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LISA MORAVEC
Writer, curator, critic, editor, lecturer,
body practitioner
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specialised in the intersections of the performing and visual arts
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Academic Articles
Moravec, L., “'No Human is Limited:' On the Hyperaestheticization of Olympic Sports', in: Dissident Practices: Posthumanist Approaches to a Critique of Political Economy, eds. Moravec, L. and Hines, C. L., London: Bloomsbury Press (Posthumanist in Practice Series), peer-reviewed, forthcoming spring 2026.
Moravec, L., 'Training Humans not Machines: Artificial Intelligence and the Performance Culture of its Critique', in: TDR, Still Exhausted (special issue), eds. Catie Cuan, Douglas Eacho, and Sydney Skybetter, 1 March 2024, pp. 51-69 (peer-reviewed).
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/1E803B4DF035406EE53C2356A13704C8/S1054204323000515a.pdf/training_humans_not_machines.pdf
Moravec, L., 'Virtuelle Performance: Zum Multimedia Event Planetary Skins von Sylvia Eckermann und Gerald Nestler', in: springerin (Netzteil), September 2023, pp. 10-11.
https://www.academia.edu/108851819/Virtuelle_Performance_Zum_Multimedia_Event_Planetary_Skins_von_Sylvia_Eckermann_und_Gerald_Nestler_springerin_September_2023
Moravec, L., 'Sometimes I Think I Was a Parrot, but Then I Realized I Am Only a Fish: On “Animal Art” and Its Contemporary Condition"', steirischer herbst, October 2022/2023, https://www.steirischerherbst.at/de/pages/4845/.
Moravec, L., ‘Body Politics: Performing with Animals, A Non-Acting Approach’, in: The Routledge Companion to Bodies in Performance, eds. Victor Ladron de Guevara, Roberta Mock, and Hershini Young, London: Routledge, (peer-reviewed, submitted, forthcoming).
Moravec, L., ‘Dressage Performances as Infrastructural Critique: Mike Kelley and Yvonne Rainer’s Dancing Horses’, in: Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts, special issue ‘Critical Institutional Studies’, Olive Mckeon (ed.), Vol. 45, No. 1, February 2022, pp. 57-78 (peer-reviewed). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01472526.2022.2027182
Research Collective Performance and Political Economy (Jaswinder Blackwell-Pal, Shane Boyle, Ash Dilks, Caoimhe Mader McGuinness, Olive Mckeon, Lisa Moravec, Alessandro Simari, Clio Unger, Martin Young), ‘Marxist Keywords for Performance’, in: The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Eero Laine (ed.), Vol. 36, No. 1, Fall 2021, pp. 25-53 (peer-reviewed). https://muse.jhu.edu/article/841951
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Moravec, L., ‘Spellbound Things: Hands of Stone, Michael Armitage’s ‘Conjestina’, in: Love Spells: Rituals for another World, eds. Lilly Markaki and Caroline Harris, Independent Publishing Network, March 2021.https://lovespellsrhul.wixsite.com/2020
Text available here: https://www.academia.edu/126520840/_Spellbound_Things_Hands_of_Stone_Michael_Armitages_Conjestina_
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Moravec, L., ‘Beyond The Threshold? Artistic Performances in Contemporary Art Museums: Anne Imhof’s Sex’, in: Tagungsband, Verband für österreichische Kunsthistoriker*innen (VöKK), (based on the annual conference 2019), open-access, 2024, pp. 134-146.https://repository.akbild.ac.at/de/alle_inhalte/query/27265
Moravec, L., ‘The Performance of Dressage: Humans and Animal on the Stage’, in: Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol. 29, No. 4, December 2019, pp. 487-490. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10486801.2019.1667703?journalCode=gctr20
Moravec, L., ‘Four Saints in Three Acts: A Snapshot of the American Avant-Garde in the 1930s and Lessing Presents Lessing’, in: Photography & Culture, Vol. 12, Issue 1, March 2019, pp. 133-137. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17514517.2019.1565740?journalCode=rfpc20
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Essays in Exhibition Catalogues
Moravec, L., 'Staging Ideas: Rose English's Performance Poetics/Die Inszenierung von Ideen: Rose Englishs Performancepoetik' (dt/eng), in: Rose English: Memory Theatre, eds. Harald Krejci, Lisa Moravec, Marijana Schneider (eds.), exh. cat. (dt/eng) Museum der Moderne Salzburg/Berlin: Distanz Verlag, August 2024. https://www.academia.edu/126521364/Staging_Ideas_Rose_English_s_Performance_Poetics
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Moravec, L., 'Die Kunst zu Performen: Ein Blick auf die Wiener Aktionisten aus der Perspektive der 2000-er Jahre' (dt/eng), in: Was ist Wiener Aktionismus?, Wiener Aktionismus Museum/Berlin: DCV Verlag (forthcoming 2023).
