WAP24 by WAP

WAP24/WALKING AS PRACTIVE Exposition developed by individual artists with in the framework of WAP24. JUNE EDITION: John Schuerman, co-curator/lead walker SEPTEMBER EDITION: Antonia Aitken, co-curator/lead walker The walking scene in Sweden is in the forming or resurfacing. The purpose with this process-based program is to invite (inter)national artists to further this development together with a core-group connected to Björkö Konstnod/BKN. WAP methodology of fieldworks and share sessions are carried out to locate and entangle structures, narratives and forces via the intersection of the arts and walking. The curatorial framework opens up for participating artists to influence the direction and leaned towards new materialism, ie rethinking dualisms through a non-hierarchal approach. Reviewing the development (share sessions, walks, and work made available to public), ”Spaces of Anticipation” is the theme for WAP24. We also foresee that after WAP24 the platform could continue to focus on aspects of artistic research at the cusp of walking and the arts. In 2023 the focus was on "Attentive Walking"

DEREK OLIVER

Night Walkers

Acrylic on XX

(2024)

XX x XX cm

Im a Scottish born painter and writer currently living and working in Stockholm. I create paintings from things I have seen fleetingly, arbitrarily; from a memory, or very clearly in a dream; scenes I have passed in a car, bus or train; images that passed so quickly that I couldn’t make sense of immediately but had to reconstruct and re-imagine the often irrational image. I am repeatedly drawn to the edges of a town and the edges of a forest; interested in how our absurd species interacts with this ‘boundary’.
I work mostly with acrylic paint on reclaimed hardback book covers but occasionally and joyfully on canvases that people have no use for any more. I was a guest walker for two weeks with WAP24.

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