Creative Work – Sarah Kanouse

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

My Electric Genealogy

Performance and live film exploring ancestral investments in extraction.

Coronaura

Short animated essay film exploring White complicity in violence, both fast and slow.

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

Beyond Property

Suite of exercises exploring property as an Anthropocene technology.

Closeup of an antique map showing upper and lower Mystic Pond

Native Space: Headwaters and Homelands

Audio essay decolonizing the view from Mystic Lake.

Composite image showing forest inset in two overlapping rectangles inside a purple-tinted antique map

To All To Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greetings

Short animated essay film exploring land relations beyond property.

Composited image with text

Ecologies of Acknowledgment

Film, print, and tour exploring the responsibilities that come with living on occupied land.

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

Short animated essay film excavating the layers of a Colorado landscape.

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

Performance and social practice platform addressing the domestic effects of the American nuclear state.

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

Re-Collecting Black Hawk

A book-length, image-text essay exploring the cultural and political landscapes of the Midwest.

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

The Monsanto Hearings

Performative community hearings into the longstanding practices of the Monsanto Corporation.

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

Around Crab Orchard

Feature-length video essay on the power and perils of nature in a contaminated refuge.

Iowa Neo-Mountaineers

Social practice project scaling the highest peaks of private, agricultural property.