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.
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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
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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
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