Steffi Ibis Duarte: With Every Stitch - Embroidery, knitting, personal practice... by Goldsmiths UOL

‘With Every Stitch’ examines the role of embroidery, and knitting as a contemporary form of collective public protest through two cross-cultural case studies, the work of Mexican collective Boardamos por la paz, and the multicountry craftivist practice of knitted petitions. Building on the work of the V&A’s forthcoming exhibition Disobedient Objects, and the theories of de Certeau, Bourdieu, and Parker, it aims to challenge notions that all efficient activist practices are loud, solely public and with no true place for the private and personal. Through the materiality that their protests takes, both case studies show another way of considering public protest.