Going Out — Walking and Resounding Bodies
Drawing on the book Going Out. Walking, Listening, Soundmaking (umland editions 2022), this talk explores the intersections of walking, listening and sound-making in public space focusing on feminist, decolonial and anti-ableist approaches based on silence, noise and voice. The aim is to connect (and promote) different “situated” perspectives that challenge hegemonic spatial relations and the assignment of certain bodies to certain spaces, thereby generating alternative narratives and experiences of walking, listening, silence and noise in the public sphere.
13.5.2026, 19:00 CEST,
online (click for the Zoom link)
ELENA BISERNA
Elena Biserna is a researcher and curator based in Marseille, France. She writes, talks, facilitates workshops or collective projects, curates events and sometimes performs. Her interests are focused on listening and on contextual, time-based art practices in relationship with urban dynamics, socio-cultural processes, the public and political sphere. She currently serves as the artistic director of LABgamerz and the Lips festival, Aix-en-Provence. Her writings have appeared in several international publications (Les Presses du Réel, Mimesis, Le Mot et le Reste, Errant Bodies, Amsterdam University Press, Cambridge Scholar, Castelvecchi, Bloomsbury, Routledge, postmedia, Electa, Silver Press, Viaindustriae, NGBk, etc.) and journals. She has recently edited two books: Walking from Scores (Dijon: Les Presses du réel, 2022) and Going Out. Walking, Listening, Sound-Making (Brussels: umland, 2022). She co-edits the feminist column wi watt'heure of Revue & Corrigée with Carole Rieussec. She has collaborated with or presented her projects in different venues and organisations, such as B’sarya for Arts (Alexandria), nGbK and Errant Sound (Berlin), LUFF (Lausanne), Padiglione Italia, Venice Biennale; Tavros and Fondation Onassis (Athens), La muse en circuit and Sonic Protest (Paris), Festival Plataforma (Santiago de Compostela); Oscillation festival, CIVA and Q-O2 (Brussels); City of Women, TO)pot festival and Cona (Ljubljana); ar/ge kunst (Bolzano), GMEA, Albi; Manifesta 13, Unité d’Habitation Le Corbusier and La Friche la Belle de Mai (Marseille); 3bisF-centre d’arts contemporains and Locus Sonus (Aix-en-Provence); soundpocket (Hong Kong); Standards, PAC – Padiglione Arte Contemporanea (Milan); NUB (Pistoia); Radio India (Rome); Sant'Andrea degli Amplificatori, Xing, Radio Città Fujiko (Bologna); Saout Radio; p-node. She has taught at ESAAix-École Supérieure d'Art d'Aix-en-Provence, Aix-Marseille University, the Academy of fine art of Bologna and Paris 8 University.
