Where:
Nave Annex
53 Chester Street
Somerville, MA 02144
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Art, Date Idea
Event website:
http://navegallery.org/wp/under-primping-may-27/
DATE & TIME:
Saturday, May 27, 2017; 2:00 pm-6:00 pm
ARTIST:
Samantha Fields
LOCATION:
Nave Gallery Annex (Davis Square), 53 Chester St, Somerville, MA
WHAT’S HAPPENING:
“A social history of cloth and its everyday use is marked by the stains and sweat of working life–impregnated with the odors of labour; betrayed by the traces of gender, class, and race.”–Janis Jefferies, Labored Cloth
Under Primping is a performative/installation, it lives as a relic/site when not activated. The activation/performance consists of people working/laboring over a petticoat sculpture while being read to from a library of selected books consisting of texts written by women discussing art, studio practice, feminist theory, queer theory, race, and a history of handwork. The public is welcome to sit with their own handwork and listen, or just observe.
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