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Emilia telese perfect 10 performance and installation leeds city art gallery 2006
Emilia Telese (born 1973) is an Italian artist working with performance, visual, site-specific and video art. She is based in Lewes, East Sussex. Her most recent show was Life Begins at Land's End part of Rebirth Day, a concept organised by Michelangelo Pistoletto. Her video, along with works by other artists were shown at Musee du Louvre in Paris, Spring 2013.
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- Emilia telese perfect 10 performance and installation leeds city art gallery 2006
- Signpost guide for new artists by emilia telese at rising stars 2014 symposium
- Early life and education
- Career overview
- Exhibitions
- Participatory and engagement based commissions and projects
- Group shows and events
- Awards
- Reviews and publications
- Economic arts
- Boards and advisory groups
- Academic papers
- References
Signpost guide for new artists by emilia telese at rising stars 2014 symposium
Early life and education
Born in Sarno, Italy, in 1973, Telese graduated with a BA (Hons) in painting from the Fine Arts Academy, Florence in 1996 with a focus on 14th-century techniques, Arte Povera and political performance. In 1997 she studied acid-based printmaking techniques at the University of Brighton, where she continues to lecture.
Career overview
Often site specific, Telese's work deals with conscious engagement, political and social debate, non-verbal communication and the questioning and deconstruction of behaviour. Telese has dealt with the image of women in the media throughout her work, exploring beauty stereotypes and the distorted image of self through work such as "Life of a Star" of a Star] (presented at the 2005 Venice Biennale, a performance that explores our societies obsession with celebrity status. Telese walked though the streets of Venice with fake bodyguards pretending to be a celebrity. Crowds began to gather and passers by stopped her for an autograph even though they had no clue who she was. Life of a Star was subsequently shown in solo shows in Denmark and the UK. In 2006 she debuted "Perfect Ten" at Leeds City Art Gallery, a live art performance and installation that dealt with image obsession and the concept of the 'fitting in' by surrounding herself with hundreds of beauty products and magazines in a perfect circle around Antonio Canova's Hope of Venus. Telese also presented at the Endangered Species world summit, spearheaded by Susie Orbach, about women and the media at the Royal Festival Hall, February 2011. subsequently in New York City and Rio de Janeiro). Through the use of performance, installation and photography Telese aims to challenge the motives and expectations of the media surrounding the image of women, and their manipulation of reality through artificial means.
In 2006 Telese founded the Edible Construction Company with Chris Biddlecombe and Guyan Porter, an artist-led initiative creating socially engaged art in the public realm. The key focus of the group is to develop challenging and inspiring projects that have value beyond their aesthetic. This includes work such as The Rice Pavilion, a monumental installation to draw attention to food waste. The Edible Construction Company involved in continuous research into international politics, renewable energy, recycling and the abuse of resources and is dedicated to the exploration and development of sustainable practice.
Alongside her artistic practice Telese produces and presents Radio Sophia, a bilingual radio programme in Italian and English language for Brighton community radio: Radio Reverb FM. She was a founding member of the Live Art Forum South East, a six-weekly meeting for those working in or curious about live art, performance, and cross-discipline art forms. In 2008 she was a joint founder with Guyan Porter of an international artist group - The Global Collective and Brighton-based writing and contemporary art initiative The Doomsbury Set. Telese was an Artsway Associate artist until Artsway's closure in 2012. Telese also works as Artists' Networks Coordinator for a-n The Artist Information Company and as a freelance art writer and specialist in artists' professional practice.
She is a lecturer specialising in the relationship between art, economics and professional practice at more than ten UK and Italian institutions, including the University of Brighton; the Pistoletto Foundation, Biella, Italy; University for the Creative Arts, Farnham; Sheffield Hallam University; Sir John Cass Art School, London, the Fine Art Academy in Palermo; The University of the Arts, London. She represents practicing artists on the Arts Council England Regional Council. She has led nationwide debate events about art, politics and social engagements, which can be seen on her blog.
She has exhibited worldwide since 1994, including in the New Forest Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale (Venice, Italy), Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany), Chashama (New York City, USA), Centro Cultural Telemar (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Manege (St Petersburg, Russia), Leeds City Gallery, ArtSway (New Forest, UK) and the Freud Museum (London UK). Her world has been presented at major events at Tate Britain, Royal Festival Hall, and Her practice includes interactive and body-responsive technology, film and live art, installation, literature and public art.
Exhibitions
Participatory and engagement based commissions and projects
Group shows and events
Awards
Reviews and publications
BBC2, Five, RAI (Italian national TV), Current TV, BBC Southern Counties Radio Hampshire, The Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian, The Times, El Pais, The St Petersbourg Times, La Nazione, A-N magazine (www.a-n.co.uk), Art Monthly, Art Review, Arts-All, New Zealand, The Latest, The West Sussex Gazette, The Argus,
A chapter was dedicated to Telese in Petra Kuppers The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Art (Minnesota University Press 2007 ISBN 0-8166-4653-8),
Economic arts
In 2007 Telese wrote for and edited Trade-Off, a special publication for a-n The Artists' Information Company about the art market from an economic, social and artist-led regeneration point of view, including papers by myself and seven other UK writers, following a series of events on the UK art market which Telese coordinated and organised in her role for the NAN initiative. These events explored different issues about the art market, such as locality, representation, and audience. They were held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London; East Street Arts Studios, Leeds; Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, and Oriel Davis, Newtown, Wales. The events and publication shed light on the subject by drawing together the opinions of artists, curators and market experts and presenting an overview of the art market from a variety of angles to reveal how UK artists' relate to the idea of a "marketplace" in the context of their own ethical values, the demands of the commercial world and the still very conservative environment that supports the trade in contemporary art. Although being a professional artist is a difficult choice, and subject to preconceived ideas about its detachment to world economy, it is also a choice that demands a dialogue between the players of an art world that makes no apology for its own opacity and elitism.
In addition to the above, Telese published more than 60 articles on a-n magazine, one of the UK's most well known magazines for practicing artists. She was online editor of www.a-n.co.uk/nan from 2004 to 2011 and she coordinated the NAN bursaries for artists, which benefited 134 artists' groups and networks between 2004 and 2011.
Boards and advisory groups
Academic papers
Alongside her artistic practice Telese has contributed to several academic papers, writing about space / art + environment as well as the interaction between artist and the 'real world'.
The profession of the artist in the real world: how does academic study and research relate to the art ecosystem? Dynamics and dialogue beyond academia, towards professional practice in Europe.
Telese, E - Shaping artists' spaces -The Networking Artists' Networks initiative and the reshaping and enabling of cultural space "Sensi/able Spaces - Space, Art and the Environment " - SPARTEN conference, Reykjavík, June 2006, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007