Kidzina (wash margin)

Kidzina, research project for the ZOEpolis-water interdisciplinary and interspecies initiative, Wyspa Progress Foundation, 2022-2023

Curators of the initiative: Agata Szydłowska, Małgorzata Gurowska
1st plein-air workshop: 07-11.09.2022, ARTLab Wyspa, Gdańsk

the project is part of “productive decay” series

Kidzina, research project for the ZOEpolis-water interdisciplinary and interspecies initiative, Wyspa Progress Foundation, 2022-2023

Curators of the initiative: Agata Szydłowska, Małgorzata Gurowska
1st plein-air workshop: 07-11.09.2022, ARTLab Wyspa, Gdańsk

Utagawa Toyokuni I, Picking Clams ca. 1791 [part]

In the intertidal zone between the Baltic Sea and the Vistula River on the Sobieszewska Island there is a fantastic ‘Kidzina’ (wash margin).

Photo: Julia Olenkiewicz

We are fascinated by the possibilities of creating multi-species architecture from these marine treasures.

Phot. Julia Olenkiewicz

Kidzina’ is under legal protection as a natural habitat, but is often treated as waste and disposed of. The beach that is the subject of our project is unique, the currents hardly bring human waste but still provide amber. The proximity to the estuary means that this perishable habitat is made up of components from the freshwater and saltwater worlds.

Photo: Małgorzata Kuciewicz, 2022

Photo: Julia Olenkiewicz, 2022

Kidzina is a word in the Kashubian language.

Wisłoujście – Weichselmünde map, 1927 [part]

the project is part of “productive decay” series