Exhibition: ‘The Secret Agent, or The Enigma of the Knitting Machine’
An interactive exhibition, titled ‘The Secret Agent, or The Enigma of the Knitting Machine’, is scheduled for 13–16 September 2013 in The Old Police Station, 114 Amersham Vale, Deptford, London. This is a collaborative work between Zoe Wagner, a textile designer, and Annina Lehmann, a writer and film-maker.
The exhibition explores the parallels of story-telling and knitting with regard to Conrad’s novel The Secret Agent and a letter he wrote to Cunninghame Graham, in which Conrad describes the fantasy of existence being controlled by a knitting machine. It integrates contemporary concerns with issues such as surveillance and terrorism, which received early and insightful treatment in Conrad’s novel.
The exhibition is free and open to the public.