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Sarah Kanouse

Landscape. Politics. Ecology.

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Creative Work

The artist performing in a blue men's suit, white shirt, red tie and midcentury glasses. Her right hand is raised.
My Electric Genealogy

Creative Work, Performance/Social Practice

How might an ethics of care and mutual obligation animate the response to environmental crises...

Coronaura

Creative Work, Media

An essayistic short film meditating on the challenges of solidarity in a vulnerable and violent...

Wooden box in three sections with a green and yellow colored book, pink and blue cards, and a paper-cover barbed wire
Beyond Property

Artist's Publication, Creative Work

Surviving the Anthropocene demands coming to grips with property, and fast.

Closeup of an antique map showing upper and lower Mystic Pond
Native Space: Headwaters and Homelands

Creative Work, Media

Medford sits within the lands of the Massachusett people and, despite development, it continues to...

Composite image showing forest inset in two overlapping rectangles inside a purple-tinted antique map
To All To Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greetings

Creative Work, Media

Video essay offering ways beyond property paradigm in relating to the more-than-human world.

Composited image with text
Ecologies of Acknowledgment

Artist's Publication, Creative Work, Media, Performance/Social Practice

What does it mean to accept the relationships and responsibilities that come with living on...

Film still featuring a collage of a map of the Great Plains and the Denver Basin geological formation being peeled back to reveal grass
Grassland

Creative Work, Media

Uses stop-motion animation, live action footage, text fragments, and expressive sound to excavate the stratigraphic...

A figure faces away from the camera wearing a white hazmat suit with the text TLC Service emblazoned on the back points to a green dome over a lush forest.
National Toxic Land/Labor Conservation Service

Creative Work, Performance/Social Practice

About The National Toxic Land/Labor Conservation Service is an art and research project taking the...

Black and white photo of sign reading: Welcome to Black Hawk Elementary School - Entrance Only with trees in the background
Re-Collecting Black Hawk

Artist's Publication, Creative Work, Writing

About Re-collecting Black Hawk is a book-length, image-text essay exploring the cultural and political landscapes...

Courtroom style sketch showing a giant ear of corn testifying in front of a human audience.
The Monsanto Hearings

Creative Work, Performance/Social Practice

The Compass Collaborators initiated a series of public hearings into the longstanding practices of the...

Black and white poster for the film "Around Crab Orchard"
Around Crab Orchard

Creative Work, Media

Assembled from documents, found footage, and conversations with activists, writers, and local residents, "Around Crab...

Radiation Limit

Artist's Publication, Creative Work

Radiation Limit commemorates the human radiation experiments sponsored by the Atomic Energy Commission from 1943...

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