R/P FLIP R.I.P. is an experimental video about the R/P FLIP (Floating Instrument Platform), the world-famous nautical rarity that flips 90 degrees to become a live-in buoy for studying the ocean. During the Cold War, the FLIP was designed for stability to study acoustics in a turbulent ocean, yet ironically the interior is fluid, built for living both in horizontal and vertical orientations. In the artwork, performers activate the FLIP’s architecture as a playground for disorientation: floors become walls, and doors become holes. Intercut with military and oceanographic films, the FLIP film becomes a platform for conceptual flips: landlubbers encountering the alien world of the ocean, and of oceanography’s shift from militarism to ecology. Commissioned for the Getty-sponsored Southern California landmark show PST Art: Art & Science Collide, created by artist Rachel Mayeri, R/P FLIP R.I.P. was presented as a three-channel video installation at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institute of Oceanography until November 2, 2025. And as a wide, narrow film thereafter.