https://annezarske.com annezarske.com Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:45:58 +0000 https://annezarske.com en https://annezarske.com/Home Fri, 17 Mar 2023 16:30:26 +0000 annezarske.com https://annezarske.com/Home bodies without borders echo of bodies without borders seventeen frequencies weathering middel voice writing workshop for bodies without borders green wave matter comes to matter sphagnum moss as teacher intra_stream assemblage neotopia seamless beyond sitting einnischung vernetzte reusen AboutInstagram https://annezarske.com/About Fri, 17 Mar 2023 16:30:24 +0000 annezarske.com https://annezarske.com/About &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; (DE)About I’m an artist, architect, and researcher exploring the intersections of architecture, art, ecology, and politics through spatial strategies. My work investigates transitional ecosystems, where bodies, landscapes, and organic life merge, uncovering the symbiotic relationships within a shifting biosphere. Drawing from philosophy, sociology, and movement research, I engage with these spaces through mapping, writing, and sensory inquiry to reveal the histories and forces embedded within them. Through this practice, I challenge norms and invite new ways of navigating and co-evolving with our transforming world. <img width="853" height="1280" width_o="853" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9a086d259c40c4488fd8167df4986df3bb961578e2f362bb79d5c4f666631bf/IMG_1723.JPG" data-mid="173580693" border="0" data-scale="44" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/853/i/d9a086d259c40c4488fd8167df4986df3bb961578e2f362bb79d5c4f666631bf/IMG_1723.JPG" /> Photo by Omid Aghdami To request a CV or for further details, please reach out to: anne_zarske@gmx.de.︎︎︎ https://annezarske.com/bodies-without-borders Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:45:58 +0000 annezarske.com https://annezarske.com/bodies-without-borders bodies without borders This installation wants to dissolve the boundaries between bodies, time and landscape. At its core you look at dried Sphagnum moss which interacts with a water system, creating an atmosphere saturated with the earthy scent of moss, wet soil, dried grass, and saltwater. This installation tells the story of the bog, engaging with both the past and the future, the liquid and the solid. <img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c5596d3b5cf843e33cdedfd1191e1ede6271eccb8b779ee47b7e099b9a7c658e/header.jpg" data-mid="236346639" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c5596d3b5cf843e33cdedfd1191e1ede6271eccb8b779ee47b7e099b9a7c658e/header.jpg" /> Photo by Ruben Dijkstal The space invites grounding and attentiveness—to weather with. Weathering is both method and metaphor: an embodied resilience grounded in observation, reflexivity, and becoming. It calls for attunement, intuitive gestures, and presence through which new meanings emerge. Sphagnum moss—absorbing, expanding, holding memory and belonging.&nbsp;A body dissolves into wetlands.&nbsp;In this performative landscape, this Dutch tableau, the land’s patterns tell of human adaptation—a continuous balancing of land and water, an interplay of ecology, culture, and bodies moving through shared rhythms. <img width="5145" height="3863" width_o="5145" height_o="3863" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1489089a266e1344e588426d53a75b510622bb948c87baa27f00603534d53939/Detail-3.jpg" data-mid="236346637" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1489089a266e1344e588426d53a75b510622bb948c87baa27f00603534d53939/Detail-3.jpg" />Photo by Ruben Dijkstal <img width="3003" height="4000" width_o="3003" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d056edb0691f48fdd65f1bcb9a9ed519abbc8788cc99324c85d69de9d6878750/DEtail-2.jpg" data-mid="236346636" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d056edb0691f48fdd65f1bcb9a9ed519abbc8788cc99324c85d69de9d6878750/DEtail-2.jpg" />Photo by Ruben Dijkstal <img width="3003" height="4000" width_o="3003" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eca2994d389563e1b667928b23a213143c457497768dcd97ca53f05d4ead0cc8/moss.jpg" data-mid="236346641" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eca2994d389563e1b667928b23a213143c457497768dcd97ca53f05d4ead0cc8/moss.jpg" />Photo by Ruben Dijkstal <img