KNITTING NATION PHASE 14 arrives at “the heart of the matter” after ten years of artistic exploration. Over the years, Liz Collins has worked to reconfigure textile fabrication and apparel manufacturing in relation to the human labor behind it, using performance and collectivity as mediating forces. In this iteration, Collins and her team of knitters and weavers have fused garments collected by “GREEN EILEEN” with machine-knit yardage and waterless dye textiles to create macro warp and weft materials for a giant rug woven over the course of the exhibition. The piece functions as an R&D experiment and prototype process within the context of a live labor performance and art installation.