Mo Langmuir &
Samuel Collins
May — August 2023
→ Bucharest
Samuel Collins is a spatial practitioner based in Copenhagen and London. Mo Langmuir is a multi-disciplinary practitioner born in London in 1995, based in London.
Samuel Collins obtained a BA in architecture from the University of Sheffield (2013–2016), followed by an MA in political architecture on the subject of critical sustainability from the Royal Danish Academy of Architecture, Design & Conservation (2016–2018). Collins’ work is situational and research-based. His ongoing interest in cultural ecology, landscape activation, decolonization in the Anthropocene – as well as the spatial relations between politics, nature and religion – amalgamates in slow orientations toward an architecture of »critical animism«. His professional experience includes work in architectural design and model making, both of which have contributed to Collins’ technical skills in drawing, sculpture and installation fabrication. His work has been exhibited at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen (2021) and the Royal Academy of Arts (2018 & 2022) in London.
In 2019, he co-founded the spatial practice STRL_ (The Strollological Technical Research Laboratory) with Sho Murayama. Focusing on landscape and ecology, their work employs walking as primary mode of environmental perception and engagement. He is currently collaborating with artist Mo Langmuir on the walking series Modern Pilgrimage as well as the ongoing research/ design proposal Towards Species Citizenship.
Mo Langmuir is a multi-disciplinary practitioner who uses social art to explore being human on a shared planet, broadening traditional Western science and knowledge-making systems to create ecological futures. Informed by a degree in BSc environmental biology from the University of Nottingham (2014–2018), her practice foregrounds process. After graduation, Langmuir worked in ecological research and artistic environmental education for projects in Nottingham/UK, Malta and the Caribbean. She now runs trauma-informed art and nature workshops for refugees, non-EU migrants and asylum seekers, connecting new arrivals to their new environments.
Some recent projects include a residency with Climate Art in Rye/UK (April-July 2021), co-creating an environmental history installation at Bridgepoint Arts Centre which highlighted the intimate relationship between people and their environment, subverting traditional museology and approaches to the classification of non-human nature. In October 2021, Langmuir was awarded the international Social Art Award third place prize by The Institute for Art and Innovation (IFAI) for her project Mapping Greenness (Nottingham). Earlier this year, she was selected to take part in an Arts Council initiative for schools to work with artists to evaluate the wider curriculum and encourage more curiosity and creativity in UK schools across disciplines.
The residency is organised in the frame of Akademie Schloss Solitude's Eastern European Network exchange program.