Ann Hamilton : habitus / poems, Natalie Shapero, Susan Stewart ; contributors, Patricia C. Phillips, Susan Lubowsky Talbott

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Object Details

Author
Hamilton, Ann 1956- Works Selections
writer of supplementary textual content
Phillips, Patricia C. 1952-
Talbott, Susan Lubowsky
Shapero, Natalie
Stewart, Susan 1952-
host institution
Fabric Workshop and Museum
Subject
Hamilton, Ann 1956-
Chiefly illustrated.
"This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Ann Hamilton: habitus, organized by The Fabric Workshop and Museum (Municipal Pier 9 : September 6-October 10, 2016; The Fabric Workshop and Museum: September 17, 2016-January 8, 2017)"--Colophon.
Contents
Habitus / Ann Hamilton -- The nature of the rows: dyeings on wool / Natalie Shapero -- Channel / Susan Stewart -- The nature of the rows : blanket / Natalie Shapero -- The nature of the rows : commonplace / Natalie Shapero -- The nature of the rows : lace / Natalie Shapero -- The nature of the rows : doll / Natalie Shapero -- Creating habitus / Susan Lubowsky Talbott -- Of all things : an openness of completion / Patricia C. Phillips
Summary
"Cloth making -- among the oldest forms of human cultural production -- provides inspiration for Ann Hamilton's multi-venue project, 'habitus', located at three sites: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Municipal Pier 9, and on social media. 'habitus' weaves text, textile, and image together as mediums for an imaginative and tactile exchange between artist and audience. The museum's galleries display Hamilton's selection of historical objects -- including literacy commonlace books, textile sample books, dolls, and needwork portfolios -- borrowed from Philadelphia museums and public collections. Printed passages from published writings referencing the social and material life of textiles, and collected through an open call to the public at http://cloth-a-commonplace.tumblr.com, will be available free to museum visitors. In the vast space of Municipal Pier 9 on the Delaware River, visitors propel a field of gigantic cylindrical curtains to billow to atmospheric proportion. As cloth swaddles us at birth and covers us in sleep; as a folded blanket can tell a story of trade; as a flag carries the symbol of a nation, Hamilton's multi-venue exhibition 'habitus' invites us to touch and be touched by the fabric of human experience"--Publisher's statement.
"Held by cloth's hand, we are swaddled at birth, covered in sleep, and wound in death," muses artist Ann Hamilton. Rather than documenting the experience of her enormous immersive 2016-17 installation in Philadelphia, Hamilton offers here a document--one that is as much a part of the project as its three-dimensional counterparts. Lush photography, archival imagery, and lucid prose come together to help readers understand Hamilton's ideas about the fabric of and in our lives. Like a thread through cloth, these individual images and words weave together strands of history, technology, poetry, and motion into one extraordinary and compelling experience.--Exhibition: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA (17.09.2016-08.01.2017).
2017
20th century
21st century
Type
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
Physical description
223 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles ; 32 cm
Place
United States
Title
Habitus
Smithsonian Libraries
Topic
Installations (Art)
Textile fabrics
Artists
Textile artists
Textile fabrics in art
Record ID
siris_sil_1098927
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0