Lisa Gordillio, Tara Bal and Molly Cavaleri
Walkers
Cliff Andrade
Draco local dog

GUEST WALKERS
Print for Björkö, BKN/WAP25 by artist Zoey Hart
Marina Pugina

June 14-17 ZOEY A HART

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. She has made serveral worksessions at BKN, among them the exhibtion "The Softening Sea"
https://zoeyahart.com

June 19-22 IRA ANUFRIEVA

Midsummer Walk 1  - Arholma
In addition Ira Anufrieva did a number of solowalks among them to the quarry.
Irina Anufrieva b. 1982 in Belarus is a dancer and choreographer who moves through different media in her work creating solo dance pieces, durational performances and installations which engage in the phenomenology of perception. Body and space as well as time and duration play central role in her work and act both as material and as sources of meaning. Dancer, choreographer, artist. MFA in Choreography with Specialisation in Performative Practices (2023) 
https://www.instagram.com/ira.anufrieva/reels/?__d=11

LOCALS

BKN, Hembygdsföreningen and Bygdegården & Draxo

The three organizations collaborate in terms of borrowing each others resources and by inviting to various local events. For a number of years they have been co-procucing the winterd daylight saving time walk to the quarry in Björkö. A walk with live tourches throught  dark night along the the old gravel road leading out to the quarry from the main road. A waiting for the 50 - 100 people walking is a bon fire, music, poems and story telling. As attendees arrive they meet a perfect amber fire for grilling hotdogs and then the fire is brought back to its full. On July 5, 2025 the next walking collaboration was initiated also a night walk but much brighter from Simpnäsvägen out to a light house and an old air plane navigation tower. During the walk artists took turn in presenting various attentative walking strategies. At midpoint there was a fika on the rocks by the light house.  


 






 

June 16/20 STUDENTS MICHIGAN TECH

17 studens from the summerprogram "Sustainable Sweden". 

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 core of this program. On midsummer WAP25 met up again with the group on the island Arholma.

 

June 16 STAFF MICHIGAN TECH

The 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.
From left:
Lisa Gordillio https://www.mtu.edu/vpa/department/faculty/gordillo/

Tara L. Bal https://www.mtu.edu/forest/about/faculty-staff/faculty/bal/index.html

Molly A. Cavaleri https://www.mtu.edu/forest/about/faculty-staff/faculty/cavaleri/index.html

Draco one of our more than humans friends decided to join us for the walk. Draco also participated in WAP23 and WAP24. Draco loves the walking with us. During the walk the embodieed care and happiness shines throug and makes the walk easier for all of us. The Walk "The Unbroken Horizon" was a bit to challenging reaching the paved road on our way back it was decided to remove his stress and pain by getting a car to pick him up.

 

June 14-15 MAJA ANDERSSON

Maja Andersson is a visual artist, with the body as a central part of her practice. She has worked with performance art and is continuously exploring different mediums and forms of expression. She uses video, photography, fabrics, clay, sometimes in combination. The point of entry to her work is feelings as a state of mind, or a physical feeling in the body.  She is the president of the artist run not for profit organization Björkö Konstnod/BKN.

 

 

 

July, MARINA PUGINA 

 Based in Paris, Stockholm 

Marina Pugina  an independent curator, art manager, and researcher of local art communities. She usually works with contemporary art archives, various forms of artistic self-runs, modes of temporal collectivity, and co-participation.

The official start of the program was June 16th with arrival on the 14th and 15th.  

June, CLIFF ANDRADE

For one of the share sessions Andrade made a online presentation on his walking projects with emphasis on two artist books he produced post program. His walks are avaliable on his exposition from WAP23 >>>

uses drawing, printmaking, photography, moving image and walking to explore the effect of class and migration on our sense of identity and belonging. He is based at Spike Island Studios, Bristol, UK.