Elena Biserna is a researcher and curator based in Marseille. She writes, gives 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 to urban dynamics, socio-cultural processes, and 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 journals and international publications (Les Presses du Réel, Mimesis, Le Mot et le Reste, Errant Bodies, Amsterdam University Press, Cambridge Scholars, Castelvecchi, Bloomsbury, Routledge, postmedia, Electa, Silver Press, Viaindustriae, etc.). She has recently edited two books: Walking from Scores (Les Presses du réel, 2022) and Going Out: Walking, Listening, Soundmaking (umland, 2022). She co-edits the podcast wi watt’heure of Revue & Corrigée with Carole Rieussec (www.revue-et-corrigee.net/). As a curator and author, she has collaborated with or presented her projects at various venues and organizations, including: Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg;
ar/ge kunst (Bolzano); B’sarya for Arts (Alexandria); nGbK and Errant Sound (Berlin); LUFF (Lausanne); Tavros and Onassis Foundation (Athens); SODAS2123 (Vilnius); La muse en circuit and Sonic Protest (Paris); Festival Plataforma (Santiago de Compostela); Oscillation festival, CIVA, and Q-O2 (Brussels); Festival Parallèle, Manifesta 13, Unité d’Habitation Le Corbusier, and La Friche la Belle de Mai (Marseille); 3bisf-centre d’arts contemporains, Locus Sonus, Fondation Vasarely (Aix-en-Provence); soundpocket (Hong Kong); Festival RAAA (Brescia); Amigdala and Periferico festival (Modena); PAC—Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea and Standards (Milan); Interferenze Festival (Naples); NUB and Museo del Novecento e del Contemporaneo di Palazzo Fabroni (Pistoia); Radio India (Rome); Sant’Andrea degli Amplificatori, Xing, Radio Città Fujiko (Bologna); Cona, TO)pot festival, and City of Women festival (Ljubljana); the web-radio Saout Radio; and the hybrid radio/streaming platform p-node.