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36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea

Wellington 2018

Sarah Cameron Sunde

36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea is a time-based project spanning seven years and six continents. For the piece, Sunde stands in a tidal area for the full tidal cycle, usually 12 to 13 hours, as water engulfs her body and then reveals it again. She partners with local organizations and filmmakers and invites the public to participate by standing in the water or by marking the passing hours from the shore. The project considers deep time, imagines a future with sea-level rise, and attempts to embody the ocean. 36.5 will take place in more bodies of water around the world, with a final live performance in New York City in 2020.

The Wellington iteration will happen in full in summer 2019, Sunde is here now, conducting extensive research towards that end: durational video will be shown, tests will be performed, local passersby are invited to participate by signing up to do interviews about your relationship to the water.

Sarah Cameron Sunde is an interdisciplinary artist and director working at the intersection of performance, video and public art. She is creator 36.5 /A Durational Performance with the Sea, a seven-year project spanning six continents, and co-founder of Works on Water, a new cultural institution dedicated to supporting artists working on, in, and with bodies of water. For 16 years she served as Deputy Artistic Director of New Georges and is known internationally as Jon Fosse’s American director and translator. Her work has been seen at 3LD Art & Technology Center, EFA Project Space, Rattlestick, Kennedy Center, Guthrie Theater and presented internationally in Norway, The Netherlands, Bangladesh, Mexico, China, Uganda, the UAE, and Iraqi Kurdistan. Residencies include LMCC Workspace, Watermill Center, Hermitage Foundation; upcoming: Baryshnikov Art Center. Awards: Princess Grace, Creative Climate First Prize. She holds a BA in Theater from UCLA and MFA in Digital and Interdisciplinary Art Practice from City College, NYC.

video collaborators: Marianna de Nadal, Jonas de Witte, Saiful Wadud Helal

Invoking the Pause

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