Navigation, Nuance and half/angel's Knitting Map A series of navigational directions …

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dc.contributor.authorGilson, Jools
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-04T10:54:23Z
dc.date.available2021-05-04T10:54:23Z
dc.date.issued2012-02-14
dc.date.updated2021-05-04T10:40:51Z
dc.description.abstractThis article is about half/angel's durational community installation ‘The Knitting Map’ commissioned for Cork's year as European Capital of Culture in 2005. In ‘The Knitting Map’ CCTV cameras located around Cork City captured information about how busy the city was, and these levels of busyness were translated into knitting stitches - the busier the city, the more complex the stitch. Yarn colour was generated in parallel from a weather station, and mapped onto a palette of yarns. These two strands of information were then uploaded to digital screens as a simple knitting pattern (knit this stitch in this colour), and volunteer knitters sat at twenty knitting stations in a wooden amphitheatre in the crypt of St. Luke's Church in Cork City and knitted. And they did this every day for a year. This article is written in creative critical form, and has three distinct threads – (i) a creative critical argument, (ii) entwined quotes from navigation / knitting texts, and (iii) an autobiographical narrative written as a series of footnotes. It uses tropes of navigation, cartography and knitting to weave its composition. This article is about two publics; one directly involved in ‘The Knitting Map’, and the other a public who witnessed the same project through the media controversy that described it. The article uses these two publics to propose a pedagogy of failure, and to suggest that the challenges of this project, and its unrelated media controversy, can act as buoys guiding understanding of the complex and difficult history of the Irish State and in particular its relationship to textiles, femininity cartography and colonialism.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationGilson, J. (2012) 'Navigation, Nuance and half/angel's Knitting Map A series of navigational directions …', Performance Research, 17(1), pp. 9-20. doi: 10.1080/13528165.2012.651858en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13528165.2012.651858en
dc.identifier.endpage20en
dc.identifier.issn1352-8165
dc.identifier.issued1en
dc.identifier.journaltitlePerformance Researchen
dc.identifier.startpage9en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/11245
dc.identifier.volume17en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13528165.2012.651858
dc.rights© 2012 Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Performance Research on 14 Feb 2012 available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13528165.2012.651858en
dc.subjectThe Knitting Mapen
dc.subjectCork European Capital of Culture 2005en
dc.titleNavigation, Nuance and half/angel's Knitting Map A series of navigational directions …en
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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