LISA MORAVEC
Writer, curator, critic, editor, lecturer,
body practitioner
specialised in the intersections of the performing and visual arts
Curating Art and Performance
Begin Suddenly In Splendor. Rose English: Performance, Presence, Spectacle
solo exhibition, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, 5 July 2024 - 2 Februar 2025.
(co-curated with Marijana Schneider, Museum der Moderne Salzburg)
4-Part Performance Programme, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, July 2024 - Nov 2024.
--Esben Weile Kjaer, COLLIDER! (I want to believe the second act), 27.7.
https://www.museumdermoderne.at/en/events/detail/i-want-to-believe-the-second-act-collider/
--Nina Beier/Bob Kil, Boyfriend, 15.8.
https://www.museumdermoderne.at/en/events/detail/boyfriend/
--Raphaela Vogel mit Juliane Liebert und Daniel Roth, 'Where is the f*ing anchor of Charon?', 10. 10.
https://www.museumdermoderne.at/en/events/detail/performance-where-is-the-fing-anchor-of-charon/
--Philipp Gehmacher, 'The Things of the World (For Rose)', 7.11.
https://www.museumdermoderne.at/en/events/detail/the-things-of-the-world-for-rose/
(co-curated with Marijana Schneider, Museum der Moderne Salzburg)
"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 panel discussion between Nestler, Joler, and myself.
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 SÜßMILCH, Landesgalerie Linz, 2023.
https://www.ooekultur.at/exhibition-detail/sophia-s%c3%bcssmilch
Curating Discourse
--Expert Talk Series, autumn 2024
Curated and Organised by Dr. Lisa Moravec for Curated By 2024
--Symposia
'Artists' Archives and Estates', Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 5 October 2024
Curated and Organised by Dr. Lisa Moravec for Curated By
& Österreichisches Forum für Vor- & Nachlässe bildender Kunst
'Posthumanist Approaches to a Critique of Political Economy: Dissident Practices'
Technical University Vienna (Visual Cultures)/Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien
co-organised with Carmen Lael Hines, with international artistic and academic contributions, 4 December 2023.
‘Dance & Performance: Histories of Feminist Practices’
With artists and academics, London Senate House, co-organised with Josephine Leask, keynote by Dr. Sarah Gorman (invited speaker), 17 June 2022.
‘Love Spells: Rituals for Another World’
Co-organised with Lilly Markaki, online, Royal Holloway, 28-30 May 2020.
https://lovespellsrhul.wixsite.com/2020/symposium-programme
‘On Criticism’
Royal Holloway, University of London/Central School of Drama and Speech
Co-organised with Clio Unger and Josephine Leask
keynote speakers Prof. Dr. Sabeth Buchmann and Dr. Duška Radosavljevic, 23 November 2018.
- - Talks
‘Glitch, Glitschen, Glissade’
talk by Christina Jauernik in dialogue with Lisa Moravec,
part of university-wide event series 'Everywhere it is Machines', Royal Holloway, 27 May 2021.
- - Participatory Workshops
‘Art as political praxis’
Workshop, 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.
‘Writing about dance’
Tanzquartier, Vienna 25 June 2018, https://tqw.at/tqw-doc-2/
Live Performances
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’