This walk is a pause.
This pause is a walk.

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 neighborhood, 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?

Credits
This Walk is a Pause, is a work in development, and part of an ongoing research into dramaturgies of work and practices of pausing.

Responses to -and experiences of -this audio walk by listeners are gratefully welcomed at: nienkescholts@gmail.com. 

Feel free to share the track with others. Instagram: @nienkescholts - please use #thiswalkisapause.

Text and concept of this piece: Nienke Scholts
Sound design: Femke Dekker https://soundcloud.com/lomadoom 

With many thanks to Femke Dekker/Loma Doom for her investment this first fruitful collaboration. Thanks to Marta Keil, Mark van Welzenis, Margo van de Linde, Mariana Fernandez M, Haitian Ma, and Sabine Niederer for thinking along so generously. My peers of research cohort C2 of THIRD / DAS Graduate School, thankyou for the ongoing dialogue and for always holding space. I felt much supported by ARIAS Amsterdam in making this work. Many thanks as well to Saari Residency Finland for granting me a stay in their inspiring landscape. Endlessly grateful for my family, friends, colleagues.. everyone that offered such an incredible amount of understanding for and patience with the transition process that recovery is.

Nienke Scholts

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