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De Slaper / The Sleeper

Event

22.06.2025: Polder Breebaart, Groningen, NL

Second walk in the series with Marjolijn Dijkman, Carla Alma, and Lotte Jensen.

‘Waker, Slaper, Dromer’ (Watcher, Sleeper, Dreamer) is a series of three walks named after the poetic names and functions of dike systems in the Netherlands. Here, the ‘watcher’ first protects against the outside water, and the inland ‘sleeper’ catches any breach. Behind this sleeper sometimes lies another ‘dreamer.’

These events connect artistic research, dike construction, ecology, philosophy, and regional history and offer an in-depth look at the landscape through contributions from various experts, each with their unique and local knowledge. These walks will be organized in 2024 and 2025 as part of Dijkman’s WaterLANDS artist residency.

Carla Alma (NL, 1950) is an environmental activist and former action coordinator at the Wadden Association’s Eemsmond Working Group, water board administrator at Noorderzijlvest Water Board, and author from Groningen.
Lotte Jensen (DK, 1972) is a literary historian and philosopher. She works as a professor of Dutch literary and cultural history in the Department of Dutch Language and Culture at Radboud University Nijmegen. She researches the role of culture in disasters and identity formation.

See for more information: www.wakerslaperdromer.nl (Dutch only)

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Turbid Tides

Since 2023: Individual Research

Reflects on ecological restoration and the proces of depoldering in the context of the Ems-Dollard estuary in the North of the Netherlands as part of the WaterLANDS Artist Residency (Horizon EU)