top of page

Elizabeth Luffman

Discipline:

Artist

Location:

London

ABOUT:

"The female voice is the material that I have to work with, it is a thing that I produce internally. I extract the voice and bring it outside of my body using technology. My voice then exists externally from me and resides in a hard drive. This then allows me to work with it as a physical object. I subtly manipulate it, amplify it by placing it on speakers and then configure it in a space. My practice is oriented around ‘the everyday’ or perhaps to use Perec’s neologism ‘the infra-ordinary’ (the mundane lived in experience that escapes our attention). Using the voice, I embrace the banal, the fleeting and the overlooked in my work and reveal it to an audience, building upon artists who have categorised ‘the everyday’ as an aesthetic category in its own right. I regard the act of listening as a performative act, as sound theorist Torben Sangild points toward. I attempt to conflate the listeners notion of place and time: the ‘there’ and the ‘here’/ the ‘then’ and the ‘now’. I have done this by scripting pieces for sound installations which contain both similarities and discrepancies between what the listener is seeing and what is being re-laid to them. Although, this is not to disembody the listener, but rather, the opposite, to reembody, to make one hyper aware of oneself and what is around them. Using the voice as a kind of staging for the quotidian."

WORKS:

SUPPORT WORKING CLASS CREATIVES (1).png

'Working Class Creatives' responds to a need which is too often overlooked in the arts; that of the barriers facing working-class artists from getting on in our sector. They are instrumental in initiating much-needed change that will see the art world become more inclusive and reflect the society it purports to serve. I often search their database in my research, it is a vital resource for any arts professional working in culture today. That they have got this far on so little financial resource is remarkable and I am excited to see what they will achieve with further support.” Beth Hughes, Curator, Arts Council Collection.

  • Instagram
  • Youtube

©2025 Working Class Creatives Database.

bottom of page