Elena Knox
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Elena Knox (b. 1975) is an Australian performing and media artist. Her works propose and disrupt embodiments of gender, recasting how women are performed and perform themselves, in the varied media and contexts of our age. Knox’s video, performance and texts have been presented at sites such as Athens Video Art Festival, Sydney Opera House, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Berlin’s Akademie der Künste (for Literaturwerkstatt), Zebra Poetry Film Festival (Berlin), Centre for Performance Research (UK) and Women and Theater Program (USA). Knox gained her PhD Media Arts from UNSW Art & Design, winning the 2015 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Research. She currently works in Sydney at the National Institute for Experimental Arts. She teaches Memory & Self and The Mind Lab at UNSW Art & Design, performs in electronic pop duo Actual Russian Brides and co-directs production house Lull Studios.