Exhibition
History:
Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum
(2003-04)
Dimensions:
12' x 8' projection
Artist: Amy Franceschini
w/Stijn Schiffeleer, Jeff den Broeder, Chad Growchoski,
Headlands Center for the Arts.
One month after the United States invaded Iraq, Futurefarmers
put out a public call for people to come to the Marin
Headlands to join in a Human Knot. A
human knot starts out with a group of people holding hands
in a big circle. People are then asked to get tangled
and twisted up without letting go of each others hands.
This creates a giant knot of humans wriggling around try
to get undone. It becomes quite uncomfortable and demands
focus, cooperation and organization. This knot took almost
33 minutes to untie, but through a peaceful cooperation
of all participants, the knot resumed to a circle of people
joined by the hands.
**Over
300 people RSVP'd to this call, but due to the limits
of the National Park Service at the Headlands, we were
asked to keep our gathering to a minimum and had to
turn away 265 people. Thank you to those who did come!
