Alessandra Cianetti
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Alessandra Cianetti is a London-based co-director, curator, and researcher. Her practice within contemporary art and performance art explores systemic socio-political issues with a focus on notions and lived experiences of intersectional borders, social justice, and politics of labour. She is the co-director, co-carer, and founder of the collectively-run platform performingborders (London/Porto) which focuses on creating and commissioning practice-based knowledge around live art and borders by international performance artists, thinkers, organisers, and art workers. Currently, Alessandra is also an Advisor for PhD students at the Transart Institute of Creative Research. From 2020 until 2023, Alessandra was curator and project manager for the Bagri Foundation (UK) which supports projects centering on multidisciplinary artists from Asia and its diaspora. From 2013 to 2017, she was curator and co-director of the migrant-led arts organisation Something Human which presented experimental live and visual art practices across borders. Over the years, Alessandra has conceived, curated, produced, researched, written about, presented talks, and facilitated workshops about multi-disciplinary and transnational art projects, programmes, and collective organising within the arts sector across the UK, Europe, and internationally. Alessandra’s collaborative work has been built in partnership with UK-based and international co-conspirators, museums, arts institutions, community centres, independent spaces, and universities.
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