Knitting Nation
KNITTING NATION (2005-2016) was a performance and site-specific installation project created by Liz Collins in 2005, as a response to working in the fashion and textile industries and group machine-knitting in an academic context. It reconfigured textile fabrication and apparel manufacturing in relation to the human labor behind it with performance and collectivity as mediating forces. The project functioned as a commentary on how humans interact with machines, global manufacturing, trade and labor, brand iconography, and fashion. The performance also acted as a large scale, three-dimensional plotting and painting apparatus, extruding color, line, and mass in space. From 2005-2016, Collins staged 15 different iterations of Knitting Nation at various locations around the world. Explore each phase below:
Phase 1: The Muster
Phase 2: Atelier
Phase 3: The Stripe Game
Phase 4: Pride
Phase 5: Architectural Embellishment
Phase 6: Mapping
Phase 7: Darkness Descends
Phase 8: Under Construction
Phase 9: Accumulation
Phase 10: Domestic Swarming
Phase 11: Stripped Bare
Phase 12: H20
Phase 13: Weaving Factory
Phase 14: The Heart of the Matter
Phase 15: Weaving Walls