2014-10-22

Visit Nordic Textile Art Web Gallery





NTA Nordic Textile Art is a network for Nordic Textile Artists.
Kerstin Lindstrom's work is now showned on NTA WebGallery.
Welcome to visit the website.
http://ntagallery.nordictextileart.net/exhibition-4/

2014-10-17

Festival in the Hague, Netherlands


The 21 September a new knittingcircle started.
It was a part of the festival ”Peace in the park” in the Hague in the Netherlands.
Mieke Klaver shared this images.

2014-09-17

UPLIFT I in Umeå European Capital of Culture 2014





















 
UPLIFT I in Umeå, The European Capital of Culture 24 August 2014.
took place in Glashuset in Umeå town square
http://umea2014.se/sv/engagera-dig/glashuset/ and added new laps tothe ongoing project. A visit to the neighboring County Västerbotten where the Uplift also affects the landscape.
Johan Lindegård played during the performance.
An arrangement by Ångermanlands and Medelpads Handicraft Associations.

2014-08-22

When do you "Own your own time"? Paris 2014




















The 83 participants in the performance, Own our own time III Urbantime
at the Swedish Institut in Paris, June 15, 2014,
also answered two questions related to the project.
Here are some of the thoughtful answers.

When do you "Own your own time"? 
 
When I am not a a slave who must adapt to other people's pace.....When I have time to dream......When I can be with friends, traveling or time for love.....When I allow myself to be slow... When I can do whatever I want to do..... On Saturday afternoon, when I can go with my daughter and her father to the indoor swimming pool..... When I become one with Creation..... When I go by train, listen to music, watch movies on my iPhone or knitt..... Taking a free moment every day.....In the evening when I play with my son....

The colour grey, what does it mean to you? 
 
The clouds in Brittany....Between white and black, many shades.....Dictatorship..... A good Colour to describe Paris.....The memory of the English skies....A little mouse who smiles.....Fog .... The sound of rain on the zinc roof....Slate.... Smells and tastes like dust....Something dimmed that gives another colour.....  Winter... Paris is anything but gray.... Sadness....The streets and the roofs of Paris....An elephant


Also reed what the participants in Own our own time II in Lerwick, Shetland,
answered in August 2013.

2014-07-31

Own our own time III, Sharing a Story








































Vincent Hartmann, trainee at the Swedish Institute, compiled a list of publications related to the performance, in Paris on 15 June. He found 49 different stories about the event.

Link to published article
http://bidulafil.blogspot.se/2014/04/tricoteuse-rdv-le-15-juin.html
http://www.presssagrun.com/2014/05/communique-de-presse-slow-art-10-05-2014-13-07-2014-a-l-institut-suedois-dans-http://misstlog.blogspot.se/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Entr%C3%A9e-Des-Fournisseurs/119058248105070?hc_location=timeline
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Les-Papeteries-Reaumur/108202492591743?ref=stream
http://cecilesurunfil.canalblog.com/
http://creationstricot.canalblog.com/archives/2014/05/14/29869388.html
http://www.meetup.com/Knitters-and-crocheters/messages/boards/thread/44187222/
http://www.paris.edu/news/detail/6988/Knitters-of-the-World-Unite
http://feedesmailles.blogspot.se/2014/05/performance-tricot-linstitut-suedois-de.html
http://blog.filodette.fr/
http://www.hellocoton.fr/participez-a-une-performance-d-artiste-12645802
http://my-creations-en-laine.com/tag/institut-suedois/
https://www.facebook.com/Cannll?filter=2
http://www.threadandneedles.fr/blog/31749-own-our-own-time/
https://www.facebook.com/latelierdevekao?hc_location=timeline
https://www.facebook.com/pages/L%C3%A9chapp%C3%A9e-laine/140209436037058?fref=nf
https://www.facebook.com/threadandneedles
https://www.facebook.com/valerie.cilluffo?fref=nf
https://www.facebook.com/knitspirit/posts/10152398410893555
https://twitter.com/KnitSpirit/status/470449177504534528
http://blog.cafetricotstudio.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Laiguille-en-F%C3%AAte/161164387236296
https://www.facebook.com/LesTricoteursVolants
https://www.facebook.com/Kissthesheep
http://www.aiguille-en-fete.com/Own-our-own-time-III_a3556.html
https://twitter.com/aiguillenfete/status/471643816022122496
https://www.facebook.com/mathieu.arnold?fref=nf
https://www.facebook.com/crosengren?fref=nf
https://www.facebook.com/amai.derouville?fref=nf
https://www.facebook.com/KnittingPeaceCirkus
http://www.bloglovin.com/viewer?blog=3655620&group=0&frame_type=b&frame=1&click=0&user=0
https://www.facebook.com/groups/462625140533633/
http://bidulafil.blogspot.fr/
https://www.facebook.com/latelierdevekao?hc_location=timeline
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Entr%C3%A9e-Des-Fournisseurs/119058248105070
https://www.facebook.com/evabs?fref=nf
https://www.facebook.com/helene.ekstrom.7?fref=nf
http://pimptalife.canalblog.com/archives/2014/06/17/30090773.html
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1zomac_own-our-own-urban-time-paris-france-knitting-circle-2014_webcam
http://pimptalife.canalblog.com/archives/2014/06/17/30092112.html
http://www.allehanda.se/kultur/konst/monumental-stickning-i-paris
http://knittingincircle.blogspot.se/2014/06/own-our-own-time-iii-like-rare-flower.html
http://auxfilsdemavie.tumblr.com/
https://beenaps.com/post/3933637/il-reste-encore-quelques-places-le-15-juin-pour-ow/
http://www.directrss.co.il/TextPage_EN.aspx?ID=7864321
http://paris.eventful.com/events/own-our-own-time-iii-paris-/E0-001-069695258-5
http://www.hoogui.com/FR/magazine/12/25
https://www.facebook.com/jeanne.goutelle?fref=nf
http://knitspirit.net/calendrier
http://evene.lefigaro.fr/culture/agenda/own-our-own-time-iii-paris-2758160.php
http://sortir.local.fr/paris/own-our-own-time-iii-paris-10910236339.html
http://www.mapado.com/paris/own-our-own-time-iii-paris
http://www.noobie.at/pages/sk/feed/w/119058248105070
http://www.pagesjaunes.fr/sorties/own-our-own-time-iii-paris-1131413
http://www.timeout.fr/paris/quoi-faire-a-paris/own-our-own-time-iii-paris
http://www.volym.info/Arkiv/Kortomkonst/2014/StickningParis/Own-our-own-time.htm

