In the seaweed lab on Vlieland, visitors can experience the wisdom of seaweeds: taste, feel, listen, and ponder these explorations and intertwine with them. Experience a consciousness of the endless intertwinements with our environment among the seaweeds. Discover their survival strategies and ecosystems and contribute to the Seaweed Manifesto and our ode to the sea.

The program of Intertwined consists of various components, both ongoing and time-bound programs that (partly) connect to the tides. Participation can be at the location Noordestoek (D6 on the map), unless otherwise indicated. Below is an overview per day.

Ongoing: Ode to the sea & Seaweed library

Thursday
17:59 - 19:29 hours: Seaweed portrait
20:30 - 21:30 hours: Seaweed bath (gather at 20:15 at the Kunstbalie)
00:06 - 01:06 hours: Bewierroken (gather at 23:50 at the Kunstbalie)

Friday
13:02 - 14:32 hours: Write along with the Seaweed Manifesto
13:02 - 14:32 hours: Seaweed orchestra pit
15:00 - 15:15 hours: Ode to the sea - performance
01:29 - 02:29 hours: Rituals for the sea - lecture (gather at 01:15 at the Kunstbalie)

Saturday
14:17 - 15:57 hours: Write along with the Seaweed Manifesto
15:00 - 15:15 hours: Ode to the sea - performance
20:30 - 21:30 hours: Seaweed bath (gather at 20:15 at the Kunstbalie)

Sunday
13:00 - 13:30 hours: Seaweed procession

About the creators
The research group Intertwined explores how we can learn from and coexist with seaweeds. To find out, they immerse themselves among the seaweeds, study the intertidal zone, interview farmers, researchers, and scientists, conduct tactile fieldwork, wrote an initial Seaweed Manifesto, and develop sound sculptures. They bring this together in the podcast Intertwined. Intertwined is part of Platform DIS, which explores ecological issues through artistic practices and collaborates for this project with Miek Zwamborn, Herman van den Muijsenberg, Ellen Schoenmakers, and Johanna Weggelaar.

Wouter Engelbart (he/him) is the founding director of Platform DIS. Wouter has a background in visual arts (BFA), social artistic projects, and education (MEd). He is also affiliated as a teacher with ArtEZ university of the arts and works as a freelancer in the field of visual arts and art education. Wouter creates 'free time' to rediscover the world through artistic research.

Miek Zwamborn is a writer, translator, and visual artist. In her work, landscape and history play an important role. Since 2017, she has been mapping the southwestern coastline of the Scottish island of Mull, where she lives and works, and set up the collective study space KNOCKvologan. She has published several novels and the essayistic nature book Seaweeds.

Herman van den Muijsenberg is a curator and sound artist (amongst other things). His installations and compositions are created by mixing field recordings, synthetic sound, and electro-acoustic machines. In his installations, he explores the relationship between sound and meaning. Can they become a bridge to the unknown? How can sound guide us in shaping a relationship with the other; whether it is solid, liquid, living, or spiritual? 

Ellen Schoenmakers is the owner of WildWier, one of the few official seaweed cutters in the Benelux. Weekly, she goes harvesting seaweed with her partner in Oosterschelde, North Sea, and Veerse Meer. Summer and winter, rain or shine. They supply restaurants, offer workshops, tastings, and more.

Johanna Weggelaar focuses on projects from her background as an engineer and in cultural history that create a dialogue between different areas of expertise, cultures, and practices. She worked as a project leader for seven years for the Algae Platform at Atelier Luma in Arles, which develops new methods of material development, often bio-based, and uses these for the transition of thinking and acting, and was an editor of various publications on seaweeds.

The art program of Into The Great Wide Open is made possible with support from the Creative Industry Fund, Mondriaan Fund, and De Versterking.

Image by WildWier