36.5 / NEW YORK ESTUARY ENGAGEMENT EVENTS:

JULY
ο 36.5 Cove Intensive (studio visits, test stands, research, artist/community engagements, film + international livestream testing)
ο Cumulating Cove Intensive “Kin Dig” and live performance “We Are All Kin to the Cove” (partner: Remote Theater Project)
ο Art and the Environment: Artist Talk with Tatiana Arocha and Sarah Cameron Sunde (presented by: Arts Brookfield)

AUGUST
ο With the Sea: Climate Art, Science, and Human Connections to Sea Level Rise (presented by: The Climate Museum and NYU Gallatin WetLab)
ο Guided Walk and 36.5 / Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh Video Installation (presented by: Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor Cultural Center)
ο Community Day at Brookfield Place: screening of durational video artworks 36.5 / Te Manukanukatanga ō Hoturoa,
Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa-New Zealand + 36.5 / Bay of All Saints, Brazil (presented by: Arts Brookfield)
ο Ma’s House and The Watermill Center collaboration with Jeremy Dennis, Pamella Allen, Tecumseh Ceaser, Danielle Hopson Begun, Shinnecock
ο Community Workshops at Riverside Park (presented by: Riverside Park Conservancy)

SEPTEMBER
ο Final 36.5 Cove Intensive Prep (studio visits, test stands, research, artist/community engagements, film + international livestream testing, project ambassador workshop trainings)
ο Climate Lab: Sarah Cameron Sunde and 36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea (presented by: New York Historical Society)
ο Sustainability Showcase Series: Guest Lecture by Sarah Cameron Sunde (presented by: Penn State Sustainability Institute)
ο In Conversation: Sarah Cameron Sunde Artist Talk and Presentation (presented by: Bronx River Art Center with PAUSA -PERFORMANCE ART USA)
ο 36.5 / NEW YORK ESTUARY: 9th and final performance at the Cove in Queens NYC, satellite performances in Netherlands, Bangladesh, Brazil, Kenya, and Aotearoa-New Zealand, and livestream screenings across NYC and beyond (September 14, 2022, 7:27am – 8:06pm (12 hours, 29 minutes)
ο Schwartz Plaza Vitrines: Public Installation of 36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea, on view from September 14 – January 23 (presented by: New York University) 

OCTOBER
ο Premiere screening of 36.5 / New York Estuary durational video artwork (presented onsite at The Cove)
ο Standing with the Sea: Reflections on Sarah Cameron Sunde’s 36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea (presented by: Una Chaudhuri, Dean for Humanities at NYU, recording available here)
ο Symposium: Art at Water’s Edge (presented by: Park Avenue Armory)

36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea

by Sarah Cameron Sunde

36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea (2013 – 2022) is a series of nine site-specific participatory performance works and video artworks created by Sarah Cameron Sunde that engage people on personal, local, and global scales in conversations around deep time, embodiment, and sea-level rise. It began with an impulsive poetic gesture in response to Hurricane Sandy’s impact on New York City – standing in water for 12 hours and 48 minutes while the tide rose and fell on her body – and has grown into a complex, collaborative, evolving series of works spanning nine years and six continents. By creating these multi-disciplinary artworks in bodies of water around the world, we hope that each individual that encounters the project will consider their contemporary relationship to water, as individuals, in community, as a civilization, and as a species.

The body of work contains nine artworks:

36.5 / Bass Harbor, Maine (2013)
36.5 / Akumal Bay, Mexico (2014)
36.5 / San Francisco Bay, California (2014)
36.5 / North Sea, The Netherlands (2015)
36.5 / Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh (2016-17)
36.5 / Bay of All Saints, Brazil (2019)
36.5 / Bodo Inlet, Kenya (2019)
36.5 / Te Manukanukatanga ō Hoturoa, Aotearoa-New Zealand (2020-22)
36.5 / New York Estuary, Turtle Island-USA (2020-22)