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Angela Viora, PhD is an Italian artist and scholar currently based in Naarm, Australia. Formally trained in painting and art history, Angela’s core practice is performance art, alongside with drawing, video, and installation. Her work focuses on the body-space relationship, place-identity, migration, and belonging. Angela has performed, exhibited, and presented her work internationally, including at BOAA – Biennale of Australian Art, Daegu Art Factory (SK), Performance Studies International Conference, the MAXXI Museum in Rome (IT), and the 12th Istanbul Biennial (TK). Her participatory performances are personal responses to global issues in which the audience is invited to intervene and create a shared experience: performance art is an offer. Angela has published on performance art, public art, documentation, and audience reception. She is proudly of working-class origins and passionate about making art accessible to anybody. She has worked extensively in community art-based projects across Europe and Australia, and currently sits in the Brimbank Arts Advisory Committee (Sunshine). Angela is also a member of Performance Studies International and AIAPI UNESCO – Associazione Internazionale Arti Plastiche Italia, and of the ECCV - Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria. Angela lectures at Monash University (European Languages, Italian Studies), where she integrates the study of language, literature, and history with the study of popular cultures, media, visual and performing arts.