width="3003" height="4000" width_o="3003" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/81bdc24a28ab665b1d01d6df2144b97dff49605f98a442fa6263697989f5363f/hands.jpg" data-mid="236346638" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/81bdc24a28ab665b1d01d6df2144b97dff49605f98a442fa6263697989f5363f/hands.jpg" />Photo by Ruben Dijkstal <img width="5328" height="4000" width_o="5328" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/756411ce16137c765836c2bc4c421d4aa1c4cc85cf55799d6064d64524dce4fe/Detail-1.jpg" data-mid="236346635" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/756411ce16137c765836c2bc4c421d4aa1c4cc85cf55799d6064d64524dce4fe/Detail-1.jpg" />Photo by Ruben Dijkstal <img width="4000" height="3003" width_o="4000" height_o="3003" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5da82fd966d612e8a35ff0e6d0871b36fe39653176f961371dbc63d4c436b951/mess.jpg" data-mid="236346640" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5da82fd966d612e8a35ff0e6d0871b36fe39653176f961371dbc63d4c436b951/mess.jpg" />Photo by Ruben Dijkstal <img width="3003" height="4000" width_o="3003" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/922506428f758fe3509f5e6e8f5e732183f3396dbdb261c876c8aa08b3bd8e60/context.jpg" data-mid="236346633" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/922506428f758fe3509f5e6e8f5e732183f3396dbdb261c876c8aa08b3bd8e60/context.jpg" />Photo by Ruben Dijkstal https://annezarske.com/echo-of-bodies-without-borders Fri, 06 Jun 2025 18:18:52 +0000 annezarske.com https://annezarske.com/echo-of-bodies-without-borders echo of bodies without borders A body dissolving into the wetlands, shaped by longing, existing between liquid and solid. Peat moss, constantly becoming through relation. Let the strong scent of moss, wet soil, dried grass, rain, and hints of salty freshness linger in your senses, grounding you in the thick-time of this landscape. The body carries with it a heavy, dirty wetness, as the moss absorbs the subtle shifts of the Others, holding memories of belonging in its quiet resistance. Slipping through the slow rhythms of moss—softly and steadily spreading—it creates a place to belong, a shared experience of becoming terrestrial. Telling the stories of bog bodies, engaging with both past and future. <img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/25cdf883cf730a9d3ab4310c559966f0141258a58201d54606fde442ad23a4fe/IMG_7678.png" data-mid="234270564" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/25cdf883cf730a9d3ab4310c559966f0141258a58201d54606fde442ad23a4fe/IMG_7678.png" /> <img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2407681175e3368b4dc8cd814dabd46c3ae27ca81c0cb71ab8fbb95ec4455c47/IMG_7651.jpg" data-mid="234268753" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2407681175e3368b4dc8cd814dabd46c3ae27ca81c0cb71ab8fbb95ec4455c47/IMG_7651.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0d280a34b3e34497dcb60ac11843b7ad10c2b380aedf070871533e3193398e63/IMG_7673.jpg" data-mid="234268754" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0d280a34b3e34497dcb60ac11843b7ad10c2b380aedf070871533e3193398e63/IMG_7673.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3f7336ff62154b8f3334ba00d68c50f283aec8a69c448d442cf3a7523df4cbb1/IMG_7644.jpg" data-mid="234268749" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3f7336ff62154b8f3334ba00d68c50f283aec8a69c448d442cf3a7523df4cbb1/IMG_7644.jpg" /> https://annezarske.com/seventeen-frequencies Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:03:53 +0000 annezarske.com https://annezarske.com/seventeen-frequencies seventeen frequencies 11.04.2025 - 13.04.2025 Exhibition in Quartair, The Hague, Netherlands&nbsp;Preview ArtScience Interfaculty, Graduation 2025transforming state of bodies without bordersAn exploration of weathering—both within and beyond the skin. A body dissolving into the wetlands, shaped by longing, existing between liquid and solid. In this entangled space, bodies differentiate yet connect, attuning to one another in a shared act of weathering. Soft, slow, and deeply intertwined. Mediums: dried peat moss, wool, misting system, water enriched with scent, torches, mic stands, headphones, video on laptop, tubes, cables, heatlamp, participatory protocols, theoretical framework, reflections <img