Sarah Blissett

Academic profile

Dr Sarah Blissett

Lecturer in Drama
School of Art, Design and Architecture (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)

About Sarah

Sarah Blissett (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and dramaturg working between visual art and performance. She is lecturer in Drama at the 抖阴短视频 where her research explores how site-specific practices can engage with changing ocean ecologies at time of climate crisis. She is interested in embodied ways of working with intertidal environments and multispecies communities in performance with a focus on algae and seaweeds. She is the guest editor of the issue of CSPA Quarterly on (Jan 2025). Recent work includes:聽Alluvial Matters gallery 333, Exeter Phoenix (2024)聽Marking Tidetime (2022-present) artistic research project and audio walk, River Rememberings performance at Modern Art Oxford gallery (2022), How Nature Builds聽workshop series at MAO (2019, 2022), Kelp Curing, workshops and exhbition in Lofoten, Norway, as part of the Lofoten International Arts Festival inaugural 鈥楰elp Congress鈥� (2019). Sarah is the founder and co-director of , a platform for multidisciplinary performance by South West artists.

I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students, particularly those with research projects exploring reparative social-ecological practices,聽site-specific performance, feminist performance or contemporary live art and performance.

Teaching

  • Site-Specific Performance
  • Theatre & Performance Ecology
  • Dramaturgy & Theatre Criticism
  • Feminist Performance
  • Immersive & Multimedia Performance

Contact Sarah

+44 1752 585260