i guided my fellow artists on a care(ful) walk. exploring how we can move slowly together to find intimacy with ourselves and the place.
tricia enns
(she/they) >> triciaenns.com
As we listened to an audio track (visit this link to listen too!) comments were shared of how:
--the sounds around us now mixed with those that we were listening to, which made it hard to detangle them, which felt important.
--it was vulnerable and intimate
We relaxed on the dock, walking through our minds, time travelling to those other time + place, where tamales existed with screaming geese and pain intermingled with laughter and deep grooved friendship.
hej hej or hello. i am a walking artist and designer with a relational and materially engaged practice. currently based in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal, Canada) but i did not grow up there. in 2021 i developed chronic nerve pain which has brought themes of care, rest and slowness into my walking practice. during my time at WAP25 i explored the cracks formed through the tension between resting and creating or playing. discovering that the real work, for me, over these two weeks was in fact the struggle to allow my body to rest which brought up questions such as: can we walk without moving? how do we walk with care? how far do we have to walk, as walking artists, to call it a walk? additionally, questions of how to connect to a place as a visitor and what is community came up.
These pocket-sized notebooks also contained quotes from Jurate (seen here) and Annikki - "You want the cracks", fellow artists. -----nothing is done alone-----
AN OBSESSION WITH SLUGS AND SNAILS.
perhaps its the way that they linger. move slow. leave trails wherever they go. the repeating pattern was made of photos of beautful slimy creatures. the pattern made in celebration of their ways and a reminder that going slow is an option.
Topics of access, exhaustion and priveledge found their way into our conversations and footsteps. What is community? How is it accessed/ cultivated/ nurtured?
What was clear is that we were tired of walking (and working) for free, so we created a club >>>>>>>>>>>
As an offering I created a TINY NOTEBOOK of probing curiosities as an offering to fellow artists and community members
My practice often uses the creation of zines, or other pocket size treatures as tools for containing and summarizing explorations that feel expanisive, never ending, and unanswered.
This tiny notebook contained images of pinecones, snails, slugs, and flowers, cynotypes of ferns, and repeating patterns of seaweed, all items catured on walks around Bjorko. It also contained prompts and questions around care, walking, memories, and fear. All themes that swirl as I walk.
Audio has a unique transportive quality. Many of the audio clips below are field recordings. Some are of me reading text I wrote. My hope is each one acts as a portal. Transporting you to another place, space, area, land, environment. enjoy...or don't.
Obsessed with layers --nothing is ever what it seems --and inspired by Janice's walking-while-drawing machine, I began exploring drawing on paper before printing poetic reflections using the thermal printer I brought. I then also started printing images from the forest atop the text. Making the text hard to read, reflecting on how we only ever get part of the whole story. And leaning into elements of chance and randomness.
