https://z-o-l-t.com/intro 2026-04-14T11:23:57+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2605544065627468296139563270439/horizontal.png Performance Súdwâlfulkan Residency at Hi-Lo, Vlieland (2025) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2861703366141795978058182773435/Debora---Susanne---residentie-2---beeld-heleen-haijtema---webformaat-15.jpg Performance Súdwâlfulkan Residency at Hi-Lo, Vlieland (2025) https://z-o-l-t.com/zuidwalvulkaan 2026-04-05T17:55:32+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2605521836802797386139708096807/vertical.png Performance Súdwâlfulkan Residency at Hi-Lo, Vlieland (2025) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2861690295627495574860547050171/Debora---Susanne---residentie-2---beeld-heleen-haijtema---webformaat-14.jpg For our project via Artist in Space by Noordenaars, we researched folklore stories and witchcraft from the Wadden region. During our residency at het Lage Noorden, we heard a story about a woman who feels attracted to the Súdwâlfulkaan, which lies deep beneath the seabed south of Vlieland. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2861690295609048830786837498555/Debora---Susanne---residentie-2---beeld-heleen-haijtema---webformaat-9.jpg Performance Súdwâlfulkan Residency at Hi-Lo, Vlieland (2025) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2861705353464875271009307019963/Debora---Susanne---residentie-2---beeld-heleen-haijtema---webformaat-12.jpg This woman believes this is the belly button of Mother Earth and wants to be as close as possible to this place because of its energetic forces. Based on this story, we created a textile object in which we performed. Where the volcano, her energy, and bodies that have turned to ash and are reborn come together. Photo made by Heleen Haijtema https://z-o-l-t.com/project-002 2026-04-05T17:55:33+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2605544065627468296139563270439/horizontal.png Performane After burn Residency at Hi-Lo, Vlieland (2025) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2861716175025925183833247926971/Debora---Susanne---residentie-2---beeld-heleen-haijtema---webformaat-4.jpg Performane After burn Residency at Hi-Lo, Vlieland (2025) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2861716175007478439759538375355/Debora---Susanne---residentie-2---beeld-heleen-haijtema---webformaat-2.jpg For our project through the Noordenaars, Artist in Space programme, we researched folklore stories from the Wadden region. During our time on Vlieland, we came into contact with a modern witch. She showed us her practice and explained that the circle is an important shape for her during her rituals. It symbolises safety, connection, protection, the cycle of life and femininity. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2861716175062818671980667030203/Debora---Susanne---residentie-2---beeld-heleen-haijtema---webformaat-8.jpg Photo made by Heleen Haijtema https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2861716175044371927906957478587/Debora---Susanne---residentie-2---beeld-heleen-haijtema---webformaat-5.jpg In a performance inspired by her story, we found support in one another within a circle of fire. In it, we memorialised all the witches, and those unconventional characters who were persecuted during the witch hunts. https://z-o-l-t.com/project-003-salt-circle 2026-04-05T17:55:33+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2605521836802797386139708096807/vertical.png Performance Salt circle Residency at het Lage Noorden, Marrum (2025) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2861729780311336283870784998075/Debora---Susanne---residentie-1---beeld-heleen-haijtema---website-formaat-1.jpg Performance Salt circle Residency at het Lage Noorden, Marrum (2025) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2861729780329783027944494549691/Debora---Susanne---residentie-1---beeld-heleen-haijtema---website-formaat-2.jpg During field research, we came across Dobbes, freshwater sources on the salty salt marshes, forming round, circular shapes. We incorporated these shapes, the landscape her answer, into our first performances. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2861729780348229772018204101307/Debora---Susanne---residentie-1---beeld-heleen-haijtema---website-formaat-3.jpg Photo made by Heleen Haijtema https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2861729780366676516091913652923/Debora---Susanne---residentie-1---beeld-heleen-haijtema---website-formaat-4.jpg For our project via Artist in Space by Noordenaars, we researched folklore stories from the Wadden region. In the first phase of the project, we searched for a language to communicate with the landscape. Based on the book Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer we asked the Salt Marsh of Friesland for permission to work together with her. https://z-o-l-t.com/project-004-sweet-circle 2026-04-05T17:55:32+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2605521836802797386139708096807/vertical.png Performance Sweet circle Residency at het Lage Noorden, Marrum (2025) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2861731773223779031155903384251/Debora---Susanne---residentie-1---beeld-heleen-haijtema---website-formaat-6.jpg Performance Sweet circle Residency at het Lage Noorden, Marrum (2025) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2861731773242225775229612935867/Debora---Susanne---residentie-1---beeld-heleen-haijtema---website-formaat-7.jpg During field research, we came across Dobbes, freshwater sources on the salty salt marshes, forming round, circular shapes. We incorporated these shapes, the landscape her answer, into our first performances. Photo made by Heleen Haijtema