ELISABETH NICULA // interdisciplinary artist

Elisabeth Nicula
I tried to become a Pablo Picasso completist and eventually went to New York to see It's Pablo-matic, for Momus, 2023.
Smooth Friend is an experimental publishing project, 2021–.
With Zoë Taleporos, Pointing Respectfully is for artists going on walks together, 2023–.
I read a collection of bad art reviews and wrote about that, and about why I like being an artist, for Momus, 2023.
"The Artist Is the Void" is an essay about Land Art and NFTs, for Momus, 2022.
I wrote three poems about decomposition and art as a columnist for SFMOMA's Open Space: "A Figure That Decomposes," "Ghost Story," and "Notes From Our Last Meeting," 2021.
Cultivation is a webpage for Art was only a substitute for the internet, a pavilion in the Wrong Biennale curated by Andres Manniste, 2021–2022.
"The Dart" is a photo essay about the ecology of my apartment bathroom, for Facility, 2021.
"Frank's Corpus" is an essay about my photographic archive of bird bodies, for SFMOMA's Open Space, 2021. Robin Sloan wrote about it in his Reading Room newsletter <3.
I went to all the 2019–2020 season Living Room Light Exchange salons, IRL when that was still possible and the last two on the computer, and wrote about what it was like, for Rare Earth: The Ground is Not Digital, 2020.
"Under the Road" is a depaving fantasy with GIFs and armadillo memories, for Silica Magazine, 2020.
"March 27, 2020" is a blog excerpt about an unexpected intimacy of quarantine, in Urgency Reader 2, 2020.
"Have You Seen This Bird" is an essay about being friends with a free wild bird, in New Life Quarterly, 2019.
I gave a visual lecture about Tidewater, my beautiful sinking homeland, at PLACE TALKS at the Prelinger Library, 2019.
dioramas.space is a website for tending to the emotional landscape amidst climate disaster, 2018–.
Earlier I made Dioramas, an installation about looking, at Black & White Projects, 2017.
And before that, "Dioramas," an account of my walks around San Francisco weather, for SFMOMA's Open Space, 2017.
"California" is about moving to geological time, for Silica Magazine, 2017.
"NATUREGIFMANIFESTO" is an attempt to make sense of my art practice, for LRLX 02, State Change, 2017.
Aspects of Geological Time is a project about the long scale of the universe, on the internet and IRL, 2016–2017.
geologicaltime.net: step into the river as often as you want, 2016.
My diary about Aspects of Geological Time for Paper Magazine, 2016.
Sense Memories, 2015–2016.
I made cut- and fold-your-own GIFs for LRLX 01, 2015.
Predictions are landscapes for bunker living, commissioned by Electric Objects, 2016.
Where is a series of woodcuts and animations about distance, 2014–2015.
This is all the work I made on Newhive, 2013–2017.
abjectsubli.me is a blog.
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Elisabeth Nicula // interdisciplinary artist