Tag: Makingoddkin
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Weaving worlds II – what women make
Weaving worlds II I once calculated that the distance in wool my grandmother had knitted throughout her lifetime, 94 years, 3 months and 21 days, was roughly equivalent to the earth’s circumference, 40 075km. I have estimated that the weight of the stone I have shifted throughout my PhD is approximately 9,8 tons[1]. I have…
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I’m thinking of becoming a Dadaist
do not be alarmed the bellow should be considered to be satire…see ‘The mutterings project’ for prior reference. One reaches a moment in ones life, where the future seems to stretch out into infinite dullness. filled with administration and management, of things and others- lackluster. No amount of incentive seems to, be enough to band-aid…
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Artwork and idea in proccess – weaving with carrier bags
Since my primary aim here, is to make a case for practice, and proccess as research method. Laboratory for those hard scientist among you. I though I would share, a recent presentation and workshop I gave in Helsinki, as part of the, °City is sound, city is quicksand° event at Hietsu pavilion! Hosted by the…
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Material Matters
Fasler Galley Wits School of Architecture March-June 2023 This exhibition showcases the work by the staff of the Architecture Program Although the work was not created with a particular theme in mind, the bringing together of artifacts condensates an interest in materiality. A compulsion to explore the limits and potentialities of architectural materials, glass, steel,…
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‘Snow Studies’ mattering with Helsinki’s urban terrains
In December of 2022, Zen Marie, Alex Arteaga and myself, we asked to convene, a creative workshop as part of the Kuva research days 2022, entitled the ‘City as Space of Rules and Dreaming’ a project funded by the Kone foundation. You can read more about it here. We proposed to present a series of…
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Making Odd Kin – 2022
Gathering Oddkin, Nirox Foundation winter sculpture fair – Good Neighbors 7may-31 August 2022 BRIGITTA STONE-JOHNSON SOUTH AFRICA Gathering oddkin, 2022 Over the last two hundred years, humans have moved from beings that affect their immediate dwelling places to epoch-altering geo-writers. Since the industrial age, we have acted as if non-living things had neither life nor…