See my video Stitching Desire (2003), which was selected to form part of The Global Skin (theglobalskin.org) a curated film project created by the Centre for Storytelling (centerforstorytelling.org) and the Dschoint Ventschr Film Production (dschointventschr.ch) in cooperation with the Zurich University of the Arts.
This project has collected short films/video pieces from around the world to be collated into a feature length film for cinema, on the broad thematic "People & Textile": about people, who either work with textiles or have a strong relation with them. Christian Frei, Patrizio di Renzo, Pipilotti Rist and Bernard Senn were the jurors.
About Stitching Desire:
This video installation emerged from an exhibition I staged in 2003 at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, entitled Thimble Narratives. A thimble is an object for the prevention of pricking and thereby pain when sewing. Here it is employed as a metaphor for the role of photographic objects and resources in the experience of loss. The figure in the video embroiders a lace pattern on the back side of a faded and blown up family photograph. This is an ironic action: sewing the back to the front; feverishly embellishing the image while simultaneously destroying the simulacral illusion. In the same way perhaps we surround ourselves with photographic memorabilia (as Derrida has suggested - to prepare for loss) only to find ourselves further thrust amongst ghosts that offer little respite? The 'memory' of textiles and the catharsis of stitching activities is invoked in this piece.
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Ann-Marie Tully, Stitching Desire (installation view at the Johannesburg
Art Gallery), 2003. Back screen video projection and photographic prints.
Dimensions variable.
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Ann-Marie Tully, Stitching Desire (installation view at the Johannesburg
Art Gallery), 2003. Back screen video projection and photographic prints.
Dimensions variable.
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