Bonnie Ora Sherk Interviewed by Terri Cohn (2014)

Bonnie Ora Sherk’s poetic and visionary environmental and performance-based work concerning our relationships with the natural world has always been the material and conceptual essence of her art. Consistently working with and framing these alliances as metaphors for human intelligence, knowledge, and transformation, Sherk’s work has grown from her early tableaux vivant-like works, to a model that is more grass roots and monumental in scope. In this interview she talks about her interest in “found” or created environments, where she would create a performance in order to express their inherent ecological systems, and create new experiences of those places as evolving over time.