I am a transdisciplinary artist with a research-based and socially engaged practice. My practice encompasses writing, performance, storytelling, photography, film, audio and workshops.
Through collaborative processes, my practice engages with language, cartography, movement, speculative fiction and decolonial theory with a critical approach to themes of exploration, control, nationalism, migration, space travel and astronomy.
My recent practice and research is concerned with practices of bordering and othering, the spaces they inhabit and the languages they employ. I have been focusing on connections, real and imagined, between the sky, the sea and the border. I am interested in spaces of care and solidarity, exploring storytelling as a fluid mode of exchange; countering and resisting the narratives of control and hostility in the UK.
Across projects and scales, I consider our bodily and spatial relationships with language, shaping the migration of our words – themselves maps of their own journeys, travelling through linguistic roots and resurfacing in partially remembered or imagined times and places. I am interested in how language, both porous and plural, exists at the intersection of past, present and future, allowing an insight into our histories and also a framework with which to shape our futures.
* please do get in touch if you have any questions, ideas, thoughts - I am always open to conversation and collaboration *
eloise.l.m.m[at]googlemail.com
@eloisemaltbymaland
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Education
MA Situated Practice | UCL, Bartlett School of Architecture | 2018 - 2019
Spinning Triangles Summer School of Design | SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin | 2019
BSc Architectural and Interdisciplinary Studies | UCL, Bartlett School of Architecture | 2015 - 2017
Workshops
Performing Site | School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai | 2020 | in collaboration with Shivani Shah
Co-Designing Common Spaces | De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill On Sea | 2019 | in collaboration with Ignacio Rivas, Luofei Dong, Sophie Hardcastle and Ignacio Saavedra, and tutor David Roberts
Situating Practices: concepts and cartographies | Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London | 2018 | in collaboration with MA Situated Practice students
International Women’s Day: Solidarity and Resistance | Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London | 2017 | as part of asterism
Performances
Transducciones Territoriales // Territorial Transductions | part of the Chilean Conexion Festival, Berlin | 2020 | in collaboration with Ignacio Rivas and Mathias Klenner
Less-bordes | part of La Escuela Nunca y los otros futuros | 2020 | in collaboration with Ignacio Rivas
Collective Imaginaries - Situated Practice: Live | Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London | 2019 | in collaboration with Ignacio Rivas, Sophie Hardcastle and Ignacio Saavedra
A Lunar Perspective | North Observatory, UCL, London | 2019
Pecha Kucha of A Lunar Perspective | De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill On Sea | 2019
City, Essay, Film | UCL Urban Laboratory, London | 2019 | in collaboration with Luofei Dong, Ignacio Rivas, Valeria Muteri, Ignacio Saavedra Valenzuela, Jerneja Rebernak and Anastasia Perahia Dede
CRITICAL RESEARCH SERVICE! | Royal Academy, London | 2019 | in collaboration with MA Situated Practice students
In Search Of | St. Peter’s Church, Walworth Road, London | 2018
Exhibitions
Fifteen | Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London | 2019
Bartlett Summer Show | Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London | 2017
Bartlett Summer Show | Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London | 2016
Publications
Cartographies of the Imagination | Upcoming, 2021 | contributor
Spinning Triangles Summer School of Design Publication | SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin | 2019 | in collaboration with students of the summer school and co-edited with George Lynch and Franca López Barbera
asterism zine | 2016 | in collaboration with contributors and co-edited with Anna Livia Vørsel
Residencies
Collective narrative residency, “nos llamamos asi” | Can Serrat, Barcelona | Upcoming, 2022
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