Crafting Identities: Folding and stitching the self
This article tells the story of two fibre artists, Kathryn and Clare, who craft their intergenerational autoethnographic insights through the creation of textile artworks. It explores the collaborative journey of both artists, who came together to create an exhibition titled “Stitching Identities.”...
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2019-02-01
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| author | Kathryn Grushka Michelle van Gestel Clare Skates |
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| description | This article tells the story of two fibre artists, Kathryn and Clare, who craft their intergenerational autoethnographic insights through the creation of textile artworks. It explores the collaborative journey of both artists, who came together to create an exhibition titled “Stitching Identities.” The artists have embraced the Deleuzian idea of the folding act in artmaking as a process of continuous and complex revealing of narratives and intuitive insights about self, a bringing of the inside to the outside and into material aesthetic form. It also embeds the writing of a colleague artist/educator, Michelle, who worked with them on the writing of the article and in addition draws on the critical, reflective and philosophical writing of education theorist Inna Semetsky (https://columbia.academia.edu/InnaSemetsky) who wrote the “Stitching Identities” exhibition catalogue essay. Their artmaking is their method, a way of crafting for meaning, a way to research and explore the self and the formation of their current identities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7eb01c645f41464ab700569fa8a0dd952022-12-21T19:04:03ZengUniversity of AlbertaArt/Research International2371-37712019-02-014110.18432/ari2942229422Crafting Identities: Folding and stitching the selfKathryn Grushka0Michelle van Gestel1Clare Skates2University of NewcastleUniversity of Newcastle AustralianoneThis article tells the story of two fibre artists, Kathryn and Clare, who craft their intergenerational autoethnographic insights through the creation of textile artworks. It explores the collaborative journey of both artists, who came together to create an exhibition titled “Stitching Identities.” The artists have embraced the Deleuzian idea of the folding act in artmaking as a process of continuous and complex revealing of narratives and intuitive insights about self, a bringing of the inside to the outside and into material aesthetic form. It also embeds the writing of a colleague artist/educator, Michelle, who worked with them on the writing of the article and in addition draws on the critical, reflective and philosophical writing of education theorist Inna Semetsky (https://columbia.academia.edu/InnaSemetsky) who wrote the “Stitching Identities” exhibition catalogue essay. Their artmaking is their method, a way of crafting for meaning, a way to research and explore the self and the formation of their current identities.https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/ari/index.php/ari/article/view/29422craft as methodstitching identitiesnew materialityfoldsmontage methodDeleuze |
| spellingShingle | Kathryn Grushka Michelle van Gestel Clare Skates Crafting Identities: Folding and stitching the self Art/Research International craft as method stitching identities new materiality folds montage method Deleuze |
| title | Crafting Identities: Folding and stitching the self |
| title_full | Crafting Identities: Folding and stitching the self |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Crafting Identities: Folding and stitching the self |
| title_short | Crafting Identities: Folding and stitching the self |
| title_sort | crafting identities folding and stitching the self |
| topic | craft as method stitching identities new materiality folds montage method Deleuze |
| url | https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/ari/index.php/ari/article/view/29422 |
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