Alyssa Alikpala is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and researcher working across sound, sculpture, fibre, installation, and ephemeral forms. Focusing on process and indeterminacy, her work explores the body’s interaction with, and traces left in, the environment. In her approach, the role of permission is examined in obscuring the boundaries of the body and the spaces it occupies.
Through a practice of gathering, she considers embedded cycles and histories of the organic, found, and discarded materials that are used. Her ongoing interventions with wheatpasted grass and other plant matter respond to time, place, and conditions of the built and natural environment and ultimately accept their impermanence.