Currently
GlogauAIR Berlin Residency July - September 2026
Looking at postindustrial landscapes in and around Berlin
Sumac Space July 2026
Future Frequencies Lab, Berlin
GlogauAIR Berlin Residency July - September 2026
Looking at postindustrial landscapes in and around Berlin
Sumac Space July 2026
Future Frequencies Lab, Berlin
Most recent work
GlogauAIR
Window Showcase, Berlin September 2026
‘Sythesis of Awe’
‘Sythesis of Awe’
In/Human Infrastructures Symposium 21-23rd May 2026
with Xenofuturism Magazine at Gossamer Fog, London
Day 2: Entangled Agencies
Performance Lecture in collaboration with Nella Piatek
ULTRA/INFRAstructures: Landscapes of Capitalism
Industrial and computational infrastructures are not neutral technological developments, but ideological systems that reorganise agency, ecology, and temporality under capitalism. Through postindustrial landscapes and contemporary data infrastructures, this performance lecture explores how modernity continuously imposes alien architectures onto communities and environments while simultaneously producing myths of progress.
This project was commissioned by Xeno Futurism as part of the symposium In/Human Infrastructures at Alt_R, May 2026
with Xenofuturism Magazine at Gossamer Fog, London
Day 2: Entangled Agencies
Performance Lecture in collaboration with Nella Piatek
ULTRA/INFRAstructures: Landscapes of Capitalism
Industrial and computational infrastructures are not neutral technological developments, but ideological systems that reorganise agency, ecology, and temporality under capitalism. Through postindustrial landscapes and contemporary data infrastructures, this performance lecture explores how modernity continuously imposes alien architectures onto communities and environments while simultaneously producing myths of progress.
This project was commissioned by Xeno Futurism as part of the symposium In/Human Infrastructures at Alt_R, May 2026
Thinkpiece ‘Cyborg Bodies and Grotesque Environments’
and Artwork & Cover Artwork for
Wetware Magazine Issue 3 - Fashioning rendered Worlds
out 3rd December 2025
and Artwork & Cover Artwork for
Wetware Magazine Issue 3 - Fashioning rendered Worlds
out 3rd December 2025
Entangled with the landscape August 2025
Reykjavík, Iceland
| Group show with The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists at SíM Korpúlfsstaðir
Investigating the tension between the preservation and commodification of ‘nature’ in Iceland.
Reykjavík, Iceland
| Group show with The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists at SíM Korpúlfsstaðir
Investigating the tension between the preservation and commodification of ‘nature’ in Iceland.
Article ‘Extractivist Capitalism and Haunted Landscapes’ for
Praksis Presents Issue 12 - Your Pleasure, Our Pain
— Interrogating luxury’s ethics, extraction, complicity and alternatives
https://www.praksisoslo.org/melissa-schwarz
Praksis Presents Issue 12 - Your Pleasure, Our Pain
— Interrogating luxury’s ethics, extraction, complicity and alternatives
https://www.praksisoslo.org/melissa-schwarz
Artwork for Xenofuturism Magazine Issue 2
Technologies of Domination
out June 2025
Xenofuturism Magazine isa platform that facilitates critical theory applications on contemporary issues by knitting rhizomic webs between the humanities and natural sciences. Heavily inspired by the cross germinating writings of CCRU that range from Science Fiction to Kabbalistic analysis, art and culture collectives like 0rphan Drift, as well as the cyberfeminist works of Donna Haraway and Firestone.
Technologies of Domination
out June 2025
Xenofuturism Magazine isa platform that facilitates critical theory applications on contemporary issues by knitting rhizomic webs between the humanities and natural sciences. Heavily inspired by the cross germinating writings of CCRU that range from Science Fiction to Kabbalistic analysis, art and culture collectives like 0rphan Drift, as well as the cyberfeminist works of Donna Haraway and Firestone.
Forest, Stone, Flesh - Spectral Traces and Bodily Archives
2025
Collaboration with Nella Piatek
Shown at
9. Internationales Frauen Theater Festival - September 2025 Ecofeminism - performing sustainability
Forest, Stone, Flesh is an eco-feminist journey across the mythical sites of Dartmoor National Park in Cornwall. Through the process of anarchiving, the body is used as a material to access histories and to activate the few locations which carry myths that centre around women and slow violence. Anarchiving relates to the idea that sites can be understood as living archives; as such the film ‘re-animates’ local narratives to imagine alternative realities. The film is a ritual performance in which two travellers journey across the site’s past, present and future. Through the lenses of hauntology and post-humanist thought, the history and mythologies of the area are re-examined in connection to an eco-feminist approach.
This project was created as part of the Mayes Creative Residency: Creative Inspiration From An Ancient Landscape funded by the National Lottery Fund.
2025
Collaboration with Nella Piatek
Shown at
9. Internationales Frauen Theater Festival - September 2025 Ecofeminism - performing sustainability
Forest, Stone, Flesh is an eco-feminist journey across the mythical sites of Dartmoor National Park in Cornwall. Through the process of anarchiving, the body is used as a material to access histories and to activate the few locations which carry myths that centre around women and slow violence. Anarchiving relates to the idea that sites can be understood as living archives; as such the film ‘re-animates’ local narratives to imagine alternative realities. The film is a ritual performance in which two travellers journey across the site’s past, present and future. Through the lenses of hauntology and post-humanist thought, the history and mythologies of the area are re-examined in connection to an eco-feminist approach.
This project was created as part of the Mayes Creative Residency: Creative Inspiration From An Ancient Landscape funded by the National Lottery Fund.