The second artistic residency of the SHORES project took the journey northwards, from the lagoon of Aveiro to the shores of the Wadden Sea. Over a week in July 2026, based in the harbour village of Lauwersoog in the Netherlands, the residency continued the project’s transnational work of fieldwork, collaboration and artistic experimentation, this time along one of Europe’s most singular coastlines.
The Wadden Sea is a UNESCO World Heritage site of rare character: a vast expanse of tidal flats, channels and islands where, at low tide, the sea withdraws to reveal the walkable wadden from which it takes its name. It is a landscape in constant negotiation between land and water, nature and culture: the very “cultunatural” edges the residency set out to listen to.
The artists began, as in Aveiro, in the landscape itself. They travelled to the islet of Schiermonnikoog, off the coast of Lauwersoog, and stayed for two days of fieldwork, gathering multimedia materials from an island shaped by tide, wind and light, as a first encounter with the sonic textures of this stretch of coast.
Main quarters for the residency were the World Heritage Centre Wadden Sea (WEC), on Lauwersoog’s harbour: a centre dedicated to the landscape, ecology and heritage of the region, which had already hosted the SHORES Netherlands workshop in 2025 and once again offered its space and warm support. The growing archive of sonic materials collected on that earlier occasion returned to the artists’ hands.
At WEC, fieldwork turned into studio-based artistic research. The artists worked on new compositions drawing on the collected materials. Contacts with residents were integrated into the process, an exchange made easy by the evident pride and openness of a community that has welcomed the project as its own. Further fieldwork gathered still other voices of the region, among them the sounds of local church organs.
The week culminated in a public presentation of the residency’s outputs, held for the general public at the World Heritage Centre Wadden Sea.
The three artists-in-residence carried their journeys forward from Aveiro: Jasmine Karimova, Carlos A. Correia and Jônatas Manzolli, and the work unfolded under the supervision of team members from across the consortium’s institutions.
From the Wadden Sea, the journey now turns towards its final shore: Trondheim.
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