ALKERSUM.- From January to June 2012 a crocheted coral reef will be created as a collective, cross-border installation. The project is open to all interested. On 13 and 14 January 2012, a lecture and a workshop led by Margaret Wertheim of the Institute For Figuring will take place at the Museum Kunst der Westküste to kick off the project. The workshop serves to provide instruction on crocheting corals, anemones, sea snails and other marine organisms. Following the workshop, weekly crocheting sessions are scheduled at the museum’s café. In the summer of 2012 (10 June – 16 September, 2012), the Föhr Reef will be shown as part of a special exhibition at the museum along with additional Sub-Reefs and other crocheted sea creatures of the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project. In nature, coral reefs are special ecosystems that are considered to be the largest structure on earth created by living beings. Modeled on them, the c