Meebewegen: Principles for Living Among Waters is a site-responsive, multilayered project exploring ways of living with water through performance, fieldwork, film, and material experimentation between bodies, ecologies, and time. Through this ongoing project, I explore how artistic practice can serve as a form of ecological attunement, a way to sense, care for, and respond to changing environments. This is achieved through rituals and gestures embodying resilience and reciprocity. The work began on the islands of Vlieland and Schiermonnikoog between the North Sea and the Wadden Sea; it now continues tracing the movement of water from the coast through the wetlands.
The film is co-shaped by participatory processes. Blending Rhizoaquatic performance, documentary elements, and embodied research, the film offers a narrative guided by the tide and the oyster’s perspective.
Alongside the film, The Handbook of Living Among Waters 2072 will emerge as a publication, part guidebook, part collective learning tool. This handbook will gather speculative rituals, adaptive recipes, tidal myths, ecological insights, and situated knowledges contributed by islanders, artists, and non-human collaborators. Designed to evolve with the project, it will reflect the many ways in which humans come to inhabit rising waters with fluidity.
Meebewegen, as an ecological ethic, an embodied practice, and a future-forming language for life in changing landscapes
Rizoaquatic Methodology:
OPEN CALL: General Participation
“Principles for Living Among Waters”
Are you curious about intertidal life, embodiment, and deep connection with watery landscapes? Do you like to imagine what life surrounded by water could look and feel like?
We are looking for participants to take part in an embodied & ritual-based research that explores how we live in Rhizoaquatic resonance. This is a collaborative and sensory experience of becoming-with mud, seaweed, each other, and the elements.
We are looking for participants to take part in an embodied & ritual-based research that explores how we live in Rhizoaquatic resonance. This is a collaborative and sensory experience of becoming-with mud, seaweed, each other, and the elements.
New gathering dates: To be announced but you can always sign up!
Thank you!
Meebewegen is being developed through support from the Stichting Stokroos Seed Grant.
