Lissy Willberg (b. 1989, East Berlin)
lives and works in Leipzig (DE).
Lissy Willberg is an artist, researcher, and educator specializing in performative arts. With a background in dance they explore social and spatial dynamics through installations and performances based on participatory proposals. Movement scores and digital sounds create a research environment for all attendees to encounter each other within. These site-specific constellations blur the boundaries between being, performing and participating. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (2020), Willberg completed an M.A. at the Dutch Art Institute (2022) and participated in the first Postnatural Independent Program (2023).
Lissy Willberg works artistic research-based, using various media. Previous projects dealt with mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion: the relationship between inside and outside, the individual in relation to the group. Currently, a new research cycle is moving-researching along the (im)possible demarcation between nature, culture, and technology. In 2023, Willberg received a working grant from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony (DE) as well as the Stiftung Kunstfonds (DE) and contributed to publications at Cthulhu Books (ESP) and Transcript Publishing (DE). Willberg was funded by a grant from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation from 2017–22. In 2021 they started lecturing at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. Since then, Lissy Willberg accompanies the Performative Arts class led by Prof. Isabel Lewis.
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