ELISA GIULIANO

Curator, researcher and theater maker.
She is currently a lecturer at MA Curatorial Studies, ZHdK. 


elisa.giuliano1@gmail.com




CURATORIAL AND RESEARCH

July 28 - 29, 2023
   🌙    WHERE THE MOON IS UP 
Aeroponic Acts 2023 - Dutch Art Institue
@ Centrale Fies, Dro, IT
Oct 22 - Dec 31, 2022
    💀️    CEREMONY (Burial of an Undead World)
Exhibition, public program and publication
@ Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, DE
June 21, 2022
    💬️    Beneath Image and Script.
            Cosmogony and Conflict in Image Systems
Workshop in collaboration between HKW and Villa Romana
@ Villa Romana, Florence, IT

Mar - Aug, 2021
    🛠️    Non-Extractive Architecture
Research residency
@V-A-C Foundation, Venice, IT

Mar - June, 2020
    🌊    Ocean Fellowship,
Research fellowship
@ Ocean Space, TBA-21 Academy, Venice, IT

Sept 6 - Mar 8, 2019
    🌏    Blind Sensorium. Il paradosso            
            dell'Antropocene
An exhibition by Armin Linke
@ Museo Archeologico Nazionale Domenico Ridola and Matera 2019 Foundation, Matera, IT

Mar 22 - Dec 31, 2019
    🗄️    I-DEA
A series of five exhibition
@ Cava Paradiso and Matera 2019 Foundation, Matera, IT

Mar - Sept, 2018
    🎩   A Hat and a Bicycle
BURN-OUT Research fellowship
@ Het Nieuwe Institute (HNI), Rotterdam, NL




THEATER WORK

October 12, 2023
    🏛    Le Colonne della Colombo
Performance and public shooting with Pauline Curnier Jardin and Feel Good Cooperative
@ Locales, Rome, It

July 11, 2022
    ❤️‍🔥    Bella come te, in carne ed ossa come me
            Beautiful like you, in flesh and boned like me
Performed at tuttə (le) rottə - all (the) ways: unfixed
 Aeroponic Acts 2022 - Dutch Art Institute
@ Centrale Fies, Dro, IT

Nov 12, 2021
    💒   What is the symbolic form of an education?
Performed in the framework of the Kitchens - Dutch Art Institute
@ Nida Art Colony,  Nida, LT

Sept 1, 2021
    🏚️    A Phantasmagoric House
Performed in the framework of the Kitchens - Dutch Art Institute
@ Posttheater, Arnhem, NL

June 19, 2021
    💧    Corpi Idrici. Sinfonia di una città
Performance and collective research
@ Feltrinelli Foundation, Milan, IT
Nov, 2018
   👒    A Hat and a Bicycle
Performance in the framework of the exhibition Work, Body, Leisure
@ Dutch Pavillion, Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, IT




WRITINGS AND BOOKS

December ,2023
    🪐   Light and Shadow
           A Recoded Contemplation of the Cosmos
Review 14th Shanghai Biennale Cosmos Cinema on NERO
>read

July, 2023
    💰    The Lottery of Dreams and Death
In Arts of the Working Class, Issue #27 "Kinship"
> read

May, 2023
     🕯️    Le Lente Passioni
Exhibition text for Pauline Curnier Jardin @ 
Ellen de Bruijne projects, Amsterdam, NL
 > read

May, 2023
    📷    The Measure of Autonomy
            Mario Cresci’s Inversions and
            the Positive–Negative Reversal
In Un esorcismo del tempo, An exorcism of time published by Contrasto, Rome, IT
> buy
 > read

May, 2023
    🌈   Purple that cannot be Blue
A conversation with Zairong Xiang on MUdec United, published by Nero Editions, Rome, IT
> buy
 > read

Dec, 2022
    ☠️    Kiss the Dead
Curatorial essay in CEREMONY (Burial of an Undead World), published by Spector Books, Leipzig, DE
 > read

Dec, 2022
    🔥    CEREMONY (Burial of an Undead World)
Exhibition catalogue, published by Spector Books, Leipzig, DE
> buy

July, 2022
    🌳    Black Madonnas.
             Race and Religion in Modern Southern Italy
MA Thesis at Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem, NL
> read

Sept, 2021
    📲    10 Gigabites per Second,
             100 Times Faster,
             On a Different Wavelenght
In Dirty Furniture n. 5 "Phone"
> read 
> buy

Mar, 2020
    📂    Blind Sensorium: Sourcebook
Exhibition sourcebook
> download 


Pauline Curnier Jardin & Feel Good Cooperative, Le Colonne della Colombo, If Body 2023,  LOCALES, Rome, 2023. Photo Angela Scamarcio. 







