Claire Rigsby and India Roper-Moyes
stitch by stitch
a continuous cycle of making and unmaking
An installation exploring the continuous cycle of making and unmaking through yarn. Taking over a corner of our warehouse space with hanging yarn curtains, crocheted blankets, and yarn-bombed furniture, Claire Rigsby and India Roper-Moyes are ready to carve out a zone of comfort in the middle of Risk/Reward’s festival. Inside, visitors to stitch by stitch will find the pair working both together and in opposition, continually knitting and unknitting the same stretch of an infinite loop.
Claire Rigsby was previously seen at our 2023 Festival of New Performance, where she ensconced herself in a plexiglass box and invited audience members to pop balloons filled with paint on her.
More about the artists:
Claire and India are performers and fiber enthusiasts who connected over a love of yarn in theatre spaces. They are both graduates of PETE’s year-long Institute for Contemporary Performance. As fiber artists, they’re both interested in exploring the metaphors inherent in making something one stitch at a time. The flow of pattern. The undoing to make “perfect”, or the decision to move forward with a “mistake” immortalized in the work.