24.2.20 Jo Turney and the culture of knitting
‘(Knitting) is no longer only an ordinary, domestic practice but can be fine art, craft, design, film, performance and fashion, as well as a leisure pursuit. It can… make social comment, political statements and questions issues of national and global importance…. Knitting has a multiplicity of meanings, purposes and objectives’ (Turney 2009, p3.)
‘It is also important to investigate practice and objects more critically in order to establish a language of knitting, which transcends hierarchical boundaries such as ‘art’, ‘craft’ and so on, merely because these classifications tend to dismiss knitting – ie ‘It’s only knitting’. Such marginalisation from academic discourse negates this hugely popular, discursive, skilled and dynamic practice. To see knitting as a culture, with its own language, practices and so on is to empower knitting from the ties of other disciplines.’ (Turney 2009, p4)
Knitting is ubiquitous and thus overlooked
Domestic
Skilled
How does the ‘seemingly mundane become significant’? P 5
How can it be ‘talked about critically’?
How can ‘we approach and understand marginalized creative practices’?
Turney, J. (2009) The Culture of Knitting. Oxford: Berg
‘(Knitting) is no longer only an ordinary, domestic practice but can be fine art, craft, design, film, performance and fashion, as well as a leisure pursuit. It can… make social comment, political statements and questions issues of national and global importance…. Knitting has a multiplicity of meanings, purposes and objectives’ (Turney 2009, p3.)
‘It is also important to investigate practice and objects more critically in order to establish a language of knitting, which transcends hierarchical boundaries such as ‘art’, ‘craft’ and so on, merely because these classifications tend to dismiss knitting – ie ‘It’s only knitting’. Such marginalisation from academic discourse negates this hugely popular, discursive, skilled and dynamic practice. To see knitting as a culture, with its own language, practices and so on is to empower knitting from the ties of other disciplines.’ (Turney 2009, p4)
Knitting is ubiquitous and thus overlooked
Domestic
Skilled
How does the ‘seemingly mundane become significant’? P 5
How can it be ‘talked about critically’?
How can ‘we approach and understand marginalized creative practices’?
Turney, J. (2009) The Culture of Knitting. Oxford: Berg