Moravec, L., ‘Eine Frage des Glaubens: Weiße Materialien, Exzessive Körperperformances und Fantastische Tiere bei Günter Brus' (forthcoming).
Moravec, L., 'Beuys’ Radikale Tierperformances’/Beuys’ Radical Animal Performances' (dt/eng), in: Joseph Beuys: Denken, Handeln, Vermitteln/Think. Act. Convey, published by Harald Krejci and Stella Rollig, ex. cat. Belvedere21/Cologne: Koenig Books, 2021, pp. 149-162. https://www.buchhandlung-walther-koenig.de/koenig2/index.php?mode=details&showcase=1&art=1622475
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Essays in Artists' Books
Moravec, L., 'Gerhard Kaisers's "Way of Seeing": Visual Art Beyond the Digital'/'Gerhard Kaisers "Art des Sehens": Visuelle Kunst am Rande des Digitalen' (dt/eng), (forthcoming).
Moravec, L., ‘Worming a Revolution: Matthias Mollners Wurmloch’ (dt/eng), in: Matthias Mollner: Evolution Revolution, artist catalogue, Wien: monochrome, September 2019.
https://shop.monochrom.at/product/matthias-mollner-evolution-revolution/
Text available here https://www.academia.edu/126521081/Working_a_Revolution_Matthias_Mollner_Book
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Translations German-English
Mlodzianoskwi, S., ‘Ottomar Anschütz’s Animal Photography Through the Lens of Darwinism’, translated by Helen Lewandowski and Lisa Moravec, in: ‘Humanism after the Human’, special issue of Photography & Culture, special issue of Photography and Culture, June 2021. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17514517.2021.1920178
Thies-Lehmann, H., ‘Peter Handke: Inhabiting the World Together’, trans. Karen Jürs-Munby and Lisa Moravec, in: Contemporary European Playrights, eds. Maria M. Delgado, Bryce Lease, Dan Rebellato, London: Routledge, 2020.
Art Writing
Moravec, L., 'Dancing Around with Rose English, What does it mean to be an engaged curator?', in: motor dance journal, Issue 2: Duets and Dialogues, November 2023, pp. 105-9.
https://www.motordancejournal.com/issue-1-the-solo-1
Moravec, L., Extinct Choreography, a dialogical text for Georg Blaschke's latest performance, Vienna, Dec 2022.
Moravec, L., 'Oil is Boring', on Tom Streit's painting, April 2022.
https://tomstreit.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Tom-Streit_Text-by-Lisa-Moravec.pdf.
Moravec, L., ‘A Grotesque Allegory of Life: Eszter Salamon’s Monument 0.6: HETEROCHRONY’, in: Eszter Salamon, artist publication (forthcoming).
Moravec, L., ‘EXIT II (The Beloved Dies)’, in: Tim Plamper, artist publication on the occasion of the show Galerie NoD, Prag, 2021.
Moravec, L., ‘Komisch’, in: RischArt_Projekte, JAJA – NEINNEIN – VIELLEICHT (Sophia Süßmilch), Gasteig München, November 2020. https://www.gasteig.de/veranstaltungen/15-rischart-projekt-2020-jaja-neinnein-vielleicht.html,v64076
Moravec, L., 'Kokon', gallery text to Sophia Süßmilch's solo exhibition, Galerie Krobath, Vienna, 8.11-2019-29.02.2020.
https://www.galeriekrobath.at/2006-2020/de/archiv/08-11-2019_c/
Moravec, L., ‘Prometheus’ (Poem), in: Anna Kuen, Prometheus, artist book, December 2019.
Moravec, L., 'Lena Lapschina’s Street Photography Trees and Poets [The Urbanist’s Alphabet]: Encountering Nature and Art in the City of San Diego', in: Lena Lapschina, exhibition catalog, November 2017, unrealised/unpublished.
Moravec, L., Karen Irmer: Don’t Come Back Wave, folder publication, May 2017.
Book Reviews
Joseph Beuys by Claudia Mesch, London: Reaktion Books, 2017, in: The Burlington Magazine, March 2021.
Foucault & Theatre, eds. Tony Fisher and Kélina Gotman, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2019, in: Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol. 30, No. 3, 2020, pp. 415-417. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10486801.2020.1772593
Der Esel auf der Bühne by Maximilian Haas, in: Tierstudien: Tiergeschichten, 16/2019, Neofelis Verlag, 2019, pp. 184-6.
The Sixth Sense of the Avant-Garde: Dance, Kinaesthesia and the Arts in Revolutionary Russia by Irina Sirotkina and Roger Smith, in: Platform: Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts, Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring 2018, pp. 100-103.
Kontakt
Ich bin immer auf der Suche nach neuen, spannenden Möglichkeiten.
+49 (0) 175 456
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