Introducing
@lsemullen , our graduating MA Media student!
Liam Mullen is a Canadian artist, writer, and researcher holding a BA in Visual Studies from the University of Toronto’s Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. They are an MA candidate at University College London’s Slade School of Fine Art, where their research-based practice draws from methods in sound studies, queer theory, feminist theory, and social epidemiology to comprehend pedagogical systems and environmental violence.
Through time-based media and installation techniques, Mullen’s work re-configures abstracted systems and, otherwise, ambient governing forces to prompt affective awakenings—described by cultural theorist Kathleen Stewart as encounters that intensify one’s awareness to their relations with discursive bodies and environmental forces. In tethering their thinking via art-making to their writing, they have come to understand sound as a key component in eliciting these affective responses. As a material: sound is robust and pervasive, while also being incredibly malleable and discreet. It is this paradox that privileges sound’s ability to provoke corporeal surges, as it literally resonates with and within bodies.
Previously, they have worked on projects shown at MOCA (Toronto, Canada), Gallery 44 (Toronto, Canada), Gallery TPW (Toronto, Canada), Trinity Square Video (Toronto, ON), TANK Magazine (London, UK), Art Museum (Toronto, Canada), Susan Hobbs Gallery (Toronto, Canada), Visual Arts Centre of Clarington (Clarington, Canada), and VIVO (Vancouver, Canada). To read along with Mullen, you can find their words published in CMag, and Cornelia Magazine (Buffalo, NY).
You can find Liam’s work in studio 7 during the grad show, opening on the 13th of June.
Image 1.) In-Studio Portrait taken by Julia-Anna Simonchuk
Image 2.) Untitled (Authority Figure), 2024
Image 3.) Daily Mail, 2024
Image 4.) Mail box in Islington
Image 5.) “Liam” backwards is “Mail”, 2024
Image 6.) Screen recording: You’ve Got Mail (1998)
Image 7.) Still from: Mums, 2025
Image 8.) anyone still awake?, 2022/2024
Image 9.) Screen recording: Wet Hot American Summer – “Bat Boy” (2001)
