Choreographed cartography: translation, feminized labor and digital literacy in half/angel's The Knitting Map

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dc.contributor.authorGilson, Jools
dc.contributor.authorBarkun, Deborah
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-30T10:55:35Z
dc.date.available2020-07-30T10:55:35Z
dc.date.issued2010-10
dc.date.updated2020-07-16T10:58:10Z
dc.description.abstractThe Knitting Map was a large-scale, durational textile installation by the Irish-based performance production company half/angel that took place during Cork’s year as European Capital of Culture (2005). Bringing a decade of experience with emergent technologies and art practice, half/angel developed technologies to connect the physical busy-ness of Cork City (captured via a series of CCTV cameras) with correspondingly complex knitting stitches (stitches became more complex when the city was busy), and Cork weather (captured by a weather station) to yarn color. The resulting textile was an abstract documentation of a year in the life of an Irish city, in which a community of the disenfranchised (largely middle aged and older working class women form Cork), were given cartographic authority. To realize The Knitting Map, which required a year-long process of hand-knitting by over 2000 participants, half/angel embraced translation in myriad forms from data procurement and conversion, to language and culture. Here, digital vocabulary, initially unfamiliar and intimidating to many participants, empowered a group of women to speak through a traditional art form in an innovative voice, in which knitting became a radical act. In this paper, we explore the role of translation in engendering gestures of mapping, both intended and unintended. We examine The Knitting Map’s cartographic gestures as they played-out within an Irish context and how the work’s foregrounding of femininity and traditional craft troubled history. Such disruptions, we argue, are contingently consequent when traditional craft claims monumental cultural space.en
dc.description.statusNot peer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationGilson-Ellis, J. and Barkun, D. (2010) 'Choreographed Cartography: Translation, Feminized Labor and Digital Literacy in half/angel's The Knitting Map', Textile Society of America 12th Biennial Symposium, Lincoln, Nebraska, October 6-9. Available online: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf/9en
dc.identifier.endpage10en
dc.identifier.journaltitleTextile Society of America 12th Biennial Symposiumen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/10337
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTextile Society of America at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincolnen
dc.relation.urihttps://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf/9
dc.rights© 2010 Textile Society of Americaen
dc.subjectJools Gilsonen
dc.subjectThe Knitting Mapen
dc.subjectCork European Capital of Culture 2005en
dc.subjectTranslationen
dc.subjectCartographyen
dc.subjectChoreographyen
dc.titleChoreographed cartography: translation, feminized labor and digital literacy in half/angel's The Knitting Mapen
dc.typeConference itemen
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