Angelita Biscotti develops site-specific performances, music, visual art, writing and astrology-themed participatory experiences that enable the sense of feeling witnessed and taken seriously, especially for those with precarious relationships to power. Angelita’s practice is attentive to the energies that accompany wanting and missing, hope and frustration, deferred satisfaction, and the relationship between private desires and public norms. Angelita’s multi-disciplinary work as a performer, composer, artist, astrologer and writer has been presented at Thailand Biennale (through Liquid Architecture), West Space Offsite, Seventh Gallery, Debris, Performance Review, Dancehouse, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Fringe, Footscray Community Arts, Visual Diary, 99% Gallery, Midsumma Festival, Darebin Fuse Festival, Radio Alhara, Cordite, Going Down Swinging, Overland, and more. Residencies and fellowships include the 2026-27 Bespoke program by Speak Percussion, 2024 MESS Professional Development, 2023 Seventh Gallery Studio Residency and 2022 Midsumma Pathways. In 2024 Angelita was shortlisted for the Woollahra Digital Literary Award (Poetry category). In 2022 Angelita conceptualised and performed a shibari-themed solo as part of Candy Bowers’s Green Room Award-winning cabaret TakeBack. In 2024 Angelita’s electronic score for Ebony Rattle’s critically acclaimed Winona was described in Nothing Ever Happens in Brisbane as “loud and abrasive without being overbearing… [whose] ability to navigate between the spectrum of intensity is enviable… reminiscent of Twin Peaks.” Angelita’s creative practice has received funding from the City of Darebin, City of Yarra, City of Maribyrnong, and the Australian RTP Scholarship.
(Longer bio, CV and documentation available on request. Links to previously published work below.)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (CREATIVE & CRITICAL WRITING)
Prose
2025 You told me the world we dream of comes at a cost, Debris Magazine 5: Prismatic Joy (print)
2024 Review: Situational Fuckability ~ Angelita Biscotti on Amia Srinivasan, Liminal Review of Books
2023 Review: Lilian Steiner’s Flesh and Diamonds, Performance Review
2023 Review: Florentina Holzinger’s TANZ
2023 Review: Edge-Work ~ Angelita Biscotti Reviews Bella Li, Sydney Review of Books
2022 Review: Open Relations ~ Angelita Biscotti on Lucy Van’s The Open, Liminal Review of Books
2022 Something About Love, Going Down Swinging
2022 Review: Eunice Andrada’s TAKE CARE, Cordite Poetry Review
2021 On the fantasy work that makes life bearable, Overland Literary Journal, Issue 241 (Print)
Poetry
2025 Everyone you know is a Cancer - in Cordite Poetry Review 116: REMEMBER edited by Anne-Marie Te Whiu and Micaela Sahhar, 2025
2024 “Old Couch, New Couch.” Australian Poetry Journal, edited by Sara M Saleh and Autumn Royal
2023 SORRY IM JUST A BASIC HYSTERIC!!!!!!!! a love & farewell letter to the clyde hotel on cardigan.Cordite Poetry Review, 2023 - shortlisted for the 2024 Woollahra Digital Literary Award (Poetry)
2022 & melancholia. Australian Poetry Journal 12.1: divergence, relevance
2022 too much chiron, not enough butter. Dancehouse
2022 the stars are posing, no they’re not. The Suburban Review 26: REVEL
MUSICAL WORKS CATALOGUE
2026 Harana/Serenade (forthcoming at Seventh Gallery)
2026 Gallivanting: a longform audio collage for Instant Kalpa, for Liquid Architecture and Thailand Biennale (Listen here)
2026 Associate artist representation: Australian Music Centre
2026 Incohesive, single
2024 borderline impersonality, EP
2024 Keys (curator and performer), Radio Alhara broadcast via DJ Ramsey’s residency We Don’t Stop We Won’t Stop
2024 Anamnesia, Capacitator V: MESS Professional Development Graduates Album
2023 Sound design: Ebony Rattle’s Winona (Reviews: Nothing Ever Happens in Brisbane, Weekend Notes)
2023 I Didn’t Want to Quiet-Quit You, I Don’t Want to Quiet-Quit Me, Creative development supported by SEVENTH Gallery Studio Residency and City of Darebin Community Arts
