Lisa investigates knowledge-production through a combination of text, installation and performance, and fiction writing is a key component of both her installation and live work. Lisa was recently awarded Arts Council support for an ongoing project, which she has been developing throughout her time at Open School East, titled ‘Communal Materials; Or, Evolution Isn’t Fast Enough‘. Drawing from the idea of the ‘deaccessioned’ – a term which refers to the removal of things from a library, museum or art gallery in order to sell it – Lisa’s project focuses on materials, ideas and skills that are of ‘questionable value’ in the current economic climate.

She is currently working on ‘The De Beauvoir Labs’, a series of public events in which participants chosen from an open call are paired with invited participants with different skills. Lisa is also working on ‘A Call from the Library’, which will begin with a week-long ‘field-writing’ exercise of the former Rose Lipman Library building, culminating in a performance on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 of September. In collaboration with sound artist Seth Ayyaz, Lisa will build a system which has the capacity to ‘listen’ to rooms and architectural spaces, and in effect ‘play’ them through sound and text. Their research in the former library will result in a live installation and public performance in which the building begins to ‘speak’.

More information on Lisa’s ongoing projects can be found here.