This workshop would be an experiment in expanding the creative methods used in the process of making Wave Function Collapse to include collaboration and community.

Facilitated by Sigrún, autistic author and performer of the piece, the workshop will give participants a chance to learn very basic crochet skills, explore movement through improvisation and play with words. We will start by waking up our senses and connecting with ourselves and each other by learning the most basic stitch in crochet, the chain. As we have started our individual chains we will take them with us an exploration of movements and connections in the space. Together we will create a poetic mess of yarn, movement and connections.

Saumaklúbbur is the Icelandic word for sewing group. It is traditionally a group of women who regularly meet up to work on their individual knitting/sewing/crochet projects and chat about their lives. This workshop is my attempt to spontaneously create a saumaklúbbur wherever I am. But I am not very interested in chatting with strangers and I like to move and write poems too. So I want to invite anyone who is interested in minimal/weird social interaction, crafts and movement to come and create something together. This time, we will create collectively, aiming for a network of individual chains that are both shaped by our movements and influence how we move as group and individuals.

Wave Function Collapse was a very individual and personal process for me. I spent a lot of time alone with my yarn, my hook, my book and my pen in a dance studio. Although I made some human connections during the process, and there are many people who influenced the piece, I did not invite them into the process, the dramaturgy or the craft of what I was creating. I want to start expanding my practice and invite people in.