Power along the way / Inner landscapes and health

June 8, 11:00 AM - 2:15 PM

Start: Hembygdsgården Dalen in Bergunda

End: Räppe (old Wessels)

Artists Ingela Johansson and Elin Sundström invite you to a performative walk through Räppe's natural and cultural landscapes with a focus on health, magic, and recovery. The activity is part of the artists' exploratory work on the theme of care, providing an artistic perspective on the New Emergency Hospital Växjö and its place in Räppe. Through the walk, the artists aim to create an enchanting experience and evoke different perspectives on the surroundings for the upcoming hospital, raising questions about health and well-being from a long-term perspective.How can we create conditions to gather strength and maintain our health over time? And how can the hospital's operations engage with the natural environment around the site in a sustainable way that provides recovery and inspiration in everyday life?

The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the journey through a landscape stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts that create harmony between our inner selves and the outer environment, describes the author Rebecca Solnit.

The walk starts at the Hembygdsgården Dalen in Bergunda, where Ingela Johansson presents a meditative sound work about an inner journey through the primal form of the spiral. Together with invited guests, we then head out into the landscape along roads and nature trails, stopping at culturally historical buildings and ritually charged places. During the final stretch, we follow one side of the hospital site that runs along Helige å, forming a natural recreational stretch for both future patients and healthcare staff. Finally, we gather on the site for a reading by Elin Sundström about our place in time and space, our relationship to the more-than-human, and the body's inseparable relationship with the landscape.

Participants include Lena Johansson and Sven Johansson from the Bergunda Heritage Association who will talk about Räppe's cultural heritage and the national interest Bergkvara, as well as Kerstin Staver in the role of völva, a stave bearer, a seeress from Nordic antiquity.

We offer a light vegetarian lunch at the Hembygdsgården. The entire experience, including lunch, takes about 3 hours and 15 minutes, of which the walk itself lasts 45 minutes. A bus will return to Hembygdsgården. The walk is part of several public artist-led events conducted in relation to the project New Emergency Hospital Växjö in collaboration with ArtPlatform and curator Sara Rossling.

Register and provide any dietary preferences (by June 5) to frida.lundenmorck@kronoberg.se

limited number of places.

*Comfortable walking shoes, a water bottle, and a sitting pad are recommended.