ELENA BISERNA

Elena Biserna is a researcher and curator based in Marseille. She writes, talks, facilitates workshops and collective projects, curates events and sometimes performs. Her interests are focused on listening and on contextual, time-based art practices in relationship with urban dynamics, socio-cultural processes, the public and political sphere. She currently serves as artistic director of LABgamerz and Lips festival, in Aix-en-Provence. 

 

Her writings have appeared in several international publications (Les Presses du réel, Mimesis, Le Mot et le Reste, Errant Bodies, Amsterdam University Press, Cambridge Scholar, Castelvecchi, Bloomsbury, Routledge, postmedia, Electa, Silver Press, etc.) and journals. She has recently edited two books: Walking from Scores (Les Presses du réel, 2022) and Going Out: Walking, Listening, Sound-Making (umland, 2022). She co-edits the feminist column wi watt'heure of Revue & Corrigée with Carole Rieussec.

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She has collaborated with or presented her projects in different venues/organisations, such as Errant Sound (Berlin); LUFF (Lausanne); Tavros and Onassis Foundation (Athens); La muse en circuit and Sonic Protest (Paris); Festival Plataforma (Santiago de Compostela); Oscillation festival, CIVA and Q-O2 (Brussels); City of Women, TO)pot festival and Cona (Ljubljana); ar/ge kunst (Bolzano), GMEA, Albi; La Membrane; Manifesta 13, Unité d’Habitation Le Corbusier and La Friche la Belle de Mai (Marseille); Padiglione Italia, Venice Biennale; 3bisF-centre d’arts contemporains, Locus Sonus and Fondation Vasarely (Aix-en-Provence); soundpocket (Hong Kong); Standards (Milan); NUB (Pistoia); Radio India (Rome); Sant'Andrea degli Amplificatori, Xing, Radio Città Fujiko (Bologna); Saout Radio; p-node.