Pauline Curnier Jardin & Feel Good Cooperative, Le Colonne della Colombo, If Body 2023,  LOCALES, Rome, 2023. Photo Angela Scamarcio.















Pauline Curnier Jardin & Feel Good Cooperative, Le Colonne della Colombo, If Body 2023,  LOCALES, Rome, 2023. Photo Angela Scamarcio.

















Pauline Curnier Jardin & Feel Good Cooperative, Le Colonne della Colombo, If Body 2023,  LOCALES, Rome, 2023. Photo Angela Scamarcio.

















Pauline Curnier Jardin & Feel Good Cooperative, Le Colonne della Colombo, If Body 2023,  LOCALES, Rome, 2023. Photo Angela Scamarcio.
Pauline Curnier Jardin & Feel Good Cooperative, Le Colonne della Colombo, If Body 2023,  LOCALES, Rome, 2023. Photo Angela Scamarcio.



WHERE THE MOON IS UP, Aeroponic Acts 2023, Dutch Art Institue (DAI). Communication Design by Hanna Rullmann.










[1] Portrait of DAI Generation, Curonian Spit, Nida, Lithuania, 2021–23. Photo: Baha Görkem Yalim i.c.w. Dandelion Eghosa and Hanna Rullmann. [2] Courtesy of NASA. [3] Photo: Jacq van der Spek.




















Is it the flight or the fall what my friend is falling for? by David Přílučík. WHERE THE MOON IS UP, Aeroponic Acts 2023, Dutch Art Institue (DAI). Photo Dandelion Eghosa and Nash Caldera.





























Point it against gravity and watch it fly by Cornelia Isaksson. WHERE THE MOON IS UP, Aeroponic Acts 2023, Dutch Art Institue (DAI). Photo Dandelion Eghosa and Nash Caldera.























A side: ONE LAST PRAYER - B side: ẹKÙN by Pelumi Adejumo. WHERE THE MOON IS UP, Aeroponic Acts 2023, Dutch Art Institue (DAI). Photo Dandelion Eghosa and Nash Caldera.







It’ll all end in Tears by Maxima Smith. WHERE THE MOON IS UP, Aeroponic Acts 2023, Dutch Art Institue (DAI). Photo Dandelion Eghosa and Nash Caldera.












CEREMONY (Burial of an Undead World), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW). Communication Design by NODE Berlin Oslo.









[1] Peter Minshall, Sketch for the Adoration of Hiroshima, 1985. Courtesy of The Callaloo Company, Chaguaramas, Trinidad. [2] Stan Douglas, Deux Devises (still), 1983. © Stan Douglas. Courtesy of the artist, Victoria Miro and David Zwirner. [3] Cecilia Mangini, Stendalì suonano ancora (still), 1960. Courtesy of Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna. [4] Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection (still), 2020. Courtesy of the artist and Memento Film International. [5] Tabita Rezaire, Fertility altar, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Amakaba. [6] Jane Jin Kaisen, Burial of this Order (still), 2022. Courtesy of the artist.














Exhibition view. CEREMONY (Burial of an Undead World), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW). Photo Studio Bowie.



















Carlo Ginzburg at Storia Notturna and The End of The World series of lectures. CEREMONY (Burial of an Undead World, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW).













Alberico Larato with his sons Guglielmo Larato and Giuseppe Mattia Larato at Storia Notturna and The End of The World series of lectures. CEREMONY (Burial of an Undead World, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW).











Blind Sensorium. Il paradosso dell’Antropocene Sourcebook, Volume I and Volume II.










Blind Sensorium. Il paradosso dell’Antropocene Sourcebook, Volume I and Volume II.
























Blind Sensorium. Il paradosso dell’Antropocene Sourcebook, Volume I and Volume II.
ELISA GIULIANO
elisa.giuliano1@gmail.com