Knitting a Corpoself

Knitting a Corpoself invites the audience to move in and around the room where a knitted body is entwined with/in environment. The traditional golem is the inspiration for my approach to making the knitted body. In Jewish tradition, a golem is an artificially created man, in most cases; it is fashioned from clay and brought to life through the insertion of Hebrew letters to its mouth or on his forehead. My intention is to break away from (in) animated statue/ robot by emphasising the process of self making.

As an artist, my interest is to redirect and comment upon our creative capacity by accentuating the concept of the human as a corpoself.

The corpoself draws our attention to the body-in –process rather than the body as a container. In addition, it reflects the contemporary moment in postmodernism in which awareness is directed to the flexible and fluid aspects of embodied person.

Knitting as a process, slows down and shows the invisible or imperceptible tempo of change and interaction of person with environment. The video included in this installation details the processes of cooking the soil with the cotton, making it into yarns, knitting and my performative approach to installing the corpoself.

Recent wars and bloodshed emphasise the importance of actualising our humanity as a process of emergence. Only an open, fluid approach will demonstrate the degree to which we are knitted to each other and to our environment.