Correspondences - Watermill Center

  • Art Installation
  • Installation Performance
  • Kinetic Sculpture
  • Multidisciplinary/Interdisciplinary
  • Bodies
  • Sand
  • With ensemble

Space and location

Gardens and Parks

Site specific

Single bodies are enclosed inside transparent chambers partially filled with sand. Bodies are donned with gas masks as they try, time and again, to rise to standing. At intervals, machines attached to the chambers trigger a blast of sand causing the performers to lose their footing, sinking them back down into the ground. This seemingly perpetual eruption repeats throughout daily performance activation periods of Correspondences, both with and without performers.