FILM SCREENING >>> KNITTED ANIMATIONS >>>
IF YOU KNOW YOU KNOW*
Animation screening series
@ Bob Baker Marionette Theatre, Los Angeles - 13th May 2023
presented by Nihil and Friends
I have two knitted animations (Knitted Horse Firework and Ceci N'est Pas Un Spectacle) showing as part of a screening of animations (" old. Weird. New. Shelved. Revived. Reborn") in the fanatsic Bob Baker Marionette Theatre. The event is being put on by Tiffany Kimmel and collaborators who made the award winning animation 'Everybody Goes To The Hospital' (2021).
you can read more about the event here.
GROUP EXHIBITION >>>
OUT OF OFFICE This isn’t working for us
@ IMPAKT - UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS - FROM FEB 10 TO APR 10 - EXTENDED TO 30 APRIL
curated by Marijn Bril
Including work by Art Goss / Alina Lupu / Sam Meech / Adrian Melis / Mario Santamaría / Tytus Szabelski-Różniak / Pilvi Takala / Total Refusal / 996.ICU
I have a new version of a previous work in a show about WORK. Out of Office presents a collection of artistic responses that reveal, rethink and reject the constant drive towards exploitative productivity. My contribution is a reworking of my '8 Hours Labour' banner, this time visualising data about over-work collected from people working in academia.
The show and the work come at a weird time for me, since I quit my job teaching at Concordia just before Christmas. Consequently I spent the new year clearing out my office, and knitting a banner which expressed some of the reasons why I chose to leave. I took care to document both acts - leaving the office and the production of the banner - via a cctv system. The final videos appear in the exhibition alongside the knitting object, The final work is titled '8 Hours Labour - Limited Term Appointment' in reference to the precarious full-time contract under which I was working.
project page : http://portfolio.smeech.co.uk/8-hours-labour-limited-term-appointment/
IMPAKT exhibition page : https://impakt.nl/events/2023/exhibition/out-of-office/
Review - We Make Money Not Art : 'Indolence and other strategies to resist the 24/7 work culture'
GROUP EXHIBITION >>>
SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLES Strelnikov's Glasses and Other Stories
@ HONG KONG ARTS CENTRE - FROM MAR 15 TO MAY 1
curated by Susan Platt & Robert Hamilton
Including work by Jonathan Hltchen, Joan Beadle, Libby Scarlett, Hilary Judd, Robert Hamilton, Susan Platt, Louise Adkins, lan Whadcock, Panrsons & Charlesworth, Jo Hitchen, Mike Harte, Birthday Studio, Nick Fleming, lucy May Schofield, Humberto Velez, Ben Kither, Loose Collective, Ian Anderson (The Designers Republic, Chris Paul Daniels, Lucy Vann, Kevin Craig, Adam Griffiths, DR.ME
My 3D anaglyph print 'NATURAL VISION' is being shown alongside many other works responding to the use of glasses in cinema. The show was originally exhibited in Manchester at HOME in 2017, but has finally made its way to Hong Kong, thanks to the hard work of founders and curatiors Susan PLatt and Robert Hamilton.
project page : http://portfolio.smeech.co.uk/natural-vision/
HK arts Centre exhibition page : https://hkac.org.hk/calendar_detail/?u=0kRtJz_ryp8\
Society of the Spectacles instagram : https://www.instagram.com/thesocietyofthespectacles/
NEW ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN A 'PROPER' JOURNAL >>>
FABRICATIONS:
USING KNITTED ARTWORKS TO CHALLENGE DEVELOPERS’ NARRATIVES OF REGENERATION AND RECOGNISE MANCHESTER’S SOUTH ASIAN WORKING CLASS TEXTILES BUSINESSES
TEXTILE: CLOTH & CULTURE SPECIAL ISSUE - Unraveling Contemporary Knitting
An important article bringing together several years of research and craftivism around the knitting factories of manchester and their displacement by developers Capital & Centric. It opens up some hugely important issues around narrative, power, and the erasure of marginalised communities from the industrial heritage of the city. I've written this article not for my job, but because these issues needed articulating in a more substantial way than a twitter thread. Anyone who follows me will appreciate that this is something I care about deeply. My first and most likely my last published journal article!
