Tiziana Pers
Tiziana Pers (1976), visual artist and activist, focuses her research on the themes of animal issues and parallels between different forms of discrimination and domination. She works with different media: public performance actions, installations, sculpture, photography, video, drawing and painting.
An honors graduate, she holds a PhD in comparative literature with a research on the dialogue between visual arts and literature. Co-creator and artistic director of the RAVE East Village Artist Residency meta-project, Pers has collaborated with philosophers, poets and art historians in different publications. Among others: Animal Performance Studies, DAMS Bologna; Ecosustainable Narratives, Cambridge Scholars Publishing; Animot 1: Jackie D, curated by L. Caffo and M. Ferraris; Margini dell’umanità. Animalità e ontologia sociale. L. Caffo; Elephant Woman Song, with N. Molebatsi; and Animality in Contemporary Italian Philosophy curated by F. Cimatti.
Her works and performances have been presented in numerous museums, events and institutions. Among them: Biennale dell'Arcipelago Mediterraneo, Palermo; Artissima, Turin; Spazzapan Regional Gallery of Contemporary Art, Gradisca; Ludwig Museum, Budapest; Arkad / MANIFESTA13, Marseille; Contrappunto, Casa Cavazzini Museum, Udine; Ex Wunderkammern, double solo show with Regina Josè Galindo, National Museum of Natural History, Sofia (BG); Nestx@TheIndependent, Museo MAXXI, Rome; PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea Milan; Sustainable Art Projects Caught on Video, EDRA50 Brooklyn, NYU; BorderCrossing e. c. MANIFESTA12, Palermo; Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism; Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris; PAV Padiglione Arte Vivente, Turin; Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea; Italian Market Hong Kong; Prix-Pictet Palais De Tokyo, Paris; Old Police Station, London; 53. Venice Biennale e.c.; Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Russia; N.Est Project Room Museo MADRE, Naples.
She has given lectures and talks at numerous universities and institutions, including: MAXXI Museum Rome, Politecnico di Milano, NABA, Milan, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy.