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July 21, 2025 Artist Statement 2025
Lisa Anita Wegner is a Toronto-based filmmaker, performer and interdisciplinary artist known for visionary work that bridges film, performance art and immersive multi sensory installation. A creative force with deep roots in alternative storytelling, Wegner builds immersive experiences that explore identity, altered states, and the area between reality and fiction.
Wegner’s practice includes film, video installation, durational performance, and expanded cinema. Her work often centers on themes of transformation through the lens of what she calls “Realistic Confabulation”: an intentional mixing of autobiographical truths with fictionalized personas, alternate timelines and imagined worlds.
Wegner is the Artistic Director of Mighty Brave Productions since 1999 and Artist in Residence at Haus of Dada since 2013. She has raised significant public and private funding for her large-scale art projects and proudly pays her team full CARFAC rates. Her commitment to access, representation, and fair labour underpins her entire artistic approach.
Her most recent body of work, Elsewhere, formerly known as Intangible Adorations, is a touring installation experience reimagined without live performers. The Elsewhere short film (https://youtu.be/JhRHP30rYO0) stands as a haunting artifact of that world.
Known as much for her mentorship and curatorial vision as for her creations, Wegner is a generous community leader. Her collaborators describe her as a boundary-pushing visionary whose work is as emotionally raw as it is conceptually rigorous.
Wegner’s artistic taglines include: “Lifting the Veil to Elsewhere” and “Finding Authenticity Through Artifice.” Her artist demo https://youtu.be/JHpG6kmrQbo.
Wegner’s personal assistant and in-house producer kermit@mightybraveproductions.com
Photo Credit Lisa Anita Wegner 2018. Shot at Workman Arts and featuring Ashley Hurlock.
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July 21, 2025 Liberation Through Dreaming
Research & Development into Creative Access
For over a decade, multidisciplinary artist Lisa Anita Wegner has poured immense detail and consistent energy into crafting her immersive universe projects. Her latest creation, Elsewhere (2025), a collaboration with award-winning director Eric Rose, is a touring iteration of her long-evolving work—designed specifically for contemporary public art spaces. But its roots run deep: Lisa has been intensively developing this body of multimedia work since January 2013.
Lisa lives with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a condition that brings severe pain and cognitive challenges. Yet, rather than hinder her creativity, it opened a new artistic path. In her keynote talk Art Saved My Life (2011), she describes how even the smallest daily practices in filmmaking and performance became lifelines—eventually building into a rich and substantial artistic legacy.
Haus of Dada & The Birth of a Universe
Her home studio, Haus of Dada (est. 2011), is a functioning micro-nation—complete with its own flag, currency, and stamps. Designed for accessibility, it’s a space where she can create regardless of her physical condition. Here, the Dada Dream Lab (2012) was born: years of daily short video and performance experiments that seeded what is now the Dada Universe.
Anchored in the aesthetics and ideals of 1920s–30s Weimar Berlin, Lisa coined the phrase “Liberation Through Dreaming” in 2014, marking the symbolic end of her old identity and the emergence of The Dada Family.
Realistic Confabulation: History Meets Fantasy
Through a practice Lisa calls Realistic Confabulation, true family histories and heirlooms are woven with fictional timelines and mythologies. This narrative forms The Fictitious History of the Haus of Dada, featuring three main characters:
- Mama Dada, born 1890 in Austria, is a fiercely anonymous performance artist and burlesque dancer—loosely inspired by Lisa’s real-life aunt Sigrid.
- Papa Dada, born 1910 in Latvia, is a magician and somatic practitioner based on her uncle Kostje. Though a middling artist, his devotion to Mama fuels the household.
- The Ubermarionette, their child, is a shapeshifting mirror to the viewer. Central to the Intangible Adorations series (2018–2022), this faceless figure plays over 200 roles—from mermaid to labourer, from superstar to surgeon.
Portals, Films & Time Travel
Mama Dada created nearly 200 silent black-and-white short films. One of the most notable installations, Triangle: Ascension into Another Golden Age (2014), premiered at Nuit Blanche and produced a Portal series of vivid art films, sensory experiences, and bespoke soundscapes—now featured in Elsewhere’s Time Travel Portal.
The Ubermarionette, reflecting whoever stands before them, traverses dimensions and timelines. Often disappearing due to their shared Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, they remain a symbol of vulnerability, mystery, and fame manufactured by public gaze.
