Creative Conversations: Performing Craftivism: Resistant Bodies in Protest Spaces

As part of the Creative Conversations series, Dr Skinner will position the craftivist movement as a starting point for framing interactions between performers and spectators within the context of a performance event.

Focusing on the act of crafting, rather than on the crafted product, it theorises crafting or hand-making as essentially theatrical acts: experiences of embodied storytelling carried out by the maker through the agency of an object. As the maker interacts with the craft materials, a tangible change occurs in their nature; as such, crafting is an inherently change-focused and potentially political act.