Exciting Letter from Rüdiger Schlömer

Valentina recived this letter from Rüdiger Schlömer and parts of it were for our group...




A lot of news...first, the Book:

just received a copy of the book "Formulierte Fiktionen" (formulated fictions) by Michael Kröger, and art critic from Herford, Germany. We had been in contact about my scarf project for a while before, and when I told him there would be a READYMADE-fanscarf pattern (and scarfs eventually), he wanted to use it in his book, because of the interesting connection to Marcel Duchamp, the artist who invented this term.

After seeing pictures or your beautiful scarf, he even decided to use it for his cover. I esspecially like the fact that your group started in a library, and now a piece of your work will become part of many other libraries... Attached in this mail I send you a picture of the book, and I will send you a copy soon.

The Exhibition:

The exhibition "CRAFTWERK 2.0" has finally opened in the swedish town on Jönköping, not far from Göteborg. There are also a lot of American Craft artists in the exhibition. Unfortunately, the curators did not use all of the scarfs I sent them, but your collective "Readymade"-Scarf and Jane's "FANSCARF" were included. I will go to Sweden in two weeks, to have a small lecture on the project and a knitting workshop, both in the design museum Göteborg and the museum in Jönköping. You can see some pictures of the exhibition here: http://tiny.cc/jDaN0

The Jönköping Letter Archive:

For the exhibition, I also developed a new part of the scarf project, which is an archive of single letter knitting patterns, called THE JÖNKÖPING LETTER ARCHIVE. (Actually Jane's remark that I should distribute the knitting patterns that I sent you contributed to this idea!) The Archive comes in both printed version - for the museum and workshops- and as an internet version. You can find it here: http://www.schalalala.de/the-jonkoping-letter-archive/(When you click on the miniature letters, the pattern will open, and you can print them out directly. This is done with the online-service "Issuu", which might take a little while to get used to, but then it works fine.)

For the duration of the exhibition, I am inviting the people in Jönköping and knitters worldwide to each knit one letter, and to send it to the museum. It's an experiment to see if, and how, people participate, and what letters will be knitted. I think it will be great to have letter from all over the (knitting) world all connected in one great piece of art! I am looking forward to doing some knitting myself with my knitting circle. Of course you are invited to, if you still feel like doing some more of the intarsia knitting. And you are welcome to pass the information on to other knitters / knitting groups you know.

So that's all the news from me for now. Here in Berlin, it is slightly getting colder and rainy, fall is definitely on it's way... Although I would have like some more warm days, I'll now get my yarn out and start the knitting season!

I hope you are doing fine, and will keep you updated about the next things.

all the best from Berlin,

Rüdiger