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Elana Rosa Engelman-Lado (they/them/elle) is an NYC-based artist, educator, researcher, editor, and arts worker. Their art practice is interdisciplinary, combining archival research with analogue photography, cyanotype, film, zines, and collage. Their current research explores infrastructures of water and power, waste/wastelands, socio-environmental histories of US colonialism, and the infrastructure and technology of security. Their current projects focus on the performance of infrastructure in national myth, waterway channelization, dams, and radioactive waste in the Columbia River Basin, Southern California, and Andalucía through 35mm photography, text, video, archival postcards, and found footage.
They hold an M.A. in Performance Studies from NYU Tisch and a B.A. in Ethnic Studies Columbia University. While at NYU, they completed Water Bodies, an artbook and video installation on the Los Angeles River, and co-edited The Water We Come From, a chapbook of writings on water by students and faculty–both included in the 8-ball Zine Library collection. At Columbia, they completed untitled unmastered, a thesis and artbook on collage as a historiographic, ontological, and pedagogical framework.
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They hold an M.A. in Performance Studies from NYU Tisch and a B.A. in Ethnic Studies Columbia University. While at NYU, they completed Water Bodies, an artbook and video installation on the Los Angeles River, and co-edited The Water We Come From, a chapbook of writings on water by students and faculty–both included in the 8-ball Zine Library collection. At Columbia, they completed untitled unmastered, a thesis and artbook on collage as a historiographic, ontological, and pedagogical framework.
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