BERG DUO

The joint focus is through artistic research and on walking as artform/walking as practice in addition to the lens and embodied practice at the cusp of screendance, video essays and video installations.

Hashigkari

The suriashi project over bridges has been turned in to a growing video installation with the title Embodying Hashigkari – immanent Encounters with Bridges. 2023 and is ongoing >>>
Photo: Berg Duo 2024 Japan. Testing an installation site.

Below: Walking over the Faktori Bridge in Norrtälje as part of the Exhibition Trickle, Norrtälje Sweden. The walk took 12 min below is a short version. For the installation the sound is the same as the video below.
Bridges has been crossed as public events in Sweden, Germany, Italy and Japan.

Centennial

August 1st 2024, at 5 pm (Rome time) six artists in three countries made an artistic intervention The Centennial Walk to manifest the fact that it was exactly 100 years ago since the Surrealists began their walks for disorienting the urban space and walking without itinerary. They often began their walk while drinking champagne >>>
Photo: Working Group Un Madness.
Centennial Walk, Rome.

Score

Sculpture You is an act of becoming, an ongoing process of altering your senses and to reflect upon the attention, respect and care you invest while walking the sculpture trail.

Score performed by Laura Morton Griffiths and Rebekah Dean.
Dates: 1st – 9th September, 2024 Stevens House and Gardens >>>
Videostill: Berg Duo
Orange Gardens Rome as Berg Duo made an instruction film for the performing artists.

Score

A Thread of Scores/The Unfold is based on the concept of walking scores. It’s a relay based format derived from the Score Sculpture You. This initiativ started as an act of friendship, handing over a walking score or performative act to someone else. 

Buoyancy

Current (2023) is the first sequence of Buoyancy . They are layers of time through dance improvisation – in between reality and fiction – performed as a rituals or resistance – a visual journey of ancestral life and biopolitics. The second part Afloat is from among other sites walking the Kumano Kodo as experimental pilgrimage. It is set to be released 205/26. In the fall of 2025 we start the last part of the trilogy. >>>
Videostill from Current: Berg Duo

Ami Skånberg and Anna Viola Hallberg form Berg Duo. Their joint focus is on artistic research, particularly exploring walking as an art form and practice, alongside lens-based and embodied works at the intersection of screendance, video essays, and video installations. Recurring critical inquiries in their work include proximity, movement, and space. Becoming is central to their artistic research process, which engages with themes of care, proximity, and responsibility. They work at the intersection of walking, lens-based and embodied art practices, and theoretical inquiry. Berg Duo – Ami Skånberg and Anna Viola Hallberg – are based in Stockholm and Gothenburg, Sweden, with a Fellowship studio at Björkö through BKN.

PUBLICATIONS
Walking Is Also Space – Walking Beyond Distance, is coming out in a Onebywalking publication 2025 on Lexington/Rowan & Littlefield in the Environment and Society.

For several projects they facilitated the exposition format of Research Catalogue.

Dr Ami Skånberg, Suriashi as Experimental Pilgrimage in Urban and Other Spaces, PhD thesis March, 2022 >>>

CURATORIAL WORK

WAP25: Walking With Passion
WAP24: Spaces of Anticipation
WAP23: Attentative Walking
Location: WAP23-25 BKN, Björkö in the Northern Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden.
WAP PROGRAMS WALKS WITH PROXIMITY


Ami Skånberg
is the head of MADE program at UniArts. >>>

Anna Viola Hallberg is the instigator and curator of BKN an art node in Northern Stockholm Archipelago. >>>

BERG DUO

They are based in Stockholm/Gothenburg/Björkö, Sweden. Portfolio/Research Catalogue
Photo: Berg Duo

Contact:
wapc (@) walkingaspractice.org
Video below: Experimental Pilgrimage: Suriashi Lead Artist Ami Skånberg, May 21, 2024 as part of “Walk With Us” on Viking Trail/Saint Olav Waterway, Roslagen Sweden WAP24

Passion

BERG DUO co-curators of Walking With Passion. The walkers at Supermarket are part of WAPC/Walking As Practice Collective >>>

Publication

For One By Walking they wrote the chapter Walking Is Also Space – Walking Beyond distance.  Lexington/Rowan & Littlefield in the Environment and Society series. 2025. Photo: Gerhard Kowler.

Above: Suriashi during Walk With Us, May, 2024
Below: Performative Walk: Tokyo-Istanbul, Ami Skånberg and Canan Yücel Pekiçten at Supermarket 25, Stockholm, Sweden

WAP

WAP program on walking as art form instigated and curated by Berg Duo. Below are the Research Catalogue Expositions for each year and the thematic focus. In addition they formed WAP Collective (WAPC)
WAP25: Walking With Passion
WAP24: Spaces of Anticipation
WAP23 RC: Attentive Walking
Venue: BKN Björkö Konstnod
Link to project page >>>
Link to WAPC >>>
Photo: Berg Duo
From WAP23 Björkö, Sweden

Unmadness

Berg Duo presented Unmadness (performance/video screening/ discussion) as part of the working group presenting under the title Black-Market Truths: Performative Wisdom in Passion, Grief and Madness, at World Congress of Philosophy in Rome Aug 1-8 2024 >>>
Photo: Working Group.
From presentation at WCP, Rome .

Walk-shop

Walking is Also Space, Korpoström in Finland April 2023

A walk-shop with walkers and observers. The workshop accentuates relational strategies of creating and sharing space. Methodologies in artistic practices are unfolded in order to raise awareness on disregarded or unfamiliar spaces. The workshop emerges from choreographer Molissa Fenley’s postmodern ideas about space, and about movement memories that are buried in our bodies. It is an elaboration of space reflecting the mix of geographical environments that constitutes spatial memory. We also lean towards sociologist Doreen Massey’s important claim that spaces are never static; they transform as we move with and through them. Thus, walking is also space. For One by Walking Network 2023.


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