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RESOURCES, A SELECTION* 

• Cologni’s own texts 
• On Cologni’s practice: 1) texts and interviews; 2) talks and seminars; 3)academic theses   

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• Cologni’s own texts

Cologni, E. (2026) Art Practice as Research as Art. From Performance to Dialogic Sculptures: Practicing an Impactful Feminist Care Aesthetics.  In THEORIES AND PRACTICES OF CONTEMPORARY ARTISTIC RESEARCH: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera Milan. (Conference Proceedings).

Cologni, E. (2025) ‘(Un)Monuments of the Everyday’, in Fariman, M. A. et al. (eds.), City, Public Space, and Body: The Embodied Experience of Urban Life. London: Routledge, pp. 108–123. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032662428-12.

Visse, M.A., Cologni, E. (2024). Art for the sake of care. International Journal of Education & the Arts, 25 http://www.ijea.org/v25si1/ (edited special issue)

Cologni, E. (2024) Percipience, Embodiment, Contamination(s). Practicing a Feminist Care Aesthetics . International Journal of Education and the Arts 25(1. Art for the Sake of Care: Learning from Artistic Practice and Inquiry) (Journal article)

Cologni, E. (2024) Art for the Sake of Care: Editorial Introduction International Journal of Education and the Arts 25(1. Art for the Sake of Care.) (Journal article)

Cologni, E (2024) Mother(ings): From the Home to the Planet. A Dialogue between Mother Art Collective and Elena Cologni International Journal of Education and the Arts 25(Art for the Sake of Care.)  (Journal article)

Cologni, E. (2024) 416_SR1938. The presence of memory in the perceptual experience In The Architecture of Exhibitions. Experiential Design. Routledge (Chapter)

Cologni, E. (2022) ‘Curare (con) nello spazio pubblico’.  In Menichini, D. And Medas, B. (eds)  Sofferenze urbane. L’abitare in tempo di crisi. Edizioni ETS, Pisa (chapter)

Cologni, E. (2022) ‘lo scarto (touch), in Bradfield, M., Cremona, C., McDonnell, A., Sajovic, E (Eds) Transacting as Art, Design and Architecture. A Non-Commercial Market. Intellect. P 126/127 (chapter)

Cologni, E. and Scardi, G. (2022) ‘Cura: Spazi, Collocazioni, Connettivita’, Care: Spacings, Collocations, Connectivity’. In Melis, A. Comunita’ Resilienti. Resilient Communities. Contributi Transdisciplinari Volume 02. Catalogo del Padiglione Italia Comunita’ Resilienti alla Biennale Architettura 2021. D Editore. Pp. 230/237) (chapter)

Cologni, Elena (2021) Pilastri invisibili. Il ruolo delle donne ebree nella storia dell’emancipazione della condizione della donna italia | Invisible pillars. The role of jewish women in the history of the women emancipation of Italy. In: il Polo della Memoria SR1938. Pisa University Press, pp. 137-143. (chapter)

Cologni, Elena (2021) Figura/Sfondo. Un dialogo | Foreground/Background. A dialogue. In: Università di Pisa : Obiettivo 5 : il Polo della Memoria SR1938. Pisa University Press, pp. 33-36. ISBN 978-88-3339-613-2 (chapter)

Cologni, E. (2021) ‘Care, Space, Relations’. Creative Resilience. Moleskine notebook special edition (section in notebook)

Cologni, E. (2020). Caring-With Dialogic Sculptures. A Post-Disciplinary Investigation into Forms of Attachment. PsicoArt – Rivista di Arte E Psicologia, 10(10), 19–64. (article)

Cologni, E. (2018). ‘Locating Oneself’, in Capucci, Copolletta (Eds) The New and History – art*science 2017/Leonardo 50 Proceedings.Noema Media and Publishing (ISBN 978-88-909189-7-1) (chapter)

Cologni, E. (2016) ‘A Dialogic Approach for The Artist as an Interface in an Intercultural Society’. In Burnard, Mackinlay, Powell, The Routledge International Handbook of Intercultural Arts Research New York, London: Routledge

Cologni, E. (2014) ‘Where others will take me’. In Where do you see yourself in twenty five years? Gareth Bell-Jones (Ed) Wysing Arts Centre, p 9.

