You Are the Journey (an embroidered intervention)
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The University of Huddersfield
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 70
- Type
- L - Artefact
- Location
- Various
- Open access status
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- Month of production
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- Year of production
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- You Are the Journey (an embroidered intervention) is an installation that began with a collaborative interactive public artwork placed on the front of the Hythe Ferry ten-journey ticket in 2006. A space was used on the tickets with an instruction that read: “Please use this space to write your thoughts about this crossing…” Subsequent tickets printed the responses where the tickets would be punched on each journey. Responses included “Each journey is a 12 minute piece of freedom.” The tickets became an ephemeral and reproducing social portrait of the community and an outcome of live action practice-based research.
Later iterations of the research (now single-authored) considered how the conceptual structure of ticket production can be likened to the punch hole cards in a Jacquard loom. In the 2015 edition, the paper tickets were woven through the punched holes with threads from clothes worn on the Hythe Ferry journey. The installation was devised to reframe the conventions of an engaged art practice by setting up a situation calculated to disturb the surface of a ticket through the artist’s individual response.
The research outcome was disseminated through four exhibitions including: Contextile16 Textile Art Biennale in Guimarães, Portugal and the Migrations exhibition at Huddersfield Art Gallery. By its inclusion in the Migrations exhibition and the integration of textiles, the research makes a contribution to scholarship examining the relationships between transmigration, travel, migration and textile practices. The artwork had an accompanying text-based outcome titled: ‘Weaving technologies in the construction of a ferry ticket’ and an interview with the Migrations curator, Jessica Hemmings, is accessible on Vimeo.
Video file: Hemmings, J. and Barber, C. (2016) Jessica Hemmings interviews Claire Barber. [ONLINE] https://vimeo.com/188348113/8bc4de187d [Accessed 22 June 2020]
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- Non-English
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