https://melissaschwarz.com Melissa Schwarz Sun, 08 May 2022 22:14:13 +0000 https://melissaschwarz.com en https://melissaschwarz.com/HOME-1 Sun, 08 May 2022 22:14:13 +0000 Melissa Schwarz https://melissaschwarz.com/HOME-1 Currently GlogauAIR Berlin Residency July - September 2026 Looking at postindustrial landscapes in and around Berlin Sumac Space&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;July 2026 Future Frequencies Lab, Berlin&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Most recent work https://glogauair.net/artist/melissa-schwarz/ Interviewhttps://glogauair.net/activity/meet-the-artist-melissa-schwarz/ GlogauAIR Window Showcase, Berlin&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;September 2026‘Sythesis of Awe’ <img width="3152" height="2184" width_o="3152" height_o="2184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/04a117b7ec6baff67ae6d34667e93e7e87fa247686505ea9d56b92fb385afbff/20260901_122t3073.jpg" data-mid="251780486" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/04a117b7ec6baff67ae6d34667e93e7e87fa247686505ea9d56b92fb385afbff/20260901_122t3073.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/102248692aa905fd2e0793ff8079488623d17f133479e3584c528c997e049f2b/20260901_122300.jpg" data-mid="251780476" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/102248692aa905fd2e0793ff8079488623d17f133479e3584c528c997e049f2b/20260901_122300.jpg" /> <img width="3060" height="4080" width_o="3060" height_o="4080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/efe4ed92bc254732bf2b2cd1855a8f600b18086cccb9096ee11512f6f53832b6/20260901_122512.jpg" data-mid="251780478" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/efe4ed92bc254732bf2b2cd1855a8f600b18086cccb9096ee11512f6f53832b6/20260901_122512.jpg" /> In/Human Infrastructures Symposium 21-23rd May 2026with Xenofuturism Magazine at Gossamer Fog, London Day 2: Entangled AgenciesPerformance 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 &nbsp;as part of the symposium In/Human Infrastructures at Alt_R, May 2026 <img width="2880" height="3840" width_o="2880" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/da21e9d0218b479e61c2a5e19cd74374f452ef2c32743f4c787114122c26a229/In_HumanFINAL.png" data-mid="248961470" border="0" data-scale="80" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/da21e9d0218b479e61c2a5e19cd74374f452ef2c32743f4c787114122c26a229/In_HumanFINAL.png" /> <img width="3000" height="4000" width_o="3000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c0aa9698e0c42728e628f5349cb27b7b6a550561c303ef94c64b491ffff36297/Entangled-Agencies.jpg" data-mid="248961472" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c0aa9698e0c42728e628f5349cb27b7b6a550561c303ef94c64b491ffff36297/Entangled-Agencies.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="4000" width_o="3000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1dcca6a21bbed8b97433b31f6b73c52464cd28d339a2d3381a86d254fb13d47e/Entangled-Agencies2.jpg" data-mid="248961471" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1dcca6a21bbed8b97433b31f6b73c52464cd28d339a2d3381a86d254fb13d47e/Entangled-Agencies2.jpg" /> Thinkpiece ‘Cyborg Bodies and Grotesque Environments’&nbsp; &nbsp; and Artwork &amp;&nbsp;Cover Artwork forWetware Magazine Issue 3 - Fashioning rendered Worlds out 3rd December 2025 <img width="3000" height="2121" width_o="3000" height_o="2121" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/148dd7e008822f68c70091b66896cb399c32f26d88b01fdd263a508b15db72b8/COVER-4---MELISSA-SCHWARZ.png" data-mid="241266664" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/148dd7e008822f68c70091b66896cb399c32f26d88b01fdd263a508b15db72b8/COVER-4---MELISSA-SCHWARZ.png" /> Entangled with the landscape &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; August 2025 &nbsp;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. <img width="4080" height="3060" width_o="4080" height_o="3060" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c92fcfb7666eb7a99a0e6854f2977aea1afadc46c4ff6ab2c39d6efd1ba8901b/20250827_205506.jpg" data-mid="238592842" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c92fcfb7666eb7a99a0e6854f2977aea1afadc46c4ff6ab2c39d6efd1ba8901b/20250827_205506.