Californian artist Lisa Anne Auerbach was showing recently at Nottingham Contemporary (from 12 September to 18 October 2009) her piece Take This Knitting Machine and Shove it . The show regaled us with a very new take on Robin Hood, Ned Ludd and other radical heroes of this once revolutionary city, figures who we too often forget to remember. Lisa Anne’s art takes many forms – including photography, distributing free tracts and unicycling - but in the last few years she has been concentrating on knitting sweaters carrying distinct political and social messages.
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http://www.lisaanneauerbach.com/
http://stealthissweater.blogspot.com/
I'm right in the Diploma fever. .. swallowed by the vastness of the www ... research on what's knitters in subversive ... and now me is Lisa Anne Auerbach particularly concerned when I told her "Knitting for a New Millennium Manifesto" in high esteem -. already famous the phrase "stop making scarves, start making trouble" or "(knitting) is NOT the new yoga repetitive and unthinking motions will kill the soul. Knitting is creating "
