Field Docket
The FieldARTS “DOCKET” gathers 30 collectively authored concepts and phrases drawn from a week of creative fieldwork in the ecologies of Ijmuiden, Netherlands, where the North Sea mixes with the brackish water of the Ij River. Studying the unique ecosystem of this logistical space, twenty-two researchers and artists consider the impact of the shipping industry on the sediments, soils, and marine communities home to this fragile ecosystem. The book serves as a field guide to critical care for those gathered to this transition zone, where the largest sea-lock on earth invites more salt into the Dutch waterways than it has known for half a millennium.