Visitors are invited to take part in developing protocols for the Varde River (Varde Å) and Ho Bay (Ho Bugt), as Nana-Francisca Schottländer hosts workshops in Ho and at Janderup Ladeplads. In the workshops, participants work both individually and collectively. Through embodied and attentive actions, immersive situations emerge in dialogue with the landscape, inviting participants to listen, respond, and engage in a relationship with the site.
Based on the two workshops, Nana-Francisca Schottländer develops protocols that invite participants to engage with the different landscapes in a variety of ways, grounded in what we discover and explore together. In addition, she creates protocols for other locations within the tidal area.
The protocols are developed through Nana-Francisca Schottländer’s method Going Visiting (partly inspired by Donna J. Haraway), which has evolved through many years of collaborations across diverse geographies and types of landscapes. The method creates a framework for exploring specific sites through co-creative encounters between human and more-than-human beings and modes of existence that inhabit them. Through these encounters, new understandings, relationships, and sensory, aesthetic mappings emerge.
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!
INFO
The Tidal Protocols are carried out in collaboration with Varde Library, Blåvand Ho Business Association, and Varde Museums.
WANT TO JOIN?
Everyone is welcome to take part as we develop protocols for the Varde River (Varde Å) and Ho Bay (Ho bugt). Sign up at: aann@varde.dk
The only requirements are curiosity, the physical ability to move through the landscape, a willingness to get wet or muddy—and an openness to step beyond what you think you already know.
Participants should wear clothing and footwear suitable for the weather—for example, rain gear and rubber boots if it’s raining—and preferably layers that can be added or removed as needed.
On the day, participants will be provided with cotton coveralls with legs, to be worn over their outer clothing, so please avoid skirts or long coats. Participants should bring a water bottle. Snacks, tea and coffee, as well as notebooks and pens, will be provided.
Please note that the workshop on May 5 will be filmed for a communication film. Participation requires consent to be included in cover images for the film.