Sarah Kanouse

Membership:  2019/2020

Member Bio

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.

Sarah has written about performative and site-based contemporary art practices in the journals AcmeLeonardoParallax, 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.

Publications

  • Touching Power: White Womanhood, Colonial Spectacle, and the ‘Forces of Nature’ at the Boulder Power Inaugural.” Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia (Summer 2021), no. 34. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.
  • 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.