Amelia Licavoli

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Curated Exhibitions & Screenings

BLACK AIR
curated art exhibition and events

The Gate Theater Film Festival 1966/2019
curated film screenings

Only the truth disguised in a dream
curated film screening

I AM THE SUN
curated library exhibition

BLEEDING BLACK NOISE
curated gallery exhibition and events

ECCENTRICITIES AND DISORIENTATIONS
co-curated portfolio for Helvete journal

Charlemagne Palestine
divinitusssanimalusssacréusssorganusss
curated solo exhibition

Prelude: The Breathe of Charybdis
curated video screening

The night is no longer dead;
it has a life of its own
curated portfolio for Helvete journal

.blacK~SSStaTic_darK~fuZZZ_dOOm~glitCH.
curated video screening

Black Thorns in the Black Box
curated film & video screeening

Black Thorns in the White Cube
curated gallery exhibition

Publishing & Books

FORTHCOMING
Black Air
a fascimile of the artist's book by Ibrahim R Ineke
with text and calligraphy by Amelia LiCavoli

II
Azimuth, the ecology of an ear
edited by Patrick Farmer

Radius: GROUND
edited by Amelia Ishmael

II
2 discursive texts by Amelia Ishmael
visually interpreted by I.R.I.

Becoming the Forest
edited by Una Hamilton Helle & Lotte Brown

Helvete:
a Journal of Black Metal Theory

EN3MY
edited by Amelia Ishmael & J. Soliday

Listening and It's Not
edited by Patrick Farmer

The White People by Ibrahim R. Ineke, with introduction by Amelia Ishmael

Transcendental Geology
an artist book by Gast Bouschet
with text by Amelia Ishmael

J'ai Froid
castillo/corrales today #4

*J'ai Froid excerpt

"To Raise a Storm: Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert’s Tempestarii and the sympathetic magic of digital video," one+one Filmmakers Journal 13.1 (July 2014): 32-41.

Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert - Unground
Casino Luxembourg

*Unground excerpt

Hans de Wit - Undertow
artist monograph

*Undertow excerpt

Black Thorns in the White Cube
exhibition catalogue

Helvete:
a Journal of Black Metal Theory

Black Metal in the White Tower: Metal's Formless Presence in Contemporary Art

Melancology
edited by Scott Wilson

*BMWT excerpt

Transmission
Art21 interview series
invited guest writer

"The Persistance of Photodynamism in Contemporary Photography,"
Montage, University of Iowa

Review June 2007
special issue "Surface Design Association Conference"
guest editor

The End of Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Art History BFA thesis, Kansas City Art Institute, 2009

freelance art criticism texts,
2017-2003, various publishers

Research & Presentations

Aldo Tambellini, The Gate and The Black Gate Theaters:
Venues for Experimental Film and Intermedia Performances,
New York City Lower East Side 1965-1968
book manuscript in progress

Every Woman Her Own Publisher: Independent Authorship in 19th Century England
extra-illustrated volumes, Anna Atkin's cyanotypes, and photocollage albums
3 unpublished research projects

Zero magazine: auction alert, acquisition recommendation to artists' book library
unpublished research project

"Expanded Cinema and The Black Gate Theater"
presentation to Hishhorn Museum, Washington DC

"The Intermedia Works of Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert"
presentation to Transgressive Cultures Conference at University of Chicago, Paris

"Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert's Tempestarii"
presentation to Weight of the Mountains filmmaker residency, Iceland

"The night is no longer dead"
presentation to From a Dead Place seminar at Kinston University, London

"Bleeding Black Noise"
presentation to Southeastern College Arts Conference

"Black Metal's Formless Presence in Contemporary Art"
presentation to Black Metal Theory Symposium at London Graduate School

"Indexicality and Alternative Processes in Contemporary Photography"
presentation to Southeastern College Arts Conference

"Black Metal in the Culture Industry"
unpublished research project

"Modern and Contemporary Italian Art History"
unpublished research project

"The Snapshot"
unpublished Art History BFA thesis

"Jacques Callot's Miseries of War series"
unpublished research project

Archives & Library Sciences

Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago library
cataloguing and metadata librarian

Alliance Française of Chicago archive
archivist: survey, arrangement, description, access

Chicago History Museum
Chicago Sun-Times 35 mm film photography collection
archivist: descriptive metadata

Chicago Film Archives
select items from Frank Koza and Mayor Kelly 16 mm film collection
collections assistant: descriptive and technical metadata

University of Illinois
MLIS student work

Charlemagne Palestine studio archive (Brussels)
archivist: processing, description, digitization, database