Elitza Koeva

PROJECTS

Phantom Tree

Divinity Tree

  OMAPA

  Speculum

  Vanishing Soundscapes

  Object to be Destroyed

  Invisible Chair

  Einstein’s {T}Ears

  Daedalus {Perdix}

  Trojan : the Matrixial

photo by Vampyrworks

I am an artist and researcher working across sound, installation, moving image, and archival research. My practice begins with questions of temporality and impermanence: how tangible and intangible forms persist, degrade, and return as traces, and how bodies, environments, and technologies become entangled with one another. Rather than accepting the oppositions through which nature, technology, and society are so often framed, I attend to the interferences and resonances that emerge among sound, space, and the urban fabric, treating these frictions as sites where such categories are continually made and unmade.

Central to this work is an interest in how visual, sonic, and spatial practices can reorganize attention, and with it the possibilities of critical awareness and participation within increasingly mediated environments.

Installation, field recording, and research become means of unsettling distinctions between the self and the social, the material and the immaterial, the human and the more-than-human, while proposing other ways of sensing and inhabiting shared space.

My recent projects have turned toward environmental sound, multispecies relations, and the archives and histories of scientific observation, exploring conditions in which sound becomes spatial, an archive becomes an environment, and traces outlive the bodies that produced them. Developed through encounters with collections, field recordings, cities, and more-than-human worlds, these works ask how artistic practice might listen to what remains at the margins of perception—to forms of presence, disappearance, and transformation that are partial and transient.