https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2861731773168438798934774729403/Debora---Susanne---residentie-1---beeld-heleen-haijtema---website-formaat-5.jpg For our project via Artist in Space by Noordenaars, we researched folklore stories from the Wadden region. In the first phase of the project, we searched for a language to communicate with the landscape. Based on the book Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, we asked the Salt Marsh of Friesland for permission to work together with her. https://z-o-l-t.com/project-005-profound-play 2026-04-05T17:55:33+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2605521836802797386139708096807/vertical.png Performance Play Cafe Performance Play Café at the Grand Theatre, Groningen (2026) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2861737890920430380265310866107/IMG_9807.JPG Performance Play Cafe Performance Play Café at the Grand Theatre, Groningen (2026) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2866577072830546084890250660539/IMG_9830.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2866577072812099340816541108923/IMG_9827.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2866577072885886317111379315387/IMG_9862.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2866577072756759108595412454075/IMG_9814.JPG Photos taken by Joy de Vegt https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2866577072793652596742831557307/IMG_9822.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2866577072867439573037669763771/IMG_9842.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2866577072848992828963960212155/IMG_9832.JPG For Profound Play and their Play Café program in Grand Theater, we performed using clay sculptures, light and shadow play. During the performance we invited children aged 0 to 4 to play with the clay, feel it and discover the shapes it can take. A sensory play experience incorporating sound and a focus on the tactile. https://z-o-l-t.com/project-006 2026-04-05T17:55:33+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2605521836802797386139708096807/vertical.png Performance Zeewiefke Residency Bierumer School, Bierum (2025) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2866582348414883725084917320379/2025.08.01---Bierum-Gronigen-Museum---Export---Ravi-Steneker-15.jpg The wind howled along the dike. The sea lay there; vast, wild, alive and she stood facing it. On the edge between land and water. After three centuries. She was the sea woman, the being once born from the sea, yet drowned in her own loneliness, trapped in the whirlpool of lost dreams. The sea smelled different from the whirlpool. Raw. Salty. Deep. She breathed in, and it stung her lungs, her throat, as if she had forgotten what true freedom tasted like. She looked at the waves. There she heard her name whispered, not in words, but in sounds only she could understand. The sea still knew her. The sea wanted her back. The whirlpool was a thing of the past. That dark depth filled with echoes of lost voices, the curse, the waiting, the songs no one heard. It was all over. Someone, or something had listened to her. Perhaps they were the voices of children, soft, pure, new. They had opened something. Not just a passage to the sea, but to the world. They had given her a voice not to lure, but to speak freely. And now, on the edge of the tidal flats, she spoke it. “The time is over… and the sea has returned.” The words rolled from her tongue like waves over sand, soft yet unmistakable. And the sea answered. She moved. Slowly. Hesitant at first, then faster. Over the shells. Through the mud. Her fingertips touched the foam of the surf. The water pulled at her, recognised her. With every step she grew lighter. Stronger. As if the sea was taking her back as its lost daughter. Then came the leap. She dove not like a human, but like something ancient and wild and home. The water closed around her like arms. No ripple remained. No trace. Only the echo of a voice, somewhere in the distance:“The time is over… and the sea has returned…” And if you stand on the dike on a stormy night, and you think you see something moving between the waves… listen closely. You might hear her sing. Not of revenge but of freedom. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2866582348488670701379755526843/2025.08.01---Bierum-Gronigen-Museum---Export---Ravi-Steneker-75.jpg Performance Zeewiefke Residency Bierumer School, Bierum (2025) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2866582348507117445453465078459/2025.08.01---Bierum-Gronigen-Museum---Export---Ravi-Steneker-95.jpg The children felted her tail using local wool from Wad en Wolletje, and we carried her two-part tail from one side of the dike to the sea. There, by the sea, we presented the reimagined story to parents and other visitors together with the children. Thanks to Groningen Museum Young and Eljafoundation. Photos made by Ravi Steneker https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2866582348525564189527174630075/2025.08.01---Bierum-Gronigen-Museum---Export---Ravi-Steneker-103.jpg During our residency at Bierumer School, we worked with 14 children from Northeast Groningen to retell the story of the Sea Maiden of Oudeschip. In the old stories, she is seen as an angry mermaid who takes revenge on young men once every seven years. What happens when you listen to someone who is angry? What if you try to understand what it must feel like to be locked up in fresh water for centuries, when she might actually prefer to swim in salt water? https://z-o-l-t.com/project-007 2026-04-05T17:55:33+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2605521836802797386139708096807/vertical.png Performance Paradigm Paradigm Festival Performance, Groningen (2025) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2866587290260727583726376143547/ParadigmFestival2025byAlwinvanWijngaarden-4848.jpeg During the Paradigm Festival performance, we collaborated with the performers from Alter a Go. The story revolves around two worlds: one of mermaids from the coastal region and the stereotypical perceptions surrounding them: women who are seductive, mysterious, and untrustworthy. