Friday, August 15, 2008

Out of it on new literacies


Fog your brain
Thank goodness it's just texting and emailing....blogs are perfectly OK! Phew. Here's the wonderful Becky Bowley (remember the dissolving knitting?). Her recent performance piece Transmerge was based on her train journey from Sheffield to Manchester. In Sheffield she dug a hole: then she took the earth to the next stop, Dore, where she then dug another hole and filled that hole with the earth from Sheffield. The process was repeated right along the Transpennine train route to Manchester. The Manchester earth was then taken back to fill the original hole in Sheffield. The full story's on the blog, complete with photographs of the costume and props. How cool is that?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

thanks Guy! last year I was researching subversive crafting for a while. I had not heard about this artist before. Unfortunately your link to the blog entry is broken.

Guy Merchant said...

OK thanks - I'll fix it.