The investigative nature of Chapter 2WO translates into a series of explorations about the Hembrugterrein, which aim to increase our knowledge of the site and the programme's theoretical framework.

Join us on November 10 to listen to Annelie David during this afternoon full of poetry. On this afternoon she recites from her latest work 's c h o k b o s'; poems she wrote when she discovered the mysterious shockforest in its then wild and natural state. During her lecture, she is accompanied musically by Kim Soepnel on double bass

In 2002, Annelie David quit her career as a dancer and choregrapher, after which she devoted herself entirely to writing poetry. Nature and trees play an important role in her work. In 2015, David discovered a small forest on the outskirts of Zaandam near the North Sea Canal. She found out this forest was planted in order to camouflage the munitions factory at the Hembrug site and to absorb any shock waves caused by explosions. She began to observe this small forest and spent many days in this forest for a year. She investigated the nature in all seasons and at all times of the day.

These intensive observations inspired her to write poems that explore an apparently harmless nature reserve - a small forest - that serves as the camouflage of a formerly forbidden site where munition tests took place. These poems are now bundled in her latest book ‘s c h o k b o s’, that will be published at Uitgeverij Oevers from 22 January 2020 on.