Check out this video from the Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival.
FloridaKeysTV (YouTube Channel)
FloridaKeysTV (Official Website)
There are a ton of YouTube videos about the annual fest, and here’s an article about it.
Watch An Underwater Music Festival ‘Make Waves’ for Reef Protection (Florida Keys News Bureau)
You might think that this event is fairly unique, but it turns out that there are lots of divers who are also fans of the arts, so “arts under the sea” is not nearly as rare as you might think. For example, underwater art museums are thriving. Here’s an article about where you can find your nearest “dive-in” art museum.
Here is a video about the Museo Subacuático de Arte (MUSA) mentioned in the article.
There are even some artists who are specifically known for exhibiting underwater. The photographer Andreas Franke once made news by staging an art exhibit on the Vandenberg battleship that was deliberately sunk off the coast of Key West to create the second largest man made reef on the planet (watch the Vanderberg sink). Here’s a 360° video of the exhibit.
Subsurface Media (YouTube Channel)
The pictures from the exhibit were brought up to create a landlubber’s exhibit. Franke moved on to create an exhibit on the SS Stavronikita off of Barbados, and then he went on to create another exhibit on the USS Mohawk CGC off the coast of Sanibel Island.
Barbados Property Search (YouTube Channel)
Ghostly Underwater Art Gallery Breathes New Life to Sunken Ship (Sheena McKenzie, CNN)
Jason deCaires Taylor is another artist who is known for his underwater work, but he specializes in sculpture rather than photography. Here’s a TED talk where Taylor provides insights about what motivates his work.
TED (YouTube Channel)
TED (Official Website)
The eclectic multimedia artist Doug Aitken worked with LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art to construct a large-scale underwater installation entitled Underwater Pavilions off of Catalina Island. Here’s an official video from MOCA about the work.
The Museum of Contemporary Art (YouTube Channel)
The Museum of Contemporary Art (Official Website)
Here’s a cool 360° video that gives a great sense of what it’s like to visit the exhibit.
Superswell VR (YouTube Channel)
The current that tends to run through all of the underwater artist’s work is the appreciation and preservation of the Earth’s ocean environments, so please share this to support their work!
Here are links to some other, related posts on Cosma.
Walk-in-Art
Art Revisited
Leonardo Lately
Magical Paintings
Into Van Gogh
Walk-in-Art & Museums!
Enjoy, but beware, it’s easy to get lost in 360° art!
