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WAP25 ARTISTS
WAP25 unpacks “Walking as Passion and Embodied Thinking“. The site is the Northern Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden. Below the artists selected for this year’s iteration of the program “Walking As Practice“. Some artists stay for one week others for two or three weeks. In addition we have guest walkers. On Saturdays we do public walks.
WAP – exploring and sharing strategies on proximity through artistic expressions in the field of walking practices through the configuration of a transformative, dynamic space for art, engaging with life and nature. Critical and poetic explorations, influenced by the immediate surroundings where the forest meets the sea – wayfinding in The Northern Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden. Each artist made their individual exposition.
WAP25 ARTISTS WALKING ON BJÖRKÖ, SWEDEN:
DB LAMPMAN
DB Lampman is a multidisciplinary artist and also an avid open water swimmer and trail runner/hiker. Her recent projects include a series of performance and video work that explore the connection between bodies: human, land, and water.
Studio: 1 Dates: June 15 – June 30, 2025
https://www.dblampman.nyc
DB currently resides in NYC but grew up on the US/Mexico border. She received her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts.
She is a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant recipient and a Mertz-Gilmore Foundation Dance Research Fellow and exhibits her work in both formal and informal (outdoor) settings.
She is looking forward to exploring the interconnected movement of bodies of (water, land, humans) during her time in this program, working to create a movement based piece that involves moving in and out of water, rising and falling like the tide.
TRICIA ENNS
Tricia Enns has a Master’s in Design + Computational Arts (Faculty of Arts) I have guest presented, taught, and assisted in teaching several courses within various departments primarily at Concordia University.
Studio: 3 Dates: June 24 – July 7, 2025
https://triciaenns.com
Audio-walk as part of Tricia Enns’ research into how the hidden narratives of our relationship with the materiality of public space, specifically those orbiting the Saint Laurent Metro Station in Montreal, can be uncovered through walking and help to re-design these spaces. https://soundcloud.com/user-68166499/narratives-of-saint-laurent-metro-audio-walk
Her practice primarily incorporates paper making, illustration, mapping, zine making, performance art and more. Often, it also incorporates debris, garbage, electronics, audio-walks, soundscapes, and video production. In her practice she often collaborate with others in duo constellations or collective formats.
Five of the six members of [per]mission to Play having fun on some railings after facilitating a de-tour as part of the Fringe Arts Bath Festival (2022). Photo credit: Lou Abercombie. She has made walks in Montreal, Bath (2022), Cardiff (2024), Canterbury (2024), and Edinburgh and other sites
ANDREW STUCK
Andrew Stuck is a podcaster, interviewing creative people who use walking as a catalyst for their practice.
Studio: 1 Dates: June 30 – July 7, 2025.
Andrew is part of several networks and knowledge sharing web based platforms. He fosters collaborative and participatory workshops with artists working in all media. His interest is in encouraging people to (re)ignite their creativity. He uses simple analogue tools: paper folding, poetry, sketching and water color.
Walking Arts & Local Community (WALC) has two main topics: Walking Art practices and Community-based art
WALC project’s general objective is to establish an international Center for Artistic Research and Practice of Walking Art, with a central HUB in Prespa (Greece), and with related HUBs in the regions of the project partners, but also stretching out to external collaboration with NODES in other European countries
https://www.walctogether.eu
walk · listen · create is a key member of the part-EU funded Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC) network that aims to expand community-based walking art practices from Greece’s Prespa region to a global audience through an ongoing outdoor art project with both physical and digital spaces. Andrew is the coordinator of WALC Nodes and WALC online Cafés.
https://walklistencreate.org
JŪRATĖ GIRDVAINIS
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.
Studio: 28 Dates: June 24 – July 7, 2025
https://artvilnius.com/artist/jurate-girdvainis/
Jurate’s Girdvaini’s art explores her reflections on the fast-paced, overcrowded contemporary world, where she herself seeks moments of peace and quiet. While she stays attuned to contemporary culture, the impact of social media, and consumerism, her work deliberately steps back from this chaos, offering a space of calm and contemplation.
(The portrait photo is cropped)
With a focus on drawing and writing poetry, exploring time and ephemerality. My artistic practice thrives in spaces of introspection and slowness, making this residency an ideal place to deepen my creative process.
A central technique in Jurate’s Girdvaini’s work is the repetition and reinterpretation of the same image. By redrawing or reimagining the same objects multiple times, she uncovers new layers of meaning. Her works use imagery as a therapeutic tool, encouraging the viewer to be fully present in the moment
ANNE ARNDT
Anne Arndt grew up in East Germany during the socialist and post-socialist eras. She graduated in Media and Fine Arts from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (DE) and earned an MFA in Artistic Research at the Royal Academy of Art The Hague (NL). Since 2022, Anne has been a member of the Walking Artists Network.
Studio: 3 Dates: June 15 – June 23, 2025
https://annearndt.de
Anne Arndt considers herself an artist, an architecture and urban researcher, as well as a future archaeologist. Her practice generally revolves around human-modified landscapes, identity, memory, and trauma. Arndt uses Walking as a research method and as an artistic practice. Currently, she works on time travel walks and reinventing folk rituals, searching for architectural witnesses and material kniship.
Her installative, multimedia, and participatory works critically and humorously scrutinise our public living spaces as mirrors of social power structures. They take an interdisciplinary approach and respond to site-specific conditions. (In her works, Arndt emphasises a diverse selection of media and techniques.
The medium is reflected and determined by the research topic and the working method of the respective project. Using the female gaze, feminist subjectivity, and the power of the collective.)
Pictures: Stills from Mokoshfest 2023; a reinvented GDR ritual called Neptuntaufe (Neptun baptism).
