Angeles and Milwaukee, she offers support for the empathetic, structural development of identity embracing various scales of experimentation, connection, and production. Initiatives and platforms encourage active interpretation and embodied exploration of local places valuing public space, civic participation, economic sustainability, pedestrian awareness, and celebration of difference.