Electra (arts organisation)

Electra is a London-based non-profit arts organisation that commissions new work by artists working across sound art, moving image, performance and visual art.^[1] The organisation particularly works with feminist concerns and overlooked histories.^[2] One of its earliest projects, Her Noise,^[3] has an archive, the Her Noise Archive, that is housed by University of the Arts, London Archives and Special Collections at London College of Communication, and has an online resource hernoise.org.

Electra was founded by and in 2003^[4] and the current director is ^[5] (since 2011). The organisation has received regular funding from Arts Council England since 2005.^[6] Electra is part of the network and has a partnership with UbuWeb.^[7]

Electra has worked with a wide range of artistic practitioners including Lawrence Abu Hamdan, , Vicki Bennett, Steve Beresford, , Sonia Boyce, , Maria Chavez, Beatrice Dillon, Kenneth Goldsmith, Goodiepal, Kim Gordon, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, , Will Holder, Karl Holmqvist, Claire Hooper, , , Jutta Koether, Christina Kubisch, Cathy Lane, , Annea Lockwood , Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Lydia Lunch, Christian Marclay, Daria Martin, Kaffe Matthews, Eline McGeorge, Claudia Molitor, Carlos Motta, Hayley Newman, , Pauline Oliveros, Olivia Plender, Charlotte Prodger, , James Richards, Marina Rosenfeld, , Richard Thomas, , , , Verity Susman, Sue Tompkins, , .

Electra does not have an exhibition space, but presents projects with a large range of local and international partners including (Karlsruhe, Germany),^[8] Barbican, (Norway),^[9] ,^[10] ,^{[11] [12]} (Croatia), Flat Time House,^[13] Goethe Institut London,^[14] ICA London,^[15] Kings Place,^[16] (Norway),^[17] (Paris, France),^[18] LUX,^{[19] [20]} (Belgium), Queen Mary, University of London,^[21] The Showroom,^[22] South London Gallery,^[23] Tate Britain,^[24] Tate Modern,^[25] The Wire magazine.^[26]

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