Elisa Rusca
curator and writer
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I am a European curator and writer.
You can find me in Berlin and Warsaw, sometimes in Switzerland near a big lake. We can communicate in English, French, Italian, German, and a few more idioms if you like. We can play chess, I can read you kabbalistic Tarot cards.
Among other activities such as observing
dragonflies and black holes, I like to translate ideas in exhibitions and in texts, as well as to write about, but not only, photography, painting, and installation.
Got questions? >contact me<
Conferences
2020
Conversation N.1 - with Nina Haab, Emmanuelle Antille, Isaline Vuille, Laura Thiong-Toye
Swiss Art Awards 2020
Usine Kugler, Genève, Switzerland
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. Decapitazioni e p0rn0: 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, Taiwan
Nov 17th
"Lubricant for Pinocchio. Human – machine interactions and the myth of human nature"
International Festival for Philosophy: Human Nature, 9/27-30/2018, Ischia, Italy
Sept 28th
"Futurability in the shitstorm. Viruses of the New"
Lumpen Universität at Espace Libre, Bienne/Biel, Switzerland
June 17th
2017
"Narratives and encounters. Notes for a curatorial praxis"
Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
Nov 30th
"Don't forget to feed the troll: re-imagining post-Internet values"
International Festival for Philosophy Values: Continuity and Change, 09/23-10.01/2017, Ischia, Italy
Sept 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, Zaragoza, Spain
Sept 22nd
"Cccritic! Nel piatto in cui si mangia"
Sonnenstube Art 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, Germany
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, Czech Republic
Nov 05th
2014
"What's Next? Considerations about Art Criticism, Social Media and Internet Freedom"
AICA International Congress: Art Criticism in the Labyrinth, 8th-16th October 2014, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art,
Seoul, South Korea
Oct 10th
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
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)
Links
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, CNRS, Paris, France
March 29th
2012
"Target: Iraq. Typologies de représentation de la violence en photographie de guerre"
in frame of the exhibition Histoires de violence, LAC Vevey – Local d'art contemporain, Vevey, Switzerland ()
Feb 03rd