While she was in residence in Dakar, Senegal, from May to July 2021, the artist Capucine Vever developed Dunking Island, a video research project looking at the phenomenon of the rise in sea level that is affecting Gorée Island. Historically known as one of the points of the triangular trade route, Gorée island is confronted to the concrete effects of the rise in sea level, which is invisible to the naked eye. Dunking Island looks at subsea floors like landscapes, although they are generally approached as sources to be exploited, and passages.
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Quadraphonic sound recording session in collaboration with Timothée Brochier and Yann Tremblay, researchers at the IRD in Dakar, in the vicinity of the Cape Verde lighthouse (Bay of Dakar) on 23 June 2021.
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Moving the capture device (video tripod with 25 kg of ballast) during underwater filming in the oceanic fault of the Iles de la Madeleine, Bay of Dakar, with Léo Leibovici (chief underwater cinematographer for Micelium Prod) and Mamadou Badgi (stagehand), July 2021.
