In the Process of Knitting a Netting was developed into three versions between 2021 and 2022, as part of NaoKo’s PhD project.
Version 1 was developped and delivered in partnership with The Horsebridge Arts Centre and Resort Studios as part of the Estuary 2021 Associated Programme in Kent, with a consultation from Cement Fields in 2020. It culminated in over eight evenings of performance events in Margate and Whitstable in May-June 2021, kindly funded by the ACE England. Over 45 local participants activated the score each evening at the sunset as a punctuation mark for a new chapter.
Whitstable on 27 May 2021
Margate 01 June 2021
Version 1 - Margate
The project was produced for Estuary 2021 Assiciated Programme in partnership with The Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whitstable and the Resort Studios, Margate, supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
Performed by: Amanda Moreton, Camilla Wilson, Carli Jefferson, Clair Le Couteur, Dom Channing, Fiona Mclaren, Henry Maddicott, Jean Beswick, Jenna Rossi-Camus, Jenny Duff, Jemma Channing, Julian Durlacher, Kathryn Tovey, Keith Jones, Leigh McKenzie, Lucy Anne Davenport, Lucy Edematie, Marj Hogarth, Nikki Morgan, Patrick Lears, Sam Slattery, Shireen Qureshi, Stareth Ebrahimi, and Stephanie Cummis.
Filmed and live streamed (initially on Youtube) by Olby's Creative Hub, Margate on 22 June 2021.
Version 1 - Whitstable
The project was produced for Estuary 2021 Assiciated Programme in partnership with The Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whitstable and the Resort Studios, Margate, supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
Performed by; Adrianne Cartwright, Anita Memmot, Colette Reader, Daniela Brodkorb, Ella Watkins, Felicia Sinclair, Grant Stimpson, Helen Nattrass, Isabelle Defaut, Jo Harvey, Joanna Webber-Brodkorb, Jude Adams, Katja Webber-Brodkorb, Lee Cavaliere, Liz Daone, Lucy Edematie, Michelle Butler, Marge Mayne, Melissa Dawson-Bowling, Nick Vivian, Selina Firth and Terence Kirkbride.
Filmed and live streamed (initially on Youtube) by CPL Films in Whitstable on 22 June 2021.
Page three of the score
Version 3 was created for a four person show, Meeting The Universe Halway with Alex Baker, Alexander Costello and Kit Poulson at Campbell Works, London in Oct 2022.
Meeting the Universe Halfway is not about curating an idea, more a structure for exploring, for conjuring ‘interference’. Four artists will meet each other in the space and let the works they create begin the conversation. The title of the exhibition was borrowed from Karen Barad’s book, Meeting the Universe Halfway (2005).
NaoKo’s installation consists of a hand-knitted net, hand cut-out words and activated voices.
Installation view
Close up
From the side
Performed by the Gallery cat, Pip
With the other works
Documentation of the performance
Version 3 - London
The words were activated by Alex Baker, Britt Hatzius, Camilla Wilson, Jumana Emil Abboud and Stephan Sänger, at the closing event on 23 Oct 2022.
The floorboard is singing to the words…