Melissa Schwarz


Interdisciplinary artist, designer and researcher.

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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.
As long as it’s mine
Video, 2021
An exploration of why we feel the urge to record things we want to keep as memories whilst altering our actual memory by the very action.

Shown

The View From Somewhere, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria September 2021  




Ingrown
Video, 2020
This audiovisual VR experience is working with the hypothesis what it would look like if we could just upload unwanted emotions unto a computer, which then deals with them instead of us, visualising them.

Shown

CTRL-ALT-DEL, London, UK
January 2021

Tender Buttons
Video, 2019
Based on poems by renowned American writer Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons is a visual investigation of the fetishisation of objects as extensions of the body - of its limbs and of the self.

Shown

Aesthetica Film Festival, York, UK
November 2019