What do YOU see when you see the sea and what would YOU like to share or tell others about the sea?
With a deadline of February 28th, the Time and Tide Bell charity is inviting you to create and submit your own short films or audio content, recordings which share what you feel about the sea.
COTIDAL is an ambitious new creative artwork by the Devon based artist Tania Kovats, commissioned by the Time and Tide Bell Organisation. Tania’s ambition is to create a 24 hour and 50-minute-long film, the length of a lunar day. Her film will track the movement of high tide around the UK. Made up of community contributions, films and sound recordings, the film will be edited with Kovats’ own filmed material and woven together to create a cinematic celebration of our island's tides.
The first chapter of this film is being made in North Devon, where the inaugural Time and Tide Bell was placed on the seawall in Appledore. The hour-long film will be the opening episode of this exciting national project. The project and film will gather together people’s feelings about, and responses to, the sea which surrounds our island. It will be a visual and community driven representation of how the tide is a wave that connects us. The film will be screened, for free, in north Devon later in 2022. After which it will be available to view online.
Tania is offering an open invitation for you to share what you see when you see the sea. As an artist her work “Addresses our relationship with water, rivers, seas, oceans and our liquid selves. We live on a small island, with a dynamic coastline, and I believe this shapes who we are and how we think. We all have a relationship with the sea. COTIDAL hopes to help us share our thoughts and feelings about the sea with each other. As land based creatures, we forget how important the health of our seas is to our planetary survival. COTIDAL hopes to explore both personal and environmental thoughts about our collective waters.”
Film and audio recordings, up to 2 minutes long, can be submitted for inclusion in the film. Content can be uploaded to the Time and Tide Bell website - https://www.timeandtidebell.org/cotidal-upload/. Excerpts of submitted content may be included in the hour-long film.
With a deadline of February 28th, the Time and Tide Bell charity is inviting you to create and submit your own short films or audio content, recordings which share what you feel about the sea.
COTIDAL is an ambitious new creative artwork by the Devon based artist Tania Kovats, commissioned by the Time and Tide Bell Organisation. Tania’s ambition is to create a 24 hour and 50-minute-long film, the length of a lunar day. Her film will track the movement of high tide around the UK. Made up of community contributions, films and sound recordings, the film will be edited with Kovats’ own filmed material and woven together to create a cinematic celebration of our island's tides.
The first chapter of this film is being made in North Devon, where the inaugural Time and Tide Bell was placed on the seawall in Appledore. The hour-long film will be the opening episode of this exciting national project. The project and film will gather together people’s feelings about, and responses to, the sea which surrounds our island. It will be a visual and community driven representation of how the tide is a wave that connects us. The film will be screened, for free, in north Devon later in 2022. After which it will be available to view online.
Tania is offering an open invitation for you to share what you see when you see the sea. As an artist her work “Addresses our relationship with water, rivers, seas, oceans and our liquid selves. We live on a small island, with a dynamic coastline, and I believe this shapes who we are and how we think. We all have a relationship with the sea. COTIDAL hopes to help us share our thoughts and feelings about the sea with each other. As land based creatures, we forget how important the health of our seas is to our planetary survival. COTIDAL hopes to explore both personal and environmental thoughts about our collective waters.”
Film and audio recordings, up to 2 minutes long, can be submitted for inclusion in the film. Content can be uploaded to the Time and Tide Bell website - https://www.timeandtidebell.org/cotidal-upload/. Excerpts of submitted content may be included in the hour-long film.
Remember the deadline for submitting your films or audio is February 28th 2022.
To find out more and to take part in COTIDAL
visit our website https://timeandtidebell.org/cotidal/.
Photo credit Tania Kovats
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Time and Tide Bell Organisation: Is a national charity set up to support and promote a series of Time and Tide Bells installed around the UK coastline. In 2009, the first bell was installed on the seawall in Appledore. Since then, six more bells have been installed: at Aberdyfi (Gwynedd), Bosta Beach (Isle of Lewis), Cemaes Bay (Anglesey), Mablethorpe (Lincolnshire), Morecambe Bay (Lancashire), Trinity Buoy Wharf (London). Six more bells are due to be installed in 2022, in Brixham (Devon), Ventnor (Isle of Wight), Harwich (Essex), Redcar (Yorkshire), Happisburgh (Norfolk) and Par (Cornwall). The bells have been, and will continue to be, installed to celebrate and reinforce connections between different parts of the country, between the land and the sea, between ourselves and the environment. One of the key purposes of the bells is to remind us about sea level rise resulting from climate change. Sea level is currently rising round our coast at the rate of about 5 mm per year, and by the end of the century is expected to have risen by around a meter, rendering significant parts of low-lying coast uninhabitable. As part of the Charity’s work, we have also developed educational materials to support learning across multiple strands of school curriculum, all based on outdoor education. In addition, we are developing a range of activities for communities associated with the Time and Tide bells.
Tania Kovats: Tania makes drawings, sculpture, installations and large-scale time-based projects that explore our experience and understanding of the natural world. While Kovats is perhaps best known for her sculptures and drawings, her work encompasses a range of creative strategies, from map-making to writing, and she is also active as a curator, teacher, and author. Kovat’s enduring themes are the experience and understanding of landscape, geological processes, patterns of growth and the intersection of landscape, nature, and culture and how art can speak to our critical climate crisis. Recently she has focused on water as her central subject; the seas and oceans, river systems, maritime culture, flooding, and tides, necessarily touching on socio-political and environmental concerns. Tania has exhibited nationally and internationally including at the Victoria & Albert Museum and the National Maritime Museum. Tania lives and works in Devon and is currently Professor of Drawing and Making at DJCAD, University of Dundee.
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