Rhetoric in Society 4 Copenhagen January 16, 2013

1. Yarn Bombing: Claiming Rhetorical Citizenship in Public SpaceMaureen Daly GogginArizona State University, USA Rhetoric in Society 4 Copenhagen January 16, 2013

2. Yarn bombing is also known as: • yarn storming yarn graffiti Iceland New Zealand urban crochet and knitting guerilla crochet and knitting street or outsider yarn art Canada

3. Davis Baird “Thing Knowledge” • “where the things we make bear knowledge of the world, on par with the words we speak” • Davis Baird, “Thing Knowledge—Function and Truth,” Techné6.2 (Winter 2002): 13.

4. A1one (a.k.a. Tanha) Tehran, Iran • “A drawing on the street is similar to a letter. It proves that there is a writer.” A1one 2011 (a.k.aTanha), Tehran

5. Deadly Knitshadeon Yarn Storming Change and making the world a better place can be done with a grin instead of a grimace, a whisper instead of a bellow. What we do can alter the way people look at their world. How it alters it is up to them. That’s really our point. • Deadly Knitshade, Knit the City: A Whodunnkit Set in London (Chichester: Summersdale, 2011) 124.

6. Dennis Stevens on DIY Movement • Rather than bringing revolution to the front door and kicking it open, as their parents may have hoped to do, these independent [DIY] makers are using the disarming and unassuming aesthetic of DIY craft’s remixed domestic creativity to make subversive statements about the world in which they live. • Dennis Stevens, “DIY: Revolution 3.0—Beta,” Craft Council (September 16, 2009).

7. Iraqi War Protest in Denmark byMarianne Jorgensen Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center Copenhagen Pink M.24 Chaffee Tank April 2006

8. Political Decision Protest Anti-Nuclear Yarn Bombing in Germany byStrick and Liesel “No thanks” is the message 2011

9. Yarn Bombing Political Decision Protest Opposition to tramway expansion in Edinburgh Unknown Crochet artist September 2012

10. Yarn Bombing Political Economic Protest Germany by Strick & Liesel Message “Redundant” or “Fired” on “throw-up” tag 2011

11. Yarn Bombing Political Economic Protest By Knit Riot Collective Los Feliz, CA June 2012 “HOMEsweetHOME” protest

12. KnitRiot Economic Protest Yarnboming PATH Homeless Center, East Hollywood December 2011 Highland Park School June 2011

13. Québec Student Strike and Yarnbombing Above left Students hold hand knitted protest signs March 22, 2012 Above right Red knitted Protest quilt (stitched 1/2012-8/2012) Hung September 2012 “The struggle is only starting”

14. Protest for Environmental Sustainability Fracking near Blackpool, England Nov. 2012 Yarn bombing at St. Annes Square, Blackpool, November 28, 2012 “Against Water F.O.W.L.E.R.S. Awareness Campaign”

15. Knitting Nannas Against Gas Australia A Protest (above) & Getting ready for a protest (right)

16. Protest for Sustainability Protest against Logging in Alberta, Canada

17. Protest against Tire Burning July 3, 2012 Saifi Village, Beirut, Lebanon Bokja Designers and Berirut Citizens “We are tyred”

18. Velbert, Germany Graz, Austria Alberta, Canada Today’s activists must … recognize that their participation in public life will make a critical difference in their world. By acting proactively and with tactical and strategic wisdom, social change activists can bring a degree of social and economic justice . . . that has for too long been deferred. Brooklyn, NY “Play Me I’m Yours” Shaw, Randy. The Activist’s Handbook rev. 2nd ed. 1996. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2001. 279. Iasi, Romania Yellow Springs, OH

19. Thank you!