Self guided walk

We walk slowly to increase our awareness of space and of each other. A sensitive and slow pace is created collaboratively when we slowly walk over the bridge together, and with our ancestors.

What happens with you, the space, and the city when we change our rhythm and pace, entering the slow walking piece?


Instruction video  (to be added)

Session with Berg Duo

Ami Skånberg introduces the group to the concept of the Suriashi Walk. This is both a guide to how to walk and the concept of combining sharing space with your ancestor (or other select important human/more than human co-walker) in addition to the group gathered. Anna Viola Hallberg records the walk and a new video for Embodying Hashigakari - Immanent Encounters with Bridges is created.

 


Post walk Ami Skånberg does a sharing session of the experience.

EMBODYING HASHIGAKARI

IMMANENT ENCOUNTERS WITH BRIDGES

by BERG DUO

Collective walks becoming a video installation 

Video: Suriashi for Kahoku/Ishikawa Nishida Kitaro (full duration) 


 

Video: Suriashi for Norrtälje (sample duration, full duration 12 min)

 

Video: Suriashi for Bonn (full duration) 


 

Starting in 2023 and going on through 2024 Berg Duo makes a series of collective walks over bridges. It is considered both an intervention in urban or other spaces and experimental pilgrimage.


The series started out with public calls for participation whereas some has been for special groups or with select individuals. The first itteration was duing an out door exhibition in Norrtälje, Sweden.


The perspective of documentation was always a low or superlow angle with the walkers approaching. 


The spatial sound is the same for all videos, only the duration of the sound adjusted for the specific walk (play Suriashi for Norrtälje for example)


The video installation is preferibly made so the viewer from one point can see the separate videos, with participants walking towards the center location. The installation is site specific and variation adapting to the physical conditions of the space where it is installed. The installation can be combined with other works by Berg Duo.


As of August 2024 the installation consists of 8 videos, duration between 3 and 12 min. The videos has no introductory text or end text and are played in 8 separeate loops.


 

Suriashi, is a Japanese walking practice, that translates as sliding foot. Suriashi is a specific gender codified walking technique in classical Japanese dance and theatre, and an important method for acting on stage. Gender is constructed physically through the positioning and molding of the body. The original practice is performed in the dance studio or on stage. Ami Skånberg asks whether suriashi also could be a method to act, as being active, or to activate, and temporally alter spaces outside the theatre; i.e. the practical application of this artistic practice outside the theatrical context. This relocation brings a traditional form into new configurations, connecting to everyday practices and sites of resistance and performance. It also contributes to the burgeoning field of walking arts practice, bringing a Japanese dance-based practice into a dialogue with debates and practices of Western dancing and walking.

 

Suriashi performed in urban and other spaces was able to unfold and identify new relations between aesthetic practice and politics, between movements and monuments in the city as a way to critique the unequal distribution of power, and by looking for new ways to protest/resist peacefully.


 

Video still:  Suriashi for Björkö


 

The video installation  Embodying Hashigakari - Immanent Encounters with Bridges is set to premiere in 2025. At that time a few more videos will be included.

WALKS 2023


Title: Suriashi for Norrtälje >>>

Date: June 30, 2023, Sweden

Site: Faktori Bron, Norrtälje

Participants: general public (about 100 people))

Accessible for rewalks until August 14th, 2024 for the duration of Trickle open air exhibition.

Official innaguration of Trickle Art In the River Norrtäje >>>

 

Title: Suriashi for Bonn

Date: August 11, Germany

Participants: Public Participation  

Site: Poppelsdorfer Schloss, Clemens-August-weg, Bonn Germany
Part of exhibition Becoming Landscapeat DAS ESSZIMMER – Raum für Kunst+ >>>


 

Title: Suriashi for Björkö

Date: Sept 5th, 2023, Sweden

Site: Walkbridge, Skenninge, Björkö

Participants: artists from WAP23 program at BKN/Björkö Konstnod


WALKS 2024 (on going)

Title: Suriashi for Tokyo

Date: July 2, 2024

Site: Tokyo University, Komaba campus, Japan 

Invited co-walker:  Cy Cheung

 

Title: Suriashi for Kyoto

Date: July 9th

Site: Taihei-kaku, Shin-en Gardens, Heian Jingu, Kyoto, Japan

Solowalk by Ami Skånberg in public space.


Title: Suriashi for Ise

Date: July 20th, Japan

Site: Hiyoke-bashi, Ise Jingu Geku, Outer Sanctuary

Invited co-walkers: Danubak Matalaq and Chiahung Yang  Kumano Kodo walkers from Taiwan 

Title: Suriashi for Kahoku

Date: July 20th, Japan

Site: Passage at the Ishikawa Nishida Kitaro Museum of PhilosophyKahoku

Solo-walk by Ami Skånberg

 

Title: Suriashi for Rome

Date:  August 4th, Italy

Site: Fabricius bridge

Invited co-walkers: Cy Cheung, Eli Belgrano,  Mark D Price

 

Dr Ami Skånberg, artist/choreographer made her phd theses Suriashi as Experimental Pilgrimage >>>


Berg Duo Expostion/portfiolio >>>