Peaks
Peaks is an ongoing, cumulative video work in which Sarah Cameron Sunde and Joshua Dumas reuse the detritus of the built environment to construct brief cinematic moments suggesting iconic mountainous vastness. The mundanity of the material is sometimes unrecognizable in its transformation to surreal landscape. Peaks investigates our relationship to scale, to awe and beauty, to human ecological impact, and explores cycles of transformation and elevation and corruption.
16 PEAKS was developed as part of Sarah’s LMCC Workspace Residency, 2016-17. The next 20 “peaks” were developed in early 2018 in anticipation of a Princess Grace Work-in-Progress Residency Award to develop the large-scale video installation punctuated with live performance at Baryshnikov Arts Center in May, 2018. 36 PEAKS had two days of 6 hour performances (3 two-hour cycles each day) in the John Cage and Merce Cunningham Studio on May 23 and 24, 2018.