Cologni, E. and Santomauro, A. (2012) ‘Public Space and Memory’ in Green Days (European Cultural Foundation, neoncampobase (Bologna), AAA – Audiovisual Artists Anonymous (Brussels), Radar (Loughborough), Fabrica de Pensule (Cluj-Napoca) pp 45-48 (book chapter)

Cologni, E. (2010) ‘That spot in the ‘moving picture’ is you, (perception in time-based art), in Blood, Sweat & Theory: Research through Practice in Performance. John Freeman (Ed), Libri Publishing, London (book chapter)

Cologni, E, (2009) (Ed) Mnemonic Present, Shifting Meaning, with texts by Lissoni A.,  Auslander P., Jones, A., Taylor, L., Gotman, M., Andrighetto, Di Pietrantonio, G., Blaker, H., (book)

Cologni, E. (2009) ‘Mnemonic Present, Un-Folding’, in Allegue Fuschini, L, Jones, S., Kershaw, B and Piccini, A (eds), Practice-As-Research in The Performing and Screen Arts, London: Palgrave Macmillan (book chapter)

Cologni, E. (2006) ‘Present-Memory: Liveness Versus Documentation and The Audience’s Memory Archive in Performance Art’, International Conference Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, Cambridge Scholars Press (book chapter)

Cologni, E., (2005) ‘Fruition: perceptual time ‘gap’ as location for knowledge – Mnemonic Present Un-folding‘ in Perspective section of Body, Space & Technology, ISSN 1470-9120, School of Arts, Brunel University

Cologni, E. (2004) The artist’s Performative Practice within the Anti-Ocularcentric Discourse. (PhD thesis, University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design)

Cologni, E., (2000) ‘Institutions in Great Britain: Artist as Researcher. Diagrams’, Oreste at the Venice Biennale, AAVV, Charta, Milan (book chapter)

• On Cologni’s practice: 1) texts and interviews  

Le pratiche della cura o del cur(v)are di Elena Cologni , by Fabio Bozzato, 24 giugno 2021, Che Fare,  https://www.che-fare.com/articoli/pratiche-cura-cologni-luoghi

Elena Cologni’s Art as Research as Art approach in context, by Caterina Albano, 2020 https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/16310/6/Psyco%20Art%20Articolo-40684-2-10-20201119.pdf

Interview with Elena Cologni by Ayla van der Boor, 2019 https://care-ethics.com/2019/06/10/elena-cologni/

ELENA COLOGNI AND THE ART OF CARING by Gabi Scardi, 2020, in CARE: from periphery to centre , Homerton College, University of Cambridge

Elena Cologni’s Art as Research as Art approach in context by Caterina Albano (2020), https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/16310/6/Psyco%20Art%20Articolo-40684-2-10-20201119.pdf

Conceptualising gender-environment relationship, by Susan Buckingham (2020)  (Ch3) in Gender and Environment. Routledge, available here

The Times of Caring in a Nuclear World: Sculpture, Contamination and Stillness. by Heim, Wallace. 2022. Arts 11: 7. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts11010007

Elena Cologni – Lived Dialectics: Movement and Rest, interview by Gulsen Bal, 25.11.2016, Museums Quartier Journal, https://www.mqw.at/mq-journal/2016/elena-cologni-lived-dialectics-movement-and-rest

Bauhaus and moral purpose: the very model of modern community schools, By Oliver Bennet, 17 Nov 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/nov/17/bauhaus-community-schools-village-colleges-cambridgeshire

Live Audiovisual Performance and Documentation. by Carvalho, A. (2015). In: Crisp, V., Gonring, G.M. (eds) Besides the Screen. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137471024_9

Cologni Interviewed by Brainard Carey , 02 May 2015, Yale University https://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/elena-cologni/

ONLY FOR YOUR EYES. A balance in perpetual motion: the art of Elena Cologni. by Susanna Crispino (2014) in TK-21 LaRevue, n° 33 TK-21 https://www.tk-21.com/Only-for-your-eyes

A performance-based approach for interactions in public spaces, by Licia Calvi (2013). in Participations. Journal of Audience & Reception Studies.

Public space and memory: conversation between Elena Cologni and Anna Santomauro (2012), in Green Days, a multidisciplinary project on art and nature. eds Vincenzo Estremo and Anna Santomauro. neon>campobase, AAA (Audiovisual Anonymous Artists), Fabrica de Pensule, Radar.

Mnemonic-Present, Shifting Meaning, 2006, including texts by: Amelia Jones, Andrea Lissoni, Giacinto di Pietrantonio, Helena Blaker, Kelina Gotman, Lib Taylor, Maria Campitelli, Aurelio Andrighetto, Phedra Bell.

