Writing Performance—Research on Relations Between Texts and Performances

Lilo Nein’s research project investigates relations between text and performance from the perspective of visual art. Nein's artistic practice engages with performance as a collaboration based medium, serves as starting point and framework of the project.

Lilo Nein (1980, AT) is a visual artist. She works with and on performance and investigates its relation to texts and other media.

Artistic publications: Translate Yourself! A Performance Reader for Staging (2009), The Present Author. Who Speaks in Performance? (2011), If Analyses Could Be Poems … Works Between Text and Performance (2013).

Nein received the Start Stipend (2010) and State Stipend (2013) for Fine Arts by the Austrian Federal Chancellery and the Performance Award of Kunstraum Niederösterreich (2012). She was a guest lecturer at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Master Artistic Research at Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.

Nein’s works were shown at Austria Cultural Forum New York, Museum of Modern Art Salzburg, Künstlerhaus Wien, MA*GA Art Museum Gallarte Italy, MASS MoCA Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Index The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Salzburger Kunstverein, Vienna Art Week. Performances for Tanzquartier Vienna, Kampnagel Hamburg, Bjcem Young Artists Biennale, MUSA Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León.