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Elsa Mencagli

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Elsa Mencagli is a Danish multimedia artist currently based in Italy. She holds a Bachelor's from the Aarhus School of Architecture (Denmark, 2016) and a Master of Fine Art in Performing Arts from the Iceland University of the Arts (Iceland, 2019).

 

As a multimedia artist, she creates and thinks across media, from sculptural installation to video and performance. Through practices of attentive listening and attunement to both the body and the environment, her creative work takes form in the attempt to reveal and make felt what often remains unnoticed. She is interested in crafting conditions to experience diverse modes of encounter that may create shifts in perception and propose different modes of inter-relation.

 

Elsa Mencagli has presented her work nationally and internationally between Italy, USA, Germany, Iceland, and Portugal. Her most recent collaborations are with Paula Diogo in Terra Nullius, presented at the National Theater D. Maria II in Lisbon, and with Alex Cassal in A Biblioteca do Fim do Mundo, presented at the 2021 Verão festival Azul in Loulé and in 2022 at the Viriato Theater in Viseu.


She is also a co-founder of Celestial Bodies, a project dedicated to opening spaces in order to explore meanings and practices of solidarity, care, empathy, and wonder. Together with Nora Tormann, she is curating the CB encounter 2022, taking place in Tuscania, Italy, in partnership with the cultural association Vera Stasi.

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