A black and white photo of a performer dressed as the Ubermarionette wearing a morph suit -which covers all visible skin.They are sitting casually leaning back on a flight of stairs. They are wearing light coloured overalls, a black beret and holding a Super8 video camera to their right eye.

Lisa Anita Wegner

Lisa Anita Wegner is a filmmaker, performer, curator, producer and instructor at the haus of dada. She is the creative producer of Mighty Brave Productions, a small award-winning multi-media production company and a founding member of the Akhilanda Collaborative. Her work has been shown at the Phoenix Art Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, Mayworks Festival, Nuit Blanche, ReelAsian Film Festival, Long Winter, Workman Arts, Gallery 1313, Toronto Art Fair, Buddies in Bad Times, The Black Cat Artspace and NXNE Festival. Her ventures into large-scale performance installations include the 26-foot “Queen Of The Parade,”; a 10-foot version of The Queen was commissioned by Partners in Art, for ARTrageous In Motion. Lisa is pushing further with live performance performing Anandam’s Body Break at Theatre Passe Murielle, PROCESS at Artscape Youngplace, Buddies in Bad Times and Rendezvous with Madness to name a few. Lisa exhibited writing and a photography in Yoko Ono’s ARISING exhibition at The Phi Centre in Montreal. Lisa is proud to be affiliated with Tangled Art + Disability.


Art form

Visual Arts
Painting
Photography
Installation
Performance Art
Film
Theatre
Curation
Programming

Community

Disabled
Mad
Survivor
Queer
Feminist

Exhibitions

  • Arising: Writing / Photography in group show. Shown at Fondation Phi pour l’art contemporain 2018. Curated by Yoko Ono, Montreal, ON
  • Queen Of The Parade: Performance/Film 2013/2014 curated by Patrick Macaulay for Nuit Blanche and for ArtRageous in Motion annual fundraiser for Partners In Art, Toronto ON
  • The Art Game: Performer in live art installation 2011 “The Most Prolific Artist in the World,” Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto ON; Kent Monkman installation 

Organizational Affiliation

  • haus of dada
  • Mighty Brave Productions

Location

Toronto, Ontario, Canada