BECOMINGS is a textile-relational and participatory artwork situated at the intersections of textile art, performative practice, and socially engaged art. Its aesthetics encompass not only the visual, but also the tactile, relational, and collective.

Through acts of knotting, crocheting, and other forms of textile making, BECOMINGS explores commoning as a process of creating with and becoming through others. Inspired by thinkers such as Karen Barad and Donna Haraway, the work approaches becoming not as a fixed state or identity, but as an ongoing process of transformation. People, materials, gestures, stories, and meanings do not exist as separate entities; they emerge through relations, movements, encounters, and entanglements.

Rather than constituting a textile work with a fixed form or essence, BECOMINGS is continuously shaped by the hands, bodies, materials, and stories that enter into it. Each knot, thread, and gesture becomes a potential connection—an opening towards new relations and temporary communities. The work invites participants to step into and entangle themselves with the textiles, to continue making, and to listen to the many voices that speak through the materials.

BECOMINGS can also be understood as a practice of hosting and hospitality: an openness towards being affected and transformed by the collective, the multivocal, and the polyphonic. As the host of the work, I enter each event wearing a costume that functions as an evolving archive of the artwork’s journeys and relations.

Participants may join BECOMINGS for only a few minutes or remain with the work for hours. Since it is therefore impossible to record every individual contribution or every name, the costume archives the collective differently. Through embroidery, it records the places and events where BECOMINGS has unfolded, tracing the artwork’s movement through different contexts and communities. It also acknowledges the material relations that make the work possible. As BECOMINGS is created entirely from reused textiles, the costume is embroidered with the names of those who have donated materials to the project, as well as the places where materials have been found, collected, or purchased second-hand.

The costume thus becomes a material and embodied archive: a surface upon which the artwork’s encounters, movements, gifts, and contributions gradually accumulate. Rather than documenting participation through individual authorship, it traces the wider network of relations through which the artwork continues to come into being.

Some of the textiles used in BECOMINGS, for example, previously appeared as costumes in Forum Humanum (2013), a performance by X-Act/Kitt Johnson. Traces of the dancers and the performance remain inscribed in the materials, carrying their performative past into new contexts and relations. Other materials have been donated by friends, colleagues, and collaborators, or found and purchased second-hand. Each material therefore brings its own histories and trajectories into the work.

The artwork has been shaped through the contributions of many hands. Everyone who participates in its making leaves material and ephemeral traces that become part of its evolving form. In this way, BECOMINGS acknowledges that no voice, material, or idea exists in isolation. Each is part of a larger network of ecological, social, artistic, and material processes that enable the work to continually unfold.

With support from the Danish Arts Foundation, BECOMINGS was presented as a seven-hour durational participatory performance at Riga Performance Festival STARPTELPA. Here, audiences were invited to enter the artwork itself and participate in its ongoing crafting and transformation. Through shared gestures—sometimes as small as tying a knot—movements were set in motion within the materials, between participants, and across the evolving body of the artwork.

BECOMINGS is made entirely from reused textiles. The materials include former costumes from Forum Humanum(2013), carrying traces of the dancers and their movements; textiles donated to the project by friends, colleagues, and collaborators; and materials found, collected, or purchased second-hand. These material contributions are acknowledged through embroidery on the host costume, where they become part of the artwork’s evolving archive.

Co-creators

The work is shaped by all those who have participated in its making and transformation:

• The opening act of the Becomings at the Danish Association of Crafts & Design (DKoD) Annual Meeting, DK. 8 March 2025.
• Becomings – a craft-performance. Opening of the exhibition Denne Nye Verden – overvejende tekstil, Lundsgaard Gods. DK. 5 April 2025
• Becomings – a seven-hour durational craft-participator performance. Riga performance festival Starptelpa, LV. 27 May–1 June 2025.  
• Awarded five weeks (Sep–Oct 2025) Artistic Fellowship at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Detroit, USA by The Danish Art Foundation to explore/study how different co-crafting and hosting approaches affects participatory atmospheres. 
• Becomings – durational co-crafting event. Kooperation Københavns festival Fabrika, DK. 30-31 October 2025.
• Workshop with the members of Skrædderlogen, location: Betty Nansens Theatre’s rehearsal space, 18 February 2026.

Below are images from the different events, in chronological order:

The opening act of Becomings at the Danish Association of Crafts & Design (DKoD) Annual Meeting, DK. 8 March 2026

Becomings – a craft-performance. Opening of the exhibition Denne Nye Verden – overvejende tekstil, Lundsgaard Gods. DK. 5 April 2025

BECOMINGS is an invitation to move, to touch, to make, to listen, and to become with others.

Becomings – a seven-hour durational craft-participator performance. Riga performance festival Starptelpa, LV. 27 May–1 June 2025.  

Becomings – durational co-crafting event. Kooperation Københavns festival Fabrika, DK. 30-31 October 2025.

Workshop with the members of Skrædderlogen, location: Betty Nansens Theatre’s rehearsal space, 18 February 2026.