Sarah Hermanutz is a Canadian artist based in Berlin. Her artistic experiments explore the disorientations and intensities of contemporary mediated and ‘natural’ environments from a neurodiverse perspective. She is preoccupied with water, mud, wetlands, amphibious creatures, and the pathos of infrastructure. Through live performances, site-specific installations, and public workshops, she plays in the tension between the promises of cinematic sublime rapture in contemporary media art environments, and the richly awkward pathos of human and technological failure meeting material and more-than-human resistance.
Sarah creates both solo and collaborative works, and is a founding member of art-science-technology collective Lacuna Lab and Art Laboratory Berlin’s Hack the Panke collective. Her work has been supported by residencies such as Cultivamos Cultura (Portugal) and Critical Media Lab (Basel), and her installations, lectures, performances, and workshops have been presented internationally.