Oana Avisilichioaei

Oana Avasilichioaei interweaves sound, poetry, performance, and translation to expand and trouble ideas of language, histories, polyphonic structures, and borders of listening. She has created many performance/sound works that mix electronics, ambient textures, noise, and vocal play, published six collections of poetry hybrids, including Eight Track (Talonbooks, 2019, finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry) and Limbinal (Talonbooks, 2015), and written a libretto for a one-act opera Cells of Wind (FAWN Chamber Collective, 2022). Her next book Chambersonic will be published in fall 2024 (Talonbooks). She performs regularly in theatres, art centres, and festivals in Quebec, Canada, USA, and Europe. Based in Montreal, she was an artist-in-residence at Simon Fraser University (Vanvcouver) in 2018, at OBORO (Montreal) in 2021, and at Rhizome (with Kaie Kellough) in February 2024. «