A Universe Built from Absurdity and Truth
At its core, the Dada Universe invites us to dream boldly in dark times. Through absurdity, fictional family lore, and raw personal truth, Lisa Anita Wegner continues her mission: “Making the Mundane Marvelous.” Her ambitious, meticulously crafted projects have garnered robust funding and widespread acclaim.
When Lisa announces she is Lifting the Veil to Elsewhere, curators, collaborators, and audiences alike pay attention—eager to witness what’s next.
“Some artists are lateral thinkers, but Lisa thinks in all directions at once. She creates unique experiences that leave lasting sensory memories… a truly one-of-a-kind artist.”
— Scott White, Writer/Director, The Giant’s Garden
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March 13, 2025 Elsewhere Studio Visit
Hello I’m an filmmaker, performer, artist named Lisa.
I create immersive interconnected film based universes. I offer a meander through them my studio at Haus of Dada.
Come sample Papa’s homemade Kombucha and see Mama’s films, art and family artifacts. This is a chance for you to meet Mama & Papa Dada. You will also meet their love child, the Ubermarionette, who exists outside of regular time.
Invitation is a screening of Mama’s black and white film (1933 Berlin). You’ll hear stories from the friendly Portal Host/ Docent as they showcase the Dada Artifacts. These are pieces owned and made by Sigrid Wegner and Kostje Von Labanowsky 1850-1940, Mama & Papa Dada
Preparation Prequel I’ll invite you down to Papa Dada’s Magic Corner to help acclimate to a higher vibe. Here you can choose from the many options available for Accessibility and Time Travel
Experience Inhale memory evoking scents, tastes, and feel wind and temperature changes. See light and colour. Hear soundscapes and feel deep vibrations. These experiences help pierce the veil and transform the mundane into the marvelous. A rich experience no matter how much you want to, or are capable of participating.
Mama Dada invites you into her Time Travel Studio to sit in her Invisible Throne. Play experiment and interact with the Portal
Guests are shown Light Painting tools by the Portal Host. Mama’s Portal is opened using your humanity, curiosity and focus and the action of Light Painting. You give the Dadas the tools to pierce the veil to Elsewhere.
Exhalation In Lisa’s Front Room Studio: acclimatize to Earth’s resonance again. Give feedback and share new accessibility ideas. Get a photo sent to remind you of that time you pierced the veil to Elsewhere.
Book a studio visit online. https://events.humanitix.com/elsewhere-studio-visit-toronto
Wear comfortable clothing, bring an open heart and mind- you have been chosen for this!
Ask your Portal Host anything!
Tags: accessibility, art, Canadian Art, creativity, drawing, Eric rose, film, haus of dada, immersive, inspiration, lisa anita wegner, matthew waddell, multi-sensory, music, performance artist, studio-visits, technology and culture
March 12, 2025 haus of dada mandate
1 All children are born artists, until the world knocks it out of them. Honour that artist in everyone
1a Find talent and stick to it like glue (borrowed from Christine Vachon, Killer Films)
2 Everyone is the President at haus of dada
2a We are all made of the same hologram, reflections of each other
3 Slow and gentle is the way. No one is ever in trouble. It’s ok to move quickly, but if you’re feeling under pressure try slowing down.
3a There are no stupid questions.
4 Gather often and hold space for heart connection. Honour vulnerability and connect over gratitude
5a Built in the fabric of every project is a robust and ever growing Menu of Accessibility Options. For our Artists and Public Art Audience. This ongoing level of access is the cornerstone of Haus of Dada. We work with community consultants and Wegner’s own Mad Artist Performance Art Salon with Workman Arts. As multi sensory accessibility features are developed, they enrich the experience for more and more guests.
5b We love radical juxtapositions and bringing voices together in a way that disrupts easy logic and established history
6 Principles over product: If our works have financial value it a bonus, but not the end goal. We aim for collaboration and a spirit of generosity and abundance surrounding artistic vision and creation
7 Revolution must be intersectional, we lift up marginalized voices and use storytelling to ignite movement toward liberation
8 Speak the truth (to yourself) all the while freely and ambitiously creating your own Fictitious History.
9 At Haus of Dada’s experimental performances it is impossible to be wrong. If your dancers fall off the stage, it transforms the work into an investigation of the lost art of falling.
