ABOUT
Liza Kaluzhskaia is a transdisciplinary artist, educator, curator, and researcher based in London, UK.
Her practice centres on participatory art with more-than-human communities, exploring symbiosis and mutual interdependencies within ecological networks. Combining art, pedagogy, and research, she draws on complexity theory as well as posthumanist and new materialist thought to question what “participation” means when it includes insects, plants, bacteria, and other nonhuman agents.
By embracing the entangled, unpredictable nature of complex real-world systems, she reveals often unnoticed ties between biological, social, and ecological networks. Resisting reductionist approaches, her work expands how art can generate new modes of cross-species knowledge and political imagination within natureculture.
liza.kaluzhskaia@gmail.com
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Liza Kaluzhskaia is a transdisciplinary artist, educator, curator, and researcher based in London, UK.
Her practice centres on participatory art with more-than-human communities, exploring symbiosis and mutual interdependencies within ecological networks. Combining art, pedagogy, and research, she draws on complexity theory as well as posthumanist and new materialist thought to question what “participation” means when it includes insects, plants, bacteria, and other nonhuman agents.
By embracing the entangled, unpredictable nature of complex real-world systems, she reveals often unnoticed ties between biological, social, and ecological networks. Resisting reductionist approaches, her work expands how art can generate new modes of cross-species knowledge and political imagination within natureculture.
liza.kaluzhskaia@gmail.com
01 The Resistance Playbook (2025)
The Resistance Playbook is a collection of strategies and behaviours of more-than-humans as a way of resisting the adversities imposed by both human and nonhuman conditions. It offers viewers to learn from plants through various invitations for action.
Exhibitions:
Growing Season P.1, Coven Collective, London, 2024
Lewisham Arthouse, Growing Season P.2, Coven Collective, London, 2025
The Resistance Playbook is a collection of strategies and behaviours of more-than-humans as a way of resisting the adversities imposed by both human and nonhuman conditions. It offers viewers to learn from plants through various invitations for action.
Exhibitions:
Growing Season P.1, Coven Collective, London, 2024
Lewisham Arthouse, Growing Season P.2, Coven Collective, London, 2025
02 Collective Bodies (2024)
Collective Bodies is a project that assumes there is no singular but only a plural combination of all parts. Everything we encounter forms a community of interrelated species, viewing bodies as a collective effort rather than singular forms, a symbiosis that combines efforts in living.
Link to the video Collective Bodies. 2m 16s (2024)
Collective Bodies is a project that assumes there is no singular but only a plural combination of all parts. Everything we encounter forms a community of interrelated species, viewing bodies as a collective effort rather than singular forms, a symbiosis that combines efforts in living.
Link to the video Collective Bodies. 2m 16s (2024)
03 Garden Chronicles (2023)
This project explores the concept of community ecologies through close-up shots of various plants, aiming to reveal a world of its own, challenging categorisations, and exposing intra-actions between different species.
Link to the video Close-up, 5m 50s (2023)
This project explores the concept of community ecologies through close-up shots of various plants, aiming to reveal a world of its own, challenging categorisations, and exposing intra-actions between different species.
Link to the video Close-up, 5m 50s (2023)
04 Reciprocal Relationships (2022–ongoing)
A collection of prompts for humans and more-than-humans, exploring how we can communicate ideas between interspecies,
such as stones, insects, trees, birds, etc.
Link to the video Engaging with Aphids: A Participatory Situation, 4m 16s (2024)
A collection of prompts for humans and more-than-humans, exploring how we can communicate ideas between interspecies,
such as stones, insects, trees, birds, etc.
Link to the video Engaging with Aphids: A Participatory Situation, 4m 16s (2024)
05 Poetry Collection (2021–ongoing)
This collection regards poetry as a practice for challenging perceptual and linguistic constraints. It aims to cultivate fluid and shifting perceptual boundaries and enabling dissolution of a distinct object of observation or observer. This practice highlights stumbling over established concepts and language habits repeatedly, but shows transformations striving towards the open-ended, unfinished, and participatory nature of perception.
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This collection regards poetry as a practice for challenging perceptual and linguistic constraints. It aims to cultivate fluid and shifting perceptual boundaries and enabling dissolution of a distinct object of observation or observer. This practice highlights stumbling over established concepts and language habits repeatedly, but shows transformations striving towards the open-ended, unfinished, and participatory nature of perception.
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06 Participatory Walks (2016), Art Prospect International Festival / St. Petersburg
During participatory walks, the group engaged in a dynamic dialogue, transitioning from internal to external perspectives and vice versa. Various entities such as trees, rivers, signs, snippets of conversation from passersby, and city landscapes contributed to this dialogue, signifying the emergence of new meanings, which do not remain stable and are always in a state of becoming.
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During participatory walks, the group engaged in a dynamic dialogue, transitioning from internal to external perspectives and vice versa. Various entities such as trees, rivers, signs, snippets of conversation from passersby, and city landscapes contributed to this dialogue, signifying the emergence of new meanings, which do not remain stable and are always in a state of becoming.
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