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Sarah Cameron Sunde

interdisciplinary environmental artist and director working on/in/with water, embodiment, public engagement, and deep time. 

Sarah Cameron Sunde is an interdisciplinary artist and director working with scale and duration at the intersection of performance, video, conceptual, and public art. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete her series of nine performances and video artworks made on six continents, 36.5 /A Durational Performance with the Sea (2013 – 2022). In 2017, Sunde instigated and co-founded Works on Water (a triennial and artist-driven experimental organization dedicated to art that is made on/in/with bodies of water). She served as Deputy Artistic Director of New Georges for 16 years (2001-2017), co-founded the live art collective Lydian Junction (2011-2015) and theater company Oslo Elsewhere (2004-2012), and is known internationally as Jon Fosse’s American director and theatrical translator (five U.S. premieres in New York and Pittsburgh, translations published by PAJ).

As a visual artist, Sunde’s solo shows include Gallatin Galleries (New York City), Oude Kerk (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery (Auckland, Aotearoa-New Zealand), and Georgia Museum of Art (Athens, GA). Her work has also been presented at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 3LD Art & Technology Center, the Knockdown Center, EFA Project Space, Little Island, Rattlestick, Kennedy Center, Guthrie Theater, and internationally in Norway, the Netherlands, Bangladesh, Brazil, Mexico, China, Uganda, the UAE, and Iraqi Kurdistan. Residencies include LMCC Workspace, Watermill Center, Hermitage Foundation, Baryshnikov Art Center. Honors include a Princess Grace Award, Creative Climate Award 1st Prize and funding from MAP Fund, NYSCA, Invoking the Pause, LMCC / Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone, NEA, The Norwegian Consulate, and Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst. She holds a B.A. in Theater from UCLA and an M.F.A. in Digital and Interdisciplinary Art Practice from The City College of New York, CUNY. SarahCameronSunde.com + 36pt5.org

A group of actors perform in a dimly lit space.
On Translating Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse’s Works for American Audiences
Essay

On Translating Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse’s Works for American Audiences

11 December 2023

Amelia Parenteau sits down with Sarah Cameron Sunde, who has translated and directed six of Jon Fosse’s plays, to mark the occasion of Fosse being awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature. Their conversation pays tribute to Sarah and Jon’s longstanding creative relationship, examines the plays’ Norwegian context as it is translated internationally, and uplifts the need for American audiences to see more dramatic work in translation.

Why the American Theatre Needs Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse
Why The American Theatre Needs Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse Event Poster.
Video

Why the American Theatre Needs Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse

A Roundtable on Bringing Plays in Translation to Our Stages  

Friday 8 December 2023
United States
36.5 / a durational performance with the sea
Essay

36.5 / a durational performance with the sea

21 April 2015

Sarah Cameron Sunde explores the issue of water rising on our planet, explores the drastic changes through art, and implores people to consider the water.