Images of Knowing by Marina Wallace, 2002, in Public Private Perception 02, other texts by Malcolm Le Grice, and Elio Grazioli, also included Galleria Neon, Bologna

• On Cologni’s practice: 2) talks and seminars; 

Per un’estetica della cura. Riflessioni sull’opera di Mother Art Collective ed Elena Cologni 21 October 2025, including Elena Cologni and Mother Art Collective, and art historians Raffaella Perna, Caterina Iaquinta, Gabi Scardi, Elisabetta Garletti e Ashley McNelis.

Art & Care Series: Socially Engaged Art during and after Covid, Cambridge School of Art and Drew University 2022, Paula Gerstenblatt, Costanza Meli, Ian Nesbitt, Natalie Pace

Cologni, E., Scardi, G., Krasny, E., Rudd, N., Facchin. V., Vanore, M., Melis. A., Visse, M. (2021) Elena Cologni. The Body of/at Work, 9 November 2021, in Resilient Communities, Italian Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia (symposium)

Talk #39 Dr Gulsen Bal (Senior Lecturer in Curating, Art Theory & Practice at Manchester School of Art) and Dr Michael Pinchbeck (Reader in Theatre at Manchester School of Art) in conversation with Dr Elena Cologni (2021). https://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/talk-39/

Connecting Cultures Spazio singolare plurale.Ricerche e pratiche artistiche tra spazio pubblico e privato (2021, webinar) Meli, C., Meschini E. R., Cologni. E

Cologni, E., Buckingham, S., Bavidge J., chaired by Gluckman, E. (2018)  Nomadic and Dialogic: Art and Ecofeminism, Women’s Art Collection of the Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge (round table)

• On Cologni’s practice: 3)academic theses   

COLLECTING THE UNCOLLECTIBLE: SUSTAINABLE INSTITUTIONAL MODELS FOR PERFORMANCE AND EPHEMERAL ART IN THE CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL ECONOMY by Anusua Adhikary (MA, Universita’ di Bologna, 2026)

TEORÍA DEL CUIDADO EN EL ARTE DE L SIGLO XXI Propuestas de creación artística y gestión cultural en el sur de Europa durante el periodo 2000-2023, [THEORY OF CARE IN 21ST CENTURY ART: Proposals for artistic creation and cultural management in southern Europe during the period 2000-2023] by Ana Ferriols Montañana (Tesis doctoral), 2023, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia.

O DESENHO COMO PRÁTICA ARTÍSTICA E EDUCATIVA EM CONTEXTOS NÃO FORMAIS, by Marta Angelozzi, 2022, Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de mestre em Educação Artística – Artes Plásticas na Educação

Living artists in the library: creativity, scholarship and public engagement, by Monica Boria (MA, City University London, 2021)

Remembering Hull: Performing Autobiographical Memory as a Strategy for Placemaking, by Wayne Steven Jackson (PhD, London South Bank University, 2018)

Performing agency and the poetic witness, by Alexander, Lisa (PhD, University of Roehampton, 2014)

A Materialidade do Efémero: A Identidade nas Artes Performativas Audiovisuais, Documentação e Construção de Memória. [The Materiality of the Ephemeral: Identity in Audiovisual Performing Arts, Documentation, and Memory Construction], by ANA MARIA DA ASSUNÇÃO CARVALHO (PhD, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Departamento de Comunicação e Arte da Universidade de Aveiro, 2012)

The artist as host, By Hermen Maat and Karen Lancel  (Mphil, 2013, Autonomous Fine Arts of
Academy Minerva, Research Centre Art & Society, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen)

Performers with learning difficulties and issues of identity, resistance and collaboration: ‘No More Hiding Behind the Curtain’ by Irene Kappes (PhD, University of Sheffield, 2010)

NEGATION of COMPLICATED MIRRORS, by Gulsen Bal (PhD University of the Arts London, 2010)

Fading—feminism—practice—process— a practice as research exploration into the fade as a ‘cite’ for écriture féminine, By Karen Savage (PhD, University of Portsmouth, 2010)

Activating Intersubjectivities in contemporary dance Choreography, April Nunes Tucker (PhD, Middlesex University, 2009)

Listening to the mind at play – sonified biofeedback as generative art practice and theory, by Michaela Reiser (PhD, London Metropolitan University, 2009)

Can performance art be considered an aesthetic experience of incomprehensibility? by Jenny Hunt (MA, Chelsea College of Art – Fine Art, 2006)

Visual impairment: its impact upon and implications for aesthetic experience, by Del Tufo, Bruno (PhD Middlesex University, 2006)