Read it here : https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14759756.2022.2099628 (Concordia faculty / students >> https://www-tandfonline-com.lib-ezproxy.concordia.ca/doi/full/10.1080/14759756.2022.2099628 )
+++ PLEASE SHARE +++ craftivism, knitting, gentrification, Manchester, South Asian communities, textiles
(if you can't access it via the link above, try one of the limited 'free' links here, or failing that, give me an email at hello at smeech dot co dot uk)
SHOP >>>
Simply A Matter of Work - print - $1 CAD + p&p
Fair Isle 40 - knitting card game - £12 / $20 CAD + p&p
FILM SCREENING >>> KNITTED ANIMATIONS >>>
IF YOU KNOW YOU KNOW*
Animation screening series
@ Bob Baker Marionette Theatre, Los Angeles - 13th May 2023
presented by Nihil and Friends
I have two knitted animations (Knitted Horse Firework and Ceci N'est Pas Un Spectacle) showing as part of a screening of animations (" old. Weird. New. Shelved. Revived. Reborn") in the fanatsic Bob Baker Marionette Theatre. The event is being put on by Tiffany Kimmel and collaborators who made the award winning animation 'Everybody Goes To The Hospital' (2021).
you can read more about the event here.
GROUP EXHIBITION >>>
OUT OF OFFICE This isn’t working for us
@ IMPAKT - UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS - FROM 10 FEB - 10 APRIL - EXTENDED TO 30 APRIL
curated by Marijn Bril
Including work by Art Goss / Alina Lupu / Sam Meech / Adrian Melis / Mario Santamaría / Tytus Szabelski-Różniak / Pilvi Takala / Total Refusal / 996.ICU
I have a new version of a previous work in a show about WORK. Out of Office presents a collection of artistic responses that reveal, rethink and reject the constant drive towards exploitative productivity. My contribution is a reworking of my '8 Hours Labour' banner, this time visualising data about over-work collected from people working in academia.
The show and the work come at a weird time for me, since I quit my job teaching at Concordia just before Christmas. Consequently I spent the new year clearing out my office, and knitting a banner which expressed some of the reasons why I chose to leave. I took care to document both acts - leaving the office and the production of the banner - via a cctv system. The final videos appear in the exhibition alongside the knitting object, The final work is titled '8 Hours Labour - Limited Term Appointment' in reference to the precarious full-time contract under which I was working.
more info here : https://impakt.nl/events/2023/exhibition/out-of-office/
GROUP EXHIBITION >>>
SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLES Strelnikov's Glasses and Other Stories
@ HONG KONG ARTS CENTRE - FROM MAR 15 TO MAY 1
curated by Susan Platt & Robert Hamilton
Including work by Jonathan Hltchen, Joan Beadle, Libby Scarlett, Hilary Judd, Robert Hamilton, Susan Platt, Louise Adkins, lan Whadcock, Panrsons & Charlesworth, Jo Hitchen, Mike Harte, Birthday Studio, Nick Fleming, lucy May Schofield, Humberto Velez, Ben Kither, Loose Collective, Ian Anderson (The Designers Republic, Chris Paul Daniels, Lucy Vann, Kevin Craig, Adam Griffiths, DR.ME
My 3D anaglyph print 'NATURAL VISION' is being shown alongside many other works responding to the use of glasses in cinema. The show was originally exhibited in Manchester at HOME in 2017, but has finally made its way to Hong Kong, thanks to the hard work of founders and curatiors Susan PLatt and Robert Hamilton.
project page : http://portfolio.smeech.co.uk/natural-vision/
HK arts Centre exhibition page : https://hkac.org.hk/calendar_detail/?u=0kRtJz_ryp8\
Society of the Spectacles instagram : https://www.instagram.com/thesocietyofthespectacles/
NEW ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN A 'PROPER' JOURNAL >>>
FABRICATIONS:
USING KNITTED ARTWORKS TO CHALLENGE DEVELOPERS’ NARRATIVES OF REGENERATION AND RECOGNISE MANCHESTER’S SOUTH ASIAN WORKING CLASS TEXTILES BUSINESSES
TEXTILE: CLOTH & CULTURE SPECIAL ISSUE - Unraveling Contemporary Knitting
An important article bringing together several years of research and craftivism around the knitting factories of manchester and their displacement by developers Capital & Centric. It opens up some hugely important issues around narrative, power, and the erasure of marginalised communities from the industrial heritage of the city. I've written this article not for my job, but because these issues needed articulating in a more substantial way than a twitter thread. Anyone who follows me will appreciate that this is something I care about deeply. My first and most likely my last published journal article!
Read it here : https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14759756.2022.2099628
+++ PLEASE SHARE +++ craftivism, knitting, gentrification, Manchester, South Asian communities, textiles
(if you can't access it via the link above, try one of the limited 'free' links here, or failing that, give me an email at hello at smeech dot co dot uk)
SHOP >>>
Simply A Matter of Work - print - $1 CAD + p&p
Fair Isle 40 - knitting card game - £12 / $20 CAD + p&p