Festival Year: 2024

Sarah Bird

Roles: Special Guest

Sarah Bird is an interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on trees to investigate relationships among humans and the plant world. She is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Santa Cruz in Film and Digital Media where she is a Fellow of the Climate Action Lab. Her dissertation, titled “Strategies for Arboreal-Human Flourishing in the Anthropocene” focuses on tree relationality for an entangled, restorative future to our ecological crisis.

Sarah’s exhibitions include the 2016 Venice Biennale, the 2018 and the 2018 UN Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco. Her forthcoming installation, Entangled Arboreality takes place at Justus Liebig University in Gießen, Germany. She has a BA from Amherst College and an MFA from California College of the Arts. She is based in Mill Valley, CA, and Wellfleet, MA.

 

2024 Program(s):

Giants Rising

 

Festival Year: 2024