Elana Mann

Exchange rate: 2008, was organized by Elana Mann in response to the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Thirty-eight artists living in sixteen countries participated in the project. With the aid of the website exchangerate2008.com, participating artists produced, exchanged, and interpreted performance directions related to the election campaign. A book was published that documented the project.[9][10]

ARLA was formed by Mann, vocal artist Juliana Snapper, filmmaker Vera Brunner-Sung, and choreographer Kristen Smiarowski. ARLA is a flexiable acronym for Audile Receptives Los Angeles or A Ripe Little Archive.[11] The group came together to study scores and techniques of listening developed by composer Pauline Oliveros. ARLA led workshops, listening sessions, discussion groups and did several performances most notably at Occupy LA and the Getty Museum. ARLA also published the People's Microphony Song Book, a book of performance scores that utilize the Peoples Microphone. When asked about how she felt about her scores being re-performed Pauline Oliveros said "I am happy that Elana Mann chose to use my Sonic Meditations for the People’s Microphony project. These pieces are meant for anyone that wants to perform them regardless of musical training.”[12][13]

Since 2005, Elana Mann and Audrey Chann, have collaborated under the moniker Chann & Mann. The duo formed during their studies at the California Institute of the Arts. They had their first retrospective "Chann & Mhann: A Historical Retrospective" at Elephant Art Space.[14] Chan & Mann reperformed Leslie Labowitz-Starus Myths of Rape at the 2012 LA Art Show.[15] Chan & Mann organized Shares & Stakeholders: The Feminist Art Project Day of Panels at the 2012 College Art Association Conference at the Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2013 Chan and Mann had a solo exhibition at the Ben Maltz Gallery at the Otis College of Art and Design called The glass ceiling is a glass hyman pierced by a glass dildo inside a larger glass vagina.[16]

"Chats About Change: Critical Conversations on Art and Politics in Los Angeles” was a two-day event organized by artists Elana Mann and Robby Herbst. The program was hosted by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and the student union at Cal State L.A. A series of discussions amongst artist and activists, it included panels such as "navigating L.A.’s landscapes in ecologically conscious ways", “How Can I Participate?” and “Creative Dissonance,”.[17][18][19]

"Sounds from the Swamp" is a solo exhibit by Elana Mann to reposition "Clean up the Swamp" by President Trump. Sound of the Swamp is a music exhibit with a sculpture instrument built as a human hand. Mann wanted to express how the human voice is loud even if you try to shut them up. Sound from the Swamp was in 2020 at Lawndale Art Center in Houston, TX.

"Years of Wonder" is a solo exhibit by Elana Mann through 2020-2021. Years of Wonder is a book created by Geraldine Brooks that inspired Mann to create a visual and sonic scenery of the global pandemic. Mann wanted to describe the civil and social unrest and the complete division from the presidential election. Years of Wonder exhibit took place in Santa Monica, CA and San Antonio, TX.

"Conversation Pieces" is a collaborative book with Adam Overton that consist of weeks of artwork at the California Institute of the Arts. The book publication was on February 13-17, 2006.

"Give it to Me, Do it for Me, Make Me" is a book that consists of sixteen of Elana Mann's performance scores. Mann's performance scores were all performed in the fall of 2006 in CalArts.

"Exchange Rate" is a book of collaboration demonstrating thirty-eight artists from different countries showing their artwork in response to the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Exchange Rate is a book that includes all artwork and performances from different artists other than Elana Mann.

"Can't Afford the Freeway" is a book that holds the conversation between Elana Mann and Captain Dylan Alexander Mack. The book includes additional information about Elana Mann's work like collages, process notes, and drawings from the Can't Afford the Freeway video.

"We Are the Art" is a collaborative book between Elana Mann and AVPA students. The students in AVPA worked with Elana Mann to learn about performance art, community outreach, and in-class experiments with art. At the end of the workshop, each student from AVPA demonstrated their original artwork to Mann.

"The People's Microphony Songbook" is a book inspired by resistance songs which is a technology that allows speakers to be assembled or gathered without using electric amplification. The book is being published to let the global world explore the People's Mic.