A British artist, performance-maker and writer from London. Lisa has most recently created a durational performance work, for Locus Solus at Benaki Museum, Athens, curated by Sozita Goudouna, Out of the Box intermedia, (October 2010) and is in the process of developing a commissioning/producing platform, Live from home in collaboration with artists and producers across Europe. Her work may take the form of a participatory encounter, a performance, a sound installation or text; exploring the ways in which we inhabit space, identify place and enact our (auto)biographies. Lisa seeks in her work to unearth fissures in the physical and psychical landscapes of everyday life, as a strategy through which to dissemble social tautologies, exploring the rupture of a visceral, emplaced selfhood through the contexts, staging and per-formance of encounter: “The narratable self desires this story from the mouth of another…told within the dwelling-time, the existence of the life itself,” (Cavarero).
She has also been pursuing these concerns in her PhD research at Roehampton (London): Dramaturgies of fissure: a poetics of (auto)biography through place. In addition she is an Associated Researcher on Performance Matters, a three-year creative research project exploring the challenges that contemporary performance presents to ideas of cultural value: a collaboration between Goldsmiths, University of London, Roehampton University, and the Live Art Development Agency, London. Lisa originally trained in dance theatre (BA honours Dance Theatre, LABAN, London 1996, scholarship) and has produced, directed and performed in solo, group pieces and collaborations, project-funded by Arts Council England, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Pro-arte Institute amongst others. She has held residencies notably in London, Cuba and Russia and has an active interest in translocal and cross-cultural ways of working. Lisa has taught performance practice and choreography at university and worked as a programme curator in London with arts organisations across dance, theatre and visual art. She was one of 7 artists to be mentored by the Italian performance artist Franko B in 2007/8.