The program is set where the forest meets the sea. Walking as practice is something that has been embedded in our program since the start. The WAP 24 explores walking as practice for artists.

WALKING AS PRACTICE/WAP is a process-based residency, where we delve into each others’ knowledges and things we encounter together on Burch island/Björkö

Interventions weave across different registers of time and site. The focus is on how walking is interlocked in our practices. Fieldworks and seminars are jointly done to locate and entangle structures, narratives and forces. We believe in a safe and friendly attitude as part of the art scene we share.

BKN fosters a peer-based environment: “thinking together, learning together” - a resource and semi public forum to explore and experiment.  Jointly, we form a transformative, dynamic space for art that engages with life and nature towards critical and poetic explorations, influenced by the immediate surroundings; the forest, lakes, sea and people living in the rural area.

Program dissemination will be in an online format and a series of open studios/walks as engagement with the local community.

Keywords: walking, asymmetry, entanglement, beyond violence, not-knowing, desire, nature, responsibility, deep listening, close seeing, territory, contested sites

Duration of residency

WAP24 stretches over the year for return walkers.

June WAP24

 Arrival May 28-29th

Program start May 30

Dissemination  June 24th.

Departure June 27-30th.

Arrival and departure dates must be as above

September  WAP24

Arrival on September 1 or 2

Last day of program September 27th

As an option arrival mid August, departure Sept 31. To be decided up on email conversation.

Selected artists will be called for video interview. If you are called this is a mandatory part of the selection process.

All ready this year we have had a number of walking artists some of them return visitors. 

As a return walker you might also get 2 weeks in May or 2 weeks in August. Do the application and indicate that you are also interested in this, if available.

Funding oppertunaties:

• Nordic Culture Point, Travel funding for individual professional practitioners of art and culture in the Nordic and Baltic region >>>
  due date March 31
• Culture Moves Europe, Individual Mobility of Artists and Cultural Professionals  >>> 
  due date 31 May 2024.

Disciplines/resources

This call is open for artists with a walking practice as part of the work they produce. Artists who would like to share and explore what “Walking as Practice” can apply. In addition to basecamp studio (indoors & outdoors) a screening room is available (4k projector, media server, speakers) also mini 4k video kit (cam, light, sound equipment).
BKN is located in two former school buildings total area of 600 square meters. Each artist has a private studio and access to  shared spaces indoors and outdoors

Accommodation

In the private studio. With desks, bookshelf armchair/sofa they all hold a bed. Shared: kitchen (basic equipment) 2 stoves with oven, 2 refrigerators/freezers,  toilets, 2 showers  

Fees and support

BKN provides the artists in the program with studio and accommodation. We are happy to write letters of support/invitations for each participant to arrange their own additional funding. It might be that we can offer some additional support towards transportation (BKN has a grant application pending). Each artist confirms by responding to email and provide assets for BKN website + 600 sek.

Expectations towards the artist