Nancy Popp at Side Street Projects 10.16.16

Nancy Popp: Mason Line Hammocks

Nancy Popp and Side Street Projects staff will facilitate the making of Mason Line hammocks through a series of workshops with local residents. Through the physical activity of knitting, and imaginative poetic and narrative /storytelling, together we will create a resting place which occupies and holds space for both an individual body and it’s sustaining networks.

Using Mason Line, the material common in Popp’s urban architectural interventions, residents and community members will knit hammocks that will be installed in public parks adjacent to libraries, a high school, and the Side Street headquarters. A series of public readings from the hammocks will be co-curated with local writers and poets. These events will bring together artists, writers, community organizers, students and local residents.

The knitting workshops offer an equitable space to exchange ideas, personal anecdotes, and shared labor. By inviting local residents and communities to come together and work on the Mason Line hammocks, social bonds are created that mirror the physical materials and process being used to construct them. The support for and of each hammock is literally created by the community that will access and use the hammock by resting their bodies within it. These bonds have the opportunity to continue and expand outside of the project, affecting the ways we work together on pressing political and social issues. Support networks make initiatives and action possible. These circles function as places for dialogue to learn about issues in each community that can be thought through collectively.

This project will manifest according to each site or location; for example, on the street as a public intervention outside of a commercial gallery, taking a moment of reflection in the midst of a busy street, or rest in a green place for rejuvenation.

Public Events:

October 29, 2016 11am-2pm: Knitting Workshop
November 5, 2016 11am-2pm: Knitting Workshop
November 19, 2016 1pm-4pm: Community Event
December 10, 2016 1pm-4pm: Community Event
January 28, 2017: Knitting Workshop
February 25, 2017: Community Event

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