Guggenheim Fellow Sarah Cameron Sunde is a New York based interdisciplinary artist and director working at the intersection of performance, video, conceptual, and public art. She investigates scale and duration in relation to the human body, environmental crisis and deep time. At AM23 in Davos, Sunde exhibited 36.5 / A DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE WITH THE SEA, her series of 9 site-specific community-engaged performance and video artworks. Spanning 9 years and 6 continents, 36.5 invites audiences to have a radically embodied experience with the sea, engaging them in conversations about deep time, sea-level rise, and our contemporary relationship with water – as individuals, in community, as a civilization and as a species.

Her work is part of an emerging field of art that is made on, in and with bodies of water in response to ecological change. It has been created, performed, and exhibited internationally in Mexico, the Netherlands, Bangladesh, Brazil, Kenya, Aotearoa-New Zealand, China, the UAE, and Norway, as well as across the U.S. with support from partners across the globe and institutions and organizations such as the NEA, MAP Fund, New York State Council on the Arts, Princess Grace Foundation, Arts Brookfield, The Climate Museum, and Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst.

She is the lead artist at Sarah Cameron Sunde Studio and instigator/co-founder of Works on Water, a triennial and experimental organization dedicated to Water Art. She is currently focusing on the next evolutional step of 36.5 — creating a blueprint for communities and leaders to engage in the climate conversation through art.

[www.SarahCameronSunde.com + www.36pt5.org]