Flex Your Textiles
July 28, 2006- July 30, 2006
Reception: July 28, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
625 W 27th St
Curated by Travis Boyer and Ginger Brooks Takahashi
Flex Your Textiles
Is a coming out.
With both historically humble and ornate, masterful style, we are re-invigorating textile traditions and creating our own.
What is your process?
What are your techniques?
How do you map your desire in sequins?
What do you do with your menstrual blood, ropes, cast-off fabric, dyes, napkins, and felt when you are alone.
What rhythms do you create with your crochet?
Whose ghost is being evoked?
What ancient weaving tradition is having a revival in your kitchen studio?
Flex Your Textiles happened for the first time in a vacant apartment in Williamsburg in the Spring of 2006. This weekend exhibit at
John Connelly Presents is the second offering put forth by Travis Boyer and Ginger Brooks Takahashi.
There will be performances on the opening night, July 28th, 6-8 pm by Edie Fake & Dewayne Sleightweight and
Will Munro.
Edie Fake and Dewayne Slightweight invite you to join a forest, a chorus of thrift and drift, a treasure of error and wonder, an adventure down into the deep and dirty magical feminist now. Combining xylophone tones and bones and beats and musical beards, along with the videographical transmissions of the spectral figures of onion kings and weeper-leapers, this is the mix that we feast on, and so you will feast on us. Let's make what happens, friends, and spread Radical Happiness.
***Saturday July 29th, 1-6 pm, we will host the Pon-a-thon, a participatory craft action open to the public.
***Sunday July 30th, 1-6 pm, a radical quilting bee will also take place at the gallery. All are welcome to join.
Books and DVDs related to artists in this show| Location | map | | Gallery | John Connelly Presents | | Address | 625 W 27th St New York (Chelsea) NY, 10001 United States | | Phone | 212-337-9563 | | Fax | 212-337-9613 | | Hours | Tue-Sat 10-6 | |
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