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Elena Biserna: Bodies of Voice
Bodies of Voice
(p. 83 – 98)

Elena Biserna

Bodies of Voice
Notes on the Sirens and the Politics of Voice

  • aesthetics of film
  • art history
  • music
  • literary studies
  • sound
  • cultural history
  • life sciences
  • media studies
  • cultural studies
  • film experience

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Elena Biserna

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.
Giuseppe Di Salvatore (ed.), Fabienne Liptay (ed.): The Sirenic: Follow the Water, Follow the Sound

“Follow the Water Follow the Sound” is a call and response. Far removed from the associations of seduction and fear that the siren — both as mythological figure and alarm device — has inspired, it is an invitation to another perceptual attunement to our environment. Offering an original perspective, the book imagines the “Sirenic” as a practice oriented towards emergent futures, fabulations of becoming and pedagogies of transformation.

The book engages with notions of singing, voicing and listening that reach into a sonic pluriverse. Through these notions, it provides the grounds for an expanded conception of cinema emerging through sound, music and performance.

Bringing together scholars, curators and artists from across disciplines, the book unfolds as a polyphonic publication. Echoing one another in multiple ways, the authors explore the mythologies and ecologies of water, the poetics and politics of voice, and the invocation of a communal spirit through film and other arts.

 

With contributions by Ruth Baettig, Dalida María Benfield, Elena Biserna, Mattia Capelletti, Giuseppe Di Salvatore, Burcu Dogramaci, Magali Dougoud, Lidia Gasperoni, Alexandra Gelis, Tobias Gerber, Ute Holl, Roberta Ioli, Pauline Julier and Caroline Courrioux, Fabienne Liptay, Gabriel Paiuk, Alice Sartori, Davide Tolfo, Alexandra Tsiamparta, Matthias Maria Wittmann.

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