Sunwalk

who is the boss here? i invented the score so i'm the boss. but i follow the sun so the sun is the boss. but the indelible blue line i draw is the only visible remain of this performance and so maybe that's the boss. i find it difficult to stop and take breaks because of this duty i have towards my bosses.  today the sun led me directly to muggelsee. i can't walk on water, not yet anyway, and there was no way around it, so i sat and sunbathed for some time until the sun beckoned me back to work.  

there is something of the lone male artist, being a genius undertaking a huge physical challenge by himself in the big open world inside this work. i am acutely aware of it. it's also my partner's birthday. there was a distinct lack of sun all day today. at one stage, i got genuinely lost. rebecca solnit talks of the voluptuousness of getting lost but there is nothing sexy about this disorientation today. when there's no sun, what am i actually doing? where am i going? there's still no live audience; who am i doing this for? at 12 hours, it's a long day and it's a cold spring this year.  in spite of having developed the practice and defined the score and completed the set, i still don't know what this walk is, how to share it, where to go with it. a meeting with netta weiser encouraged me to keep going, keep collecting data, experiences, reflections and this means to keep on walking. i decide that i will do this walk four times a year until i can no longer o

i always seem to come across the berliner mauerweg. today there's a woman who is walking in front of me. she's walking too fast to overtake but slow enough that she is always in front of me. it was annoying me. i remembered that this is a performance and my being annoyed is part of the performance. in that moment, i thought of her as a co-star in this performance with no live audience. she doesn't know it but she is. we accompany each other until our paths don't cross anymore.  

after doing the first one in the summer, i said i would do the winter solstice to kind of complete the set. but as it got to september, i thought that it's not really a set without the equinoxes. the day got closer, i realized i had no choice but to do it again. i was in rehearsals for a friend's graduation piece and took the day off to do it. it's quite amusing for me, the idea of taking a day off to engage in a hugely demanding physical practice. warmer than the summer one, the sun was present for the whole day. a truly glorious march across the east side of berlin.  

in a studium generale course at UdK, of organic and digital trees. in order to pass the course, prof daniel hromada asked us to plant an organic or digital or artistic tree. i decided that i would plant an artistic tree.  i planned to cycle from sunrise to sunset in the direction of the sun on the summer solstice, what is perhaps the most auspicious day to be a tree.  based on computer processes, where decisions are made at each new fork and actions taken based on taht decision, i superimposed this idea onto the city. the streets would act as the frame and i would use the sun to make decisions about which direction to go.  i went for a test ride a few days before and realized that if i cycled, i would end up in poland before the sun turned round so i decided on walking. i don't even really like walking because i know how much quicker the same journey would take with a bicycle but speed was not really the point & anyway, i thought it an interesting way to take a different tempor