width="5472" height="3648" width_o="5472" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/94d5ea5662b7c8f0bc946703f027e25c9e2162a537582c91b9b8759cdf76d030/17freq-docu-hires-157.jpg" data-mid="234259433" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/94d5ea5662b7c8f0bc946703f027e25c9e2162a537582c91b9b8759cdf76d030/17freq-docu-hires-157.jpg" /> Photo by Joris van den Einden <img width="3567" height="5350" width_o="3567" height_o="5350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/542012a44801c84919998681d5d38ccd1973b5b299f06392bd4786bcc9b90af7/17freq-docu-hires-168.jpg" data-mid="234259444" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/542012a44801c84919998681d5d38ccd1973b5b299f06392bd4786bcc9b90af7/17freq-docu-hires-168.jpg" /> Photo by Joris van den Einden <img width="3364" height="5046" width_o="3364" height_o="5046" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e95c9f5625661d127c04f400bcf6358034de21bef3cfe32675f16188d9c05223/17freq-docu-hires-167.jpg" data-mid="234259443" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e95c9f5625661d127c04f400bcf6358034de21bef3cfe32675f16188d9c05223/17freq-docu-hires-167.jpg" />Photo by Joris van den Einden <img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3f9725375e147a258058c47522d94d4d0638479bf26863719b3f3d92b62d5928/WhatsApp-Image-2025-06-10-at-11.43.30-11.jpg" data-mid="234407406" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3f9725375e147a258058c47522d94d4d0638479bf26863719b3f3d92b62d5928/WhatsApp-Image-2025-06-10-at-11.43.30-11.jpg" /> <img width="1536" height="2048" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e289da710c3a6e98e3a336d73c7bd35b4143ec16733e2a45c92c75e32b06d566/WhatsApp-Image-2025-06-10-at-11.43.29-5.jpg" data-mid="234407405" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e289da710c3a6e98e3a336d73c7bd35b4143ec16733e2a45c92c75e32b06d566/WhatsApp-Image-2025-06-10-at-11.43.29-5.jpg" /> <img width="1536" height="2048" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1083f3de5cc719c3aaea3b4909d95f8328d9ed445b52c8cd011de611be685d48/WhatsApp-Image-2025-06-10-at-11.43.29-1.jpg" data-mid="234407404" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1083f3de5cc719c3aaea3b4909d95f8328d9ed445b52c8cd011de611be685d48/WhatsApp-Image-2025-06-10-at-11.43.29-1.jpg" /> https://annezarske.com/weathering Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:32:22 +0000 annezarske.com https://annezarske.com/weathering weathering Nida Art Colony Lithuania &nbsp;17-28 March, 2025 “Dynamics of the In-between”Study Course by ArtScience Interfaculty, Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal Conservatoire The Hague in collaboration with Vilnius Academy of Arts (Photography, Animation, and Media Art) Only when human bodies fully embrace both their internal sensations and the external environment—when they sync with these different rhythms—can they generate a new movement or a fresh expression of existence. <img width="3305" height="2227" width_o="3305" height_o="2227" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0cbfdf3abaf98a36af5bdffbb9ede5271572dc89530aa44759e770522888558d/IMG_7507.JPG" data-mid="234246730" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0cbfdf3abaf98a36af5bdffbb9ede5271572dc89530aa44759e770522888558d/IMG_7507.JPG" /> Photo by Malak Bayramli&nbsp; <img width="3610" height="2433" width_o="3610" height_o="2433" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de22002820db9f00ab23db541e97f4d00c99459a335e3909becfe28a2eb59305/IMG_7508.JPG" data-mid="234246734" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de22002820db9f00ab23db541e97f4d00c99459a335e3909becfe28a2eb59305/IMG_7508.JPG" />Photo by Malak Bayramli <img width="3109" height="2384" width_o="3109" height_o="2384" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4da4255f20c182ec600e2502550c306e519d652e543b8bf6055a0ac5cdf24476/IMG_7506.JPG" data-mid="234246726" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4da4255f20c182ec600e2502550c306e519d652e543b8bf6055a0ac5cdf24476/IMG_7506.JPG" />Photo by Malak Bayramli&nbsp; Weathering refers to the continuous influence of weather patterns on ecosystems and organisms. It also reflects how bodies adapt to and endure a condition and a way of being in relation. Weathering is to loosen the boundaries of the singular self and respond to the collective‘s urgent calls. It is an act of full presence within the weight of the now, an attunement to what surrounds. Weathering requires us to tune in—to engage in intuitive, situated gestures. It is a mode