{"id":611,"date":"2005-02-02T08:07:23","date_gmt":"2005-02-02T07:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ankegroener.de\/?p=611"},"modified":"2005-02-02T08:08:07","modified_gmt":"2005-02-02T07:08:07","slug":"knitters-unite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ankegroener.de\/blog\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"Knitters unite!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Das wird die Strickblogger freuen: In London er\u00f6ffnet eine Ausstellung, die Stricken zur Revolution hochstilisiert: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/arts\/news\/story\/0,11711,1402062,00.html\">Political protest turns to the radical art of knitting<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The exhibition comes as knitting enjoys a fashionable resurgence, with celebrities from Madonna to Julia Roberts and Russell Crowe extolling its virtues as a creative outlet and a stress reliever.<\/p>\n<p>Katie Bevan, one of the exhibition&#8217;s curators, believes that the roots of the trend are deeper. &#8220;There&#8217;s a sort of zeitgeist: a make-do-and-mend spirit during this war on terror or whatever it is. Everyone just wants to go home and knit socks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For many of the artists in the show, the act of knitting is itself political. Shane Waltener, who is making a site-specific, web-like piece embedded with a text from the French semiotician Roland Barthes, says knitting has been &#8220;long underrated because it is &#8216;women&#8217;s work'&#8221;. Part of the point for him is &#8220;going public as a guy doing knitting &#8230; I had to teach myself to knit and crochet, because &#8216;boys don&#8217;t&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For many political knitters, the craft represents an act of rebellion. Waltener says: &#8220;On the one hand I am celebrating this tradition that I really believe in. On the other it is about self-sufficiency. By knitting you are resisting capitalism and consumerism. You are not responding to the fashion industry; you are making your own decisions.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Damit ist Russell Crowe aber sowas von der Schnuckiliste geflogen, so schnell kann der Mann gar nicht \u201eAngorapulli\u201c sagen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Das wird die Strickblogger freuen: In London er\u00f6ffnet eine Ausstellung, die Stricken zur Revolution hochstilisiert: Political protest turns to the radical art of knitting. The exhibition comes as knitting enjoys a fashionable resurgence, with celebrities from Madonna to Julia Roberts and Russell Crowe extolling its virtues as a creative outlet and a stress reliever. Katie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ankegroener.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ankegroener.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ankegroener.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ankegroener.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ankegroener.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ankegroener.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ankegroener.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ankegroener.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ankegroener.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}