As part of the exhibition Van wie is de berg?, Dear Hunters Marlies Vermeulen and Remy Kroese (Institute of Cartopology) will host a programme of lectures and workshops at Bureau Europa on Thursday, October 15 and Friday, October 16, as part of their programme Turning the Tide Atlas.
19:00 – 21:00 | Publieke lancering: Turning the Tide Atlas & afsluitend evenement
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Turning the Tide
Three years ago, Turning the Tide (TTT) began with a simple question: What kind of world do we want to live in? Now, the European collaboration project is coming to an end. Artists, residents, urban planners and policymakers will come together one last time to explore the role that art and culture can play in addressing the climate crisis. Project partners from Gdańsk (Poland), Stockholm (Sweden), Athens (Greece), Vienna (Austria) and the Netherlands (Marlies Vermeulen and Remy Kroese from Dear Hunter) will also be in Maastricht to engage in dialogue with participants and visitors.
Programme
19:00–21:00 | Public Launch: Turning the Tide Atlas
Welcome & introduction to the exhibition: Welcome remarks by Joep Vossebeld (curator) and Floor van Spaendonck (Director, Bureau Europa).
Launch of the digital TTT exhibition: Opening of the digital exhibition featuring the 42 site-specific artworks created as part of TTT.
Presentation of the TTT Atlas: Official unveiling and presentation of the Turning the Tide Atlas by Dr. Marlies Vermeulen & Remy Kroese (Dear Hunter). The Turning the Tide Atlas is the result of three years of research and fieldwork across Europe, including the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion. Through an artistic approach, it documents both the causes and consequences of the climate crisis, drawing on local stories, perspectives and, at times, startling insights.
Official handover: Presentation of the TTT Atlas to Matthias Kindel (Deputy Director of the EGTC Meuse-Rhine Euroregion).
Closing remarks: Matthias Kindel on the vital role of culture and creative practices in addressing major ecological and societal challenges.
Three accessible sessions exploring landscape, extraction and artistic research, curated by Dear Hunter.
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10:00–12:00 | Talks
Dr. Anja Brüll (coordinator of the Three Countries Park)
Cross-border climate and landscape management and the impact of collaboration with cultural actors and programmes (such as their collaboration with Dear Hunter).
Dr. Ties van der Werff (lecturer at the Research Centre What Art Knows / Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts)
Socially engaged art and its impact.
12:00–13:00 | Vegan lunch
13:00–16:00 | Workshop: Mounting Mountains
by Marlies Vermeulen & Remy Kroese (Dear Hunter / Institute of Cartopology)
Since December 2025, the garden of the Institute of Cartopology in Vaals has been home to Waste Peak: sixty cubic metres of soil that became waste the moment it was excavated to create a retention pond. Nothing about the soil itself changed; it was simply moved. Around the Vaalserberg, there are plenty of examples of such mountains: the Wilhelminaberg, the Observant and - in Germany - the Sophienhöhe. All of them began as surplus material resulting from resource extraction.
In this workshop, we explore how the value of soil shifts depending on where it is located. We ask ourselves when a pile of earth becomes a mountain, when surplus becomes a landmark, and who or what determines what has ‘value’.
Working hands-on with sand, clay and stone, we explore four lessons in how to engage with extraction and discover how we can relate to it personally, even when the scale of such interventions is unimaginably large.
16:00–17:00 | Closing
The language of the programme on both days will be English. Registration is required. Please register via info@bureau-europa.nl. Admission is free.
Turning the Tide (TTT) is a European cooperation project co-funded by the European Union through Creative Europe. Partners: Intercult (Sweden), Artit (Greece), Wiener Bildungsakademie (Austria), Dear Hunter (The Netherlands), Urban Culture Institute (Poland), in collaboration with Fablevision (Scotland) and the River//Cities Network.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.