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A site-specific interactive audio-visual walking experience on the Island of Terschelling (NL), as a part of Oerol Festival (a performance & theatre festival) in 2023.
The self-guided walk allowed spectators to reflect on what it means to be home somewhere, through mediums of text, sound and a participatory booklet to add one’s own observations, while traversing through the pine forest and the dunes.
The 25 minutes long walk offered a sensorial way to experience the island, thus becoming a travel guide, hearing the unseen sea at a distance, and being in the here-and-now. Through the route, questions of belonging, home and rootedness were posed to the audience.
The 10 day long festival engaged over 4500 visitors and resulted in an archive of 250 booklets with data in the form of drawings, texts (in English, Dutch and Frisian) and scores which were documented during a residency later in the year and translated into a performance (Soundscape of a Landscape).
Oerol Festival is unique in the world. They are the largest site-specific arts festival in Europe – and all of this takes place on a small Wadden Sea island in the north of the Netherlands.
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