Elizabeth Gallón Droste is an artistic researcher who develops fieldwork-based research by combining different media. Her work focuses on the stories told and sung by territo~rivers and the ecosystems they weave, composed of multiple beings, temporalities, materialities, traces, and layers. She is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin with the project ‘Vocear Ríos’ (Voicing Rivers). Droste has participated in Meandering at TBA21 Academy in Cordoba (2023), and documenta15 in Kassel (2022). She is currently part of the artistic research process ~pes, which includes activated listening sessions, participatory actions through hydrophonic tuning, and mimetic acts of reciprocity with bodies of water. Droste lives and works in Berlin.

As of July 2024