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6d52f6266d770d44642f4032ea4914184c95c81a6243ba1c9771fe68c2090979/20250827_195613.jpg" data-mid="238592841" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6d52f6266d770d44642f4032ea4914184c95c81a6243ba1c9771fe68c2090979/20250827_195613.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f2cd7001754a6d4259b13ae53d45192b4299218e11cf8a97a0301c35ddabf7ad/20250827_210113.jpg" data-mid="238592840" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f2cd7001754a6d4259b13ae53d45192b4299218e11cf8a97a0301c35ddabf7ad/20250827_210113.jpg" /> Article ‘Extractivist Capitalism and Haunted Landscapes’ for Praksis Presents Issue 12&nbsp; - Your Pleasure, Our Pain&nbsp; — Interrogating luxury’s ethics, extraction, complicity and alternatives https://www.praksisoslo.org/melissa-schwarz <img width="1800" height="891" width_o="1800" height_o="891" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45bf3a3904950488485bfcf062b38ac7f50d561be9bdd1acaca9de5913f5010d/Screenshot-422.png" data-mid="240235030" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/45bf3a3904950488485bfcf062b38ac7f50d561be9bdd1acaca9de5913f5010d/Screenshot-422.png" /> 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. <img width="2395" height="1840" width_o="2395" height_o="1840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b8bbcaf48eeaafdee0dd8f19a70a3eed3c7209a6f71c7e816bcad1b0e4c7ae1/xeno2.jpg" data-mid="235880345" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8b8bbcaf48eeaafdee0dd8f19a70a3eed3c7209a6f71c7e816bcad1b0e4c7ae1/xeno2.jpg" /> <img width="2055" height="1593" width_o="2055" height_o="1593" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/515efa04dd806e4d01f1d77bbe94cd1094e6d634f0f3c8ef9e719bcf90585e33/Xeno1.jpg" data-mid="235880346" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/515efa04dd806e4d01f1d77bbe94cd1094e6d634f0f3c8ef9e719bcf90585e33/Xeno1.jpg" /> <img width="3060" height="4080" width_o="3060" height_o="4080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7daa9befdb6b22e6c4a6c19899ca9c9e9a721865a1a03b37d4bf424a15b05808/20250627_185338.jpg" data-mid="235880347" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7daa9befdb6b22e6c4a6c19899ca9c9e9a721865a1a03b37d4bf424a15b05808/20250627_185338.jpg" /> Forest, Stone, Flesh - Spectral Traces and Bodily Archives 2025 Collaboration with Nella Piatek Shown at&nbsp; 9. Internationales Frauen Theater Festival - September 2025 &nbsp;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. <img width="2868" height="1616" width_o="2868" height_o="1616" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c924058200ab41bd79b03321c2babf93eea3925982efe19431bb68aff45f27e6/8_Wistmans-Woods-Poetry.jpg" data-mid="235879912" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c924058200ab41bd79b03321c2babf93eea3925982efe19431bb68aff45f27e6/8_Wistmans-Woods-Poetry.jpg" /> <img width="2872" height="1616" width_o="2872" height_o="1616" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d4b7bb7a9d2dc771d69b57cc8740cc36d80deb2bde55348ffebbb3bcaee283c1/1_Title-Shot.jpg" data-mid="235879916" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d4b7bb7a9d2dc771d69b57cc8740cc36d80deb2bde55348ffebbb3bcaee283c1/1_Title-Shot.jpg" /> <img width="2872" height="1618" width_o="2872" height_o="1618" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e343c5a9aec28971b7e2530267131278fbfefe1e0d8607e3c35984ef4d154e2b/4_Forest--Stone--Flesh---Spinsters-Rock.jpg" data-mid="235879917" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e343c5a9aec28971b7e2530267131278fbfefe1e0d8607e3c35984ef4d154e2b/4_Forest--Stone--Flesh---Spinsters-Rock.jpg" /> 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 <img width="4608" height="3072" width_o="4608" height_o="3072" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c1b4d39c39c51cec0d0bae5e4c8379fb191cb4f08410ca1ff070ff76db0f30c7/DSC02199.JPG" data-mid="218020721" border="0" data-scale="99" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c1b4d39c39c51cec0d0bae5e4c8379fb191cb4f08410ca1ff070ff76db0f30c7/DSC02199.JPG" /> <img width="1920" height="948" width_o="1920" height_o="948" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b547e8ab76c9316bdb661f1fb45da98c8656184974069b943466c907f5184ea/Screenshot-394.png" data-mid="218502310" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b547e8ab76c9316bdb661f1fb45da98c8656184974069b943466c907f5184ea/Screenshot-394.png" /> <img