2014-06-24

The colour of Paris



























A new place is portrayed by it´s own colour. The question “What colour is Paris?” was asked to people in Paris during a week in 2013. Grey was the most common answer. Therefore Paris will be represented by locally produced grey yarn from the French company Fonty http://www.fonty.fr/new/ , mixed with some golden threads. 

The yarn to the monumental knitting Own our time III was supported by
Entrée des Fournisseurs.lamercerieparisienne.com

Photographer: Vinciane Verguethen www.voyez-vous.tv

2014-06-19

Own our own time III - A rare plant







Like a rare flower the knittingcircle Own our own time is found in unexpected places at selected times. The heart of the project is all people who participate.The performance  
forms an image of a human power station.

The start of this project was a desire to understand time, to feel time, to get a physical 
sense of something constantly elusive. The link to knitting is a way to force the time to 
adapt to a bodily tempo. A desire to slow the speed into a pace that is human. In this 
activity the one who knits the slowest control the pace of the whole work. 

Thank you everyone for participating.

The skilled photographer who documented the performance is  
Vinciane Verguethen at the Institut suédois à Paris, 2014. 
www.voyez-vous.tv  
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Voyez-Vous/168415933342297



2014-06-18

Saving an hour in Paris 15th of June 2014






























































The performance Own our own time III - Urbantime was set up in the garden 

at the Swedish Institute in the Maraisdistrict in Paris Sunday 15th of June. 
About 100 knitters + public came and participated in saving an hour of 
urbantime together. A Knitting Performance in the context of the exhibition  
Slow art and festival Nomades. https://parissv.si.se/
Sara and Samantha, two Swedish musicians played. 
http://saraochsamantha.tumblr.com/

Photographer:  Vinciane Verguethen 

The project started 2011 by the Swedish artist Kerstin Lindström
http://lindstromkerstin.blogspot.se  www.kerstinlindstrom.se 

2014-04-18

Urban time at the Swedish Institute in Paris, 15 June






























Own our own time I in Gjogv, Faroe Islands, July 2011

























Own our own time II in Lerwick, Shetland Islands, August 2013



























Own our own time III - urban time in Paris, France 15 June 16.30 - 17.30


This is an ongoing art project that deals with issues of time associated with human pace, in form of a monumental knitting. Own our own time III is going to take place in the heart of Paris. Welcome to the beautiful garden at the Swedish Institute, in the Marais district. It will be a unique and quite wonderful event, knitting together on this big, collective work. A ones in a lifetime experience.
Minimum 83 participants.
Basic knowledge of knitting required.

Sign up at 
 https://paris.si.se/agenda/own-our-own-time-iii-paris/

Welcome















































During the performance you can listen to the Swedish musicians
Sara and Samantha  http://saraochsamantha.tumblr.com/

2014-04-11

Next stop Paris
























Next stop for the knitting will be this beautiful garden in the heart of Paris in the middle of June.
More info soon coming up at the blog.

2014-03-30

Coming up Urban time







































This summer Own our own time is going to save some urban time.  Time and place soon coming up on the blog.
photo: Gunnar Bäckman, Finland

2014-03-18

Copenhagen 14-16 mars, NTA Meeting









Nordic Textile Assosiation, www.nordictextileart.netwww.nordictextileart.net, NTA's annual meeting was held 
at the StatensVaerksteder for Kunst www.svfk.dk/ in Copenhagen March 14 to 16. 
from Statens Vaerksteder gave a tour of the amazing and inspiring premises.

During Saturday's program Ulrika Kullenberg from the Textile Museum in Borås spoke of the reopening of 
the museum which takes place May 23. www.boras.se/textilmuseet

The Knittingprojects Own our own time and Uplift were presented.

Julie Henriksen and Matilde Aggebo spoke about several of their public works. 
Visit at " The Black Diamond" and Tietgenkollegiet http://tietgenkollegiet.dk/.