Jemima Wyman is an Australian artist and her latest artwork for the Liverpool Biennial, Collective Coverings, Communal Skin, explores camouflage fabric as a material with symbolic links to violence and conflict. Using donated second-hand camouflage and hunting t-shirts she’s weaved the material on hula-hoop looms transforming objects of conflict into playful objects of comfort. All of the pieces will be added together to construct an internal architecture at the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT). They’re “re-territorializing the hard architecture of the institution into a site of radical hospitality.  Read more: 

http://www.hooping.org/2013/01/jemima-wyman-transforms-war-into-hoopful-peace/

With our sharing of this gorgeous photo, Hooping.org would like to officially introduce you all to our newest Video Editor, JiJi O’Neal. Welcome to the Hooping.org team Jiji. We’re excited to have you on board. She lives in Portland, Oregon, USA. Photo by Doug Hoeschler. A Hooping.org Photo of the Day.

http://www.hooping.org/2012/12/jijioneal/#

Every once in awhile hooping videos transcend into nothing short of art and Fairyland is one that does just that. Even the soundtrack, originally done by Angelzoom, features recorded vocals and editing by our fairy hooper Riley Helm. A Hooping.org Video of the Day.

http://www.hooping.org/2012/10/fairyland/#

Hoopalicious performs in The Flow Show.  A Hooping.org Video of the Day.

http://www.hooping.org/2012/06/hoopalicious-the-flow-show