Midnight Marsh Collective

We are gathering knowledge and impressions of the marshes which sit forgotten and culverted underneath the city. We want to welcome them back to the surface in the spring, but first, we need to meet them where they are. Come with us. 

Over many months we will be gathering at the marshes of Gent (Bourgoyen-Ossemeersen / Wondelgem). We will listen, walk, search, rest and eat. We will question the role of this marginal ‘wilderness’ at the edge of the city, and what it has to say to its urban counterparts, what it might have to tell us about ourselves. 

What does the city need from the marsh? And what does the marsh need from the city?

What is the marsh saying that the city needs to hear?

What bits of the marsh remind you of yourself? – if you were a bit of this marshland, what would you be?

What are the possibilities for radical hospitality with the more than human world in this context?

To help us answer these questions, we would like you to help us gather sounds, textures, feelings, images, smells, which can go some way to answering these questions. 

In the spring we will bring them to the city.