Vaginal Knitting!!! ??

Oh, bugger and bother - I suppose that means I'll have to start crocheting again! Would you mind if I'm startled into transgressing without having to posture wearing vividly red lipstick? I'm just not sure whether to emblazon my extremeties with a splash of Screaming Red, or rock quietly in a corner. It's all art, isn't it?

Blimey MiceElf have never rummaged through my dictionary so quickly and am still stumped!

Thank you, Mice. Your erudite explication of the aesthetics of this new art form has clarified the issue for me once and for all.

Another work of genius. I particularly like
Neoliberalism has made transgression normative.
So true darling, so true, you just can't be a rebel these days however hard you try to shock.

True, MiceElf, "Art" is getting more and more about sensationalism and money.

And Art Criticism is more and more about bamboozling the public with goobledegook.

Pondering on the aestheticisation of this theme and drawing parallels with those alluded to elsewhere in this arena on the radical exterpation of the aesthetic of lips, it would seem that it is not just sensations and feelings that are trivialised when they are packaged for sale and indexed upon the most minute variations of product lines. It's also that the two most crucial qualities of the aesthetic according to Kant - that it is disinterested, and that it is non cognitive - are made to vanish or explained away. Aesthetic sensations and feelings are no longer disinterested because they have been recast as markers of personal identity. It is under the conditions of real subsumption that accelerationism first becomes a possible aesthetic strategy. Art 'was' about transgression. No longer. Neoliberalism has made transgression normative. Who is really startled? Transgression is an opportunity for capitalist expansion and orgies of relative destruction, be they yarn or the reddened rapidly diminishing highly saturated sticks of grease covering 'lips' is the way the political economy is driven by resonating loops of feedback.

Yes in Walsall gallery (I do like it, but not everything in it) there is a black plastic bag...
I also once sat on a stone bench in a gallery and then realised it was an exhibit.

JessM You're right! My brother and I had a hilarious day out at Tate Modern. Do you remember the rubbish that the cleaner threw out -
then it was discovered it was 'ART'?!

think this person needs some treatment..its just yuk!

wurzel you have obviously not been mixing in the "right" circles i.e. "artistic"

You have to wonder whether the woman is mentally ill and
giving her this publicity may make things worse. It's hard to
imagine this idea entering your head let alone acting on it!!
I hope she does have someone to care about her once the
media have disappeared. I found it very sad.

You have all overlooked the fact that her actual knitting is very primitive! She can clearly only do one stitch! Now if she had gone to the Kaffe Fassett exhibition at the V & A years ago she would have seen real knitting (but he never tidied up the back of his work!)

Ah!I haven't seen it yet. Too busy knitting cooking for the freezer!

If you are suppressed Kiora then so am I

Nellie, they have indeed mentioned this thread in this week's Newsletter!

I've only read the posts I haven't the stomach to look it reminded me of that phase in the 70s or 80s when women were advised it get a mirror and examine and draw a picture of their own vaginas. I felt the same then. Apparently according to the press at the time everyone apart from myself was doing it. Does that make me suppressed?. Don't care its bad enough lookin at my rumpled face in the morning.

"Whenim" I know of someone who collects the coat clippings and combings of her Samoyed dog with a view to having enough to spin with something else for use in a future knitting project. !!!!!

Now shall we dare GNHQ to include the comments on this thread in this weeks newsletter or will they chicken out?

GO ON GNHQ I DARE YOU!

Used Brillo, perhaps When

when.

I got it Nellie

Sadly, I had to give up on my crochet project as it was a little too ambitious. My first stumbling block was converting the amount of yarn needed into available scatterings of lady garden. However, I shan't give up now my artistic bent has been tickled. I'm sure I can find something useful to make with the contents of my dustbin!

Just to clarify.
My previous comment "She will probably be able to use those 400grm Aran balls"
Was meant in response to Agus's comment ..... "But got me thinking back to the 'knit wit', after a few children, will she be able to move on to contrasting colours using 2 balls?"

It began to look to me as if is was a response to Whenim crochet idea.

Depends on the state of your pelvic floor absent

It must be much quicker to knit with the balls of yarn on the sofa beside you – and produce a far more reliable tension.

Careful! Some people are very allergic to wool!

Lovely micelf you could get a job writing those little blurbs to stick on the walls of galleries. Exhibition catalogues even. You should contact Saatchi.