SILVIA BATTISTA
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 EDUCATION 
2014 - P.h.D., Performance Studies (social sciences, the humanities, and the arts), Royal Holloway University, 
2006 - M.A., Communication Art and Design, Royal College of Art.
1996 - B.A., Fine Art, Academy of Fine Art in Rome, Italy.
PERFORMATIVE LECTURES - RECITATIONS - PERFORMANCES
2024 The Weavers - Williamson Gallery. and Museum, Wirral
        Yes, But To What? - Williamson Gallery and Museum, Wirral
2023 Traces – University of Reading.
        Queering the Cross - Literature and Creative Writing Forum, Liverpool.
2022 A Space Within/Out Of Place – Williamson Gallery and Museum, Liverpool.
       Traces – Royal Academy of Arts.
       Wisdom Exists in the Tories of Wounds - Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) – University of Essex.
       Tiresias and The Chthonic Ones - Kazimir Garden, Liverpool.
       A Space Within Out of Place - Williamson Gallery and Museum, Wirral.
2021 Spirits Read Foucault – RUINS Festival – British Association for Religious Studies.
2019 The Deep Sea and the Rain Forest – Liverpool Biennial.
       Colonisation passes through the lenses we use to understand the other - Invisible Wind Factory, Liverpool.
       C
olonisation passes through the lenses we use to understand the other - 81 Kershaw Street, Liverpool.
       The Stories of the Firefly – Capstone Theater, Liverpool.
       SOS! Spirits of Sound – with Annalaura Alifuoco - Tate Liverpool.
       Cities, Non-Human Organisms and the Practice of Contemplation. International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) – Shanghai Theatre Academy, Shanghai, China 
      When the Spirits are Socially Engaged: – Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) - University of Exeter, UK. 
2018 Persephone – Liverpool Independent Biennial, 
       A River is Never a Matter of Peace – Dartington Hall, Totnes..
      When the Spirits are Socially Engaged: - International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) - University of the Arts, Belgrade, Serbia. 
2017 Writing with the body - flesh – landscape. Festival. In Other Tongues - Dartington Hall, Totnes,
       A River is Never a Matter of Peace – Stockport War Memorial Gallery,
       Tactile Non-Human Experience – Threshold Festival, Liverpool.
2016 The Make and Stone – Capstone Theatre, Liverpool
        Spirits Read Foucault - Rhodes University, South Africa
2015 Mapping the Body as a Sacred Landscape. - Sacred Places’ Performances, Politics and Ecologies: A Multidisciplinary Perspective - Liverpool Hope University
       Spirits Read Foucault - Conference on Psychedelic Studies - Greenwich University, 
       Spirits Read Foucault. - International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) - Hyderabad University, India. 
       Spirits Read Foucault - Sacred and Secular: Faith and Formation - Goldsmith University, London,
2013 Beholding the Ancient Trees of London: An Experiment in Performance – Central School of Speech and Drama, London 
       Repetition as a Technology of the Numinous, - On Repetition, Anglia Ruskin University,
       Mapping a Territory: Technologies of the Numinous in Performance Art - International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR), Barcelona. 
2012 Queering the Rosary – Modern Panic III Festival, London.
       In Search of the Numinous: Performative Apparatuses of Experimentation with Technologies of the Self, - Live Art and Printed Matter, Live Art Development Agency, London.
2011  The Ecology of Participation: A Posthuman Interpretation - Body, Object - Royal Holloway University, London.
       You Speak, I listen, He whispers. Nightingale Theatre. Brighton.     
       The Waking Up Of An Unplugged Mind in collaboration with Angelo Madonna - Hatch Gallery - London
EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2024  ACT I: Moon's Lullaby for Humans - Williamson Gallery and Museum, Wirral
        ACT II: The Knights of the 21st Century -
 Williamson Gallery and Museum, Wirral 
        ACT III: Interspecies - The Fairies - Williamson Gallery and Museum, Wirral
2023 Queering the Cross - Bridewell Gallery, Liverpool.
        The Three Witches -
SHE, Bridewell Gallery, Liverpool.
2022 Worms: The Chthonic Ones - Drawing Paper Show, Liverpool.
2018  Lingam-Yoni I-II-III - LOST18, Arena Studio Gallery.

2015  Platform for Emerging Arts 5. Leyden Gallery, London
2010  Revolutionary Dawn - Core Blimey Gallery. London.
2008 Icarus Dream. - University of Siena and University of Salerno. Italy
        Icarus Dream - Asu Art Museum. Arizona State University. USA,
        Icarus Dream - Alsager Gallery. Manchester.
2007 Icarus Dream - Cultural Centre of Fljotsdalsherad. Iceland.
        Punctum - Redchurch Street Gallery. London.
        Convulsive Illustration - Market Gallery. Glasgow,
2005 You Speak, I listen, He whispers - Crypt Gallery. London.
2001  The Shock of the Real: McDonalds in Prague - Jam Factory. London.
FELLOWSHIPS - GRANTS - PRICES
2024 Weavers' Grant - Liverpool Hope University
        Into the Wyld Funding with Material Matters Collective - Wirral Borough of Culture

2017 Consolidated Research Time Funding – Liverpool Hope University 
2015 IFTR/FIRT Travel Grant  
​2013 Glynne Wickham Scholarship 
2008 Royal Holloway University PhD Scholarship 
2006 First Prize Oberon Book - Emily Dickinson Rooms
2005 Royal College of Art (RCA) Travel Grant
2004 RCA MA Scholarship 
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