of embodiment grounded in three conditions of improvisation: observation, reflexivity, and becoming—a triad of interweaving processes through which new relations and meanings emerge. To play with these conditions, the dancer Min Tanaka established ‚Body Weather‘, a comprehensive performance training inspired by Butoh. Tanaka understands a body as a constantly shifting entity that resists clarity. In his practice, he is training a sensory breathing, detailed, ‚weak‘ body—not in the sense of fragility, but in its openness to sensation, to breath, to fantasy and affect. A body with both an inside and an outside, a body that delivers itself to experience. (Tanaka, 2000) Weathering becomes a medium through internal sensations and its external environment, the atmosphere in which one can learn, respond, and transform. https://annezarske.com/middel-voice-writing-workshop Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:03:57 +0000 annezarske.com https://annezarske.com/middel-voice-writing-workshop middel voice writing workshopNida Art Colony Lithuania &nbsp;17-28 March, 2025 with “Dynamics of the In-between”Study Course by ArtScience Interfaculty, Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal Conservatoire The Hague in collaboration with Vilnius Academy of Arts (Photography, Animation, and Media Art) Inspired by Jane Bennett’s discussion of the middle voice, in this workshop I encouraged to explore an alternative way of writing that situate the writer as neither the sole actor (active voice) nor entirely acted upon (passive voice), but rather as part of a shared process—’in the middle.’ Middle voice writing resists the human-centered tendency to dominate narratives and instead opens space for distributed agency, where humans and nonhumans co-create meaning. Bennett explains that the middle voice reflects activities where the writer is inside a process, influenced and influencing simultaneously.&nbsp; <img width="2048" height="1368" width_o="2048" height_o="1368" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e9cbd4e15b9bda43c4bdc50cc9ad21da0eb8b7697ec326ea45d3f48972e1a28/DSC05337.jpg" data-mid="234259919" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e9cbd4e15b9bda43c4bdc50cc9ad21da0eb8b7697ec326ea45d3f48972e1a28/DSC05337.jpg" /> Photo by Lewis Beal <img width="2048" height="1368" width_o="2048" height_o="1368" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d2bf1e51335f1e59adc2dd76e10135df4a6390580bd11026af6366a7e0c0072f/DSC05418.jpg" data-mid="234259920" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d2bf1e51335f1e59adc2dd76e10135df4a6390580bd11026af6366a7e0c0072f/DSC05418.jpg" />Photo by Lewis Beal <img width="2048" height="1368" width_o="2048" height_o="1368" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f18756e59b65d36d75fe72c57e87193718e71a0fbd9c049cbaa53c84fb3566a8/DSC05440.jpg" data-mid="234259921" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f18756e59b65d36d75fe72c57e87193718e71a0fbd9c049cbaa53c84fb3566a8/DSC05440.jpg" />Photo by Lewis Beal The wind changed.Letting go, getting hold. The bark beetle called the end of one,starting something new. Holding up, leaning in. Curious heads are reaching out.Giving ground, giving free. Who is touching whom? Balancing out what’s still to handle.Settle in, in the middle. Weathering with. Breathe in,breathe out. https://annezarske.com/for-bodies-without-borders Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:44:27 +0000 annezarske.com https://annezarske.com/for-bodies-without-borders for bodies without borders In this investigation, I explore the interplay between bodies and landscape, focusing on the transitional ecosystem of the Nieuwkoopse Plassen in the Netherlands. I tune in and experience the constantly evolving, constantly becoming life forms to be with the assemblage of bodies and to familiarise myself with the uncertain ground. As a temporal state, how does my body become an&nbsp;instrument for understanding the shifting moods, forces,&nbsp;and histories embedded in this landscape? <img width="4096" height="2160" width_o="4096" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0096f2d8a70902e59d7fd469c741b467a9fe2daaf019ea45400a5c8d0c0d9eb3/Sequenz-01.00_05_07_44.Standbild004.jpg" data-mid="225405267" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0096f2d8a70902e59d7fd469c741b467a9fe2daaf019ea45400a5c8d0c0d9eb3/Sequenz-01.00_05_07_44.Standbild004.jpg" />Photo