“How to walk a line” is a performance enacted by four women of different ages.

The idea for this performance was born during an art residency hosted by Stefie Steden at Kunsthalle Below, Germany. As four interdisciplinary artists, drawing from our respective disciplines of painting, writing, performance, and photography, we explored the question of walking a line, and the multiple avenues that can be taken from there.

We all followed the same instructions for “How to walk a line.” All of us took our clothes off, let one end of a long neon pink rope extend between our bodies, and dispersed from one another.

We experienced the same thing at different times and in different places, watched each other, and documented our actions. While observing, we took note of links and overlaps between each performer’s feelings and movements during the repeated performance.

Patterns and parallels start to emerge. The borders between inside and out begin to blur: who is performing, who is watching? When do several actions become observational, and how does reenactment call for remembering? We examined the notion that women came before us, and women will come after.

In 2020, an experimental short film shot by the four artists during the performance was screened at the short film festival Kurzfilmtag in Rostock, Germany. We are currently working on a book in which our respective ways of remembering in the performance are documented and brought together, informing and responding to the other, each part of a whole.