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Immersive olfactory installation at Basement Art Projects Leeds. First shown at Desire and Alchemy – a two artists’ exhibition by Emilia Telese and Michael Borkowsky; Scents of Self is a new immersive, site-specific installation by Emilia Telese exploring pattern, body style and the sense of smell. The work is designed to envelop the exhibition space with aContinue reading “Scents of Self”

Life Begins at Land’s End is a performance exploring issues of fertility, birth and life rituals, by Emilia Telese, for Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Rebirth Day program of events which started on 21 December 2012. Pregnant women walking on Cornwall’s Land’s End to form a Third Paradise symbol by joining together, to celebrate a new beginning inContinue reading “Life Begins at Land’s End”

Brighton Pavilion was rebuilt out of 10 tons of rice by an international artists’ group in a monumental attempt to raise awareness about worldwide use of food resources. Chris Biddlecombe, Guyan Porter and Emilia Telese, at the head of the UK based Edible Construction Company, in collaboration with Italian artist and designer Edoardo Malagigi, created theContinue reading “Rice Pavilion”

Dark Symphony 4×12 hour performances — If you want to see, first you must hear. A rare and unique opportunity to hear four Koan music engines in “the ecstasy of communication.” – Jean Baudrillard Transmitted via 4 towers at the “Klangpark”, an open-air acoustic projection space in Linz. Each tower will be assigned a simultaneous signal.Continue reading “Dark Symphony”

Sleepwalking is a live, video and sound installation that explores issues of sensory, physical and reflected memory through intimate research of transposed experience. The exhibition is comprised of a number of elements including performance, video installation and digital sculpture. Sleepwalking recovers and reconstructs Telese’s father’s journey to the New Forest shortly before his death inContinue reading “Sleepwalking”

Shown on 25 June 2002 as part of the FREeSHOUT! festival in PRATO, Tuscany, Italy The cross is Europe’s historical symbol. Two lines or stories which at the point of meeting can be thought of as cutting or layering one another. Stage land brings together audio-visual media from eleven different countries in an attempt to find chiastic formsContinue reading “Stage Land”

MECHA – VOICES IS A SPEECH SOUND ENGINE. IT SUSTAINS A REORDERING OF WORDS AND FIGURES IN LANGUAGE. THE COMMUNICATION OF A VOCALISED MEANING IS FUTURIST- ICALLY DESTROYED. WHAT IS LEFT IS A STARK IMAGE OF UNFETTERED UTTERANCES. THE GUEST IS INVITED TO DECIPHER THE HOSTS DISCLOSURES. IL LINGUAGGIO CRIPTICO DECRITTATO CRITTOGRAFICO CODIFICATO TRASCENDE DALContinue reading “Mechavoices”

Sound Installation by Emilia Telese & Tim Mark Didymus – Generative Art 2000 Conference, Politecnico di Milano Milano, Italy 2000.12.14 until 2000.12.16 Rename – Real Name is a sound and speech installation that makes use of generative engines to question notions of meaning and semiotic symbols, language and mechanised dialogue. It represents the third partContinue reading “Rename Real Name”

Car Park is a composition of parallel images, relics and sound. From the “Concrete King” Sidney Little’s visionary plans in 1934 for ‘Hastings, double-decked city of the future’ to a commission for a 1999 performance in the car park he engineered, the first of its kind to be built. From the big flood that hitContinue reading “Car Park”