Photo by Avideh Saadatpajouh
A keynote speaker at an annual anthropocene conference presents her latest achievement — her metamorphosis into a mushroom.
Sarah Finn (she/they) is a multimedia artist who creates live performance, video, and film. Using surreal storytelling, video, physical performance, and puppetry, they make worlds where queer and regenerative futures emerge from modern ruins.
The phantasmagoric imagery that we’ve seen of Sarah’s work so far is (literally) wild. A cargo ship slips across the stage into the keynote speech; the mushroom grows before us at the lectern. A cityscape in miniature is projected to fill the back wall. We simultaneously have no idea of what to expect and have extremely high hopes for this particular transformation. Risk – into reward.
Sarah K. Finn will be performing their piece “Is this the right thing to be doing?” as part of the mainstage event of our 2024 Festival of New Performance – June 21st through 23rd, 7pm each night.