Fathom, 2015 |  Video documentation of performance, 61:56 min, with sound





Fathom is the result of a live performance in which Katja Bjørn staged a radical act of empathy toward nature. Inspired by the Buddhist practice of prayer-walking, she measured a small island south of Læsø in the Kattegat Sea using the length of her own body. Moving with the meditative rhythm of an inchworm, her performance became a maternal embrace of the landscape as well as a homage to the most humble forms of life. This act of measurement without quantification dissolves the perceived divide between body and nature, transforming the experience into a pure, embodied interaction. The body, in turn, enters a slower, more contemplative temporality, aligned with the rhythms of the natural world.

CRE
CREDITS

Camera: Ole Bjørn Petersen, Jacob Jakobsen, Jan Rüzz
Sound design: Nicolas Vetterli
Concept, editing and colour grading: Katja Bjørn

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Still image from video documentation of the performance Fathom in 2015.

Still image from video documentation of the performance Fathom in 2015.

Still image from video documentation of the performance Fathom in 2015.