The VILDVÄVstory
VILDVÄV is an artistic practice rooted in weaving as a living cultural tradition and developed through Weaving as Expanded Choreography—an evolving artistic practice exploring how movement, material, and making shape attention, relationships, and ways of being together. Through woven artworks, embodied inquiry, and participatory practice, VILDVÄV investigates weaving as both artistic expression and social practice.
Long before modern forms of therapy, people turned to craft, storytelling, ritual, and collective making to regulate emotion, transmit knowledge, and sustain community life. Across generations, weaving has carried households, economies, memory, care, and cultural continuity. Through rhythm, repetition, and tactile engagement, it organizes attention and creates spaces where hands, body, and imagination work together.
At VILDVÄV, the loom is approached as a choreographic structure for listening, orientation, rhythm, tension, response, and participation. Weaving becomes both an artistic process and a way of exploring how movement, relationships, and knowledge emerge through making.
Alongside the creation of woven artworks, VILDVÄV develops workshops, performances, and participatory encounters where weaving becomes an embodied practice for collective inquiry and transformation. Beginning with individual awareness and unfolding into shared experience, these practices cultivate creativity, collaboration, relational awareness, and collective imagination.
While the caring structure of the loom remains at its core, VILDVÄV continues to evolve into a broader platform for embodied artistic practice, where movement, voice, play, and other artistic expressions meet through making, participation, and collective care.
Rooted in traditions often carried by women, VILDVÄV honours this lineage while exploring weaving as contemporary art, performative pedagogy, and embodied artistic inquiry.
At its core, VILDVÄV understands weaving as a living technology of relation—connecting body and material, memory and movement, individual experience and collective life.
Anna Losefsky
Founder , Artisan, Developing Weaving as Expanded Choreography and Embodied Arts
What first drew me to weaving was the combination of freedom, play, ritual, and a strong sense of direction. To create a tapestry with my own hands, to spend months inside a process, and to solve problems through the logic of the loom gave me a profound sense of purpose and belonging.
I felt that weaving contained a never-ending story. There were always new colours, textures, techniques, histories, and possibilities to explore. Over time, weaving became more than a craft. It became the way I think, make, learn, and understand the world.
The loom gradually became a centre of gravity in my life. What once existed outside of me became embodied. Through weaving, I learned how to hold myself, trust myself, and, in many ways, mother myself.
Today my artistic practice moves between the studio, artistic research, and participatory projects. I create woven artworks while exploring weaving as expanded choreography—asking how movement, material, and making shape attention, relationships, and ways of being together. As I learn to grow, so does the the practice, weaving becomes a point of departure, unfolding into movement, voice, play and other embodied forms of artistic expression.
I am interested in the intersection of tradition and experimentation, art and everyday life, individual experience and collective practice, the inner child and the adult. My work is an ongoing invitation to slow down, pay attention, and discover what weaving continues to teach us.
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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 transformative movement from individual artistic training towards collective infrastructures.
Education & Practice
Embodied & Somatic Materiality
Weaving as Expanded Choreography — A/r/tographic Project
2025–ongoing
An artistic and pedagogical project exploring weaving as expanded choreography through somatic materiality and performative pedagogy. Evolving through ArtCraft is LoveCraft, The Woven Childhood Scene and Tråddans, the project investigates weaving as an somatic practice through workshops and artistic research, using parklek and other innovative social infrastructures as living laboratories in Sweden and Japan.
