Elena Botts

KONTEKST SPOTLIGHT

Contact:
Email: elenabotts@gmail.com

Based in:
London and Scotland

Also involved with:
[unknown sound collective] (founder and organiser)

Bio:
Elena Botts is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher at the University of Essex. Elena’s work explores experimental sound, multimedia art, and the interrelation between artistic practice, perception, and social transformation through collaborative installations, residencies, and projects/releases in digital and physical media. Elena organizes the unknown sound collective and an associated radio archive and associated publications centring on experimental artists and their inner worlds.

Elena has a BA in Global & International Studies and Mind, Brain, & Behaviour from Bard College (2018), a MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts: Performance and Decolonial Praxis from Goddard College (2025) and is currently a PhD Candidate in Film and Literature — University of Essex (2026).

KONTEKST:
2025: joined the collective.