Elana Mann
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| Born |
November 26, 1982 Newton, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education |
Washington University, St. Louis California Institute of the Arts |
| Known for |
Performance art Sculpture Video |
Elana Mann (born November 26, 1982) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Mann received her B.F.A. from Washington University, St. Louis and M.F.A from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA. Currently. She is a Visiting Lecturer at Scripps College and Pitzer College. Mann is Jewish, and was raised in a family that was part of the Reconstructionist Judaism movement.
At its root, Mann’s multidisciplinary artwork explores the possibility for one to rebel in contemporary society. Mann often utilizes a multidisciplinary approach to making art which has included performance, photography, event coordination, drawing, video, rioting, publishing, and sculpture. Many of her installations encourage public engagement and participatory performance among her audiences.
To make the video "Can't Afford the Freeway" (2007-2010), Mann recorded interviews with Captain Dylan Alexander Mack, an Iraqi war veteran. These interviews would become the audio for a video where Mann recorded herself in several acrobatic and at times combative movements with her car.
In 2011, "Ass on the Street", a video in which the artist feels her way along a South Central fence in a black dress and donkey head she can't see out of was played on LA Metro Busses as part of Out the Window, a project initiative by the LA art production organization Freewaves.
in 2013 the artist created 3 large sculptures for an exhibition at Side Street Projects in Pasadena. Mann was inspired by listening technology used between World War I and II. Listening has as a political act has been a consistent theme in Mann's work, and the following year she staged several with civic and federal workers at Grand Park Los Angeles as part of a series of programing curated by Machine Project.
Exchange rate: 2008, was organized by Elana Mann in response to the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Thirty-eight artists living in sixteen different countries participated in the project. With the aid of the website exchangerate2008.com, participating artists produced, exchanged, and interpreted performance directions related to the election campaign. A book was published that documented the project.
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