2022 Sound design: What It’s Like to Be Left (Short Film), Ahead of the Curve, Multicultural Arts Victoria
SELECTED LIVE PERFORMANCE
2024 Keys: A poetry and art-music fundraiser for PARA Foundation - Role: curator, MC, solo piano performer
2023 Divination and radical listening: performance-lecture at the NTEU University of Melbourne strike teach-ins
2023 SEVENTH Gallery Studio Residency - Role: Studio resident and performer (music)
2023 Deep Soulful Sweats Anniversary - Role: Astrologer
2023 Alicia Frankovich’s Rich in World/Poor in World, Melbourne Now, NGV - Role: Ensemble performer (contemporary dance)
2023 On the 23rd Day Mars Was in Gemini, Arts and Culture Maribyrnong; Midsumma Westside, Bluestone Church Artspace - Role: Curator and solo performer (voice and piano)
2022 Lachlan Purcell’s Astronaughty, Pride of Our Footscray, Melbourne Fringe 2022 - Role: Solo performer (poetry)
2021 Candy Bowers’s TakeBack, Darebin Fuse Festival (winner: Green Room Award for Best Cabaret 2022) - Role: Solo performer (contemporary dance, voice, video)
CURATORIAL PRACTICE
2024 Broadcast of “Keys” performance recordings on Ramsey Tawil’s show “We Don’t Stop, We Won’t Stop” on Radio Alhara, 29 September 2024
2024 “Keys: a literary and musical fundraiser for PARA Foundation.” Live music and poetry readings by Professor Jeanine Leane, Simona Castricum, Gareth Morgan, Declan Fry, Greg Sher | Role: curator, performer (solo piano improvisation), MC
2023 “On the 23rd Day Mars Was In Gemini.” One-night cabaret performance-art evening. Bluestone Church Artspace, Footscray. Commissioned by the City of Maribyrnong's Amplify Community Arts program for Midsumma Westside. Role: Curator, promoter, performer (other performers included Piano Punk, Mohamed Chamas, Daniel R Marks, Scotty So, Cher Tan, Chichi Nwokocha)
SELECTED VISUAL ART PUBLICATIONS AND EXHIBITIONS
2025 Photographer, Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) Report on Anti-Palestinian Racism in Schools (free to download)
2025 Photo essay: “You told me the world we dream of comes at a cost” in Debris Magazine Issue 05: Prismatic Joy, edited by Mariam Ella Arcilla and Jazz Money - pre-order here
2025 Salon for Palestine, curated by Danny Frommer, Visual Diary
2025 Revolution and Joy, curated by Bakri Mahmoud, Footscray Community Arts
2024 Artlink 44:3, December 2024 article by Gabe Tejada, photograph by Angelita Biscotti
2022 what it’s like to be left (3 min, 6 sec, single-channel). Commissioned by Multicultural Arts Victoria’s Ahead of the Curve program for BIPOC artists 35yo and under, first screened at Northcote Town Hall
2022 ‘Grateful,’ (sharpie on canvas), The General Public at 99% Gallery
SELECTED PRESS
2024 Review of my sound design for Ebony Rattle’s Winona in Weekend Notes
2021 Triple R Glasshouses with Bethany Atkinson-Quinton
SELECTED PANELS & PRESENTATIONS
2022 Ahead of the Curve Launch Panel - Northcote Town Hall - Multicultural Arts Victoria 2022
2019 Heart & Soul: Australian Romance Writing - Wheeler Centre
2018 Speakeasy: Sex - Brunswick Mechanics Institute
SELECTED LITERARY EDITING & WORKSHOP FACILITATION
2023 Listening is World-Building: Astrology for Artists(supported by the City of Darebin & SEVENTH Gallery)
2022 Poetry workshop for Dandenong High School students, co-facilitated with Chichi Nwokocha, presented by Connexion Arts Space
2021 Eroticism and Provocation in Poetry: Writers Victoria
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES & MENTORSHIPS
2024 Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio (MESS) Professional Development Program
2023 SEVENTH Gallery Studio Residency
2023 Midsumma Pathways Program
2022 Ahead of the Curve Fellowship For Young BIPOC Artists, Multicultural Arts Victoria
2020 Create Change Fellowship for Young Campaigners (led by Democracy in Colour and coHealth)
SELECTED EDUCATION
PhD candidate (July 2024 - Present)
Selected courses in psychoanalysis and politics, Brooklyn Institute of Social Research (2020 - 2023)
Selected courses in continental philosophy, Parrhesia Berlin (2022)