I am an interdisciplinary artist with a research-based and socially-engaged practice. My research and practice explores relationships between our language/s, bodies (human and non-human) and spaces. I am curious about how we understand our spaces and ecosystems, how they shape our interactions and the stories they hold.
I often work with written and spoken word through audio, film and performance. I am interested in oral storytelling and the possibilities of language to exist at the intersection of past, present and future, allowing an insight into our histories and also a framework with which to shape our futures. 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.
My recent research and practice explores the politics of land and the framing of land and ecological relationships through the script of the border. I am curious about how soil becomes border, the force of the map changing the land and how we engage with practices of queering and muddying the border.
I collaborate with others working at the intersections of art and architecture with a focus on the creative research of different spaces and ecosystems. I am also part of subterranean, an artist collective in collaboration with architect and artist Shivani Shah. We are interested in how movement - through rhythm, choreography, storytelling - can grow empathy, draw connections and create relations between our bodies and the bodies of others (people, plants, waters).
* 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
BSc Architectural and Interdisciplinary Studies | UCL, Bartlett School of Architecture | 2015 - 2017
Events
Fiesta del Arból | part of the Model+ Festival, Barcelona | 2023
in collaboration with Sara Yaoska and Caterina Miralles
Another Political Terrestrial Fiction | part of Appearance 5, La Escuela Nunca y los otros futuros, The Floating University, Berlin | 2022
in collaboration with Franziska Dehm, Gastón Hermida, Ignacio Rivas, Nils Kreynhop, Leandro Cappetto, Mathias Klenner
Body as a Spatial Pedagogical Tool | as part of the V International Congress Architecture and Gender, Feminisms and the spatialization of resistance, Lisbon | 2021
in collaboration with Shivani Shah and Valeria Muteri
Exhibitions
Another Political Terrestrial Fiction | exhibited in Colaboraciones: artists in collective creation at Glogauair, Berlin, as part of the Chilean Conexion Festival 2023 | part of Appearance 5, La Escuela Nunca y los otros futuros | 2023
in collaboration with Franziska Dehm, Gastón Hermida, Ignacio Rivas, Nils Kreynhop, Leandro Cappetto, Mathias Klenner
Cartographies of the Imagination | OmVed Gardens, London | group exhibition, curated by Kirsty Badenoch and Sayan Skandarajah | 2021
Fifteen | Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London | 2019
Workshops
Decomposing the Site | UCL, Bartlett School of Architecture, London | 2022
in collaboration with Shivani Shah
Condensing Clouds: workshop | UCL, Bartlett School of Architecture, London | 2021
Reading Rhythms | School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai | 2021
in collaboration with Shivani Shah
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
Performances
A Lunar Perspective | part of the Cartographies of the Imagination festival, OmVed Gardens, London | 2021
Transducciones Territoriales // Territorial Transductions | part of the Chilean Conexion Festival, Berlin | 2020
in collaboration with Ignacio Rivas and Mathias Klenner
Les-bordes | part of La Escuela Nunca y los otros futuros | 2020
in collaboration with Ignacio Rivas
A Lunar Perspective | North Observatory, UCL, London | 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
Publications
Rehearsing for the City | in Encounters, a Theatrum Mundi publication, edited by Fani Kostourou and Elahe Karimnia | 2022
A Lunar Perspective, an excerpt | in Cartographies of the Imagination edited by Kirsty Badenoch and Sayan Skandarajah | 2021
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 and short programmes
Spring Curatorial Program 2022: Art Geographies | Verein K, Vienna | May 2022
Theatrum Mundi Cohort 2022 | Theatrum Mundi, London | March-July 2022
Collective narrative residency, “nos llamamos asi” | Can Serrat, Barcelona | January 2022
Spinning Triangles Summer School of Design | SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin | July-August 2019
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