Elisa Rusca
curator and writer
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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
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- Memory, disappearance and traces, concept of time, notions of storytelling
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- 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
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2022
Conversation with Jordi Ruiz Cirera, winner Prix FOCALE 2022
Nyon
November 22nd
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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
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2020
Conversation N.1 - with Nina Haab, Emmanuelle Antille, Isaline Vuille, Laura Thiong-Toye
Swiss Art Awards 2020
Usine Kugler, Genève
October 10th
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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
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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
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2018
"A Brave New Virtual World"
51st AICA International Congress | Taiwan
National University for Education (Sage Hall), Taipei
Nov 17th
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2017
"Narratives and encounters. Notes for a curatorial praxis"
Academy of Fine Arts, Prague
Nov 30th
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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
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"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
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2015
"Curatorial Toolkit for Cultural Apprentices"
MASC, Museo de Arte de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil
Dec 08th
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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2017
Focus with Margherita Pevere and Ivan Penov about their work Impromptus,
TheParders event 2017
Spazio ELLE, Locarno, Switzerland
August 5th
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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
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