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Elana Mann
Elana Mann (born November 20, 1982 age 39) is a contemporary artist. She is know for Performance art, Sculpture, and Video. Elana has presented her works in public spaces in the U.S,

galleries, and museums. Mann was inspired by listening technology used in between World War I and World War II. She creates artwork that brings a greater consciousness to the listening and

speaking and practice in everyday life.

Email: elanamann@gmail.com Website: https://www.elanamann.com/ Instagram: @elanamamma https://www.instagram.com/elanamamma/

Life and Education
Elana Mann was born in Newton, Massachusetts, U.S. and she lives in Southern California with her husband, designer Jean-Paul Leonard, and their two kids and works in Los Angeles, California. She received her B.F.A. from Washington University, St. Louis  and also her M.F.A from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA. Mann is Jewish, and she was raised in a family

that was part of the Reconstructionist Judaism movement. Mann has participated in group exhibitions and screenings at the Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, the Orange County Museum

of Art. Elana went to a school in Saint Louis to study sculpture as an undergrad.

Work
Mann explores practices of listening and amplifies voices, with the goal of building equanimity in ourselves and increasing equity in our world. Mann frequently make use of multidisciplinary

approach to making art which has included photography, performance, video, sculpture and publishing. She has presented her creation of work in city parks, buses, museums, empty lots and

galleries internationally, that includes The Getty Villa, Los Angeles and The Ford Foundation, New York and many others. Most of Elana installations make public engagement and also make

their audience participate.

In 2014, she invented a listening device called "histophone", which she do it because it can amplify the whispers of history at the Getty Villa. This thing is composed of Mann's hand cupping her

right ear. Also it serve as a speaking device, this magnifying an individuals voice while simultaneously covering the mouth.

In 2016, Mann do a public mural at Baik Art gallery in Culver City, that called "Talk Through the Hand." The mural corresponded with her solo exhibition at Commonwealth and Council, that

involves performance and sculpture this show called "The Assonant Armory" these sculptural instruments, synthesizing casts of the human figure with sounds effects. This give a

demonstration of the physical and symbolic ways of vocal sound travel through human body.

Accomplishments
Mann has received numerous awards including:


 * In 2009, receive the California Community Foundation Artist Fellowship.
 * A 2012 and 2013 ARC grant from CCI.
 * In 2017-18, She was the inaugural artist-in-residence at Pitzer College's ceramics.
 * In 2019, she receive the Stone & DeGuire Contemporary Art Award.
 * In 2020, Elana received the International Artist-In-Residence at Artpace San Antonio, and also the COLA Individual Artist Fellowship.

Published Books
The books that she published were:


 * In 2006 she published a book that called "Conversation Pieces" a 14 pages that are black and white and it was designed by Adam Overton.


 * This book it's based in Elana when she documents a series of sixteen performance scores that performed in the fall al CalArts and its call "GIVE IT TO ME, DO IT TO ME, MAKE ME.."

in the year of 2009.


 * It is a book that includes artwork, bios of the artists involved called "Exchange Rate: 2008 (2009).


 * The People's Microphony Songbook was edited and published by Elana Mann in 2012 and designed by Colleen Corcoran.

Selected Lectures

 * 2012- Panel co-chair with Audrey Chan, Colleagues, Co-conspirators, and Partners: Perspectives from Feminist Men, Shares and Stakeholders, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
 * 2016- Artist Lecture, Too Much Information, curated by Closing, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA Co-facilitator with Emily Hopkins and Letitia Ivins, Strange Bedfellows: Artists working with/in government, Open Engagement conference, Oakland, CA.
 * 2018- Panelist, Beach=Culture: 2018 Julia Morgan Talk, Santa Monica, CA LASER, Art Center College of Design.
 * 2019- Visiting Artist lecture, Vermont College of Fine Arts, VT.

Collaborative and Collective projects

 * Exchange Rate: 2008, was organized by Elana Mann in response to the 2008 presidential election. Thirty-eights artists living in sixteen countries participated in the project. A book was published that documented the project.


 * ARLA was formed by Mann, vocal artist Juliana Snapper, filmmaker Vera Brunner-Sung, and choreographer Kristen Smiarowski. ARLA is a flexiable acronym for Audile Receptives Los Angeles or A Ripe Little Archive. ARLA led workshops, listening sessions, discussion groups and did several performances most notably at Occupy LA and the Getty Museum.


 * Chann & Mann this is Elana Mann and Audrey Chann, have collaborated under the moniker Chann & Mann since 2005. This duo formed during their studies at the California Institute of the Arts. They have the first retrospective "Chann & Mann: A Historical Retrospective" at the Elephant Art Space. Chan & Mann organized Shares & Stakeholders: The Feminist Art Project Day of Panels at the 2012 College Art Association Conference at the Museum of Contemporary Art. They both had a solo exhibition at the Ben Maltz Gallery at the  Otis College of Art and Design called The glass ceiling.


 * Chats about Change: Critical Conversations on Art and Politics in Los Angeles" this was organized by Elana Mann and Robby Herbst artists and consist of two day event. The program was hosted by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and the student union at  Cal State L.A.