Marjolijn Dijkman & Henry Vega
Between the Lines / Natura Rebellis
Marjolijn Dijkman - concept, cinematography & editing
Henry Vega - sound composition
Léo Ghysels - assistant editing
Marjolijn Dijkman, Wim Dijkman - production sculptural installation
Lukas Pol - production and development robotics
Documentation Center Verdun Memorial, Private Collection - archival images
Aerial LiDAR images & tree trunks donated by : National Forestry Office (ONF) Verdun
Anat Spiegel, Kevin Walton, Jannes Coessens – voice (Natura Rebellis)
Thanks to: Orlando Aguilar Velazquez, Isabelle Bergot (Verdun Memorial), Wim & Els Dijkman, Sebastiaan Helbers, Wim Janssen, Wendy Morris, Rebecca Theeuwsen, Out of Sight, Guillaume Rouard (ONF Verdun), Maarten Vanden Eynde, Noël Varoqui
With the support of: Deep Histories Fragile Memories, Luca School of Arts / KU Leuven, Mondrian Fund, National Forestry Office (ONF) Verdun, Out of Sight, V2_Lab for Unstable Media
Ambassade van het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in België 
Between the Lines/Natura Rebellis is an installation by artist Marjolijn Dijkman and composer Henry Vega. In dialogue with a poetic film essay, a robot orchestra drums on dead tree trunks from a protected forest near Verdun. After the First World War, this area was designated a “Red Zone”: it was ecologically devastated and is still littered with ammunition and the forgotten bodies of 80,000 soldiers. This multimedia artwork shows how a landscape struggles with the aftermath of human conflict, against a backdrop of drought and climate change. Henry Vega provided the music for the robot orchestra and also wrote the occasionally intervening tandem work Natura Rebellis for three singers.
The installation Between the Lines is continuously accessible from 14:00 to 18:00.
Performances of Natura Rebellis by Anat Spiegel, Kevin Walton and Jannes Coessens at 15:00 and 17:00.
Installation © Marjolijn Dijkman