‍ ‍The VILDVÄVstory

VILDVÄV is rooted in weaving as a living cultural practice — an embodied, tactile, and relational way of creating connection, presence, and meaning through material engagement. Here, weaving is not only understood as craft, but as movement, rhythm, ritual, and social choreography.

 

Long before psychotherapy, people turned to textile practices, storytelling, ritual, and collective making as ways of regulating emotion, transmitting knowledge, and sustaining community life. Weaving has historically carried households, economies, memory, care, and cultural continuity across generations. Through rhythm, repetition, and tactile engagement, weaving organizes attention, movement, and presence — creating spaces where hands, body, and imagination can work together.

 

 At VILDVÄV, weaving is approached as an expanded choreography: a practice where the movement of the hands can extend into the whole body, into space, relation, and participation. The loom becomes more than a tool — it becomes a structure for negotiation, rhythm, listening, resistance, and response. Threads cross, tension shifts, gestures repeat, and meaning emerges slowly through process.

 

Rooted in traditions often carried by women, textile practices have long existed between care and survival, intimacy and labor, art and everyday life. VILDVÄV continues this lineage while exploring how weaving can function within contemporary life: as artistic expression, embodied reflection, participatory practice, and social infrastructure.

 

 Through workshops, performances, textile works, and participatory encounters, VILDVÄV explores how weaving can support presence, nervous system regulation, creativity, relational awareness, and collective imagination — not through perfection or productivity, but through rhythm, material engagement, and embodied participation.

 

Weaving, in this perspective, becomes a living technology of relation: connecting body and material, memory and movement, inner experience and shared space.

Anna Losefsky

Founder , Artisan & Performative pedagouge

VILDVÄV emerged from my ongoing exploration of weaving as a relational and embodied practice — not only as a form of making, but as a way of organising attention, experience, and connection.

My work centres on how inner life, memory, and perception take form through material engagement and movement. I return to the threshold where intuitive, childlike modes of being meet adult awareness — where making becomes a way of sensing, processing, and reshaping experience. As a mother, this extends into a practice of care: holding both the child and the adult self within the same field of attention.

My background spans artistic practice, pedagogy, and cultural research. I work across studio practice, participatory projects, and pedagogical contexts.

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Collaboraters

Sofia Ek

Performative Pedagogue

Sofia is a pedagogue, Baroque musician, and yarn enthusiast. She holds a Magister’s degree in Pedagogy. She contributes pedagogical reflection and acts as a sounding board in the development of the practice.

Fredrik Bjernelind

Fine Woodworker & Visual Documentarian

Fredrik is Fine artist trained at Konstfack and skilled wood worker. He designs and builds weaving frames, structures, display systems, and workshop equipment for the studio. He also documents embodied knowledge and social interaction through film.

Elin Losefsky

Seamstress

Elin creates the kimonos produced within the practice. She has studied pattern construction and also brings experience from retail trade in the clothing industry and administration within cultural organisations.

Curriculum Vitae

Anna Losefsky

Embodied artistic practice, performative pedagogy, textile-based inquiry, and the development of weaving as expanded choreography and social and cultural infrastructure — a movement from individual artistic training towards collective infrastructures.

Education & Practice

Bodily Materiality & Artistic Practice

  • Nyckelviksskolan
    Foundation Studies in Art and Craft,     2005-2007
    Training across wood, metal, textile, colour and form, with a focus on material exploration and craft-based processes.

  • Handarbetets Vänner, Stockholm
    Textile Studies: Weaving & Embroidery,     2022-2024
    Studies in frame weaving, loom weaving, and embroidery, grounding technical skill in both textile traditions and contemporary practice.

  • The Woven Childhood Scene — Artistic Research Project

    2025–ongoing

     A participatory textile installation investigating weaving as performative pedagogy, relational practice, and child play culture in Sweden and Japan. Developed through workshop-based processes in public play contexts, the work engages collective memory, material practice, and intercultural exchange.

     Presented in Sweden and Japan as an evolving social and spatial artwork, including:

    – Recipient of NFH Grant, Swedish National Handicraft Council, 2025

    – ArtCraft is LoveCraft: workshop and mobile tapestry performance, Parklek Tour, Stockholm, 2025

    – Poetic film collaboration with Fredrik Bjernelind, 2025

    – Mobile Parklek weaving project, Cultural Center Kramfors, 2025

    – Residency at Studio Kura, Itoshima, Japan, 2026

    – Mobile asobi-ba weaving project, Munakata, Japan, 2026

    – Mobile Parklek weaving project, Folkets Park, Malmö, 2026

  • Ós Residency, Icelandic Textile Center – July 2023

  • Ós Residency Catalog, Icelandic Textile Center / Blurb Books, 2023



Performative Pedagogy & Artistic Leadership

  • Konstfack – University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Performativity in Visual and Material Culture Studies (Advanced Studies), 2026
    Investigating performativity as an approach to artistic and pedagogical practice within visual and material cultures.

  • Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
    A/r/tography     (Artist–Researcher–Teacher methodology, Advanced studies), 2026
    A practice-based research methodology integrating artistic practice, pedagogy, and inquiry.

  • Stockholm University (SU)
    Dynamic Pedagogy,     2011
    Focus on relational, process-based and experiential group learning environments.

  • Södertörn University

    Bachelor’s Degree in Transdisciplinary and Multimodal Pedagogy

    Focus on Aesthetic Learning Processes and multimodality , 2007–2011 

    Integration of artistic expression through:

    – Dance

    – Singing

    – Drama

    – Puppetry

    – Visual art

  • Stockholm University, Art history, 2003-2004

  • Pedagogical Leader – Transdisciplinary Aesthetic Practice & Collegium
    Eriksdalsskolan, Stockholm (2020–ongoing)

  • Teacher – Transdisciplinary Aesthetic Practice
    Eriksdalsskolan, Stockholm (2011–2015)

  • Social Leader & Activity Developer, NGO Swedish with Baby (2018)

  • Creative Pedagogue, Parklek and open-access play culture, Stockholm (2000–2002)

Social Inquiry & Artistic and Cultural Enterprise

  • Stockholm University (SU)
    Master’s Degree in Child and Youth Studies     (BUV), 2017-2019
    Specialisation in motherhood studies, exploring care, social structures, and relational practices.

  • 125 Kvadrat — Artist run Cooperative for Art & Craft

    2024-2025

    Part of an independent art and craft space where exhibition-making, workshops, and public programming intersect. 

    Worked across gallery exhibitions, participatory workshops, and artist talks, while contributing to the circulation and sale of craft-based works and sustaining Craft as a living cultural heritage.

  • Vildväv Studio — Founder, Performative Pedagogue & Artistic Practitioner

    2025–present

     Vildväv Studio is a textile-based artistic practice exploring weaving as expanded choreography and cultural infrastructure.

    The work spans performative weaving, participatory workshops, and the creation of embodied textile works, engaging with themes of care, relation, and collective experience.