Since 2016, Schottländer has been developing her research and performance series HEAVY KINSHIP, which investigates relations between humans and rocks through immersive and participatory formats. The work explores human encounters with rocky bodies and landscapes - such as quarries, ruins and archeological sites – where natural forces and human intervention converge, proposing that sustained attention and physical attunement can reveal the oracular and reciprocal dimensions of the environment we inhabit. At this event, Nana-Francisca will introduce her practice, share some of her research in the form of text excerpts and propose a shared 'Rock Bonding Session' to attune to the oracular potentials of an intimate connection with stones from sites of social, religious and mythological importance.

Nana Francisca Schottländer works at the intersection of performance, research, and ecology. With a background in dance and a sustained engagement with landscape, her practice explores the co-creational potentials of encounters between human and more-than-human world and bodies - stone, soil, water, and weather. In autumn 2025, Nana Francisca is staying at The Danish Institute at Athens to do research for her new work ORACULAR, which explores oracular sites, practices and myths as a basis for understanding the manifold overlapping material, historical and mythological structures, that still resonate in our world today.