A Mid-Winter Artist Conversation: Global Community, Art & Climate
In these times of blitz media and doom scrolling, where truth and fiction mix freely, we invite you to take a break. Meet artist Sarah Cameron Sunde, whose work is shaped by climate change and crafted from long moments of silent interaction with the ocean’s tides.
36.5/ A Durational Performance with The Sea
Artist Sarah Cameron Sunde stands in a tidal bay for a full tidal cycle, 12-13 hours, as water engulfs her body and then reveals it again. The public joins her. The 36.5 Project invites audiences to have a radically embodied experience with the sea, engaging them in conversations about deep time, sea-level rise, white-settler colonialism, and our contemporary relationship with water – as individuals, in community, as a civilization and as a species.
Sarah Cameron Sunde, an interdisciplinary environmental artist, will join Marie-Louise Miller to show a section of her works, 36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea, and speak about the project, which began as a simple poetic gesture, and evolved into a complex series of nine art works made in collaboration with thousands of people in communities on six continents.
I make site-specific live performances and video works that play with scale and duration and engage the public (…) My work is an intimate encounter with our ephemeral nature. It rides a fine line between complete abandon and utter control, action and stillness.
Time is my primary material, both in content and form: I investigate ideas about “temporality of place,” long-term thinking, and play with duration in order to expand individual and collective sensory experience. ( SCS)
When: Sunday, February 12, 2026 · 7–8:30 PM
Location: Ted & Nune Studio, 45 Main Str, Hastings-on- Hudson, NY
Tickets: Free. Donations welcome.
For more information and to rsvp, please contact:
Marie-Louise Miller, marielousiemiller@icloud.com
Photo by Geoff Green
About the Artist:
Sarah Cameron Sunde is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of performance, video, conceptual and participatory public art — investigating scale and duration in relation to the human body, water, ecological crisis, and deep time. She was awarded a 2021 John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Fellowship to complete her series of nine performances and video works made on six continents: 36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea (2013 – 2022 and ongoing).
Sunde’s work is part of an emerging field of environmental art made on, in, and with bodies of water, and is presented nationally and internationally. Solo exhibitions include Gallatin Galleries (New York City), The Georgia Museum of Art (Athens, GA), de Appel and Oude Kerk (Amsterdam) and Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery (Auckland), Fort Jesus Museum (Kenya). Other honors include two MAP Fund Grants, a Princess Grace Award, a NYFA Fellowship, as well as support from NEA, NYSCA, and ongoing support from Invoking the Pause. Residencies include Yaddo, Baryshnikov Art Center, LMCC Workspace, and Watermill Center. She is also Jon Fosse’s American-English theatrical translator/director (5 U.S. premiere productions), co-founder of Works on Water, a Cultural Leader with the World Economic Forum, and a current Artist-in-Residence with the Erie Canal.
www.SarahCameronSunde.com