by Ruben Dijkstal Through embodied ecological inquiry, I delve into bodies without borders. I tremble with the dynamics of time, space, and self, where land, water, and organic life merge. My work examines symbiotic relationships within a constantly shifting biosphere formed by minerals, plants, bacteria, and human bodies. By engaging with these landscapes through mapping, writing, movement, and sensory attunement, my research seeks to uncover how corporeal experiences and embodied practices can illuminate the histories, traces, and moods embedded in this uncanny terrain. It offers a philosophical composition that bridges the organic and elemental, the present and timeless, and the visible and invisible, inviting a deeper understanding of how to navigate and co-evolve with a constantly transforming biosphere. <img width="4096" height="2160" width_o="4096" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dc55a7b29bc874671baf03d07c2cc5a77d85b172127944de95f8badcbfef1258/Sequenz-01.00_01_36_12.Standbild001.jpg" data-mid="225405264" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dc55a7b29bc874671baf03d07c2cc5a77d85b172127944de95f8badcbfef1258/Sequenz-01.00_01_36_12.Standbild001.jpg" /> Photo by Ruben DijkstalWhere Am I? I am in this state. One of those you can be in—a state of heaviness at first—dense warmth pressing into me, around me. I feel soaked, the air thick with a potent, heady smell that clings to my skin. It is a moment of intensity, of being fully present in the weight of the now. Yet, it is not static. It shifts. The movement around me softens as though the tension has exhaled. The pressure ebbs, leaving space for something lighter to emerge. I am no longer tied down by the heaviness. Instead, I rise, feeling lighter and freer. I hold this moment, and it holds me. There is belonging here—a subtle harmony as though the space has been waiting for me, and I have been waiting for it. <img width="3177" height="1113" width_o="3177" height_o="1113" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d6af9e58570bc6509338c52eb721930942f54726f88d02784825d06f34641d52/Weathering.png" data-mid="225410363" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d6af9e58570bc6509338c52eb721930942f54726f88d02784825d06f34641d52/Weathering.png" /> A Living Archive To say hello to this place is to acknowledge its duality: not just alive but archival. It holds visible and invisible stories spanning thousands of years—a living archive of interactions and transformations. It is a portal between the living and the non-living worlds, where green meadows meet a polder system. Mills turn in quiet rotation, locks hold the water’s longing, and De Meije wends its way as a wiggly peat river, flowing with the excess of the past. This is the Nieuwkoopse Plassen, nestled in the Green Heart of the Netherlands. Here, an assemblage of bodies—lakes, reeds, grasslands, bridges, and former peatlands—form the Dutch tableau. It is a self-organised system in constant flux, deconstructing and reconstructing itself. Its gestures are deliberate, intra-acting in the ongoing process of becoming and engaging with other entities through motion, exchange, and transformation. <img width="4960" height="3507" width_o="4960" height_o="3507" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/96750d4daf6fda4e1f1f5f4c2264a2cd4c65bd50e394de37d3e44f79aa00c96a/Weather.jpg" data-mid="225409793" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/96750d4daf6fda4e1f1f5f4c2264a2cd4c65bd50e394de37d3e44f79aa00c96a/Weather.jpg" />Navigating Fluid Boundaries The swampy bog body I navigate has no borders or definitive edges. It is fluid, porous, and alive. This state and this place mirror my body—a performative agent, porous and seeking. I sense the dissolution of rigid lines, the fading of singularity into multiplicity. The bodies here— of water, Earth, and air—are subjects of curiosity, engaged in deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation. Their longing shapes their forms, their movements, their becoming. Finding myself among others: ducks, hares, ermines, otters, foxes, roe deer, and Nordic voles. Reeds and sundews, valerian and yellow lilies. Dotter flowers and bog myrtle, soft birches and club moss. These forms weave together in the rhythms of life, past and present. Borders dissolve as movements merge and morph, creating