a wind line

A Wind Line is an artistic research project that uses fiction to examine the transformation of contemporary landscapes into sites of power production.

A Wind Line explores the relationship between wind, industry and landscape in the north of the Netherlands — a territory shaped by multiple forces, where energy infrastructures, agriculture, port zones and natural areas coexist in sustained tension. In the Eemshaven region and along the Wadden Sea, a UNESCO World Heritage site, the wind — the project’s conceptual protagonist — acts as a revealer: invisible yet constant, it connects what our gaze tends to separate and guides our perception of these fragmented spaces.

Initiated in 2023 within The Turbine Plays, a project by sound artist Frouke Wiarda (NL) dedicated to narratives of the energy transition, A Wind Line developed in the field, attuned to the rhythm of the winds and of movement. Together with composer and musician Dienne (BE), we traced a line of windacross the north of the Netherlands, guided by air currents — an inaugural gesture that exposes the tensions of a controlled yet ever-shifting territory. Each action — filming, recording, drawing — was oriented by the wind, which became a principle of attention and composition.

From this field practice emerged an audiovisual and textile installation conceived as an open, perforated space. Its elements — images, sounds, texts and silk veils — do not seek to represent the wind, but to make its circulation perceptible. At the heart of the installation, the film weaves a fragmentary narrative in which objects — a propeller, a horse, a coffee pot, bones — appear, digitally modelled and inserted into live-action footage. Set in motion by the wind, these improbable presences — at once concrete and strange — blur the boundary between observation and fiction without illustrating anything. Around them, sounds, textiles and words form responsive surfaces crossed by flows, evoking the materiality of soil, living matter and infrastructures, where particles and organisms participate in a shared political and sensory field.

A Wind Line offers an experience of landscape grounded in circulation: the wind illuminates modes of cohabitation between humans, technologies and environments. In the Eemshaven region — where wind farms, natural gas reserves, energy terminals and migratory bird routes intersect — it reveals the tensions of a territory caught between industrial, ecological and geopolitical interests. Coveted, captured and instrumentalised, the wind here exceeds its natural dimension to become a political force — both a driver and a symptom of how we inhabit the world. A Wind Line seeks to make perceptible these invisible forces — natural and constructed — that shape our contemporary territories. The wind acts as a critical agent, revealing the landscape’s precarious balances.

Concept and Realisation : Mira Sanders & Cédric Noël
Music : Dienne
Voice : Tara McKenna
Suspension system design : Andreas Nonneman
Fabrication suspension system : Maxime Prananto

Works + Words Biennale
Kunsthal, School of Architecture, Town Hall
Aarhus
Denmark
2026

Supported by The Turbine Plays, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Vlaame Overheid & Work + Words Biennale 2026