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Emilia Telese
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Emilia Telese, ‘Ring of Fire’, installation at Blank Gallery, Brighton Festival 2008.
Courtesy: the artist and Blank Gallery.
Read about the NAN Coordinator and artist Emilia Telese
Emilia Telese is an artist and writer based in Sussex. Born in Italy, she graduated from Fine Arts Academy in Florence in 1996. She has exhibited worldwide since 1994, including in the New Forest Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2005), Ars Electronica (Austria), ZKM (Germany), Chashama (NYC), Centro Cultural Telemar (Rio De Janeiro), Manege (St Petersburg), Leeds City Gallery, ArtSway(New Forest) and the Freud Museum (London). Her practice includes interactive and body-responsive technology, film and live art, installation, literature and public art. Often site-specific., it deals with conscious engagement, political and social debate, non-verbal communication and the questioning and deconstruction of behaviour.
Until February 2011, Emilia combined her arts practice with her role as Artists' Networks Coordinator for a-n The Artists' Information Company within the Networking Artists' Networks (NAN) initiative and work with UK and international arts organisations as an independent artists' trainer specialising in professional development advice for artists. Emilia Telese is Artsway’s Associate artist scheme and is now a on the regional council of Arts Council England, South East
During her career, she has slept in a forest, been chased by paparazzi in Venice; landed by helicopter in a Danish football field; changed her brainwave frequencies in the former stables of the Tsar of Russia in St Petersburg; shut herself in a suitcase in Southend; eaten rosaries in Sigmund Freud’s home; and built the Brighton’s Royal Pavilion out of ten tons of rice.
Emilia founded artist led initiative Edible Construction Company in 2006 with Chris Biddlecombe and Guyan Porter, creating socially-engaged art in the public realm. Emilia produces and presents Radio Sophia, a radio programme in Italian and English language on Radio Reverb FM.
First published: a-n.co.uk October 2008
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