10 We will always be amateurs, in the true sense of the word. Art is our nutrition.
11 Permanent Artist in Residence Lisa Anita Wegner was born with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS). A severe yet invisible syndrome affecting the whole body. After a late in life diagnosis, she took a kinder slower approach to her life and art making. When she began to embrace it her creative limitations melted away into something incredible. She now considers EDS as her entry point into pure creativity.
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June 4, 2023 you will find me
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May 15, 2023 Mysterious gifts in the mail
I love a social experiment.
In 2019 Scott White and I created Intangible Adorations: Experience The Icon. Read about it here on Broadway World.
I also created LAW Thought Certificates A CBC comedy blog reposted by story about selling these certificates and some people we angry with me that I made so much money so easily. The more ridiculous I make my experiments, and the more I say they are fictitious, the more people seem to believe me. I sent local artists who inspire me Unlimited LAW Thought Certificates, to think about me gratis as much as they wanted.
An undocumented international pandemic offshoot project was Did you get an ADORATION in the MAIL? Starting in 2020 I sent anonymous artistic packages to thirty artists that inspire me. Hand written letters, collages, small gifts from my practise and red herring messages. I love paper-based mail and I love a good mystery.
At the beginning of pandemic I received a wonderful plug in massager with a cryptic message and no return address. Recently I received a Pink Panther T Shirt and a silver cross necklace. I wear them both and think often of who might have sent them. I also got a year long paper magazine subscription of Toronto Fashion sent to Haus of Dada. I actually really enjoy this for collaging.
I am full of appreciation as all of the gifts are things I would not have bought for myself but am enjoying.
Yours ’till the USA drinks Canada Dry!
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July 25, 2022 Seeking Cotton Candy Administrator
A Resplendent Magician Trips Through the Orthodox Celebration in Robes
An Intergalactic Candy Corn Administrator Activates A Community of Glorious Freedom
A Tenacious Contortionist Touches and Climbs Through The Zealot’s Conviction
Is it you?
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July 13, 2022 Stretching Through Dimensions Like Lions Tied by Spheres
WE are driven to push forwards, innovate, change, contribute to a questioning of old, outworn modes and to bring in new perspectives on the higher levels of consciousness – faze out the systems of separation and work to introduce new, inclusive ways of operating in unity.
As spirit we know that there are no true boundaries between human beings, there is no separation. We all come from the same source, and we have incarnated as any imaginable variation of human being throughout our long existence – we have all been black and white at different times, we have all been women and men – and spirit wants us to remember this. From their perspective war and conflict on earth is due to the illusion of separation – based in the idea of one group of human beings as essentially different from or superior to another. In spirit we are all the same.
Two perfect pieces of the most beautiful creation ever seen – the whole, you together in harmony like up and down, back and front, sky and earth, fire and water.
Stretching through dimensions to each other like lions tied by spheres from star to star. Animalistic yet angel-winged. We come together. Brutal/soft. Hard flying. Comedowns nowhere. We stay up, fly together.
Time means nothing in spirit but I’ve never been the patient type. I am a man/I am a woman/I am spirit/I am time/I am an eternally fading/exploding star. She is herself yet she is me. I am her yet I am myself. We are ancient yet children. Thousands of lives. Always each other.
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July 4, 2021 there you are
your face is there like a fever dream
in the background
like you’ve always been there and all ways will be.
I saw you looking for me
On the other side of tomorrow there is no need to worry
WE will decorate for the holidays
Coffee and candies in the bathtub
artful living
and the feeling of home
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March 29, 2019 Spoonie in The Haus
I haven’t written much lately, mostly because I’ve been in an Ehlers-Danlos Sydrome flare up that is using all my physical emotional and spiritual energy for the basics of living. The spoon theory is that folx with certain illness have a finite amount of spoonfuls of energy in a day. I feel like right now I might have ten spoonfuls in a day. One is used for getting up, three to shower, two to dress and two preparing a beverage. Then I have two left for the day. And that is a hard boundary. There are no reserves at all. Most days that means forfeiting the shower or the fresh clothes so I can type some information or do a few minutes of creative work. Or if I am able to eat solid food, to prepare some cereal or toast. My executive functioning is very low so I can’t execute things with any steps. I get lost in the steps and often get overwhelmed which leads to system panic or overload which includes being unable to stand with incredible nausea. This state of being is so challenging: I am often struggling for breath, my large muscles will start to spasm, my throat seizes up and then I can’t quite remember who I am or what I am doing. I basically sit or lie and wait for friends to come in and help out. Luckily I can still make stuff. Gifs instead of short films, or photos instead of videos.
