Anaïs Duplan, Hope Ginsburg, Melody Jue, Jennifer Lange
Meditation Ocean (gallery guide)
Wexner Center for the Arts, 2023
Sarah Howard
"Sponge Exchange, Hope Ginsburg" (exhibition text)
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, 2020
Denise Markonish
"Explode Every Day: An Inquiry into the Phenomena of Wonder"
(excerpt from catalog essay)
MASS MoCA, 2016
pp. 50–51
Jennifer Lange
"Land Dive Team: Bay of Fundy" (exhibition text)
THE BOX, Wexner Center for the Arts, 2016
Annie Dell'Aria
"Deep Breathing: Annie Dell'Aria on Meditation Ocean"
Artforum, May 2023
Pablo Helguera
"Reading Assignments: Books that artists study, reference, and base works on."
Beautiful Eccentrics
August 18, 2022
Jennifer Lange
Film/Video Studio Journals: Hope Ginsburg
In Practice, Wexner Center for the Arts
Fall 2021
Emma Colón
"5 Artists Bridging Communities Across Difference"
A Blade of Grass Magazine
March 28, 2019
Sydney Cologie and Brynne McGregor
"Wex Moments 2018: Film/Video Studio artist Hope Ginsburg"
(Q&A)
Wexner Center for the Arts
December 26, 2018
Tim Dodson
"Performative Diving Piece Featured at Festival Honoring the James
River"
Richmond Times-Dispatch
June 9, 2018
Jessica Lynne
"From Climate Change to Race Relations, Artists Respond to
Richmond, VA" (review)
Hyperallergic, 2015
Corina L. Apostol and Nato Thompson, Editors
"Making Another World Possible: 10 Creative Time Summits, 10 Global Issues, 100 Art Projects"
Routledge, 2020
pp. 277–278
Amanda Tobin Ripley and Julia Harth
Winter / Spring 2023 Learning Guide
Wexner Center for the Arts, 2023
Land Dive Team: Amphibious James
Television Program is a Production of VPM
Producer/Director: Mason Mills
Producer/Field Director: Allison Benedict
September 22, 2019
Art and Education in the 21st Century
Panelists: John Brown-Executive Director, Windgate Foundation; Tom
Finkelpearl-Commissioner, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs; Hope
Ginsburg-Artist and Educator; Moderator: Geoffrey Cowan- President,
The Annenberg Foundation Trust
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 2014
With Wonder
I once saw an exhibition about the geography of wonder. The gallery notes referred to the space between knowing and not knowing, but it seemed to me the liminality of visibility and invisibility was at work here as well. The artist, Hope Ginsburg, had filmed herself along with three other divers on a windy day under the stone-gray sky of the North Atlantic coast, sitting at the edge of the sea at the Bay of Fundy, where the range of tide varies between forty-seven and fifty-three feet. What she called her land dive team sat quietly with all their scuba tanks, flippers, and bright masks at the edge of the shore as the seawater came in, washing over the rockweed, sand, and stones. The video documented the way in which the tide rose around the divers, submerging their legs, then their torsos, and finally their shoulders and heads; in one close-up shot, with her bright red synthetic goggles and her head draped in seaweed, Ginsburg seems to have become a hybrid creature. In the end, all that remains visible is the tide rolling in, leaves floating on the gently rippling surface of the water, a few bubbles above that place in the ocean where the divers, with their tanks and respirators, continue to breathe.
The Irish poet, priest, and philosopher John O'Donahue said, "The more I've been thinking about this, the more it seems to me actually is that the visible world is the first shoreline of the invisible world. And the same way I believe with the body and the soul. That actually the soul–the body is in the soul, not the soul just in the body. And that in some way the poignance of being a human being is that you are the place where the invisible becomes the visible and expressive in some way."
I'd go so far as to say we are all members of some similar land dive team, poised at that tide line where waves of the seen and the unseen meet and wash over us continually and inevitably.
Akiko Busch
"How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency"
Penguin Books, 2019
pp. 199–200