One performance artist's work aptly demonstrates the threat of rising sea levels: she stands on a shoreline at low tide and waits, sometimes for as long as 13 hours, as the water rises to her neck, then recedes.
Sarah Cameron Sunde will produce the finale to her"36.5: A Durational Performance with the Sea" on Sept. 14 in New York City.Sarah Cameron Sunde will produce the finale to her"36.5: A Durational Performance with the Sea" on Sept. 14 in New York City.Sarah Cameron Sunde, an interdisciplinary artist, was visiting Maine in 2013 when she noticed something in an ocean inlet. The tide was coming in quickly and completely covered a rock, making it disappear within 30-40 minutes.
Three days later, after some planning and preparation, she returned to the inlet for a"durational performance." Sunde began standing at the edge of the water at low tide, and, in front of other artists from the retreat she had been attending, she continued to stand until the water rose up to her neck. She stayed until the next low tide, nearly 13 hours total.
"There was a moment where I was like, you know, I'm this privileged person," she recalled."If I'm feeling this this deeply, what are other people feeling—in the Global South especially? How are they dealing with it? And so, I felt like I had to know and understand and learn that." Preparations can be lengthy. She has to figure out where she should place herself so spectators can have the best view—in New York City, where she'll be standing on the Queens side of the East River, she wants to get the Manhattan skyline in the frame behind her. And, of course, she also needs to figure out how deep to go in the water so it will rise all the way to her neck at high tide—but not above her mouth.
Meanwhile, an artist and friend of Sunde, Pamella Allen, is searching for artifacts she can use in an accompanying art work that she'll create on land. A detached buoy that's come in and out with the tides over the past several months catches her eye. "My mom would come a bunch of times with me and I just thought it was a dirty beach," he says."And then Sarah kind of brought in this awareness of, it's human beings that kind of caused this and we can fix it. So if we just work towards fixing it, then it can happen, right?"
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