The Tidal Protocols are instructions for experiences and interactions at specific locations that guests can carry out on their own or in groups. The Tidal Protocols have been collected in a publication – a poetic travel guide, which comes in a printed and digital version.
A pocket-sized book
Find it at Varde Library or stories in Blåvand.
Pdf-version for smart phone
About the work
The Tidal Protocols are created by performance artist Nana Francisca Schottländer, drawing on years of research into landscapes, geological processes, and the relationships between human and more-than-human bodies and worlds.
The protocols are developed using Nana Francisca Schottländer’s Going Visiting-method (inspired, in part, by Donna J. Haraway), which has evolved through years of collaboration involving various geographers and landscape types.
The method establishes a framework for exploring specific sites through co-creative encounters between human and non-human beings and modes of existence that inhabit them. These encounters give rise to new understandings, relationships, and sensory, aesthetic mappings.
Visiting is not an easy practice; it demands the ability to find others actively interesting, even, or especially others most people already claim to know all too completely, to ask questions that one's interlocutors truly find interesting, to cultivate the wild virtue of curiosity, to attune one's ability to sense and respond - and to do all this politely!
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The Tidal Protocols are organized in collaboration with Varde Library, Blåvand Ho Erhverv, and Vardemuseerne.