I started teaching my Performance Art Salon via video conferencing and shooting from the floor. Anything to keep creative work flowing with the very limited amount of bandwidth available. I have been able to leave the house about twice a month with the help of a buddy. I look forward to this changing soon.
This flare up will flare down and I will have more spoons and energy available. I just wanted to say there is a Spoonie at the Haus of Dada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_theory
Lisa is pictured posing with bracing, compression and other items that help in a flare-up.
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September 1, 2016 Canadian Performer Refuses To Show Face
In Toronto Canada, an arrogant performance artist declares themself amazing while refusing to show any facial expression.
When we reached out to the haus of dada for comment we received the following message in German via telegraph from curator Fritz Snitz. “The Ubermarionette only does private performances for close friends, artists and cherished audience members and is not interested in speaking with you peoples.” -Ritzy Fritzy
Artist Would Rather Give Ownership of Her Work to Those Who Inspire, Than Those Who Can Pay.
Performance Artist’s Perceived Gender Affects Audience Reaction
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September 29, 2015 BEING: inside the glacier. Performing GLACIOLOGY with Anandam Dance Theatre
Using the movement of glaciers across landscapes as an entry point, this piece explores states of density, collaboration, collapse, overpopulation, relocation, disruption, environmental tipping points, disappeared people, mass graves, icebergs, and melting ice caps. Glaciology combines site specific performance with human sculpture and choreographic installation to create a surreal, constantly shifting image of bodies as landscape and simultaneously as capsules of history and memory; both human and geological.
http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/project.html?project_id=1568
Choreography: Brandy Leary
Sonic Designer/Composition: James Bunton
Tags: anandam dance theatre, art installation, brandy leary, Canadian Art, canadian artist, christine shaw, glaciology, haus of dada, human glacier, human sculpture, jen goodwin, lisa anita wegner, performance art, public art event, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche
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April 16, 2015 An Open Letter to Lady Gaga: from my haus to yours
Lisa Anita Wegner
Dear Gaga,
My name is Lisa and I am a filmmaker, performance artist, curator, storyteller, light bender and space/time traveller. You inspire me tremendously, and I am writing to express my appreciation for what you have sparked in my work, beginning with Queen of the Parade, my first large-scale performance/fashion/video installation and the work that put me on the map as an artist.
Rise and Fall of The Queen of Jupiter 2016
In 2008, I had hit hard times – I lost my film production company, all my savings, my heart and my mind. I collapsed getting to the Cannes Film Festival in 2008 and spent the next two years largely unable to function. In the Trauma Therapy Department of Women’s College Hospital, I found art therapy. I started a daily art-making practice that saved my life. I had gone offline and expressing myself in art and video was my lifeline, my communication with the outside world.
I remember the exact moment the idea for Queen of the Parade was born: I was walking my dogs and listening to “Marry The Night” after I had been binging on the BBC Series My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding. (I am obsessed with the gloriousness of Gypsy Fashion.)
That night, hearing your lyrics, “I won’t give up on my life/I’m a soldier to my own emptiness/I’m a winner,” affected me profoundly, and set something inside me aflame. In a flash, I pictured myself as an enormous woman in a huge dress with a video screen on the front, with your song resounding in my head. I rushed home and wrote everything down in a crazy, inspired burst. This was the first step toward the 26-foot installation that was part of Toronto’s Nuit Blanche in 2013; during the event itself, I listened to “Marry The Night” on repeat with ear buds while I was twenty feet in the air.
This led to my first commission by Partners in Art, who commissioned a gallery-sized 10-foot Queen. This was a terrific experience that enabled to connect more directly with the audience, and I didn’t want the performance to ever end.
Something was awakened in me and this led to a whole body of work of experimenting on and off the space/ time continuum and speeding up and stretching out moments. I could finally breathe; I felt like I had come alive.
My new performing persona Think(k) Blank Human was born the following Nuit Blanche in Toronto as part of my installation TRIANGLE. I found comfort in her skin, and really came out of myself as a performer.
In 2016, I will be creating The Fall and Rise of The Queen of Jupiter, which feels like the natural progression of my work. This time, I will be kicking off my high heels and putting on Thin(k) Blank Human’s space boots, and I shall rise from a pile of fabric into a 40 foot Alien Queen. Instead of strutting, I will run and dance.
