Theatre Academy PhD student Charlotte Østergaard participates in Stockholm University of the Arts' international artistic conference Alliances and Commonalities, 17-19 October, 2024 together with former PhD student Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir, and the conference Hurricanes and Scaffolding: Symposium on Artistic research, Umeå University 4-6 December 2024.
Charlotte Østergaard and Marie Ledendal, from the Department of Strategic Communication at Lund University, will present their joint research project Co-Creative Knitting: explorations of an improvisational practices at both conferences. Former PhD student SteinunnKnúts-Önnudóttirs will also participate in the Stockholm University of the Arts conference with her PhD project. Read more below about the different projects and conferences.
Alliances and Commonalities, Stockholmes University of the Arts' biannual internation artisitic research conference. 17–19 October, 2024
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Co-Creative Knitting: explorations of an improvisational practices – Charlotte Østergaard and Marie Ledendal (fil. dr, Textile Designer, Department of Strategic Communication, Lund University)
The presentation dicusses the interplay between making and thinking, encompassing both human and non-human agencies, resulting in co-constructed knowledgeand meaning through performativ enad co-knittingpracitices. The performativelevture presetnsacollaborative work-in-progress project that explores dimmension of co-creative knittingpractives.
Q: How is friction and/or coexistence embodied,felt, performed, manifested, made knowable in your artistic practice?
We exploretje intricate sensory "dance" of influence – where the co-knitting becomesfriction and coexisting. As we knit. our fingertips encounter the mateiral of the yarn as the clicking of the the needles creates a rhytmic and auditory connection. The artistic practice become core to a way in which knowledge manifests in our bodies.
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Pleased to Meet You A Performative Encounter with the More-Than-Human – Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir The project How Little is Enough?strives to produce transformative experiences that counteract consumerism, through minimal means.
Through the lens of existential sustainability, applying porous dramaturgy and performative encounters the research aims to create transformative experiences that create affective bonds between guests and the non-human. A theatre maker and an artistic researcher working with sustainable methods of performance. Steinunn recently completed her PhD project How Little is enough? at Malmö Theatre Academy.
Q: What in your research is most urgent to share right now?
Humans need to be in connection with other humans and the more-than-human, in the same way we need food and shelter. To me making performances is about creating connections.
I am interested in affordances, and in using the term ‘relation specific', I aim to highlight the relations that are being afforded, created, and/or reinforced during a performance.
Hurricanes and Scaffolding: Symposium Artistic research, Umeå University. 4–6 December 2024.
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Caring for co- with knitting practices – Charlotte Østergaard and Marie Ledendal
This presentation address research processes that discusses materiality of artistic practice and its implications.
Taking point of departure in the making of a physical artefact, the presentation considers the interplay between making and thinking, encompassing both the human and the non-human, resulting in co-constructed knowledge and meaning through performative and textile practices.
Drawing on artistic research, this work-in-progress presentation discuss the research process of exploring the dimensions of co-knitting performances. Addressing the following questions, the project explores artistic practices that are improvisational and experimental in nature: 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? With this proposal we introduce co-creative knitting practice, where yarn serves as a mediator for playful improvisation and experimental investigation.