SURFACE TENSIONS

2019-2020 | 1080p HD Video | Color | 5.1 Surround Sound Audio | Greenland | Duration: Variable

A single-channel performance video addressing cultural memory of sea ice, and sea ice disappearance in the Greenland Sea between Iceland and Greenland. This work is a meditation on ice and snow as contentious, increasingly impermanent material in the North Atlantic. This work centers the dynamics between northern Iceland and Greenland, and the communities (human and animal alike) impacted by transforming ecological contexts on both coasts of the Greenland Sea. A continuation of the ongoing SEA ICE SAGA, with footage by Rachel Lin Weaver and Les Duffield. This project has been contributed to by scientists, regional leaders, and historians in Greenland and Iceland. The work features live mixing and manipulation of video alongside field recordings, and first appeared alongside the National Geographic Live: On the Ice event at Virginia Tech.