Curator, Writer, and Independent Researcher
Italian (San Martino Valle Caudina)
Leandro Pisano is a curator, writer, and independent researcher working at the intersections of art, sound, and technoculture. His research focuses on the political ecology of rural, marginal, and remote territories, approached through listening practices, sound-based methodologies, and critical spatial inquiry.
He is the founder and director of the Interferenze new arts festival (2003–) and has curated and developed long-term artistic and research projects including Mediaterrae Vol.1 (2007) and Liminaria (2014–). Among the exhibitions he has curated are Otros sonidos, otros paisajes (MACRO Museum, Rome, 2017), Alteridades de lo invisible (Festival Tsonami, Valparaíso, 2018), Manifesto of Rural Futurism (Italian Cultural Institute, Melbourne, 2019), and Energies in the Rural (ACAC Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Japan, 2023).
Alongside his curatorial practice, he maintains an active writing practice focused on sound, rurality, and contemporary cultural processes, contributing to journals and cultural platforms in Italy and internationally.
Leandro Pisano holds a PhD in Cultural and Postcolonial Studies from the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. He is an affiliated member of the Sound Art and Auditory Culture Lab (SAAC) at RMIT University (Melbourne), an external member of the Paesaggi Sonori research group at SUPSI (Switzerland), and a member of the Scientific Committee of Usmaradio – University of the Republic of San Marino. He is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Salerno.
