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Elena Cologni is an art practitioner and academic whose work mostly visual art performance, is developed in the academic and artistic contexts. Currently Research Fellow in Performing Arts at York St John University, she studied at the Academy of Art Brera in Milan, Bretton Hall College, Leeds University, and her PhD ‘The Artist’s Performative Practice Within The Anti-Oculatcentric Discourse’ is from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (CSM), London. After the post-doc AHRC and CSM awarded project 'Present Memory and Liveness in delivery and reception of video documentation during performance art events', she was at Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Arts for a Creative Lab residency, focusing on questions of migrations, remoteness and transmission of information over time and space. She is active in the debate on practice as research methodologies (PARIP 2001-2005), as well as the relationship between performance and new media (TAPRA, PSinternational), on which presented extensively at conferences internationally. Her artwork has been supported internationally, by Galleria Neon and Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna; Gennazzano Museum, Rome; GAMeC Museum, Bergamo; Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; Oslo Kunstforening, Norway; Garanti Platform and Karsi Sanat, Istanbul; Brown University, RI; Artists Space, New York; Watershed Media Centre, Bristol; Tate Modern, National Portrait Gallery, Gallery 291, Whitechapel Art Gallery, ICA, London.