(other) present areas of research include:

Polyvocality: dimensional shifts in states and perception through positional leaps of voice

SoulPorn: titivating the psychospiritual body through poetic entanglement with nonhuman actors

Intra-personal Communication: The Rhetoric of Internal Dialogue

The Inhabited Body: An Intersection of Object and Affect Theory in Live Media

The Dramaturgy of Abandon: Speculating Risk & Consent in Participation-Contingent Work

professional engagement has included the accompaniment of individuals facing:

terminal diagnoses (see the Will of Wisdom Project under Intimate Forms)

existential crisis, reinvention, psycho-spiritual disorientation, “the dark night of the soul”, and other initiation processes

experimenting with life-lab practices (immersive artistic research, “kink”, altered states of consciousness, integral inquiry, etc.)

For more information about ongoing research : (download pdf)

ABOUT the ARTIST:

Eli Gold (she/her) is an American-born artist, researcher, poet, and analyst, based in France; her interdisciplinary practice explores the [collision/confluence} of intimacy, transference, and the ineffable urge toward [dissolution union].

in SHORT:

Eli makes participatory artworks that treat intimacy as a research method - using conversation, (inter)active scores, and material archives to study how meaning, faith, and feeling are co-authored in lived experience.

EXPANDED:

Eli proposes participative encounters and shared creative practices which produce art(i)facts (here seen as "the work"). These co-created experiences demand as much from the participant as the artist - by inviting the vulnerability of both*. Eli frames the entirety of lived experience as a creative act, referring to it as the [mise-en-scène of the life-art laboratory]. In this framework of radical inclusion, every moment, gesture, and interaction is imbued with relevance.

Eli is presently working on the reclamation of Prayer as a technology of Theopoiesis - the continuous (re)creation of “God” within the imaginal void.

"Prayer must be liberated from its institutional and dogmatic associations; it must circulate freely as an answer to the most profound and essential human need: the need for meaning."

Faith, in her lexicon, is understood as the meaning-making-mechanism, the capacity of knowing wherein the sacred is understood as a perpetual invitation in the active shaping of the shared world.

Eli is the founder and director of La SOURCE Center for Research & Creation in Brittany, France - an international artistic research incubator dedicated to Love-Studies and integrative inquiry. Additionally, she continues to work with clients as an archetypal analyst and psychopoetic consultant.

*Note: Shared creative practices may also indicate exchanges with other-than-human interlocutors (this may include architecture, places, objects, animals, and even historical or imaginary figures). These “alter-beings” are differently-present, but no less significant as both collaborators and public.

Professional Services

Dramaturgy for Visual Artists
(Process / Studio Visits)

Art does not emerge in isolation. Every work carries a pulse, a rhythm, a question, a gravitational pull toward something beyond itself. My role as a dramaturge is to listen deeply, helping artists clarify the internal logic of their work, refine its conceptual structure, and sharpen its resonance. Whether through dialogue, structural mapping, or critical reflection, I work with artists to trace the threads of their ideas, ensuring that form and intention align with the urgency of what wants to be expressed.

Services include: