Electra (arts organisation)

Electra is a London-based non-profit arts organisation that commissions new work by artists working across sound art, moving image, performance and visual art.[1] The organisation particularly works with feminist concerns and overlooked histories.[2] One of its earliest projects, Her Noise,[3] has an archive, the Her Noise Archive, that is housed by University of the Arts, London Archives and Special Collections at London College of Communication, and has an online resource hernoise.org.

Electra was founded by Lina Dzuverovic and Anne Hilde Neset in 2003[4] and the current Director is Irene Revell[5] (since 2011). The organisation has received regular funding from Arts Council England since 2005.[6] Electra is part of the Common Practice network and has a partnership with UbuWeb.[7]

Electra has worked with a wide range of artistic practitioners including Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Holly Antrum, Vicki Bennett, Steve Beresford, The Bohman Brothers, Sonia Boyce, Angus Carlyle, Maria Chavez, Beatrice Dillon, Kenneth Goldsmith, Goodiepal, Kim Gordon, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Emma Hedditch, Will Holder, Karl Holmqvist, Claire Hooper, Holly Ingleton, Jakob Kirkegaard, Jutta Koether, Christina Kubisch, Cathy Lane, Isla Leaver-Yap, Annea Lockwood , Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Lydia Lunch, Christian Marclay, Daria Martin, Kaffe Matthews, Eline McGeorge, Claudia Molitor, Carlos Motta, Hayley Newman, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Pauline Oliveros, Olivia Plender, Charlotte Prodger, Lucy Reynolds, James Richards, Marina Rosenfeld, Dawn Scarfe, Richard Thomas, Cara Tolmie, Mareike Bernien/ Kerstin Schroedinger, Matthias Sperling, Verity Susman, Sue Tompkins, Salomé Voegelin, YKON.

Electra does not have an exhibition space, but presents projects with a large range of local and international partners including Badischer Kunstverein (Karlsruhe, Germany),[8] Barbican, Bergen Kunsthall (Norway),[9] Cafe OTO,[10] CRiSAP,[11] Drugo more[12] (Croatia), Flat Time House,[13] Goethe Institut London,[14] ICA London,[15] Kings Place,[16] Kunstmuseet KUBE (Norway),[17] Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers (Paris, France),[18] LUX,[19] Playground Festival[20] (Belgium), Queen Mary, University of London,[21] The Showroom,[22] South London Gallery,[23] Tate Britain,[24] Tate Modern,[25] The Wire magazine[26]

References

  1. ↑ "Electra". electra-productions.com. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  2. ↑ "Pauline Oliveros: Her Noise | Blog | Frieze Publishing". blog.frieze.com. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  3. ↑ "All pain and no gain at Her Noise, South London Gallery, London | Culture | The Guardian". theguardian.com. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  4. ↑ "Companies House Webcheck". wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  5. ↑ "Electra". electra-productions.com. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  6. ↑ "Electra | Arts Council". artscouncil.org.uk. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  7. ↑ "U B U W E B :: Partners". ubu.com. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  8. ↑ "Badischer-Kunstverein Programm". badischer-kunstverein.de. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  9. ↑ "HER NOISE ARCHIVE AND 'WE'RE ALIVE, LET'S MEET!' | e-flux". e-flux.com. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  10. ↑ "Cafe OTO". cafeoto.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  11. ↑ "CRISAP | Sound & the Environment | Sound Escapes". crisap.org. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  12. ↑ "Drugo more » Practical Utopias: Open day program on Brijuni". drugo-more.hr. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  13. ↑ "SOMEONE ELSE CAN CLEAN UP THIS MESS | Exhibitions | Flat Time House". flattimeho.org.uk. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  14. ↑ "Christina Kubisch". christinakubisch.de. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  15. ↑ "Performance: Eris: The Path of ER by Claire Hooper | Institute of Contemporary Arts". ica.org.uk. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  16. ↑ "Cage Rattling, King's Place | New music reviews, news & interviews | The Arts Desk". theartsdesk.com. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  17. ↑ "Frieze Magazine | Archive | Archive | 27 Senses". frieze.com. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  18. ↑ "Toxic | Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers". leslaboratoires.org. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  19. ↑ "LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images | Blog | Frieze Publishing". blog.frieze.com. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  20. ↑ "Playground live art festival | e-flux". e-flux.com. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  21. ↑ "Debout! Feminist Activism and the Moving Image in France and Beyond | Film Studies". filmstudies.sllf.qmul.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  22. ↑ "SHOWROOM". theshowroom.org. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  23. ↑ "Toxic Play In Two Acts: Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz | Exhibitions | South London Gallery". web.archive.org. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  24. ↑ "Art Now Live | Tate". tate.org.uk. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  25. ↑ "Charming for the Revolution: A Congress for Gender Talents and Wildness | Tate". tate.org.uk. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  26. ↑ "Cage Rattling: Querido John at Kings Place - Classical Music - Time Out London". timeout.com. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
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