The Crochet Coral Reef is an ever-evolving nature-culture hybrid created by Christine Wertheim and Margaret Wertheim, that resides at the nexus of art, craft, science, mathematics, climate change, & feminist community practice.
About
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Projects
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Art + Science
Created as an artistic response to global warming and oceanic plastic trash, the Crochet Coral Reef also invokes hyperbolic geometry and Darwinian evolution.
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Exhibitions
The Crochet Coral Reef has been exhibited at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019), Helsinki Biennial 2021, plus a major retrospective in Germany 2022; and currently on show in 2023/24 at Schlossmuseum Linz, Austria.
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Satellite Reefs
The Crochet Reef sends out spawn. 52 community-based Satellite Reefs have been made worldwide. New Satellite Reefs have recently been done in Pittsburgh, Germany, and Austria.
Press + Essays
“The sculptures are like force-fields drawing you into their orbit, catalysts for a network of social relations that mimic a reef’s … Gorgeous, absurd and socially productive, these are rare works of art.”
— Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times
“The Crochet Coral Reef risks making real and fabulated things together to open up still-possible times for flourishing … Palpable, polymorphous, terrifying and inspiring stitchery… ”
—Donna Haraway
TED Talk
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Margaret Wertheim spoke about the Crochet Coral Reef on the main stage at TED.
Inquiries
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If your institution would like to exhibit the Crochet Coral Reef or start your own Satellite Reef, send us an inquiry
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