Elisa Ferrari
Individual
Roles
Artist, Curator, WriterBiography
Elisa Ferrari is an artist who works primarily with sound, performance, and writing. Her practice and collaborations are concerned with memory formations, idleness, sonic sediments, translingual ecologies, somatic inquiries, and the infrasonic. She hosts aux-sends—a quarterly radio series about experimental music, sound, and poetics—on Vancouver co-op radio. From 2013-2017, she was Events and Exhibitions Coordinator and Curator at VIVO Media Arts Centre, and she occasionally curates exhibitions and sound events. Her recent solo and collaborative work has been presented at Nanaimo Art Gallery, Kamias Triennial, Vancouver Art Gallery, Western Front, Q-O2, and CAG. She lives as an uninvited guest on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh territories, and in Brescia, Italy, where she was born.Elisa Ferrari, 2024