SHORELINE
PROJECT
ELIZABETH TURK
COMMUNITY
SHORELINE PROJECT - THE COMMUNITY
Thank you to all community members; those who enjoyed from near and from afar; whom participated in any way to create the magic of Shoreline Project.01 in Laguna Beach, CA, USA on November 3, 2018.
HOSTS
Laguna Art Museum: Malcolm Warner, Executive Director
City of Laguna Beach: Sian Poeschl and Sherri Aubin
City of Laguna Beach Police Department
ET STUDIOS
Elizabeth Turk
Laura Siapin
Erik Thienes
Lara Wilson
DANCE
The Assembly Dance: Choreographer, Lara Wilson
CARLON: Choreographer, Jay Carlon
Chapman University Dance: Julianne O’Brien
Orange Coast College Dance: Shana Menaker
Laguna High School Dance: Estee Fratzke
Dance Works Dance Studio: Rebecca Bush
Molly Flynn Movement Collective: Molly Flynn
MUSIC
Cellist: Ross Gasworth
Laguna Drum Circle: Billy Fried
DISTRIBUTION OF UMBRELLAS
Laguna College of Art and Design: Art Students, Julian Velarde, Jonathan Burke, and Brian Heggie
Orange Coast College: Art Students and Leland Paxton
Scripps College: Art Students and Alumni
SCAPE Gallery: Jeannie Denholm, Kathleen Updyke Brown, and Vivian Browne
INTERNS
Sophia Silane
Victoria Browne
Chiara Kaufman
Tegan Wright
PRODUCTION OF UMBRELLAS
Smithsonian Art and Research Fellowship
Specialz: Dave Smith
Logotek: Phil Page
RESEARCH
Sherman Gardens Library: Paul Wormser
Laguna Historical Society
SHORELINE PROJECT: 3 EXPERIENCES
1 VOLUNTEERS
1,000 community members receive umbrellas at sunset on the beach and in unison they light their umbrellas to the cue of local musicians. Over the span of two hours and losing a sense of self-consciousness, the community comes together as a singular luminous organism. The exuberance of connection to each other, in dance, laughter and sheer joy, surprised us. In the spontaneity, former strangers play together, barriers forgotten.
2 AUDIENCE
The audience viewing from the sand, cliffs and cityscape see the image of 1,000 beautiful lights moving together on the space connecting land and sea as a deeply moving, aesthetically overwhelming event, a singular moment in time.
3 EXPANDED PERSPECTIVES
Aerial photography captures everyone moving as one single organism, revealing a moment of civic grace and joy… all this, upon a shared but changing shoreline.
Shoreline Project will travel the Pacific Ocean, connecting one community to the next.
To host Shoreline Project, bringing Shoreline Project to your community, please contact us via email. We would be happy to hear from you, and thank you for the enthusiasm. EMAIL HERE ElizabethTurkStudios@gmail.com.