Studio Gre

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Endarkened Co-Composition Methodology

Call me Gre.

I am a sound artist, vocalist, performance artist and composer-researcher.

I make works that emerge from sites of opacity - what I call sites of endarkened co-presence. These are places where people, their ideas, memories, and imaginations inhabit an opacity that does not devalue ancestral ways of knowing and being, but rather protects and sanctifies them. As a place for qualitative research, the intimacy of a storytelling epistemology surrounds the site. As a result of validating Black and Indigenous historical, intuitive, and spiritual ways of making meaning, perhaps connection forms in situ. Further troubling the preconceived or assumed positions of hierarchy by de-centring hegemonic narratives, the site of endarkened co-presence offers fertile roots from which endarkened co-composition can sprout.

I am drawn to a variety of materials - both sonic and otherwise - to explore these considerations. While rooted as sound-based work and compositions, my pieces are presented in many forms and thus engage with many materials. I am in constant conversation with the sonic and what it wants from me as an artist. Graphic scores and photoscores invite me to engage with marker, pen, paper and 35mm film to facilitate improvisation with musicians and players who wish to interpret these scores. Sound installations invite me to consider multi-sensory tactility, where I incorporate natural materials like limestone and soil and fabricated material like fiber optics and textiles to create a world specific to the compositions. Compositions for performance, film, chamber and beyond invite me to remain focused on breath, story and narrative in order to make works that draw life from and retreat to the archive.

Education

PhD - Music (Composition)
City St. George University
London, UK
(2024)

M.A. Arts and Cultural Management
St. Mary’s University
Minneapolis, MN
(2018)

BSc Sociology
Creighton University
Omaha, NE
(2013)

Commissions
Residencies

Nebraska State Music Association
2025 Commissioned Composer
(2025)

Leighton Artist Studios
Banff Center for Arts and Creativity
(2024)

PerforCraze International Artist Residency
Kumasi, Ghana
(2021)

Inside/Outside Fellow
Union for Contemporary Art
(2019)

Publications

Gre, L. Meireles, M. and Rennie, T. (2024). ‘Endarkened Listening’, in Rennie, T. et al (ed.) Situated Listening: Attending to the Unheard, Routledge

Gre, L. (2024). ‘Co-writing our hymn for liberation’, in Burnett, P. and Johnson-Williams, E (ed.) Hymns and Race: Agency, Mobility, Coloniality, Routledge

Gre, L. (2021). ‘Invoke’, in Molitor, C. Hausmusik Collective, Uniformbooks

Exhibitions
Performances
Collaborations

(upcoming) tbd
(group)
Auger + Zest Collective
Bournemouth, UK
2025

Buffet
(group)
Tower House Studios
Southampton, UK
2025

Embodied Cacophanies
(solo)
Lindisfarne Castle
Holy Island of Lindisfarne
2023-2025

Three Gold Threads
(solo)
Royal Shakespeare Company
Stratford-upon-Avon
UK
2023

Black Girl Window
(contributor)
Alexandria Smith
Currier Museum
Manchester, NH, USA
2022

An Infinity of Traces
(group)
Lisson Gallery
London, UK
2021

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Sonic Ecologies

Embodied Ecologies

resting body
2025

From Whence
2021

From Whence is a parallel listening practice rather than documentation or illustration. The photographs operate as sites of pause, holding gesture, surface, and atmosphere without explanation. They refuse captioning and narrative anchoring, allowing ambiguity to remain active rather than resolved.

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Echoes of Care
2025

Echoes of Care is a collaborative multidisciplinary performance exploring the theme of haunting and Black ways of care and exploring the body as a vehicle for epiginetic memory of carelessness and carefulness. Having debuted at the 2025 transmediale festival in Berlin, the performance plays physically with the concept of closeness (of those performing) and proximity (to the audience who remain peripheral) and considers the sound of careFULness and careLESSness and how that sound might echo through our bones, memories, and beyond.

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Echolocations
2025

Martin Kippenberger
Not to Be the Second Winner
Aldo Rossi chair on base
1987

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Three Gold Threads
2023

Peter Fischli and David Weiss
Installation view, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, May 5–July 29, 1995

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Cured
2026 - ongoing

Joseph Beuys
Installation
Felt, stool, sculptor’s trestle, copper, tin, wire and rubber
Photograph by Volker Döhne

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Graphic Notation
varied

Alex Frost
Continuous Profile
Sculpture, 2004

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Embodied Cacophonies
2023-2025

Under the Skin of a Guild
2023

L. Gre

We Invoke the Black. To Rest.
Tate Britain
2021

Composer: L. Gre
Performers: L. Gre + Enam Gbewonyo

Curator: Peju Oshin

More Powerful Than the Sun
2020 - ongoing

More Powerful Than the Sun is a collaborative sound and performance work grounded in embodied listening and relational sound-making. The work treats sound as a carrier of memory, affect, and ancestral relation rather than as a tool for explanation. Sonic material remains partially opaque. Listening unfolds through sensation, pacing, and resonance rather than interpretation.

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A Progeny of Perpetual Independence

Tim Rollins & K.O.S.
Three works: Golden Horn Drawings (from America Series), 1989
Graphite and watercolor on book page.

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Moon Mother

Blinky Palermo
Announcement card
Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles
Marie-Puck Broodthaers
Jan 31 – Mar 9, 1991

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Heinz Gappmayr
ZEIT WVZ. 1379 / 1993
ZEIT WVZ. 1410 / 1993

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