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October 5, 2019 Pop & Down Podcast with Lisa Anita Wegner
Lisa Anita Wegner is a Toronto-based storyteller, performer, actor, artist, performance artist, podcaster and filmmaker. After a breakdown at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, Lisa received a diagnosis of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD). After many years of needing a lot of experiencing exhaustion and brain fog – and just thinking she was “tired and extremely bendy,” Lisa was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.
Lisa chats with Shaunna about creating through her mental and physical health issues, the artistic milestones she’s accomplished and her influences from Annie to Lady Gaga to David Bowie, being reflected in She’s Gotta Have It and Rushmore, and the soothing rewatchability of United States of Tara, Transparent and I Love Dick.
Lisa Anita Wegner’s performance art piece, Intangible Adorations, will be showing as part of Workman Arts’ Rendezvous With Madness Festival. In its 27th year, Rendezvous With Madness is the largest mental health festival in the world, showcasing film, art, comedy and much more, beginning on World Mental Health Day (October 10) through October 20th. To learn more about the festival and to purchase tickets to Intangible Adorations, as well as their other events, please visit workmanarts.com/rendezvous-with-madness/
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October 25, 2017 Moving Forward With Short Films: Spotlight on Lisa Anita Wegner
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September 1, 2016 Canadian Performer Refuses To Show Face
In Toronto Canada, an arrogant performance artist declares themself amazing while refusing to show any facial expression.
When we reached out to the haus of dada for comment we received the following message in German via telegraph from curator Fritz Snitz. “Thin(k) Blank Human only does private performances for close friends, artists and cherished audience members and is not interested in speaking with you peoples.” -Ritzy Fritzy
Artist Would Rather Give Ownership of Her Work to Those Who Inspire, Than Those Who Can Pay.
Performance Artist’s Perceived Gender Affects Audience Reaction
Tags: art installation, art therapy, Canadian Art, dada, haus of dada, performance art, performance artist, Toronto, trauma therapy
August 12, 2016 we weren’t complete yet
Akhilanda Collaborative is a new creative collective based in Toronto Canada. It began with a circus and film collaboration for MASHUP, a Hercinia Arts Collective Event curated by Kirsten Leila Edwards. Click the link to read the story of how “the way back home” came together and who is involved.
Read about the original collaboration for a Hercinia Art Party
Here is a teaser of “the way back home” Day of Delight performance shot and edited by Tarquin Richards.
“the way back home” at Dufferin Grove Day of Delight 2016 from Lisa Anita Wegner on Vimeo.
I felt a deep therapeutic need to continue to collaborate with this group. We truly are more than the sum of our parts. When we decided to move ahead we were stuck for an organization name. It was because we were missing someone. As well as Ashley Hurlock, Tamara Arenovich, Lisa Anita Wegner and Ray Cammaert we added Mary-Margaret Scrimger. Here she is below.
And then we were complete. We immediately started a steady stream of creative projects. Live performances, large scale art installations and films. For me this is the ideal addition to my therapeutic art practise. A group who is creatively open, nurturing and understands the emotional landscape. This is work that heals me.
portrait of mary-margaret from Lisa Anita Wegner on Vimeo.
I wanted to post some teaser images and a video study from our blue screen shoot of the other day. Projects will be announced here and on our Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/AkhilandaCollaborative/?fref=ts
the universe in her underpants from Lisa Anita Wegner on Vimeo.
I’ll write more soon and share more about our process. I’ll also write a little about the Goddess Akhilanda. Here are a few more images of what we are up to.
Lisa Anita Wegner
Akhilanda Collaborative
Mighty Brave Productions
haus of dada.
Tags: akhilanda, art, art therapy, Canadian Art, collaborative, creative organizations, dada, haus of dada, lisa anita wegner, performance art, performance artist, ptsd, Toronto, trauma therapy
May 15, 2016 Consciously or unconsciously, in your da
Consciously or unconsciously, in your daily routine you operate with great understanding of the overall patterns, and you act with more foresight and consideration than usual. You. Yeah you.
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May 5, 2016 New creative collective to form for film
New creative collective to form for filmmaker performance artist in Toronto, Canada. http://ow.ly/4ntsB0
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January 17, 2015 Toronto Artist Shocked When Asked to Prepare Stadium Performance by Mentor.
Lisa Anita Wegner is a filmmaker, producer, curator and performer who is accustomed to working in small local art galleries and screening venues in Toronto Canada. Working with established curator Patrick MacCauley, Wegner got a taste of working large-scale when she was the 26 foot tall Queen of the Parade in front of an enormous audience for Scotiabank’s 2013 Nuit Blanche.
This led to several seasons working with performance in multi media environments, exploring soundscapes as well as video. In 2014 Wegner played a lead role in a scripted film, her first in six years, acting as the Caucasian Agent in Will Kwan’s http://www.reelasian.com/festival-events/if-all-you-have-is-a-hammer-everything-looks-like-a-nail/ commissioned by Reel Asian International Film Festival. She brought her team back to create a Ten Foot Queen of the Parade the Partners in Art Annual Fundraiser, which Wegner says felt like her coming out party, meeting the Toronto Art World.
“Follow that swagger and dream a breakout show. I can see a collaboration. There might be an opportunity soon, and I’d work with to bring it to life.”
Wegner and her team are currently preparing to lift the curtain and to prepare the world to meet Thin(k) Blank Human Faceless RockStar. Lisa Anita Wegner wants to make her mentor proud.
-Fritz Snitz for Haus of Dada *The Fictitious History of the Haus of Dada* 2015
Another project from the Haus : Lisa Anita Wegner collaborating with a five year old artist on TARGET:
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