walk by
Anna Viola Hallberg
once whispered the loss of two
Situated within a fluid temporality, the work engages with atmospheric subtlety and spatial perception articulating a meditative inquiry into embodiment, liminality, and the thresholds of the unspoken. Originating from the Dark Envelopes Edition; “The Sound of Humidity Drops into Water” (2025) and it is positioned in relation to experiences of personal loss and the abstraction of world order. A thought-
image wherein affect is rendered as atmospheric presence. Anna Viola Hallberg
The walking artist will conduct the walk as a performance ritual with invited co-walkers January – February 2026
Gustaf Vasa Church Columbarium One of the largest indoor columbaria in Europe. Svenska kyrkan +1 Located under Gustaf Vasa Church, at Västmannagatan 58. Svenska kyrkan Around 7,660 niches. Svenska kyrkan Includes a “Little Church” used for smaller services, funerals, and concerts. Svenska kyrkan Decorated with art: for example by Olle Hjortzberg, Sven “X-et” Eriksson, Einar Forseth, Carl Milles, and others.
Date: TBA
Svenska kyrkan S:t Görans Church Columbarium Located under S:t Görans kyrka in central Stockholm. Svenska kyrkan Has approximately 4,550 niches, with capacity for ~10,000 urns. Svenska kyrkan Built in multiple rooms across two levels, with corridors of polished marble. Svenska kyrkan There is a small chapel / farewell room behind a glass wall for final goodbyes.
Date: TBA
Svenska kyrkan Högalid Church Columbarium Högalidskyrkan (on Södermalm) has a columbarium added in 1939. Part of a culturally protected church, designed by Ivar Tengbom.
Date: TBA
Engelbrekt Church Columbarium Under Engelbrektskyrkan, there is a columbarium built in rock / bedrock under the church. Designed by Åke Tengelin, inaugurated in 1961.
Date: TBA
If you walk another columbarium please send audio recording and snapshot to:
wapc @ walkingaspractice.ortg (remove gaps around @)
Pre Walk
– Read the instruction part of the score prior to starting, not the text in the white box. Save that for the actual walk.
– Your body becomes the mediator between inner consciousness, the outer landscape, and people who entered the other side.
The Walk
Do not interact with anyone you might encounter.
1. Locate you columbarium
2. Position your self in the space
3. Start walking slowly in any direction
4. Stop as you find suitable
5. As you are standing still read/whisper a paragraph in the white section of this page, start from the top, each stop a new segment is read.
6. Repeat 3-6 until you reach the end of the text.
7. Call out the name of a dear one that has passed.
Post walk
– Share your experience over a beverage with someone.
