{"id":365,"date":"2010-01-18T23:52:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T21:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/howtogoon.com\/?page_id=365"},"modified":"2012-03-22T10:38:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T08:38:54","slug":"gift-for-dr-matlock","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/index.php\/gift-for-dr-matlock\/","title":{"rendered":"GIFT FOR DR MATLOCK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Gift for Dr. Matlock&#8217; &#8211; knitting displayed on a kitchen table, attempts at knitting a jumper made up of vaginal labia, a gift for the nightmarish Dr.Matlock, a charismatic million-dollar, plastic surgeon who persuades women to have their genitals lasered to look like those of an airbrushed Playboy centrefold.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71\" title=\"Gift for Dr Matlock-Textile Museum\" src=\"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/gift-for-dr-matlock-2.jpg\" alt=\"Gift for Dr Matlock-Textile Museum\" width=\"400\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/gift-for-dr-matlock-2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/gift-for-dr-matlock-2-264x300.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73\" title=\"Gift for Dr Matlock-knitting\" src=\"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/gift-for-dr-matlock-1.jpg\" alt=\"Gift for Dr Matlock-knitting\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/gift-for-dr-matlock-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/gift-for-dr-matlock-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click here to read &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Come-Armageddon.pdf\" \"target=blank>Come Armageddon<\/a>&#8216; &#8211; the story about how the work came into being <a href=\"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Come-Armageddon.pdf\"target=blank><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/pdficon_small.gif\" alt=\"pdficon_small\" title=\"pdficon_small\" width=\"17\" height=\"17\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-300\" \/><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The work was shown in excellent company (incl. Rozemarie Trockel, Elaine Reichek) as part of the Knitted Worlds exhibition at the Audax Textile Museum in Tilburg &#8211; 14-03-2009 \/ 14-06-2009<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/KnittedWorldsPersinfo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-95\" title=\"knitted worlds flyer\" src=\"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/knitted-worlds-flyer.jpg\" alt=\"knitted worlds flyer\" width=\"288\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/knitted-worlds-flyer.jpg 288w, https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/knitted-worlds-flyer-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sandra Smets reviewed the exhibition in NRC-next newspaper.<br \/>\n\u201cHignett\u2019s Gift for Dr. Matlock can be seen as a key work in Knitted Worlds. It combines feminist artistic traditions with current affairs. Socio-political and societal art play a leading role in the exhibition.\u201d<br \/>\nTo see the article (in Dutch) on Sandra Smets&#8217; blog click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandrasmets.nl\/varia\/knitted_worlds.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, or for a pdf click on the newspaper &#8211;<br \/>\n<a href=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/NRC-article-72px.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"NRCKnittedWorlds\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/NRCKnittedWorlds.jpg\" alt=\"NRCKnittedWorlds\" width=\"300\" height=\"361\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/NRC-article-72px.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/pdficon_small.gif\" alt=\"pdficon_small\" title=\"pdficon_small\" width=\"17\" height=\"17\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Link to <a href=\"http:\/\/knittedworlds.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/rebellious-knitting.html\" target=\"_blank\">Knitted Worlds Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textielmuseum.nl\/textielmuseum\/agenda.html?agid=483\" target=\"_blank\">Textile Museum<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Gift for Dr. Matlock&#8217; &#8211; knitting displayed on a kitchen table, attempts at knitting a jumper made up of vaginal labia, a gift for the nightmarish Dr.Matlock, a charismatic million-dollar, plastic surgeon who persuades women to have their genitals lasered to look like those of an airbrushed Playboy centrefold. 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