Selected Projects, Presentations and Residencies
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, Weaving Weaving Hands in Dialogue, Parklek workshop, 2025
The Woven Childhood Scene: Mobile Parklek weaving project, Centrum Bildning, Kramfors, 2025
Residency at Studio Kura, Itoshima, Japan, exploring tradition, structure, resistence and freedom through SAORI, Sakiori and experimental material play, in dialouge with Japanese adventure playground culture (Parklek) Asobia ba, 2026
Tråddans: Mobile Parklek weaving project – introducing somatic weaving through whole-body movement as part of a Mental Health Initiative, Stockholm Tour, 2026
Residencies
Ós Residency
Icelandic Textile Center, July 2023
Ós Residency Catalog, Icelandic Textile Center / Blurb Books, 2023
Nordingrå Residency , Sweden Kramfors, October, 2025
Studio Kura Residency, Itoshima, Japan July 2026
Embodied Art Practice
Handarbetets Vänner, Stockholm- Textile Studies: Weaving & Embroidery
Studies in frame weaving, loom weaving, and embroidery, grounding technical skill in both textile traditions and contemporary practice, 2022-2024
Nyckelviksskolan, Stockholm- Foundation Studies in Art and Craft
Training across wood, metal, textile, colour and form, with a focus on material exploration and craft-based processes, 2005-2007
Folkuniversitetet, Stockholm – Stockholm Folk Music Choir (directed by Maria Misgeld), 2024, 2026. Ear-based ensemble singing in the Nordic folk music tradition, exploring polyphony, improvisation, vocal attunement, and collective singing through traditional and contemporary repertoire, 2024
Balettakademien/Folkuniversitetet, Stockholm – Gaga/People, Somatic movement practice , exploring sensory awareness, improvisation, movement research, and embodied perception through the Gaga movement language. 2024
Performative Pedagogy
A/r/tography (Artist–Researcher–Teacher methodology, Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH), 2026A practice-based research methodology integrating artistic practice, pedagogy, and inquiry,(Advanced Studies), 2026
Performativity in Visual and Material Culture Studies, Konstfack – University of Arts, Crafts and Design, (Advanced Studies) Investigating performativity as an approach to artistic and pedagogical practice within visual and material cultures, 2026
Supervisory Methods, Linnaeus University, - collegial learning, pedagogical leadership, and reflective practice (Advanced studies), 2024
Dynamic Pedagogy, Stockholm University (SU), Focus on relational, process-based and experiential group learning environments, 2011
Dance as Aesthetic Learning Process, Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH), 2026
Bachelor’s Degree in Multimodal Pedagogy, Södertörn University, Focus on Aesthetic Learning Processes and Interculturality; through singing, dance, drama and visual arts, 2007-2011
Stockholm University, Art History, 2003–2004
Skapande skola, Stockholm, Sweden
Workshop Facilitator – Weaving as Expanded Choreography
Developes and leeds artistic workshops in primary and secondary schools across Stockholm, integrating textile practices, movement, and embodied learning, 2026 ongoing
Stockholm Social Administration – Mental Health Initiative, Stockholm, Sweden
Workshop Facilitator – Weaving as Expanded Choreography
Conducted a late-summer community workshop tour in Stockholm’s public park playgrounds (parklekar), commissioned through the Mental Health Initiative, fostering social inclusion, intergenerational participation, and collective artistic practice, 2026
Pedagogical Leader – Transdisciplinary Aesthetic Practice & Collegium
Eriksdalsskolan, Stockholm, 2020–ongoing
Teacher – Transdisciplinary Aesthetic Practice, Eriksdalsskolan, Stockholm, 2011–2015
Creative Pedagogue, Parklek and open-access play culture, Stockholm 2000–2002
Collective Infrastructures
Vildväv Studio
Founder, Developing Weaving as Expanded Choreography and Embodied Arts
Vildväv Studio is a artistic practice exploring weaving as expanded choreography and cultural infrastructure.
The work spans performative weaving, embodied arts, participatory workshops, and the creation of embodied textile works, engaging with themes of care, relation, and collective experience, 2025
125 Kvadrat
Artist-run Cooperative for Art & Craft
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, 2024-2025.
Stockholm University (SU)
Master’s Degree in Child and Youth Studies (BUV)
Specialisation in motherhood studies, exploring care, social structures, and intergenerational and intercultural relational practices, 2017-2019
Social Leader & Activity Developer
Swedish with Baby (NGO for social inclusion for established and newly Swedish families, 2018