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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:
Tags: art gallery, artrageous in motion, Gallery1313, haus of dada, large scale art installation, lisa anita wegner, mentorship, partners in art, patrick maccauley, performance art, Queen of the Parade, reel asian film festival, the black cat, therapy art, thin(k) blank human, think blank human, Toronto Canada, Trauma Therapy Art, will kwan
April 28, 2014 I create Worlds and live in them. Sometimes I get tired.
My stories come out clear, focussed, on track and on fire. I can’t believe how satisfying my day to day life has become. I am able to keep on a steady creative train and keep it moving slowly and surely. My bodies of work are merging and they feel flesh and blood real to me. I feel peaceful calm every day and nothing is nothing more important to me anymore than my own well being. I know exactly what I have to do. I see my plans, my collaborations, my shots, my images, feel the feelings. I am a blessed artist- a creator of worlds.
As I have since I got sick, I get hit by crippling exhaustion that knocks me right on my back when I push myself. I’m getting better at listening to my Spidey senses and taking care of things before they hit exhaustion and cognitive slippage. Since late last week I was incapacitated, moving from one piece of furniture to another, trying to muster the strength to buy groceries or take my dogs out. I feel like five years later I should be better at managing this, and I have to remember how far I have come. And with a stress disorder my chemicals shoot powerfully and my guidance system when it wants me to stop, it screams at me and knocks me to the ground.
And while this feels like a cruel blessing sometimes, I can’t ignore my inner voice. After trauma I find my inner voice yells. It’s yelling “take exquisite care of yourself” and now I am an overprotective mother to myself, sending myself home to rest when I need.
I was intending to write a bit about my bodies of work, to clarify them for myself but I don’t have it in me today.
I have a few errands to run for Queen of the Parade 2014, my next installation that will be at ARTRageous In Motion Fundraiser in Toronto in two days. Tomorrow I have marked a day of rest and recharging my batteries in preparation.
Off to take care of myself and make final preparations
Cheerios and love
Lisa Anita Wegner
Tags: ArtRageous, Daniels Spectrum, Forever Epic Films, lisa anita wegner, Longbranch Design, partners in art, PIA, ptsd, Queen of the Parade, Vanessa Lee Wishart
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