Liz Gre
Gre is a composer-scholar and interdisciplinary artist whose work engages sound, storytelling, and site-specific composition to explore Black and Indigenous epistemologies, memory, and archival practice. Their research-based creative practice centres Endarkened Co-Composition, a methodology they developed through doctoral studies, which integrates collaborative, nonlinear approaches to music-making with oral histories, formal and informal exchanges, and experimental sound practices. This framework reimagines compositional hierarchy, challenges hegemonic narratives, and cultivates sonic spaces of endarkened co-presence—sites where opacity serves as a means of protection, sanctity, and knowledge-keeping.
Moving fluidly between composition, installation, and performance, Gre works with a range of sonic and material elements, including graphic and photo scores, field recordings, fibre optics, natural materials, and digital media. Their compositions have been performed in concert settings, site-specific installations, and interdisciplinary collaborations, drawing on breath, story, and archival resonance. Their work has been presented at The Reach at the Kennedy Center, Tate Britain, Lisson Gallery, Queens Museum, and other contemporary art and music spaces, with commissions from transmediale, the BBC Singers, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Creative Time, among others. Deeply invested in composition as a mode of inquiry, Gre’s research and practice continue to expand the possibilities of composition as a tool for sonic storytelling, social critique, and collective memory.
Before joining Winchester School of Art, she taught at Goldsmiths, London South Bank University and King’s College London, and was Balzan Post-Doctoral Fellow at New Sorbonne University Paris 3 in 2021-2022. She was co-editor of Cosmic Shift: Russian Contemporary Art Writing (London: ZED Books, 2017, TLS Book of the Year 2017). She co-curated media art festival IMPAKT 2018 ‘Algorithmic Superstructures’ and was a Digital Earth Fellow in 2020-2021. Currently she is working on a monograph on procedural images, as well as on the themes of techno-animism and post-socialist necropolitics.