Elisa Rusca
curator and writer
Art historian, writer and curator, I am currently director of exhibitions and collections at the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in Geneva.
My Alma Mater is Goldsmiths, University of London, and I am editor for the Italian pages of Kunstbulletin, to which I regularly contribute.
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Current academic and curatorial research
- Art criticism on online platforms, online art hacktivism, interactions within offline spaces and online spaces, socially engaged cultural production and curation in the post-digital age
- Memory, disappearance and traces, concept of time, notions of storytelling
- Power structures and relations through visual infrastructures (in advertising and press)
Conferences / Talks
2023
"What if? Reflections on the Saudi contemporary art scene"
Talk: Curating Art in Challenging Times
Photographers' Gallery, London
April 21st
2022
Conversation with Jordi Ruiz Cirera, winner Prix FOCALE 2022
Nyon
November 22nd
2021
Prix AICA France pour la critique d'art - Lauréate du Prix spécial du Jury
Institut National de l'Histoire de l'Art, Paris
September 21st
2020
Conversation N.1 - with Nina Haab, Emmanuelle Antille, Isaline Vuille, Laura Thiong-Toye
Swiss Art Awards 2020
Usine Kugler, Genève
October 10th
Constellations Critiques. Panel discussion moderated by Eric De Chassey
30 years of Archives de la Critiques d'Art
Musée de Beaux Arts de Rennes, France
March 4th
2019
"ERROR 403: FORBIDDEN. Moderazione di immagini, iconoclasmo online e l'emergere del tecno-proletariato". Immagine e Memoria nell'Era Digitale: prospettive filosofiche, storiche e antropologiche.
Convegno internazionale, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy
Feb 21st
2018
"A Brave New Virtual World"
51st AICA International Congress | Taiwan
National University for Education (Sage Hall), Taipei
Nov 17th
2017
"Narratives and encounters. Notes for a curatorial praxis"
Academy of Fine Arts, Prague
Nov 30th
2016
"Living the consensual-hallucination: a short history of cyber art"
Keynote speaker, AICA National Congress, ETOPIA Centro de Arte y Tecnologia, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Sept 22nd
"Cccritic! Nel piatto in cui si mangia"
Sonnenstube Project Space, Lugano, Switzerland
Feb 12th
"The place where the vision creeks"
Invited lecturer for Nina Haab Salon Identity of a Resident Stranger
KW Institute for contemporary art, Berlin
Jan 12th
2015
"Curatorial Toolkit for Cultural Apprentices"
MASC, Museo de Arte de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil
Dec 08th
"Tumbling down the rabbit hole"
Art Criticism 2.0 international conference at Research Center of the Academy of Visual Arts in Prague and Vera Jirousová Award, Prague
Nov 05th
2014
"What's Next? Considerations about Art Criticism, Social Media and Internet Freedom"
AICA International Congress: Art Criticism in the Labyrinth, 8-16.10.2014, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art,
Seoul
Oct 10th
2013
"La police s'en va au musée: une étude sur la réappropriation muséale et artistique de la photographie judiciaire"
International conference Police: between fiction and non-fiction, 03/28-29/2013
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS, Paris
March 29th
Links
Panels moderation
2019
near at B11: traces and non-places, discussion with near members Salvatore Vitale, Aline D'Auria, Igor Ponti, Gianpaolo Minelli, during the 11th Biennale dell'Immagine Chiasso
Cons Arc Gallery, Chiasso, Switzerland
Sept 29th
2017
Focus with Margherita Pevere and Ivan Penov about their work Impromptus,
TheParders event 2017
Spazio ELLE, Locarno, Switzerland
August 5th
2016
Discussion with Monica Dovarch and Franco Lurà
after the projection of S'Orchestra in Limba
TheParders event 2016
Mono spazio condiviso, Locarno, Switzerland
August 9th