The Ambassade van de Noordzee brings the non-human voices of the docks (such as plants and sea creatures) to the Ruigoord dike in three projects.

The first part, the Zeemond by Carmen Schabracq, stands on the Ruigoord dike overlooking the port. It is an instrument that translates the sounds of the sea for human ears and is shaped like an otolith - an ossicle (auditory bone) common to human and fish vertebrates. You can listen to sounds through the otolith, climb on it, hang and swing on it.

The second part involves the exploration of scents and sounds of life in the port by ecologist Maarten Erich, scent artist Frank Bloem and sound artist Harpo 't Hart. They focus on the extra-human voices in and around the port. Both in the ships, which carry fossil fuels and other organic material, as well as on the hitchhiking life such as oysters and crustaceans on the ships’ hulls.

Part three supplements Zeemond: a field station. Here the stories can be seen, heard and smelled, allowing us to increasingly experience and unravel the industrial landscape as a place of life.

A project by Frank Bloem, Maarten Erich, Harpo ‘t Hart and Carmen Schabracq.

The Ambassade van de Noordzee is a collective of people and non-people established in 2018 who are committed to granting a voice to the North Sea’s diversity. The group explores the possibility of viewing the North Sea as a legal entity to ensure it can fully participate in society. Ambassade van de Noordzee tools our imagination to explore and represent the depth, diversity and undulating movements of the North Sea and invites artists, philosophers, scientists and designers to develop novel stories, perspectives and actions related to the North Sea.