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Menno’s Journey – an Art Installation Along the Zuiderwaterlinie

In 2025, I will travel together with performance artist Paul Staring along the Zuiderwaterlinie with Menno’s Journey – an installation that invites encounters, wonder and conversation. We follow in the footsteps of military engineer Menno van Coehoorn, who walked this line 325 years ago to defend the Dutch Republic. Now we return, not to fight but to connect – and to gather new insights into the questions that truly matter: How do we keep our land liveable as the water rises? Where and how do we want to live? And how do we stay connected?

Insight / Outlook

The installation consists of a large metal ring with wooden needles that point in different directions – toward the past, the present, or the future. Sound plays a central role. In workshops or at festivals, the ring becomes a shared space for reflection and imagination, moving along two lines: insight (listening, reflecting) and outlook (imagining, sharing).

I’ve worked with the Zuiderwaterlinie before. In 2018, my project Niet vechten maar hechten symbolically stitched the fortified cities together – using monumental needles and blue thread. This new work continues that story.

Year: 2025
Materials: steel, wood, audio
Dimensions: L: 4m, W: 4m, H: 2.5m
Commissioned by: Stichting Zuiderwaterlinie
In collaboration with: Paul Staring
Location: various fortified cities along the Zuiderwaterlinie

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Menno’s Journey

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