This artistic research project on co-knitting practices is co-created with Marie Ledendal and discusses materiality of artistic processes and its implications. Taking point of departure in the making of a physical textile artefact, the project considers the interplay between making and thinking, encompassing both the human and the non-human – people and textiles –, resulting in co-constructed knowledge and meaning through performative and textile practices.
Drawing on artistic research, this ever evolving artistic project explores the dimensions of co-knitting by addressing the following questions: Which components and tools contribute to the phenomenon of co-knitting? How can partnership of playful improvisation enable novel ways to explore performative textile methods? How can documentation support ongoing exploration of methods for understanding the phenomenon and its various nuanced perspectives?
Residency at Inter Arts Center, SE.
This research project is co-created with Marie Ledendal dr, Textile Designer, Senior Lecturer in Applied Visual Communication, Program Director for the bachelor’s programs in Strategic Communication, Lund University, SE.
Co-knitting session (maj 2025) at Inter Art Center with invited guests Eva Hedblom, Ranin George Souliman, Hannah Ekroth, Deniz Duru and Felicita Brusoni
Exploring other ways on engaging with the co-knitted object Marie entangled with it – which became an material-entangled dance
Co-knitting workshop sessions (October 2025) at Inter Art Center with the invited participants Eva, Teresa, Harm, Caro, Asta, Maria, Tanja and Sofie.
Upcoming events:
Co-Knitting – Textile Co-Creations explores how communal knitting can foster relationships, care, and collective agency through a simple, sensory practice. The project is led by textile artists Charlotte Østergaard and Marie Ledendal, who together host workshops at Islands Brygge Kulturhus, DK (October 2026) and Lunds Stadsbibliotek, SE (November 2026).
During the workshops, a shared textile work develops over time, giving participants co-ownership of the process. Between workshops, both participants and visitors can contribute to the ongoing evolution of the work. All textiles are made from recycled materials, encouraging reflection on sustainability, care, and material awareness.
The project challenges traditional boundaries between artwork and viewer, investigating how a textile practice can function as relational infrastructure—a temporary space where people, materials, and voices are woven together into new communities. Documentation, knowledge sharing, and final presentations in both Denmark and Sweden provide a platform for artistic exchange in the Øresund region.
The project is funded by ArtCollab/Teaterhöjskolan/Lunds Universitet and Nationalbankens Jubilæumsfond
The research project has been presented at the following events:
4-6 December, 2024. Hurricanes and Scaffolding conference, Umeå University, SE. Conference presentation Co-Creative Knitting – explorations of an improvisational practices” with Marie Ledendahl
17–19 October, 2024. Alliances and Commonalities conference 2024, Stockholm University of the Arts, SE. – performative presentation Caring for co- with knitting practices with Marie Ledendahl
June 12–14, 2024. CROCUS conference BEYOND SITE/SIGHT.
Dec 6, 2023. Crocus network seminar on the Role of Materiality, Brandstatioen, Helsingborg. SE. – presentation Co-Creative Knitting – explorations of an improvisational practices