This performance piece will run 33 minutes and I would love permission to use extended versions of “Marry The Night,” “ARTPOP” and “Applause” as the soundtrack for the ascension.
I am approaching Thelma Madine, the Gypsy dressmaker from the series, to design the Queen of Jupiter’s Gown, and I would love to have permission to use those three songs.
This is my story of re-invention, and I feel like this is the first piece I’m presenting that is truly me. I’ve been searching for authenticity through artifice and I finally have landed on something. I feel extremely compelled toward this project. For women who have crashed and burned and for those of us who have gotten up, I feel it is our job to inspire others to get up and stand as tall as we can. You preach this every day, and this is one of the many reasons for my unbridled admiration.
Please let me know your thoughts me using your music for The Fall and Rise of The Queen of Jupiter in 2016.
An ocean of appreciation from my Haus to yours,
Lisa
Mighty Brave + Haus of Dada, Toronto
bosslady@mightybraveproductions.com
p.s. Thin(k) Blank Human did many a cover of Marry the Night, she was so inspired.
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November 13, 2014 (We Could Belong Together: Looking for) Tiny Art and A Tall Thin Man.
Call for Submissions: GALLERY1313 (http://g1313.org)
Lisa Anita Wegner, who has always loved unexpected sizing, is looking for extremely small art of any medium for TINY: a group exhibit which will on display for a month entirely in the Windowbox at 1313 Queen Street West. Please submit a jpeg with dimensions or the existing or proposed pieces.Call for Performance Artists HAUS OF DADA: (www.mightybraveproductions.com)
Looking for a tall (6’2”+) slim male performer to perform with Thin Blank Human. Send us a picture, your height and performing experience.
http://lisaismightybrave.com/2014/10/31/performance-artists-perceived-gender-affects-audience-reaction/
Please contact Matthew or Patrick at hausofdadatoronto@gmail.com with TINY or THIN BLANK HUMAN as the subject line.
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October 31, 2014 Performance Artist’s Perceived Gender Affects Audience Reaction
Since Nuit Blanche on October 4th 2014, artist Lisa Anita Wegner has been performing as Thin Blank Human with her face and body completely covered in a white spandex suit. She talks about the surprising experiences of her audience interactions these last weeks as she talks to Fritz Snitz.
In the weeks leading up to Lisa’s third and last Nuit Blanche installation TRIANGLE: Ascension into Another Golden Age, Lisa discovered bending light with mirror film, a practise she calls Light Painting. Her mind was blown open so wide from this discovery she never recovered. In the days leading up to the event Lisa was not able to decide on an outfit for Mama Dada/ Space Guide. Several days before Nuit Blanche it all came together when Lisa found a white spandex morph suit and she never looked back.The Thin Blank Human came to life.
Q: On the eve of your Performance/ Projection/ Sculpture installation TRIANGLE: Ascension into Another Golden Age you were interviewed by local news and walked once to The Black Cat as The Think Blank Human, with only a headset and GoPro camera her your head. Tell us about that.
A: My outfit really wasn’t coming together, and when I saw the morph suit I felt like I’d found it and I decided to put my original Space Guide outfit on a mannequin and be The Space Guide’s Soul. This also felt right for the light painting that I was excited to do. I decided I was the spirit of Mama Dada who travels through space and time. In the suit I felt comfortable and free, the only thing is I really can’t see. I had an interview with local news and I wore just the suit, the headphones and a GO Pro on my head.
I noticed during that quick interview that people stepped and leaned away from me when I approached and talked to them. And stared ay me with with open mouths. Someone on Dundas Street said “that’s a dude” as I passed. I walked once to The Black Cat from Haus of Dada and got similar reactions. The wind was cold on my body and I had an impulse to put a dress over the white morph suit for my own warmth and comfort. Without testing it in advance I put a Mama Dada dress over my suit and went back out.
I spent the rest of the night in a performing in a white morph suit and a dress and more obviously a woman I got friendly reactions and TRIANGLE: Ascension into Another Golden Age was a a wild success. That night Thin Blank Human was born.
Q: And then you performed a Strip Tease called Nothing To See Here.
A: Yes later in October I performed Nothing To See Here at The Canadian Alternative Arts Collective (of which I am proud to be a new member) and here is where the gender issue started to become interesting. That night I didn’t speak. I gestured to the writing on the back of my Flight Suit and then would do various strip tease dances out of the suit.
