Lisa Bauer-Zhao

Lisa Bauer-Zhao is a PhD candidate at Hildesheim University, Germany and a Performance Artist. Her research’s main focus is the situation of Taiwan’s modern and contemporary art against the background of the globalisation of art discourse. In 2012 she was granted the Taiwan Fellowship. Important research paper presentations include the ‘3rd Forum of East Asian Art History’ and the ‘11th annual conference of the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS)’, where she achieved the Young Scholar Award.

She performed amongst others at performance festivals in Beijing and Singapore.The main focus in her performance work is to look at everyday actions, expressions and materials in a reduced manner and place them in a different environment and this way empty their previously defined meaning and open spaces of thoughts. The plainness of themovement and the repetition creates a floating image in between concrete everydayness and conscious absurdity.

She is also engaged in curatorial practice. In 2009 she established ‘Kulturflur’, an alternative art space (2009-2011).

She is invited by curator Yves Chiu for one month residency at Bamboo Curtain Studio and to participated in the exhibition “M.E.L.Ting Project – One Year Conversation: Thread, Ghost Story, Escape.”