Das Häkelobjekt (The Crochet Object)

Performative long-term project in cooperation with Regula Michell
Start: May 2004, duration: lifelong

Once a month, Regula Michell and Meret Wandeler work as a duo or with guests on a crocheted object made of pink acrylic wool. This joint activity opens up its own communicative space.

Once a month, Regula Michell and Meret Wandeler work as a duo or with guests on a crocheted object made of pink acrylic wool. Each month, they crochet at a different public or private location. Those participating in a given event all work on the same object, otherwise there are no other formal instructions (so-called “freestyle crocheting”). On request, the artists can be booked by cultural institutions, businesses, or private individuals for crocheting events. The project will continue as long as both artists are alive and able to crochet.

The crocheted object constitutes an ever-changing record of time and work. The long-term performance creates a social sculpture through which all of the participants are interconnected. With each new event, those involved react to what has been made before. This joint activity opens up its own communicative space in which not speaking and non-verbal communication are just as important as the thread of conversation that can be dropped and picked up again. The long-term project raises questions about the relationship between purposeful and purposeless activity, between work and product, between process and result—in art but also in other contexts of production and labor.

All events documented at: www.haekelobjekt.ch