Brianna will sit in Porter’s Pub, quilting, and anyone can join her. She will provide needles, string and fabric. The participants will quilt together and drink some beers. The stitch is called The Drunkards Path. The participants will follow that path in more ways than one. This project is meant to investigate how community is shaped by participation in a common activity. It is also a way of literally interpreting the name of a particular stitch, and using the name as a cue for an activity that could orbit the process of quilt making.
Date: Dec 5, 2008
Start Time: 8:00pm
Duration: 1 hour
Location: Porter's Pub
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Brianna Rigg’s “Quilting Circle” created a unified environment and a challenging situation for a community of intoxicated people. Individuals would casually wander up, select a couple pieces of fabric, and lend their ‘alcohol induced free expression’ to the stitching test. I found it a social escape, a place to concentrate amidst the karaoke chaos that penetrated Porter’s Pub. It removed one from the exterior activity and made one focus on the dizzy path they had to abide by. The commemorative intoxication and the piles of squares that accumulated at the quilting circle counter pointed my intimacy with the fabric and reminded one of the collective wayward path we all walk. This moment of collective intoxication is now recalled with these patches. I hope that Brianna will stage the circle again, as a part two where we can assemble the squares together to create a single tangible document out of our crooked, liquor infused state.