Fascinations, semester project (BA)
Queering Ravelry
Leathermen are icons of cultural masculinity, an image of dangerous rebelliousness, and in the 1950’s it was exactly that image, which turned motorcycle clubs into sanctuarys for gay men not wanting to be perceived as effeminate.
Knitting used to be for everyone, until the industrialisation of textile production made hand-knitting seen as an amateur feminine pursuit to be followed safely from within the cage of domesticity.
The knitted harnesses are not meant to be a direct undoing of gender, but more a misquotation of the norm of the leather harness as we know it from the images by Tom of Finland, to emphasixe how gender norms are linked to how we as inviduals choose to perform them, and work as a recognition of gender as a social construct.
Accompanying the harnesses is a research book telling the story of knitting and how it has been used to send powerful messages through time, visiting people like Dansik knit rebel Lærke Bagger and the character Sarah Lund from the tv-hit “Forbrydelsen” whose sweater became more recognizeable then the character herself. And lastly, the Leatherman, and how they moved into popular cuture.
Queering Ravelry
Leathermen are icons of cultural masculinity, an image of dangerous rebelliousness, and in the 1950’s it was exactly that image, which turned motorcycle clubs into sanctuarys for gay men not wanting to be perceived as effeminate.
Knitting used to be for everyone, until the industrialisation of textile production made hand-knitting seen as an amateur feminine pursuit to be followed safely from within the cage of domesticity.
The knitted harnesses are not meant to be a direct undoing of gender, but more a misquotation of the norm of the leather harness as we know it from the images by Tom of Finland, to emphasixe how gender norms are linked to how we as inviduals choose to perform them, and work as a recognition of gender as a social construct.
Accompanying the harnesses is a research book telling the story of knitting and how it has been used to send powerful messages through time, visiting people like Dansik knit rebel Lærke Bagger and the character Sarah Lund from the tv-hit “Forbrydelsen” whose sweater became more recognizeable then the character herself. And lastly, the Leatherman, and how they moved into popular cuture.
Fundamentals 2A 2023, Design Academy Eindhoven
Exhibition
18-20th of January 2023, Fascinations exhibition
Microstad, Professor Doctor Dorgelolaan 2, 5611BA Eindhoven
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Exhibition
18-20th of January 2023, Fascinations exhibition
Microstad, Professor Doctor Dorgelolaan 2, 5611BA Eindhoven
E