SVETLANA ZWETKOF

ART | LANGUAGE | SOUND
COLORADO -> WESTERN MASS -> SATX -> MPLS


“ill - messenger poisoner version” (2023) by Shouter Whisperer. Grungey art rock, drums by Alejandro Abeledo and produced by Will Chappell and Svetlana Zwetkof.


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2025
2024
2023
BIOGRAPHY
SCHEDULE

Dark Critter demos to come this summer.

SEPT 5, 2025 - 6-8pm - MCAD MFA Fall Show



CURRENT PROJECTS

Dark Critter (2024--onward) - synthesizer, electric guitar + bass, vocals - electronic grungey/doomy art rock made with Ribbon Flores.

PULPY DAUGHTER WATER - essays by S. Zwetkof

coffin nails - video/movement/sound series

2022
2021
2020
PRESS ACCOLADES

forthcoming: Minneapolis College of Art and Design - MFA Candidate - 2025-2027

Mount Holyoke College -  BA Linguistics & Studio Art - 2013-2017
   cum laude, high honors in art thesis
   Phi Beta Kappa & Mary Lyon Scholar

Svet @ Texas Noise and Ambience 2018 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

Rousay/Zwetkof Tour - midwest United States - summer 2017

2019
2018
2017
2016


 PAST PROJECTS

Persistent Bloom Creative Retreat - February 2025

Shouter Whisperer (2023-2024) - synthesizer, electric ukulele, vocals - art rock
   one released album

Svet (2016-2023) -  vocals, synthesizer - experimental/ambient music
   seven released albums (listed with Shouter Whisperer)

Jejune Stars (2018-2019) - synthesizer, vocals -  indie

Ston the Band (2023-2024) - synthesizer - wonky tonk

14th Annual Research Colloquium for the College of Education         and Human Development at UTSA - speaker and graduate
   assistant organizer

Rousay/Zwetkof Duo (2017-2018) - vocals - experimental improvisational drum/vocal duo

Gloomy Swamp, Breathless Mud (2016-2017) -  
       wax sculptures and video/sound installations.
       Read the written thesis.

CoLang 2016 archivist working with Unangam Tunuu in                    Fairbanks, AK

Institute for Curatorial Practice 2015 student/intern

Diversions A Cappella - collegiate a cappella vocalist
      and arrangement composer (2014-2017)

2025 (works in progress)



“Old Friend” (2025). Etched copper plate, etching ink, soy and carving wax, lavender  and clove housemade essential oils.


“Took form. Gave birth.” (2025). Soy and carving wax, clove and lavender essential oils. Molded from a plastic bin.

In progress oil painting series.
The beginnings of a zine/digital book. 2025.




“I would take off my head” (2025) by Dark Critter. Synthesizers, voice, MIDI effects.

lyrics:

I have never felt right in this body


He does not deserve you

You don’t deserve what he did

I would take you and cherish you

I would take off my head

It would haunt him in daylight

By moonlight and evening time too

And when he woke up he would wonder

Why he had done that to you


They said that I keep many secrets

Secrets I keep, it is true

No one can know the way I feel

No one can know the way I do


I gathered all the flowers in the meadow

I gathered all the field

I braided my heart into them

I felt my heart swell

And I gathered all the flowers in the meadow

I gathered all the rocks on the shore

And when you came to me my darling

I knew I could hide no more


I do not deserve you

I am a freak

I have never felt right in this body,

That was not holding a woman against me


I have never felt right in this body

Woman

Bulgarian/Cyrillic typography practice. 2025.



“Oh Katherine” by Dark Critter (2025). Music/art video.

“Every day I wake up and, flailing, sometimes failingly, give to the Irish goddess of sovereignty.


This takes different forms. Masturbation. Showering. Going on a humid walk and producing sweat. Drinking a cup of coffee. Going on a frigid walk and producing sweat. Giving thanks and giving back, to the Irish goddess of sovereignty.


I think a lot about bog bodies. The preservation of animal materials where cellulose and plant material become part of the bog. I think about ancient men recovered from bogs by less ancient men, the ancient men’s caps of leather and sweaters of wool remaining tied about head and shoulders.


Others cleaved in two by druidic ritual.


Did these men, being men, give to the Irish goddess of sovereignty the way I do?


Were they wise?“

FROM Pulpy Daughter Water: Essays by S. Zwetkof