In partnership with 1708 Gallery for the Richmond 2015 UCI Road World Championships, Associate Professor Hope Ginsburg’s newest deployment of the Land Dive Team proposes a counterpoint to exertion with a different kind of physical and mental endurance. Part of her Breathing on Land project, this group of people meditating with the assistance of scuba gear refocuses attention in both participants and viewers on their bodies, contexts and implicitly the health of our atmosphere. As with the race, the dive demands focus, apparatus, and an awareness of body and breath. But in this case, speed is answered with stillness and competition is inverted with an inwardly directed form of participation. The event, the first public iteration of the Land Dive Team, is situated just beside the racecourse at 411 W. Broad St. and timed to take place during the Women’s Elite Road Circuit on Saturday, September 26 at 2 p.m.
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