Walking As Practice WAP23 by WAP

WALKING AS PRACTICE WAP23 was a process-based residency during September-November 2023, where artists using walking as a method delved into each others’ knowledges and things they encountered together at BKN, the Northern Stockholm Archipelago in Sweden. Fieldworks, share sessions and seminars were created jointly to locate and entangle structures, narratives and themes for walking. The residency formed a transformative, dynamic space for art that engaged with life and nature towards critical and poetic explorations, influenced by the immediate surroundings: the forest, lakes, sea and people living in the rural area. Processing how walking is interlocked in our artistic practices, this exposition represents a gathering of texts, visuals and audio from the walking art residency. The selected artists contributed with interdisciplinary practices, primarily drawing, photography, video, performance and dance. They worked both individually, in spontaneous constellations and in group sessions. The dissemination of the program took place in share sessions upon arrival of new artists - including dinners, open studios, walks, workshops etc. In addition, as the program unfolded, each artist developed their own exposition.

SHORT BIO

Fernanda Branco is a Brazilian performer, gardener and poet based in Norway. Working in the performance field, crossing boundaries between theatre, dance, film, and installation, facts, fiction and poetry. Currently a research fellow at Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo, exploring embodied experiences of movement and voice in dialog with environments.

My walking practice relates to both natural and urban environments base on idea the that a day has potentially a gift to us.

The walk is a practice of being attentive to what comes to us during a walk, being then translated into a poetic text.

A preview practice consists of going for a walk every day for one year, taking a picture and writing a poem. All poems end with the place, forecast (weather, temperate, wind).

PROPOSED WORK

At AiR BKN residency I would like to develop this practice into a short film, with a collage of short daily images, now also collecting the environment’s sound together with a voice over from daily writing and forecast.

An ongoing practice of walking backwards will also be integrated into this project. My interested is by having images going backwards and how the practice of walking backwards influences how I think and write (by spoken words).

The walking backwards makes a dialog with the Aymara’s people cosmologies from Andean highlands of Peru where we walk backwards towards the future. When walking backwards, we can see the present and past – in front of us - while the future is unknown - in our back, where we go towards it.

Studio: 15

Oct 2-9

becoming dragonfly presented in Supermarket 2024, Stockholm Sweden

FERNANDA BRANCO

becoming a dragonfly

film by Fernanda Branco

Reference:

The insane biology of dragonfly. Real Science. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJi61NAIsjs&ab_channel=RealScience.

Accessed 7th Ocober 2023.

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