Eszter Koncz is an interdisciplinary artist from Hungary currently starting her PhD at MOME, Budapest, researching multispecies storytelling through mapping local wool ecosystems. She works at the intersection of performing, fibre and fine arts with a methodology that might be summed up in the motto, ‘thinking through making’ (making as sympoiesis [Haraway]: “a becoming-with”, “a making together”).
Next to compound artistic research projects - often focusing on local flora, fauna & folklore - she does graphic design and makes clothes from upcycled materials.
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Knitwear
Knitting while walking, while talking, while reading, while daydreaming, while watching a movie, while watching the landscape pass by in the train’s window. I've been knitting since I was a child: I learned from my mother, who learned from her mother, and so on. I live far from home now, still, my hands continue the well-known choreography: click, clack, click ~ knitting becomes a way to measure time, turn it into shapes. I try to encapsulate these stories into the objects I make: when you purchase an item, you'll receive a little booklet containing the journey from this object from the yarn to your hands.
knitwear
Collecting, Devising, Making
Coming from a devised theatre background, I work within a certain methodology that might be summed up in the motto, ‘thinking through making’. Making as sympoiesis ( Haraway) “a becoming-with”, “a making together”. I understand my work as an ongoing engagement with the surroundings: always a collaboration, a dialogue between the human and nonhuman habitats of the landscape.
Clothes etc.
My mother, my grandmother, my
great-grandmother, my uncle’s mother, my aunt. I find myself in possession of lots of bags of leftover fabrics, a
strange fortune, so close to my skin. My mom taught me to sew and knit, and the others provided me with the
materials. I’ve been making clothes for myself since I was about 15 years old.
Komařice Collection
Brackish Times
Brackish Times, The Daily Sea Monster Report of San Giovanni Li Cuti, is a site-specific daily newspaper: mapping the local physical and cultural landscape through the topic of sea monsters. In collaboration wit Kirstine Hupfeldt Nielsen.
Brackish Times
Shop, Shipping, Commissions
While I am in the process of properly figuring out the practical & personal implications of running a shop/ personal brand, you can already place orders via dm-s. I am also very happy to take commissions for knitting/graphic design, etc., projects!
knitwear publications/graphic design
Tornado Watch
Artistic research together with Katharina Joy Book on the topic of weather: local, future, and fictional weather.
Tornado Watch
Komařice Bestiary
Site-specific installation for SKLIZEN Festival 2025, repopulating the landscape with extinct animals, sewn from unused fabrics collected in the village.
Komařice Bestiary Komařice Collection