Guerrilla knitting

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Knitted tree in Madrid
Moose sculpture by Hans Traxler with knitted antler cover by "Mata Haarig", Frankfurt / Main
Knitted-in tank in front of the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr in Dresden; "Attack" project
Show 360 ° panorama in front of the slim Mathilde in Dortmund with guerrilla knitting
as a spherical panorama

Guerilla Knitting (composed of guerrilla - of span. Guerrilla for "little war" - and . English knitting for "knitting") and Urban Knitting , Radical stitching , Yarn bombing or knitted Graffiti (Knitted graffiti), is a form of street art in of objects in public spaces are changed by knitting . This can range from attaching knitted accessories to knitting in entire street furniture . The knitting can only be used for embellishment or also have a symbolic meaning, for example feminist statements.

origin

The first association of guerrilla knitters is called Knitta Please . It began in Houston, Texas, in 2005 when knitters began embellishing doorknobs with knitted accessories instead of knitting socks , gloves, or sweaters . The knitted graffito is mainly known today in America , England and Spain . The scene is well connected via the internet through part of the blogosphere .

Further development

Anti-nuclear knitting in Berlin-Charlottenburg

In Frankfurt , the first guerrilla knitting work appeared in 2010 in appearance, in Bochum in 2011. In Klausenerplatz -Kiez in Berlin-Charlottenburg was found in the summer of 2010, the first Knittings. Since the beginning of 2011, two female students in Munich have been distributing guerrilla knitting in the city under the name Die Rausfrauen and see this as a “very feminine form of street art”.

Knittings are also used as a form of political expression. In 2010, Knittings by project opponents appeared on the building fence of the main train station in Stuttgart since the north wing was demolished (Project Stuttgart 21 ).

On March 19, 2011 in Vienna as part of a demonstration for International Women's Day, the Ringstrasse was provided with numerous guerrilla knitting. Despite a permit and financial support from the city, the works of art were removed by the street cleaning company and destroyed immediately after the demonstration.

In early March 2013, the city of Münster granted permission to attach knitting or crocheting for eight weeks to the poles, traffic lights, lanterns and signs on Warendorfer Strasse as part of the non-political action "Hand drauf!", Which is based on guerrilla gardening .

For the winter of 2013/14, a large number of public objects were knitted into Arosa as part of a privately organized knitting graffiti campaign, including a Hörnli Express gondola and the bell of the former English Church .

In autumn 2019, the most striking skyscrapers in the city were depicted on the sandstone pillars that mark the historic coronation path in Frankfurt's "new old town" with crocheting over a length of 13 m, the connecting balustrade through a detailed street with a woolly lane, traffic signs and various vehicles are supplemented. For this project, over a dozen predominantly female activists crocheted, knitted and sewed 35 kg of wool in over a year. The airy total work of art is spanned by a row of clouds and a laughing sun with a wink.

See also

literature

  • Mandy Moore, Leanne Prain: Knit Graffiti. Cozy for walls, traffic lights and trees. Knitting type knitting and crochet . Knaur, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-426-64709-7 .
  • Deadly Knitshade, Astrid Finke (transl.): Knit the City - Strangely Meshed . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-455-38105-4 .
  • Nikola Langreiter: New needlework - radical? Revolutionary? Guerrilla? , in: Hannes Obermair , Stephanie Risse, Carlo Romeo (eds.): Regional civil society in motion - Cittadini innanzi tutto . Folio Verlag, 2012, pp. 183-204, ISBN 978-3-85256-618-4 .
  • Rose White: The history of guerilla knitting . Lecture at the 24C3, Berlin 2007.
  • Verena Kuni: crocheting + knitting for geeks. Interesting facts and inspiration for pattern makers . O'Reilly, Cologne 2013. ISBN 978-3-86899-356-1 .

Web links

Commons : Guerilla Knitting  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Strickism: Handicraft in public space . In: girls team . dated February 11, 2011.
  2. ↑ Laura Höss, attention, the knitting guerrilla is coming! , sueddeutsche.de, October 24, 2011 (accessed November 6, 2011)
  3. ^ The little brave sister of graffito , in: FAZ of August 5, 2011, page 43
  4. ↑ Laura Höss, attention, the knitting guerrilla is coming! , sueddeutsche.de, October 24, 2011 (accessed November 6, 2011)
  5. ^ House of History Baden-Württemberg: Living against it? The site fence and Stuttgart 21 . Catalog, Stuttgart 2011
  6. ↑ Art is crap, ex officio . In: Augustin. No. 296, pp. 28-29.
  7. ↑ Open letter to remove the Knitherstory action
  8. ↑ Ute Schleiermacher, "Urban Knitting": Poles and signs on Warendorfer Straße ensnared , online edition of Westfälische Nachrichten , Münster, March 4, 2013
  9. ↑ Wool graffiti in Arosa: Schick in Strick. In: www.spiegel.de. May 13, 2014, accessed June 1, 2014 .
  10. ↑ https://www.wollkenkratzer.de/ accessed on November 17, 2019.