Failing The Sun

Caleb Hammond and Sean Salstrom’s performance/installation Failing The Sun premieres January 17th at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk Virginia. Failing The Sun is a night of molten ooze, shattered vessels and immersive projected imagery. Combining movement, choreography, hot glass, live cameras and multiple projectors, viewers will be confronted with a temporal composition that dances on the outer edge of perception and mixed realities. Hammond and Salstom’s previous collaborative installation, Elegies, was exhibited at the Nishima Museum of Art in Toyoma, Japan in 2014. Read More

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