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We Tread Together With Proximity -Exploring the Boundaries of Art and Walking.
Entanglement and Proximity is in focus during 2026. Our core is Thinking Together Learning Together.
The WAP26 program takes place in August. Selection is made as an open call and special invitations >>>
WAP /WAPC, ABOUT
WALKING + ART
INTROWAP and WAPC
In the fall of 2023 our first residency for walking artists took place in the Northern Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden. The venue was a node for the artis in a rural coastal context. Each walking year held a research topic that artist approached from their specific practice. In 2025 some of us formed a coalition and participated in the artist run art fair in Stockholm. The two strands are since then WAP Program and WAP Coalition.
WAP PROGRAM
WAP is a process-based art residency, where we delve into each others’ knowledges and things we encounter together on Burch island/Björkö. Together we explore proximity through artistic expressions in the field of walking practices. Each year has its own theme/focus. Part of participants are from WAPC and part from an open call.
Interventions weave across different registers of time and site. The focus is on how walking is interlocked in our practices. Fieldworks and seminars are jointly done to locate and entangle structures, narratives and forces. We believe in a safe and friendly attitude as part of the art scene we share.
The framework of the WAP Program is intentionally porous and co-constituted, allowing participating artists to shape its direction. It draws on posthumanist and new materialist perspectives, especially those concerned with dismantling entrenched dualisms through non-hierarchical and relational approaches.
In this context, walking is treated simultaneously as an artistic medium and as a methodological framework for critical and creative investigation. As artists move through lived environments, they explore how agency may be extended to human and nonhuman others, to place, and to ecological processes. These practices emphasize relational care and collective attunement as strategies for cultivating co-presence and emergent forms of togetherness.
WAP Programs at BKN 2023-2025 BKN fosters a peer-based environment: “thinking together, learning together” – a resource and semi public forum to explore and experiment. Jointly, we form a transformative, dynamic space for art that engages with life and nature towards critical and poetic explorations, influenced by the immediate surroundings; the forest, lakes, sea and people living in the rural area.
WAP26 – Entanglement and Proximity WAP25 –Waking As Passion – Embodied Thinking WAP24 –Spaces of Anticipation WAP23 – Attentative Walking
Keywords: walking, asymmetry, entanglement, beyond violence, not-knowing, desire, nature, responsibility, deep listening, close seeing, territory, contested sites
For WAP23/24/25 each artist developed an exposition on Research Catalogue about their walking practices at Björkö, Sweden >>>
WAP COALITION (WAPC) WAPC 2026 edition consists of practitioners committed to traversing and transgressing spatial, social, and conceptual boundaries—using movement as a way to interrogate and reimagine the social and ecological systems that structure contemporary life.
WAPC maintain a strong interest in methodologies that foster critical discourse around the structural constraints encountered by artists, activists, and diverse cultural and gendered bodies. Their work challenges normative frameworks and proposes alternative configurations of social agency grounded in vulnerability, reciprocity, and collective practice.
In WALC the artists do not come to present “a product”, they do not come to put on a show or to show a finished work, outcomes of objectified art but they are involved with the people of the territories and with its walkers, to deploy a process of shared creation.
Walking with and as communities are made of groups of people who come together around a common goal or cause and who, together, walk towards transformation.”
We are part of WALC/WalkingTogether “Actions in the public space allows artists, with their cross-disciplinary tools and methods, to map our living world in an alternative way, engage in relation, forging significant links with community, making them active agents for change.
WAPC 2026 Below core team members.
Janice Jensen
co-curator WAP26, WAP23/25 participant Janice Jensen (*1994) is a visual artist from Germany. She is mostly engaged with drawing and painting but also works with media such as video and painting in virtual reality. Among other things, Janice considers herself a walking artist and combines walking and drawing using her self-designed drawing machine to document landscapes. She has participated in all WAP programs and is co -curator of WAP26
walkingwhiledrawing * Parnidis Dune>>> talking walking >>> Andrew Stuck is in Sweden at Björkö-Konstnod (BKN) in the northern Stockholm archipelago to join the Walking as Practice artist residency of which he is going to be part. Among the artists there was Janice Jensen from Germany, whose work Andrew has come across since Janice was shortlisted for the 2023 Marŝarto Award for Walking Art. Janice has just demonstrated a “Drawing by Walking” mechanism that she has created as the first step in an elaborate process to draw the walks she makes. Their conversation takes place on a walk along an unsealed road early on, on a July evening
Tricia Enns
WAP25 participant Tricia Enns (she/they) is a material and relational (walking) artist whose practice bridges low- and high-tech approaches to reimagine how we engage with public spaces and the layered stories they hold. Tricia holds a Master’s degree in Design and Computation Arts(Concordia University) where they currently teach part-time. Nomadic in spirit but currently rooted in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Tricia’s work emerges from attentive observation and a spirit of playful curiosity. Through performance, counter mapping, multimedia installations, and collaborative workshops, they explore how spaces, whether cities or human bodies, remember, resist, and resonate. In 2025, notably, their walking-art was shown at MUTEK (Tiohtià:ke), Articule (Tiohtià:ke), NYC Trash Collective (Brooklyn), CRiSP Research-Creation Residency (Tkaronto). They participated in WAP25 .
