Spiral walk | 2025

Provisory installation | footprints and snow | variable dimensions

 

 

 

This project explores the radical potential of walking as an embodied practice of resistance, reorientation, and re-enchantment. Centered on a durational performance, whose spiraling walks - alternately centrifugal and centripetal, frenetic and meditative - invite us to reconsider the body as a compass navigating the fractured geographies of our time. Here, the spiral is both form and manifesto: a refusal of linear progress, a critique of fixed monuments, and a call to reclaim agency through rhythmic exhaustion.

 

In this performative act, the hill resembles a scarred battlefield - or perhaps an altar. The mountain remains unmoved, but the snow holds the memory of struggle in its icy strata. Hurpia’s work does not offer solutions; it asks what it means to *persist* in an era of thawing futures. The spiral, now half-erased, becomes an oracle: a warning that our footprints, however fervent, are provisional. Yet in their fleetingness, they whisper a manifesto: “To walk is to negotiate with disappearance. To resist is to trace shapes the storm will claim”.

 

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Paths made by cattle on the opposite hill | Kazbegi, 2025.

 

 

 

 

Spiral walk | 2025

video | 4:3 | 4'42" | sound | color

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spiral walk | 2025

video | 4:3 | 4'42" | sound | color

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fieldnotes and sketches | Kazbegi, 2025.

 

 

 

 

Achievements and failures | 2024

documentation, sketches and field recordings

 

Contour walks follow edges. Contours edge. Edges are the limits, the thresholds, marking passages between things. To edge means to move gradually, carefully, or cautiously. Take a walk that contours - a spiral motion towards the center.

Contours can be lines, outlines of a form or a body. Contours edge things. As a verb, contours make and shape things. Contours are processual. Contours germinate and assemble. Walking-writing contours thinking-in-movement. As a practice of edging, contours are thresholds – an in-between space. Thresholds are full of potentiality. They seed things.

 

Taking Measures is an ongoing project in the Greater Caucasus Mountains that deals with practices of walking and measuring, as well as the political potential for power and resistance that results from these practices.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spiral walk | 2025

Documentation (artistic process)

Provisory installation | footprints and snow | variable dimensions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scanned topos and contours | Kazbegi, 2025.