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Sarah Cameron Sunde is an American, New York based interdisciplinary environmental artist. 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.
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325 Main

A torquoise blue skiff boat with graphic sound waves attached is layered on top of a photo from around 1904 from the Port Ben Boat Club
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325 Main
(Burger + Sunde)

collaborative work with Gretchen Burger

We are two artists, Gretchen Burger and Sarah Cameron Sunde, who have shared studio space for the last 5 years. Inspired by these shared studio spaces/locations, we have collaborated on a range of art works to investigate how we live in and with our communities (urban and rural, art and activist, human and environmental). What began as an urge to invite neighbors into a conversation about gentrification in our small hamlet in mid Hudson Valley NY has catalyzed two additional place-based projects exploring similar themes of: Who belongs in our communities? What creates value in our communities? And how does belonging and value translate to how we relate to each other and the natural world around us? 

This work has taken the form of a retail store activation (WHAT BROUGHT YOU HERE); a week-long 3D exquisite corpse with 20 artists in an unsanctioned space in financial district (#3A); and, currently in progress, a community deep listening activation with Rondout Creek in mid Hudson Valley (KAHAKSINK-RONDOUTings + Port Ben Boat Club)

Some methodologies and frameworks that inform our approach: deep listening, embodiment as a measure for human (vs machine) scale and duration, time markers and rhythms of the natural world, reciprocity as a foundation for exchange, the value of connection as a form of currency. These are our starting points. This work is in-motion, ever-evolving, and emerges from the people, places and histories we’re in conversation with.