Sarah Cameron Sunde: 36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea

September 19, 2020 – January 17, 2021
A photograph of Sarah Cameron Sunde performing her "36.5" series of performance art pieces in which she lets the tide almost cover here while she stands in the water for hours and hours, at Bodo Inlet, Kenya, in 2019.

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“36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea” is a series of nine site-specific participatory performances and video works by the interdisciplinary artist Sarah Cameron Sunde, spanning six continents and seven years (2013 – 2020). At each site, Sunde stands in ocean water for a full tidal cycle (12 to 13 hours) as the water rises up to her chin, then recedes to her feet; the local community participates in all aspects of the work. The entire performance is filmed in real time, turned into a durational video work of the same length and shown as a multi-channel video installation that premieres on location within a week of the performance.

This exhibition features a cycle of four multi-channel videos, one from each location where Sunde has performed since 2015: the Netherlands (on view September 19 – October 18, 2020), Bangladesh (on view October 22 – November 22, 2020), Brazil (on view November 26 – December 20, 2020) and Kenya (on view December 24, 2020 – January 17, 2021). “36.5” generates personal, local and global conversations about deep time and sea-level rise. It is a radical call to reconsider our relationship with water as individuals, as communities and as a species. For more information about the project, visit www.36pt5.org.

 

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Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, curator of American art