D. A. Whitcraft

About

D.A. Whitcraft is an artist working with moving image, performance, and installation. Their projects study how ecological, technological, and bodily systems intersect in a time of environmental collapse. Through staged gestures, experimental video, and sound, they explore how culture absorbs and reproduces the language of climate change, endurance, and exhaustion.

Their current work, Climate Control: Forever Faster, expands this inquiry through video, sculpture, and embodied action. Set within forests and post-industrial terrains, the project examines how contemporary rituals of fitness, sustainability, and ecological branding intersect with systems of belief and extraction. It reflects on the tension between environmental desire and planetary degradation, using performance as a site of research into collective myths of control and survival.

They hold a PhD in Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought from the European Graduate School and an MFA in Media Art from UCLA. Their work has been shown internationally at the Architecture + Design Museum Los Angeles, the Museum of Architecture and Design Ljubljana, and the Rietveld Academie Amsterdam.

Curriculum Vitae
Six Notes on Working

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