About

Ted Tinkler (they/them)

Through this newsletter I will endeavour to practice care and make space for non-linear time. It will hopefully be a queered way of sharing knowledge that works with my art-making, quilt-making, lace-knitting, community based, and performative practice.

My practice centres around craft and performance-based works, playing with ideas of intimacy, time, and care. I work through spoken word performances using crafted objects as my co-collaborators. Access and care are at the heart of my practice. I move through different kinds of performances by prioritising intimacy, space, and vulnerability over a productionist, scarcity-based mindset. My work tends to a slowtime.

By working with the human and non-human, collaboration is inherent to my practice: crafting in intimate relations – an archival practice of queer – agency through vulnerability.

I make with tangibility. From touching historical queer histories of codpieces and handkerchiefs, to the processes of physicality embedded within craft. Craft roots my practice in a physical sphere, from which the words and performances can grow. I nourish my quilting, my knitting, through sustained care – it is a process-based making.

I work with subjects, objects, or matters as Donna Haraway writes, that share intimacy. These matters give a framework to speculatively re-imagine care through radical, feminist, race, disability, and queer theory.