WAP = WALKING AS PRACTICE C=COLLECTIVE/CONSORTIUM/COHORT/COALITION Walking with proximity exploring the Boundaries of Art and Walking, in the times between the programs/residencies. WAP23-26 carried out in Stockholm Region, Sweden. If calls are available they are listed on main page >>>
WAPC 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.
WAPC approaches art+walking, mostly our point of departure is walking with proximity at times with humor, at times way more serious.
Janice Jensen (de)
WAP26 – Co-curator WAP23,24, 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 and as such group leader for WAPC.
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.
Hey There Kapplow (us)
WAP23 and WAP25 April Edition – Participant 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.
WAP23, 24 – Participant WAP25 – Guest presenter Cliff studied BA Communication Design at the prestigious Glasgow School of Art, graduating first class with honours, before studying for a Masters in Print at the Royal College of Art, where he was the Tony Snowdon Scholar for 2018-2020. He also holds a BSc (Hons) in Economics and Politics from the University of Bristol. He is a previous winner of the Jill Todd Photo Award, and has been a finalist for both the Association of Photographers Award and the Aesthetica Art Prize. He has exhibited work at a variety of galleries including the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, Streetlevel Photoworks in Glasgow, Southwark Park Galleries in London and Spike Island in Bristol. His practice is multi-disciplinary, taking in drawing, printmaking, photography, film and installation.
Participant WAP23/25 Juanma González is a Spanish visual artist working as Lecturer in the Arts 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).
González is based in Spain. Saint Olav Waterway, Pilgrimage Trail >>>
John Schuerman (us)
WAP24 co-curator, participant WAP25 co-curator, April edition John Schuerman is a self-taught 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. Schuerman is an environmental, and documentary artist, exploring the physical, social, and psychic landscapes through drawing, video, photography, and walking-based art forms. His artwork has been presented in numerous exhibitions locally and nationally.
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. Humans are the most successful animal if measured by the ability to control one’s environment, or extend lifespan, or the ability to adapt or invent. We have been so successful that it sometimes feels like we are something different all together, maybe an anomaly, maybe a higher power. We make things that look like nothing else we see in nature. We think up stuff that doesn’t exist (fiction) and perhaps most puzzling, things that can’t exist (a perfect square, a Mobius strip). Our physicality and mortality bring us back; they prove to us that we are natural beings. However, we can avoid thinking about this most of the time and remain in our perceived separation and buffered experience of nature, an illusion upon which we depend.
Have we gone too far? Not far enough? Almost certainly some of both.
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 >>>
Tricia Enns (ca)
WAP24 participant
ricia Enns (she/they) is a walking, participatory, and materially engaged artist and designer currently based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. She uses counter maps, scores, instructional zines, and multimedia to explore the intersection between self, place, and others (both humans, and non-humans). Enns’ practice historically engaged with debris, found while walking, often with others, and paper-making to create what they coin “debris maps”, a type of fragile counter maps that focuses on the situated discarded materials to pose curiosity around the stories not being told. Enns has led workshops and delivered debris map performances at artch Festival (2024; Montreal), World Congress of Pyschogeography (2024; Canterbury), University of Bath (2024; Bath), HASTAC (2023; NYC), and POP Montreal (2023; Montreal), to name a few. Recently, following 5 years of continuing to negotiate with chronic nerve pain, Enns has become interested in the intersection between care, walking, community, and place, as evident through their work titled “Walking to the Dock” which explores the ritual of walking during challenging times, and most recently the project “Walked Traces: Living with (___)” which Enns had the opportunity to recently develop during a two month residency with Ada X, a multimedia feminist artist run center (2025; Montreal).
Focus:
During her time at WAP25/BKN, Enns will be exploring what she called “healing walks”, walks that are embarked on for the internal effects of alleviating physical pain, calming the mind, etc. On these walks Enns will pay close attention to the intersection between the internal and external world, exploring how one documents and tracks a walk when the linear structures of the city are stripped away and we must trust the trees, water, soil, animals and our footprints to communicate not only where we are going, but what we need. This will be an extension of “Walked Traces: Living with (___)”, a project that uses documentation from walks to create a zine, videos, and audio pieces that explore chronic pain, resilience, community and care. There may also be an opportunity to try to follow walked traces, created in Waterloo, Ontario (a city), in Norrtälje with curiosity and see where they take me (us). I look forward to inviting others into this exploration as we find our footsteps through challenging times, where will the trees, water, creatures take us?
WAP26 – co curator WAP23/24/25 – Participant and curator
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 2020-2025 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 and in instigator of WAPC 2025.
Co-Curators WAP26 – Janice Jensen (de) WAP 24 June Edition – John Schuerman (us) WAP 24 September Edition – Antonia Aitken (au) WAP23, 24 and 25 April Edition – Ami Skånberg (se)
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 >>>