Enns is based out of Tiohtià:ke/Montreal (Quebec, Canada)
Walked Traces: Living with (_ _ _) >>> Tricia Enns in conversation with >>>
Jurate Girdvainis
WAP25 participant
Jurate Girdvainis is a painter who earned her Master’s degree in painting from the Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2020. During 2019-2020, she took part in the Erasmus exchange program at the Funen Art Academy. Her works are on everyday objects, repetition, memory. In 2025 she turns to work with text and recordings as part of her walking practice. “I walk and the stars fall, I think about time…” Listen >>>
Girdvainis is based out of Vilnius, Lithuania.
Nahelli Chavoya
WAP23/26 participant
Chavoya is a dancer and poet trained for more than 20 years in different dance styles. Her writing and dance practice have always been intimately connected. Chavoya use poetry to reflect on movement, and movement to pose questions about poetry and the poetic experience. Art practice entails performing dance/movement explorations, including somatic attuning, improvisations, action painting, walking and meditations in motion.
From Guadalajara, Mexico now living in Limerick, Ireland Walking driven project Granit Dreams >>>
Cliff Andrade
WAP23/24 participant Cliff Andrade’s practice is essentially concerned with returning to his childhood and understanding the circumstances of his upbringing and how these have affected his lived experience. From this personal experience of class, migration and disability, he speaks to universal issues of belonging, place, (split-)identity, social mobility and ableism. An exploration of the phenomenon of memory is also intrinsic to his work. Concept-driven, Cliff works across drawing, printmaking, photography and moving-image, combining mediums to convey the layering of themes and references present in his work. Desiring to ‘slow’, he oftens works with large format photography, printmaking and walking – processes which demand contemplation. His current walking practice is in the Baudelarian tradition of ‘a painter of modern life(s)’. However, the invisible role of Baudelaire’s flaneur is unavailable to him and he instead uses his lived experience to critique the privilege of that position. His research interest is in exploring walking as a form of meditative practice, and the visual outcomes which best convey this experience.
WAP26 participant Artist engageing with walking as inspiration for her collages, music and sculptures.
On a walk she picks up pebbles, chestnuts, leaves, blossoms which have attracted her attention as a visual artist. Later on, in her studio, all of these things will go into the making of works of art, sending out messages connected with global processes – like climate change, for example. She became a walking artist during her residency at BKN in 2020. She became a WAPC member in 2025
Furnadzieva is based out of Paris, France and is frequently in Stockholm, Sweden.
WAP23/24 praticipant Juanma González is a Spanish visual artist based in Murcia whose practice combines site-specific installation, walking, photography, performance, and interventions in the landscape. His research focuses on human movement—particularly walking and pilgrimage—as a method of knowledge and a form of artistic production, generating participatory situations in which body, territory, and community are interwoven. Initially trained in historical photographic techniques at Universidad Europea de Madrid (1999), he later studied Fine Arts at Universidad Complutense de Madrid and obtained his MFA from the Royal Institute of Art (KKH) in Stockholm in 2016, where he was based until 2025. He has continued his artistic research through programs such as Research_LAB (KKH, 2017), Sites and Situations (Konstfack, 2018), Site and Participant (University of the Arts Stockholm, 2020), and The Photographic Artist’s Book: Performing Sustainability (KKH, 2022).
Heather (Hey There) Kapplow is a self-trained conceptual artist based in the USA (Boston). Kapplow creates participatory experiences using installation, sound, objects, text, walking, engagement and other strategies to convert audiences into collaborators, and complex, hard-to-answer questions into tenderly co-held things, invested with transformative collective care. Participated in WAP23 and WAP25 April Edition.
