About Us

We are two artists, Gretchen Burger and Sarah Cameron Sunde, who have shared studio space for the last 4 years. Inspired by these shared studio spaces/locations, we have collaborated on a range of art works to investigate how we live in and with our communities (urban and rural, art and activist, human and environmental). What began as an urge to invite neighbors into a conversation about gentrification in our small hamlet in mid Hudson Valley NY has catalyzed two additional place-based projects exploring similar themes of: Who belongs in our communities? What creates value in our communities?  And how does belonging and value translate to how we relate to each other and the natural world around us? 

This work has taken the form of a retail store activation (WHAT BROUGHT YOU HERE); a week-long 3D exquisite corpse with 20 artists in an unsanctioned space in financial district (#3A); and, currently in progress, a community deep listening activation with the Rondout Creek in mid Hudson Valley (KAHAKSINK-RONDOUTings). 

Some methodologies and frameworks that inform our approach: deep listening, embodiment as a measure for human (vs machine) scale and duration, time markers and rhythms of the natural world, reciprocity as a foundation for exchange, the value of connection as a form of currency. These are our starting points. This work is fluid, evolving, and about what is emerging–from the people and places we’re collaborating with.