Wadden-Zwaaien – Oerol - 2015

This year SLeM highlighted the entire Wadden Sea area at Oerol: from the Netherlands via Germany up to Denmark. The Wadden Sea area is a unique and dynamic ecosystem consisting of more that thirty islands and a coastline length of hundreds of kilometers. We are often not aware of this and are used to think of our geographical part of the Waddensea. The aim of the project was to make the whole Wadden Sea area experienceable, showing that the Wadden Sea area goes beyond Schiermonnikoog.

During the Oerol festival the whole Wadden Sea area was built with forty thousands bamboo sticks at the Noordsvaarder. The installation had a total size of two hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty meters, large enough to wander through. Built at the interface of land and sea, the incoming and outgoing movement of tides created a beautiful sea algae drawing. As a final act of the Oerol festival we created with many Oerol visitors a human map of the whole Wadden Sea. This resulted in a spectacular aerial photo of this Unesco World Heritage area. A photo that symbolizes the relationship and interaction between nature and culture. This photo has been handed as a gift to the Wadden Sea Association (Waddenvereniging), for its fifty years of dedication to the interest of the Wadden Sea. See film and video, for the video and Time-Lapse of the construction and event of Wadden-Zwaaien.