John Schuerman is an environmental artist and independent curator. His artwork reflects his deep interest in nature both human and nonhuman. His aesthetic style and social consciousness formed as he grew up on a dairy farm in southern Wisconsin. His primary art practices are Walking and Drawing, which he uses to examine his community’s physical and psychic landscapes. As a curator he’s produced over 30 exhibitions across the Midwest on topics that address current concerns in our collective psyche. His curatorial projects engage viewers on today’s most pressing issues: empathy, human overpopulation, gun violence, money, time, nationalism, identity, conflict, environmentalism, and abuses of power. He presented on WAP at American Swedish Institute in Feb 2025.
Schuerman is based out of Minneapolis, Mn, USA
JOHN SCHUERMAN Walking as Artistic Practice: An Interview with John Schuerman >>> CURATOR OF “WALKING WITH PASSION” at SUPERMARKET ART FAIR, APRIL 2025 >>> ASI Presentation, Feb 2025 >>>
Anna Viola Hallberg
Participant and curator WAP23/24/25
Walking is an integral part of Hallbergs practice as an artist and curator visualizing or enacting possible futures relating to artistic research on care, proximity, and responsibility. 2023 WAP program website on Research Catalogue was Shortlist Marŝarto Awards. 2020-25 she was the head curator of BKN where WAP residency program was conceived and held from 2023. Hallberg prefers walks leading up to or along water. Liminal and attentive walking before distance. In 2020 Hallberg introduced walking as part of the introduction for artist arriving to BKN, as it nurtures friendship, care and responsibility . Hallberg has been curator of the WAP program since 2023 instigator of WAPC.
Anna Viola Hallberg is based out of Stockholm and Mariestad, Sweden
Walking Talking Pod Cast >>> RC WAP24, “Walk With Us” with invited walking artists for specific stretches >>>
ANNA VIOLA HALLBERG Walking Talking Pod Cast >>> RC WAP24, “Walk With Us” with invited walking artists for specific stretches >>>
We develop participatory walks, we make art works for exhibitions, we do presentations and works for web sharing.
WAP COALITION WALKS AN PRESENTATION OFF SITE initiatives develop between more than two of the WAP artist: – “Once”, walking score for columbarium 2025-26 >>> – Supermarket Art Fair in Stockholm we participated with three walks offers. April 2025 >>> – American Swedish Institute, MN, USA, Feb 2025 “Walking as Artform in Archipelago” >>> – The Unfold – A Tread of Scores, started in 2025-26 a relay of walking scores by artist handed over to other artist to perform (video of performance) >>> – Landscape You, 2025 April-May, London >>> – “Sculpture You”, London, 2024 – “Walk With Us”, Pilgrim walk, St Olaf Waterway/Viking Trail, Väddö 2024
WAP WALKS BJÖRKÖ The walks were publicly announced “Walking With Locals” its an essay film by Gerhard of the various iterations of what at the end became a project based on personal stories and turned in to an audio tack with black and white photographs (essay film) >>> “Fire Walk”, Björkö Locals and Lucid Dreams Artists/LA, Oct 2025 “Darkness Walk” WAP23-25 (canceled 25 due to very bad weather conditions), live torches walk to the quarry with campfire session (culture and eating) with WAP program – “Light House Walk”, WAP25, July Community walk with WAP program – Art Trail, QR based trail/exhibition during summer of 2025
During 2023-25 each artist in WAP Program at Björkö made their own exposition on research catalogue. The link below takes you to the index page for the individual expositions. Expositions by WAP artists 2023-25: Heather Kapplow, Aurike Quintelier, Juanma González, Benedicte Dahm, Dianne Reid, James Patrick Cunningham, Cecilia Hedlund, Bernardita Bennett, Marina Pugina, Cliff Andrade, Fernanda Branco, Anne Laure Vernet, Anna Mikuskova, Ami Skanberg, Gerhard Kowald, Alex Hawthorn, Jordan Rowe, Cecilia Lagerström, Nahelli Alejandra Chavoya Peña, Janice Jensen, Hayley Whelan, Antonia Aitken, Inga Manticas, Rebekah Dean, karin Brygger, Anna Viola Hallberg, Heather (HeyThere) Kapplow, Vincent Stangl, Freddie Maria Tetzlaff, Ming Ming, Shi Tou, Arba Bekteshi, Hazel Mei, Elisabeth, Billander, John Schuerman, Db Lampman, Annikki Wahlöö, Juarte Girdvainis, Tricia Enns, Toby Sheldon, Andrew Stuck, Anne Arndt.
