SKÄLVA goes Nature
"Stretching was a major part of my preparation." "Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead." "Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life." "Stretching can be done with force or spontaneuosly" "An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a...
Decomposing Leaves
Blurry – difficult to see – difficult to understand or seprate clearly. Picture – a drawing, painting, photograph, etc – something you produce in you mind, by using imagination or memory To Document – to record the details of an event, a process, etc An Improvisation – a performance that an actor, muscian,...
Touching Vanadislunden
Med en dags varsel samlades fyra varelser för en färd genom lunden. Solen sken och gav skarpa skuggor. De fallna löven var varmare än gräset. En rad NU åt upp timmen. Exploration number: 053 When: 20th of September 2013 Where: Tantolunden, Stockholm Duration: 12.00 -13.00 Participants: Anneli, Irina, San och Ulrika Archive material:...
Last observation before moving apart.
SORGESÅNG gruset knastrar gräset är mjukt och vi vilar där är du med mig nu? vi finner utan att söka vi rör oss, som vi alltid rör oss fast ändå inte träden fäller sina blad inte nu, snart jag vet att det kommer allt blir rött asfalten är en annan...
Ulvsjön – Kuhasalo Simultaneously
This is a SKÄLVA event held on to places simultaneously. KANTAPÖYTÄ hosted the event in Joensuu, Finland. The instructions was as followed: Step One. Walk through the forest. Use all senses. Two tasks for the walk: #1: Scatter and gather. Switch been two modes: -The want to split up the group as much as...
Annual Meeting 2012
Call to order: An annual meeting of SKÄLVA, was held on Långholmen, Stockholm on the 17th of may, 2012. The meeting convened at 17.00, President Ulrika Simm presiding, and Jenny Berge, secretary. Members in attendance: Canon 50d, Iphone 4, Jenny Berge, Jenny Simm, Nikon 3100, Samsung (model unknown), Ulrika Berge and Ulrika Simm. Members not...
Between the Lost Objects
The generation of human is like that of leaves. The wind scatters one year's leaves on the ground, but the forest burgeons and and puts out others, as the season of spring comes round. So it is with humans: one generation grows on, and another is passing away (Homeros?, 700 BC). Looking inside yourself for...
On Water
Us and them. We and you. Us and that. Exploration number: 006 Hosted by Skälva Where: Skeppsholmen, Stockholm When: 20th of September 2011 Duration: 17.30-18.30 Participants: Gabriel, Jenny, Jon and Ulrika Archive material: 89 photos
Among the Oaks
”To roll down a slope is something I've definitely had a too small dose of. The accelerating speed that takes me down to the grass field. A good start to become one with the space.” ”It felt like when I was a child and went down the big slope with my sledge. The...
The Hill of Garbage and Gravity
Gravity is a force. We feel weight on earth because gravity is pulling us down, while the floor or ground stops us from falling. We are pressed against it. Modern physics describes gravitation using the general theory of relativity, in which it is a consequence of the curvature of spacetime governing the motion of inertial...
The Continuation – the Park
A score outside. A ritual. A way to explore the place. A way to explore yourself. A way to explore us. The first event was more of a improvisation. For this second event, the continuation of the first event, Skälva prepared a score. A score is a set of rules or transitions that aim to...