KRISTINA SWENSON
Dr Kristina Swenson is an author and has been a teacher for many years. She started out her own university studies with biology and then moved to bible studies and earned a tenure from Virginia Commonwealth University and resigned. Today she is also a fiction writer.
Studio: 5
Dates: June 30 – July 7, 2025
https://kristinswenson.com
Kristina Swenson, Ph.D., author of “God of Earth: Discovering a Radically Ecological Christianity. She elaborates on text, visual arts and walking.
She taught religious studies for nearly fifteen years at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, where she earned tenure.
Walking is embedded in life and work to the extent that it is at times not even thought of. Womens march, walking in the Bible and daily life.
LARESSA DICKEY
Laressa Dickey is a dance artist, writer, and bodyworker based in Stockholm whose recent projects explore the politics of care, the effects of state violence on the human body, and space junk. Her work spans disciplines and modalities.
Studio: 2
Dates: June 30 – July 7, 2025
https://www.laressadickey.com
Laressas work as a teacher in both writing and movement practices. WAP25 is her first program where walking is at focus. She published several books.
She is longtime student of somatic practices and research, her artistic research has been supported by the Kone Foundation; she researches the dancer’s use of language and the writer’s use to/for dance.
She’s a member of the performative collaboration MISLEADING SUBJECTS and teaches occasionally at Stockholm University of the Arts.
ANNIKKI WAHLÖÖ
Annikki Wahlöö is a performer, actress and scriptwriter. She is also collaborating with Danish theatre Fluks developing a performative walk. She is a part of the artistic research within NSU – Nordic Summer Unversity.
Studio: 2
Dates: June 15 – June 30, 2025.
Annikki Walhlöö is educated at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute, NewYork, Malmö Theatre Academy, UniArts in Stockholm, SITI company in Saratoga Springs New York. She completed her MFA in theatre at the Academy of Music and Drama, Gothenburg University.
She is part of “Tiny Festival Producers “ a nomadic performing arts collective based in Gothenburg, Sweden. She works with stage performance, film and public space. Walking has always been embedded in her practice.
Annikki is currently working in theatre and performance projects that are sites specific and with intimate physical concepts so called human specific performance. She is a part of the Tiny festival Producers based in Gothenburg developing community based performances.
JANICE JENSEN
Janice Jensen 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.
Studio: 22
Dates: June 30 – July 7, 2025
http://www.janice-jensen.de
Janice graduated from Bielefeld university of applied Arts in digital, media and experiment in 2022 and also studied painting at Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2021
https://walklistencreate.org/2024/01/30/depending-on-how-you-look-at-it/
In 2019 she was one of the founding members of the feminist Naturtrüb collective and Magazine, which brings together female artists and researcher to release their work in a Magazine dedicated to different topics
Janice Jensen has also been participating in several artist residency programs in Sweden, Spain, Lithuania and Cyprus and exhibited her work in various places throughout Germany including Hamburg and Berlin
GUEST WALKERS
GUEST WALKER
June 15 – June 17 Zoey Hart (us)
Zoey Hart is a New York based interdisciplinary artist working between themes of disability, landscape and what is means to be well in an ailing world. From the context of living and travelling with chronic illness, Hart’s work comines experiential practice with site-specific research, always asking: what does it mean to be well here? Combining traditional and experimental media, Hart visualizes the web of interconnections and disconnects between the systemic functions of our bodies and the spaces we inhabit.
https://zoeyahart.com
COMMUNITY OF BJÖRKÖ
Day visitors, ie people living on Björkö or artist from Region Stockholm. Among those members of two organizations on the island. Björkö-Arholma Hembygdsförening (cultural heritage) and Medborgarhuset (community center) together we walk the old light house keeper trail on July5.
https://bygdegardarna.se/bjorkoarholma/om-bygdegarden/
https://bjorkoarholma.se
GUEST WALKER
June 20-July 7
Marina Pugina is an independent curator and researcher. She curates the summer exhibition at BKN.
More information tba.
GUEST WALKERS
June 16 or 17
20 guest walkers will join “A Pilgrimage to the Unbroken Horizon”
The group is a collaboration between the Department of Visual and Performing Arts and the College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Sustainability in Sweden is an immersive, interdisciplinary program connecting forest health, art, climate change, and community engagement. Environmental stewardship and interdisciplinary field experience are the core of this program. Sustainability in Sweden is part of Sister Forests—an ongoing environmental arts project that links the forests of Björkö, Sweden, with those of Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, fostering a deep sense of community and global responsibility.
Molly A. Cavaleri https://www.mtu.edu/forest/about/faculty-staff/faculty/cavaleri/index.html
Tara L. Bal https://www.mtu.edu/forest/about/faculty-staff/faculty/bal/index.html
Lisa Gordillio https://www.mtu.edu/vpa/department/faculty/gordillo/
You can follow the blog of the program:
https://blogs.mtu.edu/sustainability-sweden/
Below: Lisa Gordillio, Tara L Bal and Molly A. Cavelleri at Stortorget in Stockholm.
GUEST WALKER
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GUEST WALKER
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LOOKING FORWARD TO WALK WITH YOU
WAP25 hosted by the art node BKN in the Northern Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden.
WAP25 is the third year of working with walking as an artistic practice at the art node BKN in Northern Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden. This year BKN turns five and community walking will take place every week during the program. WAP25 is a two fold, in April 2025 three former participants who are members of the WAP Collective lead walks at Supermarket Art Fair in Stockholm. The theme for the art fair was “Passion”.
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WAP25 is supported by Region Stockholm, Norrtälje Municipality and Roslagens Sparbank.
Address:
WAP25/BKN/ Björkö Konstnod
Simpnäsvägen 739, 764 53 Björkö, Sweden
bjorkokonstnod.se/bkn walkingaspractice.org/wap25
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