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Yarn Bombing: Claiming Rhetorical Citizenship in Public Space
Maureen Daly GogginArizona State University, USA
Rhetoric in Society 4
CopenhagenJanuary 16, 2013
Yarn bombing is also known as:
yarn storming yarn graffiti
urban crochet and knitting
guerilla crochet and knitting
street or outsider yarn art
Iceland
Canada
New Zealand
“where the things we make bear knowledge of the world, on par with the
words we speak”
Davis Baird, “Thing Knowledge—Function and Truth,” Techné 6.2 (Winter 2002): 13.
Davis Baird “Thing Knowledge”
“A drawing on the street is similar to a letter. It proves that there is a writer.”
A1one (a.k.a. Tanha) Tehran, Iran
A1one 2011 (a.k.a Tanha), Tehran
Change and making the world a
better place can be done with a grin
instead of a grimace, a whisper
instead of a bellow. What we do
can alter the way people look at
their world. How it alters it is up to
them. That’s really our point.
Deadly Knitshade, Knit the City: A Whodunnkit Set in London (Chichester: Summersdale, 2011) 124.
Deadly Knitshade on Yarn Storming
Rather than bringing revolution to the front door and kicking it open, as their parents may have hoped to do, these independent [DIY] makers are using the disarming and unassuming aesthetic of DIY craft’s remixed domestic creativity to make subversive statements about the world in which they live.Dennis Stevens, “DIY: Revolution 3.0—Beta,” Craft Council (September 16, 2009).
Dennis Stevens on DIY Movement
Iraqi War Protest in Denmark
Pink M.24 Chaffee Tank April 2006
by Marianne Jorgensen
Nikolaj Contemporary Art
CenterCopenhagen
Anti-Nuclear Yarn Bombing in Germany
“No thanks” is the message
by Strick and Liesel
2011
Political Decision Protest
Yarn Bombing Political Decision Protest
Opposition to tramway expansion in Edinburgh
Unknown Crochet
artistSeptember 2012
Germany
2011
by Strick & Liesel
Message “Redundant” or
“Fired”on “throw-up” tag
Yarn Bombing Political Economic Protest
Yarn Bombing Political Economic Protest
By Knit Riot Collective
Los Feliz, CA June 2012
“HOMEsweetHOME” protest
KnitRiot Economic Protest Yarnboming
Highland Park School June 2011
PATH Homeless Center, East Hollywood December 2011
Québec Student Strike and Yarnbombing
Above left Students hold hand knitted protest signs March
22, 2012Above right Red knitted
Protest quilt (stitched 1/2012-8/2012)
Hung September 2012 “The struggle is only
starting”
Fracking near Blackpool, England Nov. 2012
Protest for Environmental Sustainability
Yarn bombing at St. Annes Square,
Blackpool , November 28, 2012
“Against Water F.O.W.L.E.R.S. Awareness Campaign”
Knitting Nannas Against Gas
AustraliaA Protest (above) & Getting ready for a
protest (right)
Protest for Sustainability
Protest against Logging in Alberta, Canada
Protest against Tire Burning July
3, 2012Saifi Village, Beirut, Lebanon
Bokja Designers and Berirut Citizens
“We are tyred”
Today’s activists must … recognize that their participation in public life will make a critical difference in their world. By acting proactively and with tactical and strategic wisdom, social change activists can bring a degree of social and economic justice . . . that has for too long been deferred.
Brooklyn, NY “Play Me I’m Yours”
Shaw, Randy. The Activist’s Handbook rev. 2nd ed. 1996. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2001. 279.
Graz, Austria
Yellow Springs, OH
Iasi, Romania
Velbert, GermanyAlberta, Canada
Thank you!