Edith Cammenga

Art project Bierumer School
E. Cammenga
1 July 2022 to 30 September 2022

jellyfish

Working title: Sketched saline Maritopes, with incidental strandings.

The project focuses on a number of different fields of work and fields of discovery, which are dynamically alongside each other. The main theme is the study of the Wadden Sea, the Waddenland and its inhabitants. In doing so, the following aspects are additionally highlighted:
1. the Ems/Dollard flowing into the North Sea between the island of Borkum and Rottumeroog;
2. the Ems off the coast of Bierum Hoogwatum, the bend of Watum, the plates Hond and Paap, a beautiful plate in the shape of a foot with toes of silt, with silt layers low dynamic low littoral, low dynamic middle littoral and a few spots high dynamic litoral;
3. the VOC shipwreck The Medemblik Castle, specifically in relation to the wealth of natural forms in this area;
4. Bierum/Hoogwatum, where a disappeared cemetery with chapel is located;
5. oriëntation points from the Ems, such as the Bosch of Watum; 6. animals and plants of the Wadden Sea, whose changes are are considered with natural history pleasure;
7. the interaction of land, atmosphere and sea, focusing on the threats posed by high tides, rain and storms that have made the land vulnerable for making it vulnerable for decades, but also the opposite, see [Annex 1];
8. the frequent disappearance of villages and land in the water;
9. the threatened land behind the dyke in a bowl of implosion, an almost formless counterstranding of land, see [Appendix 2]; and 10. flora and fauna, see [Annex 3].




From July to September 2022, the project will be carried out on location in Bierum be carried out, as artist in residence. Water, memory, air, animals and plants engage in an exchange with each other, in further relationship with human emotion and physicality, so that a measure becomes visible that both inside and outside and the separation of the two describes. The work thus becomes intimate and vulnerable. Examples of possible works include aquariums, air pumps, water purification, objects filled with algae and water, an installation of a human stranding, and assemblages, as well as film projections and sketches. Thus an exploration of literal and figurative wrecks. The project seeks external links and connections. Annex 1: Prehistory Between Landegge on the Ems and Sellingen (Westerwolde) once ran a large river, which at the end of prehistory disappeared into the Bourtang marsh disappeared. This branch of the Ems is probably the beginning of the Ruiten Aa. The riparian zone of this Ems was heavily inhabited in prehistoric times and formed until the Iron Age an important connection to the Emsland. As far as is known the river languished from the Middle Iron Age onwards and was filled in by peat, but the causes of the silting are still unclear. There is hypothesised the inhabitants of Westerwolde at the end of the prehistory because of this landslide migrated northwards via the left bank of the Ems. This story shows that land can be highly dynamic, causing many incidental mutations, or in other words incidental strandings. Annex 2: The vulnerability of land Some pieces of land are increasingly sinking without newly added soil and silt from the Ems. Once the land was formed by means of flooded salt marshes fertile. The embankment by the first monks was counterproductive for this purpose.


Annex 1
Prehistory Between Landegge on the Ems and Sellingen (Westerwolde) once ran a large river, which disappeared into the Bourtang swamp. This branch of the Ems is probably the beginning of the Ruiten Aa. The riparian zone of this Ems was heavily inhabited in prehistoric times and formed until the Iron Age an important connection to the Emsland. As far as is known the river languished from the Middle Iron Age onwards and was filled in by peat, but the causes of the silting are still unclear. There is hypothesised the inhabitants of Westerwolde at the end of the prehistory because of this landslide migrated northwards via the left bank of the Ems. This story shows that land can be highly dynamic, causing many incidental mutations, or in other words incidental strandings.

Kluut
Annex 2 The fragility of land.
Some pieces of land are increasingly sinking without new added soil and silt from the Ems. Once the land formed by means of flooded salt marshes fertile. The reclamation by the first monks was counterproductive for this.

Annex 3 Flora and fauna
A The region is home to many vulnerable flora and fauna, for example:
1. êêone of the last old granite dykes near Delfzijl with unusual lichens;
2. small and large seagrass;
3. beakedrupia;
4. hundreds of species of plankton (including unicellular organisms);
5. seaweeds;
6. plants such as sea wormwood, sea aster and sea plantain;
7. crustaceans;
8. molluscs such as mudflats, mussels and cockles;
9. other animals such as sponges, jellyfish, birds, fish and mammals.
These species are an invitation to natural history vulnerable fun