Corporeal and aware bodies, therefore less conditioned by standard time/space compression civilization brings forward, walked in silence through urban heat and moisture. They were guided by gestural language and non verbal signs, as to offer the condition for an autonomous and individual participation, cutting through layers and textures the city consists of, while becoming part of a 100-minute experience, a Walk Piece in silence, starting and ending in the art space.

Since 2008, David Bergé has been making Walk Pieces, during which the artist guides participants in silence along a precise trajectory and within a precise timeframe through textures and infrastructures that comprise the city. Walking together resonates with the phenomenological minutiae of street life. Walk Pieces have passed through ancient, modern and contemporary infrastructures: a museum without a floor, in the proximity of containers being offloaded from trucks, through narrow alleys and over large squares, through the bedroom of an art collector, the stage of an opera and an almost finished metro tunnel.

Vienna Footnotes, 2010
9 walk pieces by David Bergé
guided by David Bergé and Satu Herrala (simultaneously)
commissioned by TanzQuartier Wien
curator Sandra Noeth

related works
A Walk in High Resolution (book), 2020
A Walk in High Resolution (exhibition), 2019
The Bridge (walk piece), Thessaloniki, 2018
ROUTES INTO SILENCE – spatial instructions to contaminate the walking body (text piece), 2018
Prototype Walk Brussels (walk piece), 2014