Elizabeth Cline

Biography

Elizabeth Cline has dedicated her career to supporting interdisciplinary artists and artistic communities. For the past fifteen years, she has curated and produced performative, site-responsive works across Los Angeles. Previously she was the Assistant Director at Machine Project, an arts non-profit in Los Angeles and a Curatorial Associate at the Hammer Museum, where she organized artist’s projects in the Public Engagement program. Elizabeth has taught and lectured about contemporary art practices at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena; The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; CalArts, Valencia; Columbia College, Chicago; The Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Portland Art Museum, Portland and The Rubin Center, El Paso.

As a librettist and director, her work explores consciousness through subjectivity and time. Her first opera, Tragedy on the Sea Nymph, starring an all dog cast, premiered in 2010 at Machine Project (Los Angeles) performed by the Calder Quartet, in 2012 it traveled to The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and then was featured at the 2013 Biennial of the Americas (Denver) performed by the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. In 2013 her chamber opera The Edge of Forever, inspired by the ending of the Mayan long count calendar was performed by LA-based chamber music ensemble Wild Up, conducted by Christopher Rountree, at The Philosophical Research Society (Los Angeles). A recording of The Edge of Forever was released on The Industry Records label in June 2016.