27/08/2026
As the event approaches, we treasure warm memories of the Festival and its art route on the mesmerising island of Vlieland. In 2019, we presented several artworks, including Extremus Megalomanus by Joep van Lieshout and Vestibular S. Observatory by .sebjanic & Arnout Meijer.
In this site-specific audiovisual observatory the sound and light of the Vlieland island and the Wadden Sea were aligned; under and above the surface, audible and inaudible, day and night. The angle of an inland dune was precisely in line with the path of the sun, making from the inverted dome a local sundial. A subaquatic soundscape traveled over sixteen speakers that were placed on the edge of the dune, corresponding with the sixteen hours of daylight this time of the year. The underwater recording mix bioacoustics of marine life, aquatic sounds and the presence of human generated noise into a local soundtrack from the surrounding Wadden Sea.