This walk is available for by passers at each bridge in the project. You also find them in the official program and access from the selected organization we have partnered with close to the bridges. You access a QR code and become part of a larger passing. You can send your suriashi walk to the project to share it with others. Once a week the hosting community will do a special walk that follows the format of the original. At each bridge you will access hidden stories from past and present and perhaps encounter with the future.

The first Suriashi Sanpo is led by Ami Skånberg dr of slow walking (Royal Holloway University, London) , who made her dissertation on Suriashi in public space. The video recordings by Anna Viola Hallberg are made following the format initiated in 2023.. The material will be made avaliable as mini exhibitions in a venue of the hosting community. Additionally it will be made available on website (official or unofficial of the Tokyo Biennale). We will also work towards having the slow Suriashi video intersect the rhythm of the city by screening on digital billboards. Skånberg has also been an understudy to her Sansei for over 20 years. The Classical Japanese step is interpreted and performed for urban and other space with emphasis on agency, gender and social norms. Bringing together people of vast backgrounds through a collective performance dedicated to specific bridges across the Kanda river.

This Walk welcomes everyone to join. But the call goes out to artist run initiatives and art collectives in Tokyo, Idaho ni Sanpo/Walking Together along Kanda River. The walk will generate a trail for others to walk. Not only to follow the river but to take part in the interventions of the original walk. It will be available on a website as a trail to discover and to to experience the various artistic formats.

BERG DUO has preselected specific communities by the bridges to be the hosting community of “their” bride. In a preset format they will host weekly Suriashi Sanpo. They will also be partner as we join a meal together post Suriashi Sanpo. The select communitie(s) by each bridge will continue to gather people walking together through out the duration of the Tokyo Biennial. During the time prior to the opening the WAP C/ the team around BERG DUO will both develop the exhibition design and do extended research in archives and other records on histories and people in relation to sites around the 6-9 bridges. The community will bring on local stories and also on their local map point out additional connecting walks and highlight art and cultural history along that detour.

Walking is an activity, a meditation, a state of being as it is shared with others we gain knowledges about the specific places, about ourselves and encounter new perspectives and friendships. Our proposal is based in actual walks – Walking as Art Form we engage closely with select communities and general public as we “Issho ni Sanpo” across and along The Kanda River. It is deep philosophy and fun embodied activities together. The river stands as a metaphor for society. Tributaries make the river come alive. A Deep Dive into the Social fabric of Tokyo, where the general public can not only make walks them selfs but also take part of discursive and story based material in physical spaces and on line and potentially also on digital billboards. All walks can be reworked in groups or as individuals. This is done through access points and public walks