compositions of gestures that enfold me within them. I am part of the material body of this place. We are caught in a restless, endless longing, creation, and transformation rhythm. A Performative Landscape In this performative landscape, this Dutch tableau, the patterns of the land tell the stories of human adaptation. The subdivision patterns of Nieuwkoop trace their origins back to the Great Peat Mining around the year 1000. The northeastern areas display an irregular, block-shaped division, while linear, elongated plots dominate other regions. The cope subdivision—a system of uniform plots—reflected a growing precision in reclaiming land. Later, rectangular patterns of roads and drainage ditches emerged, remnants of the driers constructed to reclaim land post-mining. Peat rivers once dug to drain the land, became vital pathways. These riverbeds dug deep into the land and served as hubs of habitation, their elevated banks rising above the surrounding subsiding peatlands. The human effort to balance land and water continues—a delicate interplay of ecology and culture. The Harmonies of the Relational In-Between This space holds a balanced interplay between bodies—the harmonies of the relational in-between. It is a site of constant deconstruction and reconstruction, where togetherness becomes a performative act. Bodies without borders merge into each other, morphing as they engage in an ongoing process of becoming. As I stand here, I feel the echoes of this flux, the longing of the land and water to exist in harmony. The winter sky hangs heavy, occasionally punctuated by a light shower. At 3.3°C, the west wind remains silent, and atmospheric humidity wraps the area in a damp stillness. This is the Netherlands—a land shaped by water, peat, and human hands—a testament to the interconnectedness of all things. <img width="4096" height="2160" width_o="4096" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3044a3023142105cfb771827bfe84585da4da28d96bd75304ac09cb979dc8b1/Sequenz-01.00_03_44_38.Standbild002.jpg" data-mid="225405265" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c3044a3023142105cfb771827bfe84585da4da28d96bd75304ac09cb979dc8b1/Sequenz-01.00_03_44_38.Standbild002.jpg" /> Photo by Ruben Dijkstal <img width="4096" height="2160" width_o="4096" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/40853a0504e921aac78e7eb855ced576019513de3031146b432f0014b25b4e1c/Sequenz-01.00_05_02_14.Standbild003.jpg" data-mid="225405266" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/40853a0504e921aac78e7eb855ced576019513de3031146b432f0014b25b4e1c/Sequenz-01.00_05_02_14.Standbild003.jpg" />Photo by Ruben Dijkstal https://annezarske.com/green-wave Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:12:55 +0000 annezarske.com https://annezarske.com/green-wave green waveFieldwork, Waddengebied Marrum, Friesland, Netherlands September 2024“Dark Skies”Study Course by ArtScience Interfaculty a collaboration between the Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal Conservatoire The Hague How does one get to know a new site? How does one access the unspoken language, the embodied knowledge? &nbsp;How can one be in resonance with the surroundings? &nbsp; I applied practice-based research methods in which I tried to understand the landscape of the Wadden Sea as a temporal being, a temporal process. &nbsp; A first hello, attempting to tune in and experience the constantly evolving, constantly becoming life forms. &nbsp;Being with the assemblage of other forms of life and the material world. Getting familiar with uncertain ground. &nbsp;Engaging with the world. &nbsp;The approach is to shift sensory perception, allowing us to focus on one affect, one event, &nbsp;and quiet others: to experience a phenomenon. &nbsp;I tried to view research itself as a form of performative material intervention, where the research outcomes are not about what I have found (extracted) but about what I have done and am doing (infection/excitement). &nbsp;While exploring, engaging, and playing with the Waddengebied in Marrum, Friesland, I had colored pencils, pens, paper, watercolors, water, a calm body, and an open mind with me. &nbsp; <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6fa772b0c65786e679149b020b8995f9b46beeb2b520cbe7b63b680a07edcf0e/IMG_6547.JPG" data-mid="234273353" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6fa772b0c65786e679149b020b8995f9b46beeb2b520cbe7b63b680a07edcf0e/IMG_6547.JPG" />The