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For the Idle Walk of the Year, the Berserk group carried objects from the Ethnological Museum to Amalienborg Square as slowly as possible, while Eric polished the Palace square with petroleum, continuing the museum’s long-standing floor-care tradition.

As Per Brunskog wrote in his article Until Everyone Gets Their Own Kingdom:

For the event The Idle Walk of the Year, which took place in Copenhagen on 29th August 1984, the artist “invited the anarchistic drama group Berserk and instructed them to carry a variety of objects from the Ethnological Museum in Copenhagen to Amalienborg Square, walking as slowly as possible without ever standing still. As a result, all traffic in central Copenhagen came to a standstill for six hours. Eric describes:

‘The police were completely in on it. You could see a motorcycle police officer wearing a Year of the Idle badge on his chest pocket while riding his bike as slowly as he could through the city. Nothing at all happened that required their attention throughout those hours, so of course they were happy.’

Eric himself polished the Palace Square using petroleum, just as the Ethnological Museum had done to their wooden floors since the nineteenth century. It was a tradition Eric found so fascinating that he brought it to the Palace Square”.

Credits

BRUNSKOG, Peter. Until everyone gets their own Kingdom. Available at: http://www.perbrunskog.info/until-everyone-gets-their-own-kingdom-about-eric-andersen.html. Accessed: 02 Nov. 2025.

APA style reference

Andersen, E. (1984). The Idle walk of the Year. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/the-idle-walk-of-the-year/
Submitted by: Dani Spadotto

wander lines

The term “lignes d’erre” which was developped by Fernand Deligny who followed autist children in their shift had been taken up later by G.deleuze.

About wander lines: https://forumviesmobiles.org/points-de-vue/12619/surexpression-wander-lines

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