BERG DUO / Ami Skånberg and Anna Viola Hallberg have followed each other's practices since 2005. In 2022 they started to work together as Berg Duo. They move between studio based practice and the outdoor. The work intersects lens and embodied practices, towards reconfigurations of subjectivity by visualizing possible futures. Concepts of in-between and the state of becoming are central in their artistic research (embodied, spoken, text, visuals, audio). Walking as practice is an integral part of their work. They are based in Stockholm/Gothenburg/Björkö, Sweden.
In 2024 they are working on the video based trilogy Buoyancy. Current (the first part of Buoyancy) is selected for ScreenDance Festival, Sweden and VideoDanza, Puerto Rico - both running parallell to Supermarket 2024.
Berg Duo are the instigators of WAP, a program focusing on walking as an artistic methodology. The text Conditional Walking is included in the anthology Empathetic Trails by OnebyWalking.
2024 they release Current a screen dance film made on location in Indonesia >>>
"Working at the intersection of lens and embodied practices - we are interested in movement and space within and beyond language, and ask how movement can bring spaces together, and how several spaces can be made into one, through embodiment. As time collapses, space is put at the forefront of our artistic research." BERG
2024
Current screenings/festivals/exhibitions
- SCREENDANCE FESITVAL, SWEDEN April 23-24, 2024
catalogue >>> - SUPERMARKET independent art fair, SWEDEN, April 24-28, 2024
- FESTIVAL VIDEODANZA, PUERTO RICO April 22-28, 2024
- Curator: ANA SÁNCHEZ-COLBERG - WICKLOW SCREENDANCE LABORATORY, March 23-26, 2024
excerpt conversation WSL >>> - ALMATY UNDERGROUND SCREENING SERIES @ DUMP GALLERY, KAZAKHSTAN, Jan 24, 2024 - Curated by: DIANA GALIMZYANOVA
- SUPERMARKET ART FAIR, STOCKHOLM April 25-28, 2024
Group Exhibition
Field trip
Japan, to make "Afloat" July 2024
Curatorial
WAP24 - Spaces of Anticipation through out the year with two focus periods.
WAP24 June Edition Lead walker and co-curator: John Schuerman is an environmental artist and independent curator. WAP24 September Edition Lead walker and co-curator: Antonia Aitken based in lutruwita /Tasmania, Australia since 2014. >>>
Anthology
Berg writes the text Conditional Walking for academic publication of the first anthology for OneByWalking Network
2023
Sept-Nov Walking As Practice, BKN, Björkö, Sweden (curators residency program)>>>
October, Fakk the System, Berlin Punk Film Festival (screening) >>>
August-September, Becoming Landscape + Suriashi For Bonn, DasEssZimmer - Raum für Kunst+ in Bonn, Germany. (solo exhibition Hallberg including BERG works Consequences and Fakk The Sistem) >>>
June-August, Trickle-Art in the River, Norrtälje Sweden. (Hallberg curator and Skånberg participated with two performances Suriashi for Norrtälje and Territory both as installations and live performance. )
May, fieldwork & research, Java, Indonesia
April workshop Walking is Also Space, in Korpoström Finland with One by Walking Network.
Skånberg
Dr. Ami Skånbergs artistic interests are practice-led and concern Japanese dance, screendance, gender codified movement practice, non-hierarchical treatment of global dance techniques, and auto-ethnographic accounts from within the practice. Her debut film won an honorary mention at VidéoDanseGrandPrix in Paris 1995. A collection of her films are released by Njutafilms. For her PhD thesis in Dance at University of Roehampton, she researched suriashi as a socially engaged practice. Ami is the current Head of M.A.D.E – Master Dance Education at the Stockholm University of the Arts, and also works at the University of Gothenburg. She has held keynotes at NoFoD, Latvian Academy of Music and Dance, University of Philippines, Royal College of Art (UK) and University of Bologna.
In 2025 Skånberg curates
Artist webpage: studiobuji.com
UNI ARTS Skånberg profile >>>
Hallberg
The works by Anna Viola Hallberg include thorough research and are presented in art installations with fluid and multiple ways of interpretation. Video, photography, sound and text are used for installations or interventions. She is socially and politically engaged. Often the duration of work stretch over several years of commitment. Central is her approach to everyday life and the rendering of collective memory and social justice topics. Hallberg has been working with and/or exhibiting on with these thematics in Russia, the US, Sweden, Belarus, Mexico, Austria, Lebanon, Ukraine and Germany. Hallberg also works as a curator on socially engaged topics. She is the in-house curator for BKN residency program in Northern Stockholm Archipelago.
Artist webpage: annaviolahallberg.com
