Born 1989 in Moscow. Based in London.
Alisa Oleva holds a BA and MA from The Courtauld Institute of Art and an MA in Performance from Goldsmiths.
She treats the city as her studio and urban life as material, to consider issues of urban choreography and urban archeology, traces and surfaces, borders and inventories, intervals and silences, passages and cracks. Her projects have manifested as a series of interactive situations, performances, movements scores, personal and intimate encounters, parkour, walkshops, and audio walks.
Selected solo projects:
Walking Home, a walking performance, Performistanbul + LADA + British Council Turkey, 2020
Tracing the inside, a home performance, Stay LIVE, Performistanbul, online, 2020
View from the window, a session of collective looking and sharing, online, organised by Artsvit gallery, Dnipro, 2020
Russian Manchester, a guided walk through an imagined city, New Russias festival, Manchester, 2020
Repeated walk, a collective walk,
Work Hard! Play Hard!, Minsk, 2019
Lozhechka, one-to-one action,
Work Hard! Play Hard!, Minsk, 2019
Shared sea walks, one-to-one walks,
Izolyatsia art residency, Mariupol, 2019
Breadcrumbs, a 24 hours durational performance,
Making the EXIT, Chisenhale Dance Space, London, 2019
Reflections walk, performance
Work Hard! Play Hard!, Minsk, 2018
Please hold, audiowalk, Assembly of Disturbance
Red Gallery, London, 2017
A visit to an art gallery without looking, walking score, Denial as the Leading Principle, Dordrecht, 2017
Simultaneous walk, a psychogeographic collective performance, State Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2017
Ringback tone, audio installation,
Belyaevo Gallery, Moscow, 2017
Group exercises, performance,
Work Hard! Play Hard!, Minsk, 2017
You are here, audio guide, Under the Ground of Our Times, Museum of Contemporary Art, Pori, 2017
A song for two, audio installation,
Dotyk queer festival, Minsk, 2017
Shortcut, sound installation,
Norilsk, 2017
I will show you Minsk, performance,
Work Hard! Play Hard!, Minsk, 2016
40.8, audio walk,
GRAD Gallery, London, 2016
Eisenstein's circle, audio walk,
GRAD Gallery, London, 2016
Private, in collaboration with photographer Bulat Badamshin, audio walk,
Miras Gallery, Ufa, 2015
Map of silences, a soundmap,
Dnepropetrovsk, 2015
Silent excursion, performance,
exhibited at periscope gallery, Salzburg, 2014
The Demolition Project:: (collaboration with Debbie Kent):
The street: a user's guide, audio walk,
Encounter Bow Festival, Chisenhale Dance Space, London, 2019
A/drift, soundwalk, Secret Rivers exhibition, Museum of London, 2019
The Demolition Project, participatory installation
Compass Festival, Leeds, 2018
Blueprint, for ShadowMemory App,
Ural Industrial Biennial: New Literacy, Ekaterinburg, 2017
Zazerkalye, score for a performance
Artist Borderpanic Compendium, London, 2017
IN/VISIBLE, performance,
Camden People's Theatre, London, 2016
Invisible walking, walkshop,
Power and Architecture season, Calvert22, London, 2016
The Demolition Project, durational performance,
Power and Architecture season, Calvert22, London, 2016
Shadow, participatory performance,
B_Tour Festival, Berlin, 2015
I'm a stranger, participatory performance,
B_Tour Festival, Berlin and Belgrade, 2014
atom (collaboration with Timothy Maxymenko):
Paper town, a psychogeographic map-making,
arebyte gallery, London, 2018
24 ДВАДЦАТЬЧЕТЫРЕ, 24-hour phone call service,
Murmansk, 2018
A walk through, a parkour session,
Work Hard! Play Hard! Minsk, 2018
Horror Vacui (collaboration with Rotem Volk):
Arrival time unknown, an audio journey for a tram,
Vadim Sidur Museum, Moscow, 2019
Private view, performance,
London, 2013
Residencies:
Odnushka residency, a one week residency,
Novo-Molokovo, art residency near Moscow, 2019
Place and memory, a one month residency
Mariupol, 2019
24/7, a one week residency exploring the polar day Murmansk, 2018
Short cut, a one month residency
Norilsk, 2017
Map of silences, a two weeks residency,
Artsvit, Dnepropetrovsk, 2015
Teaching:
Mentoring two-week art residency for young artists, Artsvit, Dnipro, 2019
Lecture on audio walks,
Middlesex University, London, 2019
Parkour and urban movement workshop,
Summer Dance School, Dubna, 2018
One module for BA students,
Architectural School MARSH, Moscow, 2018
Lecture ‘Why walk: walking as an art practice’,
State Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2017
Walkshop ‘City and sound’,
State Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2017
Curating:
Encounter Bow, a day of outdoor performances and experiences for all ages,
Chisenhale Dance Space, London, 2019
ShadowMemory, a digital app for art routes around London, ArtNight 2018