SOUND

SOUND

PLAY

PLAY

TECHNOLOGY

TECHNOLOGY

I’m Malvika Agarwal (born 1994, India), an interdisciplinary artist working across mixed media, installation, and ecological sound art. My practice explores the textures of relation—between body and landscape, sound and silence, structure and softness. I work with reclaimed wood, fabric, and audio recorders to build immersive environments that invite careful listening and embodied attention. Drawing, sketching, and recording are often the ways I begin to sense movement and atmosphere; my works unfold gradually through site, sound, and gesture.

In recent projects, I’ve created performative installations using field recordings, live sound, and ephemeral materials to engage with multispecies ecologies and collective memory. I’m drawn to processes that are slow and tactile—spaces where breath, vibration, and pause can hold ecological histories and speculative futures at once. Many of these works take shape in pedagogical or public settings, where participation and shared presence become part of the composition.

With roots in early childhood education, curriculum research, graphic design, and sound-based art, I’ve worked across classrooms, galleries, and grassroots projects—from teaching in Ecuador to movement performance in harvested fields in Canada.

I’m currently affiliated with Western University, where I contribute to interdisciplinary research at the intersection of arts, education, and environmental thought.