Video documentation of "bergsturz practice" performed by s†ëf/\n sch/\efer during "Deep Times" residency by the Creative Body Institute Nov. 2025 in the Norwegian Arctic. The video is accompanied with a soundscape that consists of field recordings with a hydrophone in the same location of the performance.

 bergs†urz prac†ice

"bergs†urz prac†ice" is a landscape translation practice based on s†ëf/\n sch/\efer's artistic research with/from the "dying" Hochvogel mountain (AU/DE), sorvaeret island (NO), the "deceased" Ok-glacier (IS) and mime performer Dwayne Toemere. The Hochvogel mountain is breaking apart due to internal (e.g., stress, fracture, joints) and external (e.g., rainfall, heat, earthquakes) factors. sch/\efer researches these factors in various manners, including but not limited to being regularly and often with/in/at the mountain and working with landslide researchers doing geological measurements on the (factors that cause the) mountain’s movement. sch/\efer translates these mountain movements and eventual collapse to the human body. By doing so, they aim to understand and imagine a mountain as an entity with its own agency, ways of moving, while avoiding anthropomorphism. It is rather a "mountification of the human body" in which movement is led by internal and external factors, resistance and giving in instead of rational choice or will? What are (additional) internal and external factors that let practitioners move? How does one’s body then move without knowing yet whereto? How can one understand mountain movement and collapse in a(n embodied) mountain-like way?