What [un]tangles us - Trailer
Marcy Petit in collaboration with Fabien Bourlier
Performance video, audio podcast, 2022
10 min 49 (video), 28 min 35 (podcast)
What [un]tangles us is about knitting.
Knitting as a skill that generations of women have passed on to each other. Knitting as the way our grandmothers were using this craft compared to the way we do today. Knitting as the link that bonds the artist to her grandmother but also as way to tell us their respective stories.
During this performance, Marcy Petit unknit a red dress previously knitted by herself. The dress becomes a symbol of transmission but also of differences between the artist and her grand-mother. By unknitting this dress, she refuses certain aspect of this feminine heritage and turns it into an actual feminist action.
The story of the artist's grandmother is narrated in a unique experimental podcast composed of interviews, testimonies on a unique sound creation made of yarn and needles noises.
Together with narratives, testimonials and sound creation, What [un]tangles us is a podcast and an artistic performance produced by the artist Marcy Petit with the collaboration of Fabien Bourlier in 2022.