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KNITTING NATION PHASE 3 IS COMPRISED OF THE FOLLOWING RISD TEXTILES ALUMNI AND STUDENTS:
LIZ COLLINS- ‘91/ MFA ‘99
ANNE EMLEIN- MFA ‘06
MARTIN EMLEIN- ‘09
YOONAH KIM- ‘07
KATHRYN MARESCA- ‘07
RACHEL MILANO- MFA ‘06
LAURA MOLYNEUX- ‘07
ASHLEY SMITH- ‘07
GINNY SPENCER-’07
JULIE VAN SUCH- ’07
Knitting nation is an experimental and recurring performance-based installation created by designer, artist, and risd professor liz collins. Each phase explores different facets of this evolving project, where new discoveries are made about how on- site and collective production can yield results which manifest the irregularities of the human hand. Knitting nation lays bare the process of machine knitting, creating an awareness of the physicality involved in making fabric and clothing, and aims to raise questions about our culture of excess.
In this phase of knitting nation, we are conducting an experiment about color. All participants are being given a degree of creative input about the design of the piece that has not been present in the first two phases of the project. All knitters were asked to use the same red cotton yarn to plan a sequential stripe repeat using the red and two other colors of their choice. As the knitters rotate their positions at the machines, they bring their stripe patterns with them, so the patterns spread throughout the piece, as opposed to each one travelling the length of one column.
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