OFRI CNAANI
Ofri Cnaani è un'artista e ricercatrice che opera tra performance e media. Cnaani crea opere d'arte e scrive di dati e colonialismo nelle istituzioni culturali, conoscenza somatica nell'era della spazialità di rete e performance come modello per la creazione di tecnologie critiche. È visiting scholar presso l'Istituto di Cultura Visiva della TU Wien, in Austria, e ricercatrice presso l'Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) dell'Università di Amsterdam, un istituto di fama internazionale. Fino a poco tempo fa, Cnaani era docente associata presso il Dipartimento di Culture Visive del Goldsmiths, Università di Londra. Prima di trasferirsi a Londra, Cnaani viveva a New York, dove insegnava Studi Visivi e Critici presso la School of Visual Arts (SVA). Alla SVA ha anche diretto il programma "City as Site: Performance + Social interventions". Nel 2016 ha co-fondato, con Roxana Fabius, l'"Unforgettables Reading/Working Group" presso la A.I.R Gallery di New York.
Le sue opere sono state esposte alla Tate Britain, nel Regno Unito, e alla Biennale di Architettura di Venezia. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; PS1/MoMA, New York; Inhotim Institute, Brasile; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Cile; Israel Museum; Tel-Aviv Museum of Art; Amos Rex Museum, Helsinki; Kiasma Museum, Helsinki; BMW Guggenheim Lab, New York; The Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Twister, Network of Lombardy Contemporary Art Museums, Italia; Biennale di Mosca; The Kitchen, New York; Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, tra gli altri. Dal 2021, Cnaani co-organizza Choreographic Devices, un simposio di coreografia di tre giorni presso l'ICA di Londra.
Ofri Cnaani is an artist and researcher who works across performance and media. Cnaani makes art and writes about data and coloniality in cultural institutions, somatic knowledge in the age of network spatiality, and performance as a model to create critical technology. She is a visiting scholar at the Institute of Visual Culture, TU Wien, Austria and a research fellow at the internationally Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam. Until recently Cnaani was an associate lecturer at the Visual Cultures Department, Goldsmiths, University of London. Prior to her move to London, Cnaani was based in New York City, where she was a faculty at the School of Visual Arts’s Visual and Critical Studies. At SVA she also ran the 'City as Site: Performance + Social interventions' program. In 2016 she co-founded, with Roxana Fabius, the ‘Unforgettables Reading/Working Group’ at A.I.R Gallery, NYC.
Her work has appeared at Tate Britain, UK; Venice Architecture Biennale; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; PS1/MoMA, NYC; Inhotim Institute, Brazil; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Chile; Israel Museum; Tel-Aviv Museum of Art; Amos Rex Museum, Helsinki; Kiasma Museum, Helsinki; BMW Guggenheim Lab, NYC; The Fisher Museum of Art, L.A.; Twister, Network of Lombardy Contemporary Art Museums, Italy; Moscow Biennial; The Kitchen, NYC; Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, among others. Since 2021, Cnaani co-orgenizes Choreographic Devices, a three-days chorographic symposium at ICA, London.