social knitting, since 2022
Karolina Kaiser and Lola Bott
Karolina Kaiser and Lola Bott
“social knitting” physically knits people together, fostering collaborative thinking and co-creation in direct dialogue with the material, the makers, and the craft itself
knittingassocialpractice@gmail.com
Workshops (selected):
Opening event LIFE HAMBURG Campus (08/26) • HUGUETTE CALAND – A LIFE IN A FEW LINES, Hall for Contemporary Art, Deichtorhallen Hamburg (11/25, 01/26) • Hallo: Festspiele 10th DEW DRIP TEMPER, PARKS, Hamburg (07/25) • Utopie Konzerenz, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (08/24) • Opening event SCHOOL OF SURVIVAL, Hall for Contemporary Art, Deichtorhallen Hamburg (05/24) • Happy Friday, Falckenberg Collection Hamburg (08/23)
How Social Is Your Knitting?, A.Y.F.P (A Yarn & Fibre Publication) #1, 2023. 54-55. Published feature by Lola Bott, Karolina Kaiser, Sandra Schumann, Cathrin Zumhasch
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social knitting
developed to transform knitting into a collaborative tool; allowing for social encounters, encouraging interaction with one another to create in correspondence with the other maker(s), the material and the craft itself.
to loop, to knot, to stitch, to touch
we knit with our bodies, a multiplicity of hands forming loops, networking and linking each other. holding onto our yarn, an embodied way of knitting as a group or in pairs of two. our material is soft – textiles that served another purpose. to repurpose. to radically reform. we use materials that have a story to tell, that we can listen to, that are soft and ever changing.
we knit with our bodies, a multiplicity of hands forming loops, networking and linking each other. holding onto our yarn, an embodied way of knitting as a group or in pairs of two. our material is soft – textiles that served another purpose. to repurpose. to radically reform. we use materials that have a story to tell, that we can listen to, that are soft and ever changing.
we sense, we hold, we listen, we learn and unlearn
this is an invitation to knit with us in a large circle, to radically reform together. with every loop formed by our hands, a social space emerges. a space for imagination, a growing structure that is held by our network, our community, to survive on the basis of mutual aid, of being soft. to dream, to imagine and to be hopeful for a communal way of living. for soft social spaces that emerge from a social practice together.
this is an invitation to knit with us in a large circle, to radically reform together. with every loop formed by our hands, a social space emerges. a space for imagination, a growing structure that is held by our network, our community, to survive on the basis of mutual aid, of being soft. to dream, to imagine and to be hopeful for a communal way of living. for soft social spaces that emerge from a social practice together.
