Walking, residency at Château de Monthelon

 

1972-1973: Learning to walk 

1978-1989: Walking,as daily vacation duty 

2001: “She wanted to walk to Tierra del Fuego” (in “The Four Deaths of Marie” by Carole Fréchette)  

2009-2011: Walking in cities with the question "Would you like to take me into your arms?"  

2014: Walking from the Maunthausen camp to the Atelierhaus Salzamt in Linz, carrying 30 kg of salt and repeating the "Song of Hope" by Jean Cayrol 2019: Walk collecting waste in the streets and parks of Cologne Walk in the footsteps of the 

1988 Yangoon protest by writing on tree leaves: DOE A YAE  

2021: Walking in the Monthelon garden in the footsteps of the reconstruction of the sound walk created by Mathieu Richelle  

2023: Walking on the bank that connects the city of Ishinomaki to the Pacific Ocean. Peaceful? 

           Walking through the Kunstpavillon Burgbrohl area with this question: 

            "In which world do we  want  to live in 2024?" 

2024: Going to Monthelon for a residency on walkability and fall down a stone staircase. To walk. Being unable from walking. So walking through the books of David the Breton and the thoughts of Thoreau. Imagine walking. Imagine walking through windows. Walking without touching the ground. Walking on the flooded waters of Isles sur Serein. Walking through roofs, grass. Walking to the tree or to Montreal. Walking up to the sky. Walking until you disappear into the landscape.....

 

  Photos © Beatrice Didier & Luis Alvarez

 

 

 

Into Your Life, Oberlützingen

After packing in newspaper around 300 leaves on which was written « In welcher Welt wollen wir im Jahr 2024 leben? » , at the end of november, I went to drop these in the boxes of the village residents, where the Kunstpavillon is located. 

 In the context of research residency at KunsPavillon, Burgbrohl, Germany

 Photos © Beatrice Didier & Karin Meiner

Into Your Life, Andernach

After collecting 500 bean seeds from K. Meiner’s garden, on which I wrote « Für 2024 »… 

On 24th November, Black Friday, I went to give these in Andernach. 

On the wooden plate was written: « In welcher Welt wollen wir im Jahr 2024 leben? » 

 In the context of research residency at KunstPavillon Burgbrohl, Germany

 

 Photos © Beatrice Didier & Karin Meiner

Into Your Life, Maria Laach

On 11th November 2023, Armistice Day, I went to Maria Laach Abbey (in VG Brohltal) to distribute leaves on which was written: « In welcher Welt wollen wir im Jahr 2024 leben?»/ « In which world do we want to live in 2024?». 

In the context of research residency at KunstPavillon, Burgbrohl, Germany

 

 

 

    Photos © Beatrice Didier & Karin Meiner

Pacifique, 21/04/2023

On 21th april 2023,

On one of the banks that connects the city of Ishinomaki to the Pacific Ocean

12 years after the tsunami

I walked to the sea...

Bamboo extending the arms

Wind resistant bamboo

Bamboo offering japanese to the sea

Arms and hands offering feathers to the sky

Strenght and peace to you

Pacific Ocean

Pacifique is the name of this performance created for R5 Since then I from now

Curated by Daisuke Takeya

With the support of Wallonie Bruxelles International

 

  Photos © Beatrice Didier, Evamaria Schaller and Koichiro Takahashi

 

 Fluctuations of the Invisible Mind

What do you see?

Diffused reflections of the sunset

The surface of the river is illuminated

Its boundaries have separated you and me

My heart has been crushed along with yours

Don't reclaim it 

Look

I'm not you

You are not me

What do you see? (Maron Shibukowa)

                         

Ishinomaki, 11.03.2011...20.04.2023

On 20th april 2023,

Twelve years after the tunami and earthquake,

Three years after start of covid 19,

At Kinematica's café,

Audience was invited 

To sit 

To look at some foto from Okawa Elementary School Ruins

To listen to japanese radio news from 

To hold hands

To kiss plastic covid window

To write on window

In memory of what each has gone trough/experienced/lost

This performance was created in tghe context of R5 since then from now ,

Curated by Daisuke Takeya,

With the support of WBI

 

     Photos © Beatrice Didier and Koichiro Takahashi

HERE AND NOW II, 15th july 2022 at Milford House, Convergence Festival

 (...)

To be here and now 

Now

Now

Now

Now

Now

Now

No

Not

Not online

But here and now

This performance has been created for the festival Convergence.

Based on the text Here and Now (which became the soundtrack of the performance), the action took place from the office room to the entrance of the Milford House where an old beech tree stands.

Convergence of writing and speech
Convergence of past and present
Convergence of beings (tree and human)
Convergence of living beings

With the support of WBI 

Photos @Jordan Hutchings