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Gestures of Resistance, a creative/critical undertaking by Shannon Stratton and Judith Leemann, posits craft as methodology, extending its province to a range of performances that embody care through deliberate movements and canny gestures.

With particular interest in the relationship of slowness and agency, we delineate and then proceed to interrogate a species of action in which self-conscious crafting, contextual mischief-making, and cultural re-scripting play themselves out.

Gestures of Resistance works across the realms of writing, exhibition, and public dialogue.

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Gestures of Resistance

at the Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon

January 26, 2010 - June 26, 2010

View extensive images, audio, & video of the exhibition here.

[Sara Black and John Preus, Anthea Black, Carole Lung, Cat Mazza, Mung Lar Lam, Ehren Tool, and Theaster Gates]

At the invitation of Museum of Contemporary Craft curator Namita Gupta Wiggers, we present a re-envisioned version of the original 2008 Gestures of Resistance exhibition. More ...

Project History

Gestures of Resistance: Craft, Performance and the Politics of Slowness was first presented as a panel at the 2008 College Art Association Conference in Dallas, TX. More ...

The panel was accompanied by an exhibition at Gray Matters, Dallas, TX also entitled Gestures of Resistance and by a series of public actions bringing the ideas of the panel and exhibition out on to the street. More ...

Anthology in development

An anthology based on the original panel/exhibition is currently in development. Entitled Gestures of Resistance: The Slow Assertions of Craft, the anthology is edited by Leemann and Stratton and features contributions from a wide range of disciplines. More ...