Melissa Schwarz


Interdisciplinary artist, designer and researcher.

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SíM Residency in Reykjavík - August 2025

9. Internationales Frauen Theater Festival - September 2025
Ecofemisim - performing sustainability
Artwork for Xenofuturism Magazine Issue 2
out June 2025

Forest, Stone, Flesh - Spectral Traces and Bodily Archives
2025
Collaboration with Nella Piatek

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.

Your pleasure, our pain
Your Pleasure, Our Pain - The ethics of luxury
Residency at PRAKSIS (Oslo)
Oslo, Norway August - September 2024

Developed and funded by Rudolf Kangwa, Lusaka Centre for Contemporary Art (LuCAC), Goethe-Institut Norwegen and Institut français de Norvège, non-profit centre for art, research and learning PRAKSIS (Oslo)

Residency to research the ethical implications of the idea of and industry around ‘luxury’, with a special attention to the case study of gemstone mining in Zambia.

Included two events:
On Luxury - 20.08.2024
Experience Luxury - 04.09.2024




Wild Wired!
Rewilding Encounters of Langthorne Park
Artist Commission
Site specific interactive game, 2023

Website: wildwired.world

Exhibited

Radical Landscapes at the William Morris Gallery with Hervisions, and on site in Langthorne Park
London, UK October 2023 - February 2024

Presented at

Softer Futures
Copenhagen, Denmark 2024

Forward Festival
Berlin, Germany 2024

V&A
Digital Art Communities: Hubs, Nodes & Networks Talk
London, 2024

Garden of Ephemera
Digital Render, 2023
with digital art collective DIGI-GXL

Exhibited

Desire Generation, Dalston Superstore, London, UK April 2023

óbyggð
Multimedia installation, 2022
A poetic meditation on Icelandic wilderness and hybrid spaces where nature and technology meet.

Exhibited 

tunglið, tunglið taktu mig, SíM, Reykjavík, Iceland May 2022 


Post Wilderness
Multimedia Installation, 2021
An exploration of postindustrial landscapes in Lusatia, Germany.

Exhibited

What are men to rocks and mountains, P-OST Nijmegen, The Netherlands, July-October 2022

Visceral Realities, LCC MA IDC Final Show, London, UK December 2021

Featured

Next Nature Network
Next Generation, August 2022