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STATEMENT

My research and creative production are directed at overlapping relationships, examining how processes mirror and change across human and ecological systems. There are patterns in the unmade world that parallel those in human society. Collaboration, symbiosis, diversity, are all characteristics of a resilient ecosystem. Through my art making, I tell stories that cross boundaries between communities, trying to identify what’s there and what may be missing in the relationship between Us and the natural world.

BIO

Sasha Petrenko is an artist, builder and educator with an interdisciplinary practice and pedagogy, blending sound, sculpture, architecture, climate and earth data into experiential installations and performances. Petrenko has received residencies, and fellowships from Jack Straw Cultural Center in Seattle, the Headlands Center for the Arts, The De Young Museum, The Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, University of California’s Sagehen Field Station, The Djerassi Foundation, CA, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Germany, Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, NY. Recent performances include Northwest New Works Festival at On the Boards, Seattle, Power of Language, Wesleyan College, CT, We Will Not Be Silent, Western Gallery, Bellingham, and Your Anomaly is my Normal at the Bellingham Alternative Library, a collaborative performance with students in Dance, Art and Music. Sasha is Associate Professor of Sculpture and Expanded Media at Western Washington University in Bellingham.

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