New York Sock Repair &
Exchange *important updates
Send your broken socks to be repaired in New York
City. After your socks are fixed, they will be
washed in the East River, photographed against the
Manhattan skyline and returned back to you. Fixed
and clean! Repairs will be made by hand, using
recycled materials. You can also have your socks
exchanged to socks of our other customers!
It doesn't matter how broken your socks are, we are
here to help. The New York Sock Repair &
Exchange service is a perfect gift for a fashionable
friend. The text NYSRE18 (New York Sock Repair &
Exchange) will be embroidered on the repaired socks
to commemorate the repair. You can follow the the
repair status of your socks online.
The service pilot is operational between
August-December 2018. Send your broken socks NOW to
have them repaired in time for the Holidays. During
the service pilot (Q3-Q4, Summer-Fall of 2018) the service
is free! The socks you send must fit a
standard letter. Please let us know if you want your
socks photographed next to different landmark in New
York City.
*2018-12-07 Update #1:
Thank you for participating in the successful New
York Sock Repair & Exchange pilot. All of the
socks were repaired, washed in the East River,
photographed against the Manhattan skyline (or next
to a landmark of the sock-owners preference) and are
being returned to their owners. Photos of the
repaired socks are available below. If you missed
this opportunity to get socks repaired, please feel
free to be in contact and we'll work something out.
Let's start a sock repair pool or something?
*2019-10-02 Update #2: We are glad to
announce a lifetime warranty for the socks we have
previously repaired. Clientele established during
the pilot phase has been informed of the possibility
and the first sock protected by the warranty was
re-repaired, washed in the East Sea and documented
in Vladivostok (looking towards the Zolotoy Bridge).
Clientele has been informed on how to be in contact
and were to send the socks in the future.
Sincerely,
SockSmith Eero Yli-Vakkuri* (Ore. Ref.)
eero //äät storijapan.net
+358 505729743
Send Your Socks to
Ore.e Refineries (Eero
Yli-Vakkuri)
185 LEONARD ST
Brooklyn, APT 3B
New York, NY 11206
United States
Please indicate the following in the
package:
Do you want your socks exchanged
(YES / NO)
Return address of repaired socks (If
GIFT, please indicate)
Do you want to have your repaired
socks photographed next to a different
landmark in NYC?
SOCKS IN / SOCKS
OUT
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Timeline / Details
2019-10-03 PP got in contact and informed that
the other pair of woolen socks repaired in NYC had
developed a hole. I was invited to join an
artistic research project called "In Various
Stages of Ruins", which is coordinated by the
Alkovi organization in Helsinki (Miina Hujala
& Arttu Merimaa) and it deals with
contemporary Russia and artistic knowledge
production. Together with a group of four artists
we embarked on a month long group Russian
expedition. More on the research project. I repaired
PPs sock on the way and photographed it in
Vladivostok. I returned from a 180 hour train ride
yesterday (Vladivostok-Helsinki).
2018-12-17 Finalizing the process. Feeling
content.
2018-12-07 One more pair of socks to shoot.
2018-12-04 All the socks are repaired. Tomorrow
I'll shoot them on location. The plan: Grand Ferry
Park (Wash socks. Photo all socks together). Walk
across the Williamsburg bridge (shoot some
individual socks). To Essex St. -> Take M to 5
Av. / 53 St.) Shoot a pair at Trump Tower. To 5
Av. / 53 St -> Take M or E to West to 4
St-Washington Sq. St. Shoot a pair at Stone Wall
In. One pair at a Bagel Shop? To Christopher St
Station -> Take 1 to Rector St. Shoot a pair at
the Charging Bull and Wall Street. Walk to Battery
Park to shoot a pair. To Bowling Green Station
-> Take 4 or 5 to Borough Hall (and walk to
bridge). Shoot a pair at the Brooklyn Bridge.
2018-11-16 There are now 27 socks on my wall (some
pairs), which I've successfully darned. Some socks
(the woollen ones) took me over two hours to
complete. I restored them using thick visible
stitching's, so that people will have with a good
story to remember. Some of the stitches look like
ornaments. I suspect it'll take me one day to
document the socks in my studio and a day to wash
them in the East River and to photograph as
promised. Feeling good. While fixing the last
pairs I was listening to Why We Bleep Podcast 004:
Transistor Sounds Labs (2018) mylar
melodies. In the podcast Nina Richards and Zoe
Blade give a nice introduction to their design
process and talk about sexism of the
electronic/computer cultures.
2018-11-13 Good stuff to listen to when fixing the
socks of strangers around the world (only 5 pairs
to go). We had an open studio event on the weekend
at ISCP. I was in a flue for the entire event and
sat in the corner darning socks. A hipster
complemented my stitch-work and told me I’d make
300$ for a pair!
2018-11-01 I won the ISCP Halloween costume
contest. Residents were tasked to dress up as
famous artists or artwork. I immediately knew how
to win the competition. My art education was
basically 6+ years of faking to be famous artist
or artwork. I dressed up as Agnes Denes.
2018-10-31 TZ got in contact and asked when
they'll receive their socks (December). The return
address was changed.
2018-09-01 Socks are coming trough mail and I'm
attaching them on my wall like trophies. Also
people from the ISCP residency and FCINY are
bringing me their socks for repair.
2018-08-20 KM got in contact over mail. Confirmed
that I'll take good care of their socks.
2018-07-30 Got note of a pair of socks in transit.
LW socks arrived three weeks ago. When I get five
socks to work with I'll start fixing. I hope
people from Europe send their socks, so that we
can get a trans-atlantic sock repair &
exchange going. Got a novel request to photograph
a pair of socks at the Trump Tower.
2018-07-08 *Yli-Vakkuri is an apprentice
SockSmith mentored by MA Minttu Sipola. Photo
added. Someone leaked news of the service. No
biggie.
2018-07-06 First drafts.
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