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Impression of the Symposium Sense of Place

Symposium Sense of Place

Programme

Presentations

Report

11 June 2014

Transport with the fast ferry to Terschelling
Simon Read (Artist and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, Middlesex University London)
Bruno Doedens, director of SLEM explained the project Wadland: towards a new salt marsh system on Terschelling, based on landscape developments
Kirsten de Bruijn, one of the two wonderful hosts is opening the doors of the betonningsloods
The temporary wooden church at the Groene Strand was our lunch location
Lunch
Participants taking their shoes off for the walk to the Wadland project
Walk to the beach where the Wadland project is situated during Oerol
Close up of the Wadland project with the artist
Participants were invited to take photo's and share with the builders
Gwenda van der Vaart PhD student, University of Groingen talking about her research: The role of arts practice and expression in building resilient communities in coastal areas
Tracy Metz invited Jan Zijlstra, member of the Holwerd aan Zee group to explain their ideas
Owain Jones (Professor at the Bath Spa University); Meindert Schroor (Geographer and historian); Anne Nigten (Academie Minerva Groningen) and Simon Read (Artist) about the role of arts in building resilient communities in coastal areas
Dinner in hotel Schylge
During dinner, dicussions continued
Iain Biggs, Reader in Visual Art Practice at the University of the West England Bristol talking about: Identity, contemporary art and ecology
Bettina van Hoven (University of Groningen), one of the co-organisers
Walk to conference location
Conference location 'De betonningsloods'
De Betonningsloods was turned into a conference location
Chair of the Waddenacademie Jouke van Dijk welcomed all 135 guests
Tracy Metz, moderator of the two days sitting next to Jouke van Dijk
Prof. Godfrey Baldacchino interacting with the audience
Prof. Godfrey Baldacchino talking about Sense of Place: the Island perspective
Waddenmyth: a first voyage of discovery for a new Wadden language Tsead Bruinja (poetry), Jan Klug (sonology) and Bob Driessen (saxophone)
Jan Klug and Bob Driessen
Gerda Holzhaus introduced the Waddenmyth
Tracy Metz interviewing Bruce Scherting and Marguerite Perret (from the United States) about the exhibition in the side program of the symposium
Exhibition in the Betonningsloods from Bruce Scherting and Marguerite Perret
Beate Ratter, Professor at the Institut für Geographie Universität Hamburg talking about: Heimat: Identity as a basis for coastal management in the Wadden Area
During dinner, dicussions continued

12 June 2014

Tracy Metz started day 2 by interviewing Elze Klinkhammer, Director Deltaprogramma Wadden
Tracy Metz
Hans Mol, professor of the History of Fryslan, Fryske Akademy and Leiden University talking about Monasteries and society in the Northern Netherlands
KLOOSTER project on Oosterend, another preview of Oerol
Artists explaining the KLOOSTER project
KLOOSTER project
Drinks and dinner at the Heartbreak Hotel Oosterend
Hessel Speelman, board member of the Waddenacademie and Theunis Piersma, professor Global Flyway Ecology university of Groningen
Drinks and dinner at the Heartbreak Hotel Oosterend
World trade, performance by Theunis Piersma, scientist and Sytze Pruiksma, composer, sound artist and bird-watcher
World trade, performance by Theunis Piersma, scientist and Sytze Pruiksma, composer, sound artist and bird-watcher
World trade, performance by Theunis Piersma, scientist and Sytze Pruiksma, composer, sound artist and bird-watcher
Concentration and emotion in the audience
The two performers
On data sonifications, a talk with illustrating examples from the Wadden Sea Area by Jan Klug and students of MINERVA Academy of Popculture
Leeuwarden, European Capital of Culture 2018; the strength of Iepen Mienskip by Oeds Westerhof , director programme and network Leeuwarden 2018
Tineke Nugteren, Associate Professor Religion & Ritual, Tilburg School of Humanities
Tineke Nugteren talked about Landscapes that save, seascapes that soothe: Places, traces and intended oblivion
The participants were fascinated by the theme of the second day: Grief and consolation
The encircling of a shadow; coastal geographies of loss and return, physical and social transition by Rona Lee
Rona Lee, Artist and Professor of Fine Art, University of Northumbria, UK
Tying the threads, navigating uncertain ground; grief, loss and tidal landscapes a personal story by Davina Kirkpatrick
Davina Kirkpatrick, artist-researcher, University of West of England
Avril Maddrell, Cultural Geographer, University of West of England talking about Liminal spaces and practices of grief and consolation
Lunch at Expedition project 100% Terschelling
Elmo Vermijs, director Studio Elmo Vermijs explaining the Expedition Project 100% Terschelling
Preview of Oerol, artists demonstrating the installation
Two students explaing the presented posters
Joop Mulder , creative director Oerol 30 year Oerol: From Theatre on location to A Sense of Place
A big applause for this powerful performance

Fotografie: Zwanette Jager, ZiltWater Advies