Becomings : a craft-performance
(2025)- Abstract
- Craft-performance at the opening of the exhibition
Becomings is a performative exploration of the Danish concept fællesskabelse—a term that combines community and creation to describe processes in which something new emerges through being and making together. Unlike co-creation, where participants contribute predefined parts to a shared task, fællesskabelse focuses on the forming of the community itself through the creative act.
Through the lexicon of textile craft traditions—crochet and knotting—the performance unfolds as a material and conceptual inquiry into collective becoming. Drawing on the philosophical notion of becomings (tilblivelser), the work explores how bodies, materials, and meanings continuously transform... (More) - Craft-performance at the opening of the exhibition
Becomings is a performative exploration of the Danish concept fællesskabelse—a term that combines community and creation to describe processes in which something new emerges through being and making together. Unlike co-creation, where participants contribute predefined parts to a shared task, fællesskabelse focuses on the forming of the community itself through the creative act.
Through the lexicon of textile craft traditions—crochet and knotting—the performance unfolds as a material and conceptual inquiry into collective becoming. Drawing on the philosophical notion of becomings (tilblivelser), the work explores how bodies, materials, and meanings continuously transform through relational entanglements. Inspired by thinkers such as Donna Haraway’s idea of becoming-with, the performance considers how humans, textiles, gestures, and histories come into being together.
Crocheting and knotting function both as craft techniques and as metaphors for relational processes: threads intertwine, materials with previous lives are reconnected, and traces of hands and bodies remain present in the textile structures. In this way, Becomings becomes an invitation to enter a shared field of making, listening, and transformation.
The performance unfolds as an act of hospitality toward the collective—toward multivocal and polyphonic expressions—and culminates in an open invitation for the audience to join the crafting process and continue knotting, crocheting, and becoming together. (Less)
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- artist
- Østergaard, Charlotte LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2025
- type
- Non-textual form
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- craft performance, craft traditions, fællesskabelse, Commoning, participation
- publisher
- Lundsgaard Gods
- language
- Danish
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 1b586458-76fa-4f83-ba89-827186b0a4cc
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- 2026-03-14 17:54:50
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author = {{Østergaard, Charlotte}},
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publisher = {{Lundsgaard Gods}},
title = {{Becomings : a craft-performance}},
year = {{2025}},
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