Sarah Kanouse
Biographic Data
| ID | 254836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Kanouse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Kanouse |
| SIGNATURE | KANOUSE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3500-850X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Native Spaces
Native Spaces is a location-based audio public art platform created through collaboration between the authors and the Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag. Aligned with Natchee Blu Barnd’s concept of creative ‘geographic strategies to unsettle settler colonialism’, the project is distinct due to its approach to using sound and emphasis on collaboration, albeit through differentiated roles and responsibilities, between settler and Indigenous participan…
My Electric Genealogy (A Condensation)
Using the transmission infrastructure of Los Angeles as site of inquiry, My Electric Genealogy is an eighty-minute solo performance exploring my family’s entanglement in the political, material, and cultural conditions that have produced the climate crisis. The excerpt presented here interweaves three forms of testimony in tension: the monologue of an anxious parent imagining her child’s climate-changed future, a speech given by her grandfather i…
The National Toxic Land/Labor Conservation Service
The National Toxic Land/ Labor Conservation Service
An anti-racist and anti-colonial Anthropocene for compromised times
The anticipated formal adoption of the Anthropocene by the International Union of Geological Sciences offers an opportunity to develop forms of praxis informed by anti-racist and anti-colonial critiques of the Anthropocene and its mid-twentieth century start date. Moving beyond the impasse of the Anthropocene debates requires a broad suite of methods and voices. This short essay places Michael Egan's concept of "survival science" in dialog with u…
Notes on Affective Practice
Transmissions between Memory and Amnesia
In light of constantly exploding bandwidth and nearly limitless digital storage, FM radio may appear an anachronistic means of communication. However, many new media artists are using this most ephemeral, unindexable, “old” medium instead of or in addition to digital technologies. In this paper, artist Sarah Kanouse discusses three of her own projects that use radio transmission as a unique public material to create ephemeral monuments to difficu…
An anti-racist and anti-colonial Anthropocene for compromised times
The anticipated formal adoption of the Anthropocene by the International Union of Geological Sciences offers an opportunity to develop forms of praxis informed by anti-racist and anti-colonial critiques of the Anthropocene and its mid-twentieth century start date. Moving beyond the impasse of the Anthropocene debates requires a broad suite of methods and voices. This short essay places Michael Egan's concept of "survival science" in dialog with u…
Transmissions between Memory and Amnesia
In light of constantly exploding bandwidth and nearly limitless digital storage, FM radio may appear an anachronistic means of communication. However, many new media artists are using this most ephemeral, unindexable, “old” medium instead of or in addition to digital technologies. In this paper, artist Sarah Kanouse discusses three of her own projects that use radio transmission as a unique public material to create ephemeral monuments to difficu…
Notes on Affective Practice
An anti-racist and anti-colonial Anthropocene for compromised times
The anticipated formal adoption of the Anthropocene by the International Union of Geological Sciences offers an opportunity to develop forms of praxis informed by anti-racist and anti-colonial critiques of the Anthropocene and its mid-twentieth century start date. Moving beyond the impasse of the Anthropocene debates requires a broad suite of methods and voices. This short essay places Michael Egan's concept of "survival science" in dialog with u…
The National Toxic Land/Labor Conservation Service
The National Toxic Land/ Labor Conservation Service
My Electric Genealogy (A Condensation)
Using the transmission infrastructure of Los Angeles as site of inquiry, My Electric Genealogy is an eighty-minute solo performance exploring my family’s entanglement in the political, material, and cultural conditions that have produced the climate crisis. The excerpt presented here interweaves three forms of testimony in tension: the monologue of an anxious parent imagining her child’s climate-changed future, a speech given by her grandfather i…
Native Spaces
Native Spaces is a location-based audio public art platform created through collaboration between the authors and the Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag. Aligned with Natchee Blu Barnd’s concept of creative ‘geographic strategies to unsettle settler colonialism’, the project is distinct due to its approach to using sound and emphasis on collaboration, albeit through differentiated roles and responsibilities, between settler and Indigenous participan…
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