Title: This Walk is a Pause (audio walk)
Concept, text, voice: Nienke Scholts. Soundscape: Femke Dekker
Date: Thursday, 25 April 2024
Time: 17:00-19:30pm
Needed: smartphone with full battery, the SoundCloud app (or enough data) and internet access
Location: around the Haagse Bos Vijver
Starting point:
At 17h, we gather at a side-entrance to Het Haagse Bos at the Bezuidenhoutseweg in The Hague,
it is a small bridge that you can find on the map, using coordinates: 52.089845, 4.338496.
Busstop Karel Reinierzkade is nearby.
From there we depart together, so please be on time.
This Walk is a Pause is a poetic sound piece in which the narrator invites the listener to walk along with her
through both actual and mental landscapes - Finnish pine forests, fields of exhaustion, tingling brain gums, the
neighbourhood, experiences of disorientation and comforting darkness - eventually arriving in a surrounding
where walking offers a form of pausing.
Exploring walking as a pausing practice, this piece asks which potential space might open if one steps aside from given pathways for a shorter or longer while: If pausing would be what you most need, what would you need it to be?
This walk is a pause.
This pause is a walk.
Landing together at the given starting point, we depart as a group walking into Het Haagse Bos, a big park in the northern part of The Hague. There, participants are invited to listen collectively to the audio piece This Walk is a Pause* while while simultaneously following individual paths around ponds and islands in the park, as well as through their own internal landscapes. After the walk, once we are gathered back together, the group is invited to engage in an open mode of sharing thoughts and experiences around the theme of pausing, through drawing, writing, and conversation.
Nienke Scholts practices dramaturgy in collaboration with; various performance artists (since 2007); as dramaturge of Veem House for Performance (2013–2019); through her research as fellow of THIRD/ DASresearch at AHK (2018–2022), and as ARIAS’ programme coordinator (since 2019). Her research into the dramaturgies of collaborative work within crises of exhaustion, focuses on the (re)generative potential of individual and collective practices of pausing.
* the link to the audio will be provided on site
<Photo: Ivan Sanczewski>
