Peter Bergman is an artist from America. Throughout the 90s he did all manner of boundary-pushing performance pieces—like sending postcards to random people for a year before turning up at their doors, just to see what happened… or posting notes in the windscreens of white convertible VW Golfs offering to take the owners out for dinner.
Probably the most strenuous of all these pieces was his attempt to walk the 2,653 mile Pacific Crest Trail in his graduation suit. Things didn’t exactly go to plan, and after having to call it quits 900 miles short, he made a pact with his hiking partner to finish the trail when they were twice as old… 23 years later, in 2019, they managed it.
I recently talked with Peter about the trek—along with such other important subjects as failure, ageing, rites-of-passage, the random nature of life and cheap suits—over on the Outsiders website. You can read the full conversation here.
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