Abstract

The issue delves into and extends across the sea by exploring critical art practices and methodologies at the intersections of performance art, new media and site-specific/installation art, that integrate ocean, waves, currents, tides, coasts, depths, sea objects/vessels or environmental conditions as vital agents of the artwork. It presents nine articles by artists and scholars whose art practice and research engages with performative, embodied, participatory and technological aspects of the sea by integrating processes of drifting, floating, standing, recording, transmitting and mapping, which sink into and move across the sea but also take place in-between the permeable boundaries of coasts.