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2866587290316067815947504798395/ParadigmFestival2025byAlwinvanWijngaarden-4785.jpg The other world consists of water people who exist somewhere between humans and aquatic creatures. These two worlds met on terrain and discovered their differences and similarities through a long embrace in the middle of the festival and a dancing crowd. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2866587290334514560021214350011/ParadigmFestival2025byAlwinvanWijngaarden-4902.jpg Performance Paradigm Paradigm Festival Performance, Groningen (2025) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2866587290205387351505247488699/ParadigmFestival2025byAlwinvanWijngaarden-0325.jpeg Photos made by Aileen de Ruijter & Alwin van Wijngaarden https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2866587290297621071873795246779/ParadigmFestival2025byAlwinvanWijngaarden-0150.jpg The world may consist of different backgrounds, but we have more in common than we think. You understand this when you find each other, discover each other, give each other space, and listen to one another. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2866587290279174327800085695163/NikonF6KodakGold200ParadigmFestivalAlterAGo-0339.jpg https://z-o-l-t.com/project-008 2026-04-05T18:04:53+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2605521836802797386139708096807/vertical.png Matriarchy Exhibition and performance in Galerie Noord, Groningen (2024) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2866592672688606898846765763259/WEB---Debora-Westra---Widde-juffer-2.jpg The performance revolved around gratitude and reciprocity: for what exists and for what is created by human hands. Through organic forms and artificial structures, we expressed the tension between nature and human intervention. In matriarchal societies, the focus lies more on harmony, collective existence, and fair distribution. This contrasts with patriarchal societies, where male power and leadership tend to dominate. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2866598034493026339559876676283/Matriarchaat_43.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2866598034345452386970200263355/_DSC0465.jpeg Matriarchy Exhibition and performance in Galerie Noord, Groningen (2024) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2866598034456132851412457573051/Matriarchaat_17.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2866598034474579595486167124667/Matriarchaat_32.jpeg Supported by Stichting Stokroos. Photos made by Lisa Jasperina Bommerson https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2874813266306831881842075978427/Widde-juffer.png During the exhibition MATRIARCHAAT, we performed with two cubic meters of Groningen clay, shaping the emergence of a world centered on coexistence. The work explores togetherness and the ability to live with one another. In the performance, we examined how nature offers what it has to give, and how this relates to the artificial act of constructing a livable world, and how these two can meet. https://z-o-l-t.com/project-009-matriarchy 2026-04-05T18:04:54+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2605521836802797386139708096807/vertical.png Matriarchy Exhibition and performance in Galerie Noord, Groningen (2024) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2866592347306488182683984808635/WEB---Debora-Westra---Moeder-aarde-3.jpg The performance revolved around gratitude and reciprocity: for what exists and for what is created by human hands. Through organic forms and artificial structures, we expressed the tension between nature and human intervention. In matriarchal societies, the focus lies more on harmony, collective existence, and fair distribution. This contrasts with patriarchal societies, where male power and leadership tend to dominate. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2866592347380275158978823015099/WEB---Debora-Westra---Moeder-aarde.jpg Matriarchy Exhibition and performance in Galerie Noord, Groningen (2024) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2866592672707053642920475314875/WEB---Debora-Westra--Moeder-aarde-2.jpg Supported by Stichting Stokroos. Photos made by Lisa Jasperina Bommerson https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2866592849297734660542012934843/WEB-Debora-Westra---Moeder-Aarde-.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2866598034419239363265038469819/Matriarchaat_04.jpeg During the exhibition MATRIARCHAAT, we performed with two cubic meters of Groningen clay, shaping the emergence of a world centered on coexistence. The work explores togetherness and the ability to live with one another. In the performance, we examined how nature offers what it has to give, and how this relates to the artificial act of constructing a livable world, and how these two can meet. https://z-o-l-t.com/profile 2026-04-05T17:55:33+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2605527990027877821213711991079/square.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2861739388722262189186063878843/Foto-sZolt_SVDB-13.jpg https://z-o-l-t.com/middle-nav 2026-03-31T18:55:04+00:00 always 0.5 https://z-o-l-t.com/bottom-nav 2026-04-05T18:04:53+00:00 always 0.5 https://z-o-l-t.com/top-nav-(mobile) 2026-03-31T18:40:35+00:00 always 0.5