width="4608" height="3072" width_o="4608" height_o="3072" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bd9d7eb419565b11fa32b674b5c74caba5061ff8787f02748569ddd042145684/DSC02207.JPG" data-mid="218020715" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bd9d7eb419565b11fa32b674b5c74caba5061ff8787f02748569ddd042145684/DSC02207.JPG" /> <img width="1164" height="1064" width_o="1164" height_o="1064" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a1f30105503f05bb50a06ab237055e614a912c92cd007d8bef6da21ce6687b8c/Screenshot-368.png" data-mid="218502273" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a1f30105503f05bb50a06ab237055e614a912c92cd007d8bef6da21ce6687b8c/Screenshot-368.png" /> <img width="1173" height="1042" width_o="1173" height_o="1042" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d342e93ffd2302ffe5903bcbac88908532ce7ba63ee56859ea75b6d216d1cc2f/Screenshot-388.png" data-mid="218502274" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d342e93ffd2302ffe5903bcbac88908532ce7ba63ee56859ea75b6d216d1cc2f/Screenshot-388.png" /> Wild Wired! Rewilding Encounters of Langthorne Park Artist Commission Site specific interactive game, 2023 This project aims to explore digital rewilding, connecting the hyperlocal ecology of Langthorne Park to the wider global climate emergency and how boundaries between humans, nature and technology are dissolving. The work draws on themes of identity, social mobility, collective storytelling, and our relationship to place. 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&amp;A Digital Art Communities: Hubs, Nodes &amp; Networks Talk London, 2024 <img width="1449" height="830" width_o="1449" height_o="830" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/af2edd8eab1fcf4b84c78a48815d1db4eb8cb8572396d6b58f57997b5b4def41/WildWiredScreenshot.png" data-mid="239410447" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/af2edd8eab1fcf4b84c78a48815d1db4eb8cb8572396d6b58f57997b5b4def41/WildWiredScreenshot.png" /> <img width="1898" height="892" width_o="1898" height_o="892" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03f8b9aeebc2392adaf0cd2fd86e3042ce07a706ecdf7c720d0c1a483966996f/Screenshot-348.png" data-mid="197095922" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/03f8b9aeebc2392adaf0cd2fd86e3042ce07a706ecdf7c720d0c1a483966996f/Screenshot-348.png" /> <img width="1929" height="1929" width_o="1929" height_o="1929" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/53fc34a81a1893b081c594dd5115beb2bb2d4f06f99c690974651125ed1a2871/20240218_1105382.jpg" data-mid="211932767" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/53fc34a81a1893b081c594dd5115beb2bb2d4f06f99c690974651125ed1a2871/20240218_1105382.jpg" /> <img width="1899" height="895" width_o="1899" height_o="895" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/436ec168eef24fa757bd7b189431aeb65c7e4b5c3b8315b221e9c399c3b96c31/Screenshot-351.png" data-mid="197095925" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/436ec168eef24fa757bd7b189431aeb65c7e4b5c3b8315b221e9c399c3b96c31/Screenshot-351.png" /> <img width="3060" height="4080" width_o="3060" height_o="4080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eba0b024b0b737d52a632e2e9e60a6307dd4415bb246e188b2dad541344b7fbc/20231021_121552-1.jpg" data-mid="211932668" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eba0b024b0b737d52a632e2e9e60a6307dd4415bb246e188b2dad541344b7fbc/20231021_121552-1.jpg" /> <img width="1899" height="898" width_o="1899" height_o="898" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ba21847730f9e0b12a14282fc2bb16b7baf9dda3986dc9dcddb9d60bd4396a71/Screenshot-352.png" data-mid="197095926" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ba21847730f9e0b12a14282fc2bb16b7baf9dda3986dc9dcddb9d60bd4396a71/Screenshot-352.png" /> <img width="3060" height="4080" width_o="3060" height_o="4080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/12903a55b3e5b9353758596b5af57723e050374df9827bf622f859594feddc65/20240218_110635.jpg" data-mid="211932666" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/12903a55b3e5b9353758596b5af57723e050374df9827bf622f859594feddc65/20240218_110635.jpg" />