Sarah Cameron Sunde

Sarah Cameron Sunde
Speaking at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023
NationalityAmerican
OccupationArtist

Sarah Cameron Sunde is an American, New York based interdisciplinary environmental artist. For the first 10 year of her career (1999-2010), she identified primarily as a theater maker and director, and was known internationally as the American-English translator and director of Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse's works. Though she continued theater making/directing through 2017, In 2010, her work shifted primarily to that of a time-based visual artist working at the intersection of public, performance, and video art, which she continues today. At this intersection, Sunde works site-specifically with duration and scale to examine the human relationship to deep time, the more-than-human world, and the environment.

Her most notable work to date is 36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea, a public, video, and performance artwork made in collaboration with water and communities across the world. 36.5 was made over nine years and across six continents (2013-2022). The durational video work created from these performances will continue to be worked with, explored, and exhibited through the foreseeable future.