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Corrymoor Socks as Art go on show in Liverpool.
The humble socks on your feet could become a new art form,
especially if they
are mohair socks from Corrymoor Farm in East Devon.
Corrymoor Socks are to feature in an art exhibition in Liverpool
to highlight the
need for sustainability in the way we lead our lives.
The Climate for Change exhibition at the FACT gallery in
Liverpool features the
work of artist in residence Kai-Oi Jay Yung who who is
undertaking her Sock
Exchange project at the gallery to help turn socks into works of
art (April 6-12th),
inviting visitors to bring their odd and holey socks to the
gallery as well as
running a Speed Socking Lonely Hearts event..
A specially commissioned video installation called Socking will
also be included
in the exhibition and will feature the angora goats of Corrymoor
Farm at
Stockland in East Devon. The film examines the whole sock making
process
from the birth of angora goats at Corrymoor Farm to the eventual
finished socks
which are then sent to customers around the world.
Kai-Oi Jay Yung wants to make consumers re-think the way they
consume, and
to understand what it takes to produce everyday items like socks
and what effect
that process has on the environment; I want consumers to be more
aware of the
small details in their lives that they take for granted - like
socks. The video will
give a platform for the agricultural and textile industries, but
the sock exchange
will give people the chance to have fun and to darn their old
socks and turn them
into little works of art.
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Steve Whitley, who runs Corrymoor Farm with his wife Jenny,
admits to having
been a little surprised when he was approached by Jay to take
part in the video
for the art exhibition.
We were a bit sceptical at first. It is not every day that you
are asked to appear
in a video for the sake of art, but Jay soon persuaded us that
she was serious
about making the public think about agriculture and the sock
making process. It
is nice to think that our angora goats and socks are being
celebrated in this way.
-ENDS-
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For more information about Sock Exchange, please contact Jay
Yung on 07961
915011 or email [email protected]
www.myspace.com/artsockexchange
www.climateforchange.fact.co.uk/residencies:jay-yung
For more information about Corrymoor socks visit
www.corrymoor.com or email
[email protected] or Tel 01404 861245.
If you require images of the products featured in this press
release, please
contact Gail Livingstone, Message Over Media: Tel 01823 252415
or mobile
07767 055595 or email [email protected]
Note for Editors Kai-Oi Jay Yung is a Liverpool-based
interdisciplinary artist who includes
performance and video installation in her work. She has
exhibited internationally,
from Istanbul to China and the United States, as well as at
galleries in the UK
including the Arnofini in Bristol and the Whitechapel Gallery in
London.
FACT is the UK Foundation for Art and Creative Technology and is
based at 88
Wood Street in Liverpool. Admission to the Climate for Change
Exhibition is from
13 March until May 31st. Entrance is Free.
Further information about FACT and the Climate for Change
exhibition is
available at www.fact.co.uk