WAP = WALKING AS PRACTICE C=COHORT/COALITION/COLLECTIVE/CONSORTIUM/
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. Open Calls 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.
Cliff Andrade (uk)
WAP23, 24 – Participant WAP25 – Guest presenter
Cliff Andrade studied at the Glasgow School of Art before studying MA Print at the Royal College of Art, where he was the Tony Snowdon Scholar for 2018-2020.
A previous winner of the Jill Todd Photo Award, he has exhibited work at a variety of galleries including ArtHouse Jersey, St Helier (2022); RWA, Bristol (2020); Southwark Park Galleries (2020), and; Streetlevel Photoworks (Glasgow 2014). Cliff’s work draws on personal and social histories, referencing migrant experiences. He works within a diverse and dynamic range of media, taking in drawing, printmaking, photography, film and installation, with a rigorous commitment to research which allows him to weave many sources and references into his work.
While his work is rooted in personal experiences, his practice reaches out touching broad and universal concerns such as a desire for belonging and connection to place. Cliff’s current research explores his themes through ‘walking as art practice’. His audio essay, Bristoler Chronik, developed with Bricks Bristol, explores his approach to walking and the ideas it allows him to explore (available on Apple Podcasts.)
Cliff is a Tutor and Lecturer at Bristol School of Art and Cardiff School of Art.
A walk to a place long forgotten becomes the basis for a rumination on memory, place, and the creation of personal identities. Cliff Andrade’s internalized audio adventure into the unique mental state entered into when walking. BRICKS PODCAST – Artists & Communities >>>
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.
Silvina Sisterna (Ie/Ar)
WAP26 Participant
Silvina Sisterna is a visual artist based in Ireland whose practice explores walking as a way of thinking, connecting and making. Working through community-based and experimental processes, she uses walking to explore migration, memory, place and relationships between people and environments. Her practice brings together collective walks, conversation, photography, cyanotype, sound and other forms of situated experimentation, creating spaces for shared inquiry and encounters. For Silvina, walking is both a methodology and a way of being with others, an open-ended process through which knowledge, stories and new forms of connection can emerge. She holds an MA in Fine Art from TU Dublin (2022).
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.
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.
Nahelli Chavoya is a dance artist and a poet from Mexico, currently pursuing a PhD in Arts Practice at University of Limerick, Ireland. Her PhD inquiry is on the poetry of movement of her own practice as an Irish step dancer, walking artist, and poet. Her creative inquiry processes revolve around stillness, sensation, imagination, and improvisation, focusing on the entanglement of poetry, movement, and landscape.
Chavoya is from Guadalajara, Mexico. Based in Limerick, Ireland.
Walking driven project Granit Dreams >>>
Tricia Enns (ca)
WAP24 participant
Tricia 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 ” 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).
During her time at WAP25/BKN, Enns explored 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 paid 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. It was 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.
Publication: Walking and Leisure, Routled, 2026 >>> Chapter: Storying a Place through Walking and Alternative Map Making with Others
Zoey A Heart (us)
WAP25 – Participant Zoey A. Hart, she is a New York–based interdisciplinary artist and cultural educator whose work combines walking, disability studies, ecology, and socially engaged art. Her contribution centered on the relationship between disability, landscape, and wellbeing. Her projects often involve investigating accessibility and disability through embodied experience. Examining questions such as, “What does it mean to be well in a particular place?” especially from the perspective of living with chronic illness.
Artist website >>> Waterfront Mapping Access >>> Projects in Stockholm Archipelago: The Seathat SurroundsUs >>> Radical Softness >>>
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.
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. 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. 2020-25 she was the head curator of BKN where WAP residency program was conceived and held from 2023.
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
WALC CAFE, Aug 13, 2026 >>> Walking Talking Pod Cast >>> RC WAP24, “Walk With Us” with invited walking artists for specific stretches >>>
Publication: Chapter 8. Walking Is Also Space: Walking Beyond Distance Ami Skånberg and Anna Viola Hallberg, One by Walking – Transdisciplinary Mobilities and Methodologies, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2026
WAP26 Nomadic Program in Stockholm Archipelago >>>
