DANIELLE BURKE


Danielle Burke is an artist and folklorist. She studies textiles, craft pedagogy, and artist communities; her studio practice focuses primarily on the process of weaving.

She is currently a PhD student in Design Studies with a focus in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.



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Translation, Transmission


An in-progress weaving transcribing the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine mRNA s-strand. The s-strand reflects the final protein product for the M-spike protein which is the critical mutation that confers COVID-19’s increased infectivity.

This summer and winter weave-strucure requires a lot of footwork. It feels like walking. Throughout quarantine and hesitations to return to public spaces, what is it like to take a long journey at my loom? With the ongoingness of pandemic, how is time felt, sensed? The cloth can flip-- summer on one side and winter on the other-- and both communicate the same information; they are inverses of each other, twins. All is still. All is moving.




1” x ~972” (approx. 27 yards)
Summer & Winter weave
Synthetic sewing thread, cotton thread
2021-22
 

DANIELLE BURKE


Danielle Burke is an artist and folklorist. She studies textiles, craft pedagogy, and artist communities; her studio practice focuses primarily on the process of weaving.

She is currently a PhD candidate in Design Studies with a focus in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.



ABOUT