Currently on view:
Sarah Cameron Sunde
100 Practices for a Changing Landscape
A multi-year public art project inviting the Battery Park City community to engage and practice long-term timescales at the waterfront—past, present, and future
Phase 01: Climate Week 2026
Walkway Provocations, Conversations & Community Responses, FloodGate Ritual, Artist Talk & Panel, Video Projection
9/22-9/25 at Battery Park City
WALKWAY PROVOCATIONS
Wagner Park, Rockefeller Park handball court,
Battery Park City Ball Fields (West Street)
Reflect on questions and prompts on walkways and walls in three key locations within Battery Park City’s 92 acres.
CONVERSATIONS
11am-2pm + 4-7pm (except 9/23 4-6:30pm)
at the Walkway Provocations
Speak with project conversationalists about the changing landscape and climate in Battery Park City and beyond.
Participant responses will inform Phase 02! Please respond to a question or prompt with a text or voice message: 917-284-8172
9/23 at Wagner Park Pavilion, 6:30pm
FLOODGATE RITUAL
6:30-6:52pm (high tide)
Meet at Wagner Park Pavilion
Participate in a community ritual to practice raising one of Battery Park City’s new floodgates.
ARTIST TALK & PANEL followed by VIDEO PROJECTION
7-8pm, video until 10pm
Wagner Park Pavilion Classroom, 20 Battery Place
After the floodgate ritual, artist Sarah Cameron Sunde will share her work and lead a dialogue with Una Chaudhuri, Tom Finkelpearl, and Catherine Seavitt about the role of public art, ritual, and listening in preparing for extreme weather, and how these practices can reveal invisible architecture around us. Stay afterwards to view video projection of Sunde’s 36.5 / A Durational
Performance with the Sea on the walls of Wagner Pavilion.
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Lead Artist: Sarah Cameron Sunde
Design Collaborator: Lauren Helpern
Core Team: Gretchen Burger, Adriana Guiman, Emily Blumenfeld, Pamella Allen, Rene Stewart Pearce
Material/Printing: Micah Causey / Alumigraphics by FloorSignage
Installation: Raul Gordon / Think Lab One
Layered images: USGS 1947 map, 1979 Battery Park City Plan, Viele Map
All materials are aluminum and will be re-used.
Images courtesy of: Allan Tannenbaum / Soho Blues Gallery, Carl Glassman / Tribeca Trib, Wikicommons, The South Street Seaport Museum.
Thanks to everyone at BPCA, Turner / SPC, Poet’s House Community, Marine Solutions
More info: 100practices@gmail.com