WAP25 Waking As Passion – Embodied Thinking WAP24 Spaces of Anticipation WAP23 Attentative Walking
After three years on Björkö in the northern Stockholm archipelago, where the artists had their own studio WAP26 signals a deliberate methodological shift. The project abandons a stable geographic anchoring in favor of a nomadic mode of operation, positioning transience as both an epistemic method and a political condition. Traversing the landscape we will take turn leading walks influenced by one’s practice and the curatorial position of walking approached as a form of situated attention – an embodied way of encountering territory, history, and power under conditions of rupture and uncertainty. Participation is grounded in shared presence, contribution, and collective engagement facilitated by walking and talking together.
The WAP26 walks the Stockholm Archipelago in the imaginary footsteps of Peter Weiss, in tandem with Gloria Anzaldúa, Bing Song, Paola Bacchetta and Karen Barad. WAP26 frames walking towards political aesthetics, incorporating approaches of entanglement, proximity and becoming. Dissemination of the program will be held as a public event in Stockholm.
WAP26 welcomes walking artists from any discipline that can convey their practice in a nomadic state, share with co-walkers, communities and at the public dissemination in Stockholm.
Dates: August 9-16, 2026 (Preliminary, can change slightly) WALC artists August 2-18 Stockholm – outer archipelago – Stockholm. Due date application: @ May, Application form to go up in April. Walking Area: Stockholm Archipelago
The Stockholm Archipelago consist of, islets and skerries and covers approximately 1,700 km² of which approximately 530 km² is land. Municipality of Stockholm itself is situated on more than 10 islands.
WAP25 PROGRAM, BJÖRKÖ
WAP25
WAP25 program at BKN Björkö, Sweden
Curatorial Framework: Walking With Passion – Embodied Thinking Sister Forest (QR code based Art Trail) Dates: June 16 to July 7 (1, 2 or 3 weeks)
WAP25 program took place during the wide nights at BKN in the Northern Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden.
WAP 25 Supermarket where the theme was Passion. WAPC/WAP Coalition was formed for this event in April.
WAP25 Research Catalogue (link to be announced) with individual expositions per artist on “Walking With Passion – Embodied Thinking”
WAP(BKN) became an official node as part of Walking Arts and Local Communities (WALC) project >>>
Program at BKN Björkö, Sweden September-November Curatorial Framework: Atentative Walking
SHORTLISTED WAP23 on RC (fall of 2024) for The Marŝarto Awards recognize exceptional walking art.
WAP23 RC covers more than 25 international artists participating in the initial edition of the program Walking As Practice in Sweden. The theme for the explorations was “Attentive Walking”. Each artist made an exposition in Research Catalogue.
WAP23 in collaboration with ABF Norrtälje, several public walks and share sessions (September – November)
WAP was formed in April 2023 by Berg Duo as a program at AiR BKN/Björkö Konstnod, Sweden. An
Björkö Konstnod group exhibition Norrtälje Konst I Ån, curated by Anna Viola Hallberg. An outdoor exhibition along the river in Norrtälje, Sweden. Some of the works based in walking.
Venue for 2023 was BKN/Björkö Konstnod in Sweden
Berg Duo together with local organizations on Björkö, Sweden arranges Darkness Walk (live torches) to the quarry, Oct, 2023
With studio support from Region Stockholm. Public outreach with ABF Norrtälje.
WAPC are located in several places, on different continents, and we in urban, rurban and rural areas.
WAP is both a program where we every year do an open call for a walking art residency. Former participants who continue to engage as a fellow are referred to as.
WAPC/Walking As Practice Coalition, artists with an interest in traversing and transgressing through spaces and in this process rethinking and critiquing the social and ecological systems and structures we inhabit. WAPC engage walking as an art practice and as a methodology for critical creative inquiry. While in motion, each artist is examining ways to extend agency to others, place and the more-than human through acts of relational care and as a strategy for building togetherness. Starting in 2023 we are committed to do artist residencies focusing on walking this we call WAP Program.
WAPC have a deep interest in methodologies that support critical discourse around the structural constraints we as artists, activists, and diverse cultural and gendered bodies each face. By doing so, they present critiques of normative structures and propose to better distribute social agency, through acts of vulnerability and togetherness. WAPC have a deep interest in methodologies that support critical discourse around the structural constraints we as artists, activists, and diverse cultural and gendered bodies each face. By doing so, they present critiques of normative structures and propose to better distribute social agency, through acts of vulnerability and togetherness. The curatorial framework is designed to allow participating artists to influence its direction, leaning towards posthumanism and new materialism. This involves rethinking dualisms through a non-hierarchical approach. The first walkers met at Björkö (BKN) in The Northern Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden.
WAP is affiliated with BKN and if in need of an official organization it is Ideella föreningen Björkö Konstnod.
WAPC approaches art+walking, mostly our point of departure is walking with proximity at times with humor, at times way more serious.
