Contact
Email:
s.kanouse@northeastern.edu
Sarah Kanouse is an interdisciplinary artist and critical writer examining the politics of landscape and space. Migrating between video, photography, and performative forms, her research-based creative projects shift the visual dimension of the landscape to allow hidden stories of environmental and social transformation to emerge. Her creative work has been screened or exhibited at Documenta 13, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Cooper Union, the Clark Art Institute, the Smart Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and in numerous academic institutions such as CUNY Graduate Center, George Mason University, University of California Berkeley, and the University of Wisconsin. She has written about performative and site-based contemporary art practices in the journals Acme, Leonardo, Parallax, and Art Journal, as well the edited volumes Ecologies, Agents, Terrains; Critical Landscapes; Art Against the Law; and Mapping Environmental Issues in the City. Sarah Kanouse is associate professor of media arts in the Department of Art + Design at Northeastern University. She earned her MFA degree in studio art from the University of Illinois, and a BA in art, magna cum laude, from Yale University.
RCC Research Project: My Electric Genealogy
Selected Publications:
- with Shiloh Krupar. "The National Toxic Land/Labor Conservation Service: Recovering an Atomic Commons." In Toxic Immanence, edited by Livia Monnet. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, forthcoming.
- "Notes on a Performance-in-Progress." In Ecologies, Agents, Terrains, edited by Christopher Heurer and Rebecca Zorach, 196–215. Williamstown, MA: Clark Art Institute, 2018.
- With Brown, Nicholas A. Re-collecting Blackhawk: Landscape, Memory, and Power in the American Midwest. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015.
Exhibitions/Curatorial Platforms:
- Mississippi: An Anthropocene River. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2019.
- Local Ecologies. University of Massachusetts, Boston, 2019.
- Facing Rocky Flats. Canyon Gallery, Boulder, CO and Denver Public Library, 2018.