Us ancestory

(u)ntelling (s)tories’ lineage can be traced to two sets of performances. The first is an action which was developed by 3rd Year Surface Design Students at Cape Peninsula University of Technology in 2014. The action emerged from a brief which asked the 3rd years to develop an action through which 1st Year learners would embody the action of knitting. They would knit through their bodies; right click: Embodied knitting

The second [terror]tory explores the fabric of identity as narrative. Identities which are fashioned from stories (yarns). Yarns which can be knitted into various fabrics, identities which can unravel, yarns which can be borrowed, stories which can be swapped; right click: [terror]tory

During this performance I established the representation of identity through clothing. That the fabric of identity is made virtual when the panels of a garment are cut away from the seams (filleting). Narratives are represented by yarns (stories). Yarn is fashioned by cutting a continuous length from the filleted panels. Identity = narrative = story = yarn.