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Sarah Bliss is a filmmaker and photographer with a background in religious studies, focusing on the complex relationships between body, place, language and memory.  Her practice is rooted in sensory ethnography, kinesthetic exploration, and historical research.  Her current project, Covenant, was launched during a residency sponsored by the Alchemy Film Festival in the remote, rural Scottish Borders. 

Continuing her research into the dynamic relationship between people and place, Covenant delves into the psychogeography of the Borders and the radical shifts in the cultural imaginarium effected there by the Scottish Reformation (1560 - late 1700s).  Working outward from research into the life and writings of her ancestor, Reverend John Livingston, a leading Covenanting minister in the Borders in the 1600s, Covenant investigates the ways in which Reformers’ ideas about the body, voice, and community were shaped by and are reflected in the land.  The far-reaching system of discipline used to control the body and its desires, the valorization of Word/text over sensual sacramentalism, and the apocalyptic theology of the extremist Covenanters are all sites for filmic investigation. 

Bliss received her Masters of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School. Her work has been recognized by a 2013 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Sculpture/Installation; and she is the recipient of full fellowship awards from the Alchemy Film Festival in the Scottish Borders, Cill Rialaig Project in Ballinskelligs, Ireland, and the Vermont Studio Center. Recent solo shows were at the Sarah Doyle Gallery at Brown University, Rhode Island, and Interstitial Theatre in Seattle. Her work has been screened at the TransArt Film Festival in Berlin; Espaço Cultural ESPM in Porte Alegre, Brazil; the WORK Gallery in Detroit; and ArtJail in New York. She serves as Vice President of the Board of Temenos, an off-the-grid non-sectarian retreat center in rural Massachusetts.
External Links

http://www.SarahBlissArt.com

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