Deirdre Macleod
Ravel
Deirdre Macleod
Ravel
Deirdre Macleod
Friday
1–4pm
Roaming 14th Street from First to Third Avenues
Saturday
1–4pm
Roaming 14th Street from Fifth to Seventh Avenues
Sunday
1–4pm
Roaming 14th Street from Eighth to Tenth Avenues
In this performative walk a textile, woven on the streets of a Scottish city, is unravelled and re-woven in New York City, absorbing events and encounters. ‘Ravel’ explores how the identities that we project are made across space and time. It is also a homage to emigration journeys made exactly one hundred years ago by Harris Tweed weavers from the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, across the Atlantic, to North America. Clothed in a shawl of Harris Tweed, the artist will stop, sit and weave at various points along 14th Street. The audience is warmly invited to talk to the artist as she works and to add a thread or small object to her textile.
Deirdre Macleod's spatial practice combines movement with expanded forms of drawing. A human geographer and contemporary artist, she uses gesture-based performance to understand cities and tell their stories. She has exhibited and performed her work within the UK and Europe and is a Lecturer in Art at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
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