BIO




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As a sound artist and researcher based in Bristol, Lia engages new audiences through collaborative encounters with art in public spaces using performance, composition, installation and intervention. Recorded and Live events explore the relationship to sound and listening, often engaging environmental recording, voices, instrumentation, film, radio and most notably ecological live audio transmission methods.

Winner of an Oram Award in 2022, Lia was the founder and producer of Silver Road, a temporary experimental art and performance space in a drained water tank building in Lewisham (South-East London, 2016-17) and developed works for Tate Modern/Britain, Biennale Gherdeina (IT), Zone2Source Gallery (NL), South London Gallery, British School of Rome (IT), V&A Dundee, BBC Radio 3, Bolzano Art Week, Sunaparanta Centre of the Arts, Goa (IN).
She is currently a doctoral researcher at the Department of Geography and Centre for Geohumanities at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Lia performed alongside Tarek Atoui, Ashley Paul, Takahiro Kawaguchi, Angharad Davies, Ilan Volkov, Christof Migone, David Toop, Sarah Davachi, Áine O’Dwyer, Maria Chavez. She’s regularly collaborated with artists Sholto Dobie and Tom White. Recent projects also include Decameron-19: dispatches from the isolated city, The Precarious Art Workers Choir as a protest and response to art workers cuts post pandemic, and occasional collaborations with London based Soundcamp. 

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