Sunkshore (Carolyn Hall and Clarinda Mac Low)

Sunk Shore is a multidisciplinary art action and social engagement created by dancer/marine ecologist Carolyn Hall and multidisciplinary artist/microbiologist Clarinda Mac Low. We love our home shorelines in New York City, and have seen the impact of the climate changing every day. We feel compelled to act. With Sunk Shore we want to create a way to help people feel and relate to climate data so that it becomes personal and visceral. Sunk Shore started out as a physical walking tour into the climate changed future that takes place along specific shorelines. The tours combine speculative fiction based in climate modeling, participatory activities, and somatic practice to make complex climate and ecosystem data personal, experiential, and relatable. Our current goal is to make a template that can be used along any shoreline, empowering local residents to become stakeholders in the future of their waterways through imaginative problem-solving and speculative invention.

Clarinda (in front) (a person with short salt and pepper hair and pink skin) and Carolyn (a white woman with dark brown hair in a ponytail), in profile, sit on the edge of a concrete barrier, beneath a short black fence. They are wearing bright orange long sleeves on top and pants made of garbage bags held together with caution tape below the waist. Below them is the Gowanus Canal, calm and reflecting the blue sky, and they are looking into it. Small, in the background, is the BQE and a bright green crane. Photo by Kelly AuCoin.
ID: Clarinda (in front) (a person with short salt and pepper hair and pink skin) and Carolyn (a white woman with dark brown hair in a ponytail), in profile, sit on the edge of a concrete barrier, beneath a short black fence. They are wearing bright orange long sleeves on top and pants made of garbage bags held together with caution tape below the waist. Below them is the Gowanus Canal, calm and reflecting the blue sky, and they are looking into it. Small, in the background, is the BQE and a bright green crane. Photo by Kelly AuCoin.