Philadelphia
In an interview published by Philadelphia’s FringeArts (2016), Ann Hamilton described the dual impulses behind her four-decadelong practice and the multi-site exhibition she had recently mounted in the city: “Watching a raw material become a single thread, join other thread to become a warp or weft of a cloth or carpet, holds for me all the possibilities for making; sewing and writing are for me two parts of the same hand.” Organized by the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Hamilton’s sprawling text and textile project, habitus, consisted of a site-specific public installation on the abandoned Municipal Pier 9, which was part of the FringeArts live arts festival; an exhibition at FWM of her fabric works and artifacts related to the region’s textile history; and an online collection of literary texts about the social meanings of cloth contributed by visitors at cloth-acommonplace.tumblr.com. …see the entire review in the print version of June’s Sculpture magazine.
