Welcome to HIGH TIDE...
In the pursuit of creating new narratives and exploring new forms to communicate and engage, we ask timely questions about our place within the global ecosystem. Across diverse platforms through art-interventions, workshops, debates and exhibitions we explore shared activity. We endeavour to facilitate inclusive and creative dialogues across communities. These social encounters and cultural exchanges engender a spirit of awareness raising, which aims to address the many challenges that climate change presents. We recognise the importance of research into climatic change, and by developing creative partnerships across disciplines, we seek an integrated engagement in environment and ecology involving non-arts practitioners in the sciences and other fields. High Tide is a nomadic concept that takes its mission from place-to-place working across continents and cultures.
(art/science collaboration) Dr. Jason Kirby and Janette Porter, Oglet Bay, River Mersey, May 2009
High Tide asserts that the future of our cities, landscapes and communities, and our responses to the environmental and social effects of climate change are not just the responsibility of scientists, politicians, engineers and architects but also emerge from the Arts community and as broader participation and involvement from all sections of the wider public as possible. How we mitigate further effects of climate change and take the necessary adaptive measures should be inevitably, social and cultural as much as technical and scientific.
High Tide was founded in early 2009 by UK-based environmental artists James Brady and Janette Porter and was manifest from their shared vision.
High Tide is a non-profit organisation.
HIGH TIDE'S Three Elements:
HIGH TIDE aims to develop and support experimental practice, collaboration and innovation across disciplines, and to locate this in the public realm.
HIGH TIDE aims to provide creative engagement at grassroots level, addressing people's concerns in situations where the changing climate has a direct effect on our daily lives.
HIGH TIDE aims to raise awareness and understanding of the fragile ecological balance in our natural environment and our relationship with specific localities.
photo credit: J Brady © 2009
