LISA MORAVEC
Writer, curator, critic,
body practitioner
specialised in performance,
& intersections with the visual arts
Curator
Rose English, solo exhibition, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, inclusive publication, July 2024- Feb 2025.
4-Fold Performance programme, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, July 2024 - Feb 2025.
"A Tale of Two Cities", photographic work by Wolfgang Lehrner and Giovanna Silva, Galerie Zeller van Almsick, part of Photo Wien, Vienna, 31 May - 8 July 2023.
https://www.fotowien.at/en/ausstellung/a-tale-of-two-cities-foto-wien-2023/
'(Art)Activism in the 21st-Century', event, Belvedere21, Blickle Kino, Vienna, 12 November 2022.
Screening Programm: Gerald Nestler, Countering Capitulation (2014); Forensic Architecture, Model Zoo (2020); Vladan Joler, New Extractivism (2021)
The event was framed with a discussion between myself with the artists.
https://www.belvedere.at/event/kunst-aktivismus-im-21-jahrhundert
Dramaturgical Input
Theory and outside eye, March 2022-December 2022
Georg Blaschke’s dance piece ‘Extinct Choreographies’, Vienna, Seestadt.
Artistic Support
Sophia Süßmilch, solo exhibition SANATORUM, Landesgalerie Linz, 2023.
Curating Discourse
--Conference Organisation
‘Dance & Performance: Histories of Feminist Practices,’ Symposium with artists and academics, London Senate House, co-organised with Josephine Leask, keynote by Dr. Sarah Gorman (invited speaker), 17 June 2022.
‘Glitch, Glitschen, Glissade’--- talk by Christina Jauernik in dialogue with Lisa Moravec, public workshop, part of university-wide event series 'Everywhere it is Machines', Royal Holloway, 27 May 2021.
‘Love Spells: Rituals for Another World’--- Online Conference, co-organised with Lilly Markaki, Royal Holloway, 28-30 May 2020.
https://lovespellsrhul.wixsite.com/2020/symposium-programme
Symposium, ‘On Criticism’ --- Royal Central School of Drama and Speech, organised with Clio Unger and Josephine LeaskKeynote speakers Prof. Dr. Sabeth Buchmann and Dr. Duška Radosavljevic, 23 November 2018.
https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-teaching/departments-and-schools/drama-theatre-and- dance/events/platform-symposium-on-criticism/ predating the co-edited Platform publication
--Participatory Workshops
‘Art as political praxis’
I ran a workshop as part of the Joseph Beuys exhibition at Belvedere 21, Vienna, 4 May 2021.
‘Balancing Arts and the Everyday’
Organised a workshop run by Prof. Dr. Alexandra Kolb, funded by the University of London Fund, Royal Holloway, 21 May 2021.
Tanzquartier, Vienna 25 June 2018
I ran ‘Writing about dance’ https://tqw.at/tqw-doc-2/
Performances
together with Club Fortuna.
--- New Balance, Schauspielhaus Wien, part of Sägezahn-Festival, 14 April 2023, Vienna.
--- opening performance, Kunsthaus Graz, 25 May 2023.
Live dance performance, ‘Rehearsing: Moving Together/Apart, with Dr. Sarah Blissett & Philip Leitner, 8 December 2019
As part of Philosophy Unbound, Studio Thor, Brussels.
https://philosophyunbound.tumblr.com/post/189352653427/philosophy-unbound-25-program
Reading of my poems, No Bounds Radio, London, 2020.
--- ‘Witches’
--- ‘Prometheus’