Elena Biserna
Elena Biserna is a researcher and occasional curator based in Marseille, France. Her interests are focused on listening and on contextual, time-based art practices in relationship with urban dynamics, socio-cultural processes and the everyday sphere. Her main research project explores the relationships between walking, listening and sound-making since the 60s and considers walking as a practice allowing to traverse disciplinary boundaries, to expand arts’ limits and to intervene in urban space.
She has taught at ESAAix-École Supérieure d'Art d'Aix-en-Provence, Aix-Marseille University, and the Academy of fine art of Bologna. She gave talks in different conferences, festivals and events, such as, recently: MAR-Museo d’Arte della città di Ravenna; INHA-Institute d’histoire de l’art, Paris; University of Lisbon; La Pelanda, MACRO Testaccio, Rome; De Montfort University, Leicester; Gaîté Lyrique, Palais de Tokyo, EHESS, Paris. Her articles and interviews have appeared in several international publications (Talm-Editions, Les Presses du Réel, Mimesis, Le Mot et le Reste, Errant Bodies, Amsterdam University Press, etc.) and she co-edits the column wi watt'heure of the review Revue & Corrigée. As a curator, she worked with several organizations such as Locus Sonus (Aix-en-Provence), Sant'Andrea degli Amplificatori (Bologna), Cona Zavod (Ljubljana), Xing (Bologna), Saout Radio, Sound Threshold (London), Diffusing Digital Art (Marseille).