36.5 / Experiments in Slow-Looking

Join artist Sarah Cameron Sunde as she explores proposals towards a large-scale installation of all nine works in her series, 36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea. During her time at MITU580, Sarah will install various durational video artworks along with context videos, text, and ephemera, while experimenting with slow-looking. The public is invited to participate in these experiments taking place between four tidal cycles in relation to the local tides in Gowanus Bay: high-tide on Thursday, March 30 through high-tide on Saturday, April 1. This work encourages slow-looking and engaging the durational. The exhibit will have open gallery hours from 5pm to 9pm on March 30 and 31 and from 12pm to 6:30pm on April 1st. On Saturday April 1st, we will be holding a durational viewing event for half a tidal cycle (6 hours, 23 min), which will end with an artist talk and a walk to the water. You’re invited to choose how long you stay with the work: - Quick dip your feet in/out - Long enough to feel the shift (1-3 hours) - Half of a tidal cycle (with group durational viewing on Sat April 1) - Another timeframe of your choosing Since 2013, Sarah Cameron Sunde has stood in nine bodies of water on six continents for a full tidal cycle (12-13 hours). 36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea is a series of nine site-specific performances and video artworks, created with communities in Maine, Mexico, San Francisco, the Netherlands, Bangladesh, Brazil, Kenya, Aotearoa-New Zealand, New York City, which inspired the work. Visit 36pt5.org for more information. Expansion Works is Mitu’s presenting program for artists working across disciplines and innovating both form and practice. We invite artists to incubate alternative modes of artistic inquiry and provide them with the resources, space, and support to experiment at the intersections of visual art, filmmaking, performance, musical composition, dance, architecture, and interactive technology. Visit theatermitu.org for more information.