sun is at my back. I breathe in and out, preparing myself for, the first steps on this uncertain ground, facing west. A soft breeze touches my left cheek. Waves of fragrant, spicy aromas drift past. Goeie – am I allowed to step on you? With calm determination, I open the heavy gate to unknown territories. Tentative first steps lead me to the edge — a line, a barrier. A bunny crosses by, showing how effortlessly it navigates the path, the grid, the constraints. Smooth movements: tap, tap — tap, tap — jump. Tap, tap—tap, tap — jump. Inspired by the bunny’s grace, I follow, crossing with ease. Curious cows greet me, accompanying me to the next step. I reach the first bridge. The reeds sway, whispering for me to cross. On the other side, I find myself walking along a dam, elevated yet feeling weightless. Left, right, straight — no other options. After 250 steps&nbsp; and passing through another gate, the landscape opens up, offering a view of vastness. A swarm of starlings catches my eye — a soft yet determined flutter, full of playful ease and lightness. Suddenly, the sky breaks open dramatically. Shy rays of sunshine peek, through the heavy grey clouds. The wind picks up, quickly pushing the clouds away. I pause, startled by the first green wave sweeping over me. A soft, warm green light caresses my whole body. Even with my eyes closed, I can feel it. Now I understand why green symbolizes hope. Open and optimistic. Is this being in resonance with the surroundings? Embraced by shades of green. I feel protected. The softness and smoothness stands out, softening the strong patterns and harsh edges. <img width="4961" height="7016" width_o="4961" height_o="7016" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/280f5c273fa9faf1842592eaf071bd5206955da479659f28e25af217536be3f3/Method-2.jpg" data-mid="234273646" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/280f5c273fa9faf1842592eaf071bd5206955da479659f28e25af217536be3f3/Method-2.jpg" /> <img width="5200" height="4160" width_o="5200" height_o="4160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/46843fc83237e20f8b89854731a0a779ae0891f02e44b18e8e570d30658a0b1f/_DSF1385.jpg" data-mid="234273589" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/46843fc83237e20f8b89854731a0a779ae0891f02e44b18e8e570d30658a0b1f/_DSF1385.jpg" /> <img width="4160" height="5200" width_o="4160" height_o="5200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06ec472c8972c0b0df50f9576625bb3e3c776fe0d9f2fbdae7be86990cd86f89/_DSF1394.jpg" data-mid="234273590" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/06ec472c8972c0b0df50f9576625bb3e3c776fe0d9f2fbdae7be86990cd86f89/_DSF1394.jpg" /> https://annezarske.com/matter-comes-to-matter Thu, 23 Jan 2025 12:56:53 +0000 annezarske.com https://annezarske.com/matter-comes-to-matter matter comes to matter Residency at Studio Immageria, Vizenca, Italy. Everything around and within us blobs, swims, nods, absorbs, shifts, and unwinds constantly. I chose to use rusted metal panels to connect the theory of New Materialism, the aesthetics and politics of Elemental Agency, reflecting the playfulness of Studio Immagineria. Morphing creatures appear out of the niche and towards the centre of the installation, asking for interaction. It depicts the unconscious we have with the elements that dance around us everyday. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c7c754eb168fb88b6bfe0e9044988e8a9d6b12030edc259ea52f666a0b95f07b/MctM_detail.jpg" data-mid="225404490" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c7c754eb168fb88b6bfe0e9044988e8a9d6b12030edc259ea52f666a0b95f07b/MctM_detail.jpg" /> <img width="2674" height="3565" width_o="2674" height_o="3565" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/65e01a0a67a5d529b03260ac24b3130344a364d4ca66e7afb6ba4b345bd3f652/MctM_mittel.jpg" data-mid="225404497" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/65e01a0a67a5d529b03260ac24b3130344a364d4ca66e7afb6ba4b345bd3f652/MctM_mittel.jpg" /> <img width="2842" height="3789" width_o="2842" height_o="3789" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/80a1a1a8679f0c35efbf259a29b8c6897864ab2ed69e74bc4f13341a3ea79941/MctM_weit.jpg" data-mid="225404498" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/80a1a1a8679f0c35efbf259a29b8c6897864ab2ed69e74bc4f13341a3ea79941/MctM_weit.jpg" />