Image: ‘t Visschersseiland, postcard of Hoorn (before 1900), Beeldbank Vereniging Oud Hoorn

Critical walk

Mirjam Linschooten & Skye Maule-O’Brien are happy to invite you to join a critical walk, developed within the context of the research fellowship Breath & Breeze: Tongueless Whispers of the Wind at Hotel Maria Kapel. Critical walking approaches research as an embodied experience, informed by feminist, anti-racist and queer methodologies. Together we will walk through Hoorn’s hidden histories, including locations of disappeared windmills, and engage with the unseen through the lens of wind.

📅 Practical information

• Date: Saturday, 27 september

• Time: 15:00 tot 16:00

• Entrance: Free (sign-up via danisha@hotelmariakapel.nl)

• Gather: Hotel Maria Kapel, Korte Achterstraat 2A

Wind touches everything—carrying with it stories of movement, power, and connection—and yet, it is often invisible, intangible, and overlooked. By tuning into both presence and absence, the walk will pay specific attention to anti/decolonial stories, exploring questions such as: What does it mean to walk with wind? How might we relate to and sense what seems invisible or absent? What narratives reside below the surface?

 Through shared readings, exercises, and conversation we will engage critically and creatively with the role of the wind while making visible hidden stories. Together we will trace how the wind moves and touches all of us, and experiment with ways of collaborating with what cannot be grasped yet continually shapes our world.

Find more information on this fellowship residency Breath & Breeze: Tongueless Whispers of the Wind, here.