At first an older man said ‘You are spectacular, can I ask if you are a man or a woman?” I answered “I am a woman” and he said “really?” and stared at me longer. I said “yes my name is Lisa” and he seemed not to believe me. During this packed event I stripped out of the flight suit many times. A second man came over and said to me “If you don’t stop that, I’m going to punch you in the face.” I was surprised and responded playfully but didn’t stop. Third guy said “I don’t want to see a man strip. Stop it it’s fucking disturbing.” I said out loud “I am a woman.” I overheard another man say “that is not a woman, no woman would dance like that.” I also heard “no woman would wear that.”
Interesting. First of all who cares? These guys care. I was immediately reminded of friend and artist Steven Joseph, who was my MUSE for TRIANGLE, he is a male who is given a hard time on a regular basis by males who get angry with him for looking like a beautiful woman. 
These small examples led me to believe that I want to further experiment with gender and the morph suit. So my female body shape and female voice do not trump the idea that I’m a man. – October 27 2014.
Fritz Snitz is arranging for Lisa to perform NOTHING TO SEE HERE in New York City in 2015 following a series of performances in downtown Toronto. Tonight for Halloween Haus of Dada presents a Screening/ Performance/ Installation FREE SURGERY on All Hallows Eve where Lisa will be performing as The Faceless Dr. Wegner.
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October 13, 2014 Artist Would Rather Give Ownership of Her Work to Those Who Inspire, Than Those Who Can Pay.
Artist Lisa Anita Wegner has had a wave of unexpected financial success when Haus of Dada started offering LAW Thought Certificates for sale. Originally priced at a mere $200 to think about Lisa, when they were announced as available the price shot up to sell at over a thousand times their original value.
An anonymous German collector was thrilled that he holds the first gallery sanctified thought, purchased at $300,000 CDN. He owns the thought of Lisa Anita Wegner in her signature white suit for 2014. “Many others are allowed to think it, but I own it- I paid for it” the collector boasts.“We don’t want Lisa saturating people’s minds, we want them wanting more. So we will stop the sales next week and then “Memories of LAW” ownership certificates can only be viewed be during upcoming March 9th performance at the Museum of Modern Art or next season as a guest performance at the Art Gallery of Ontatrio” says her manager who goes by his street name Wheels.
Unexpectedly the first week of October, Haus of Dada stopped the sale of these thought certificates and Lisa insisted the 3.3 Million CDN be divided amongst local charities.
“All this wealth flashed around felt creepy,” admitted Lisa, who will now be giving these valuable Thought Certificates to people who have directly inspired her. “If these folks want to cash them in, that is up to them. It is a gift.”
Bruce Willis poses with a rare shot of a LAW Thought Certificate. “I’ll never let this piece go.” Declares Willis
So artists, art patrons, curators and media are all waiting to see who is chosen to receive these valuable pieces of paper. “Finances will have nothing to do with it. They go to those who have given me something much more valuable than money. Inspiration and human connection.” says Lisa with a big smile.
October 13, 2014 Fritz Snitz for Haus of Dada
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July 20, 2014 Whole Milk and Cocaine: Making Spectacle of Stardust at The Black Cat
Wanda and I doing makeup test.
Sneak peek at Vanessa Lee Wishart’s glorious rainbow gown for closing party
Tags: androgyny, art, art gallery, art therapy, art video, art videos, david bowie, gender, hair and makeup, haus of dada, intern, life on jupiter, life on mars?, lisa anita wegner, maha rich, medical art, performance art, performance art piece, the black cat, transformation, wanda macrae, ziggy stardust
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May 15, 2014 Life on Jupiter? Me & Ziggy
I tell people all the time that I meditate but so far I’ve laid pretty low about my meditation buddy Ziggy Stardust. It sheds light on my fascination, for those interested in such shedding.
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January 23, 2014 Ultimate Creative Freedom: The Birth of A Dada Nation
I have found such ultimate freedom and creativity in rewriting my history. Having Tobias Funke murder the real me is opening up the universe. My art flows through Mama Dada and I can’t wait to see what kind of child she raises. I now envision a Dada Nation, a place that my family builds where no linear timeline exists and all the rules are broken.
Mama Dada was an old child and every day she is getting younger. Papa Dada is so in love with her.
Tags: creative freedom, dada nation, dadaheim, dadovia, daisy semkiw blackburn, haus of dada, insert me anywhere, lisa anita wegner, Mama Dada, papa dada, tobias funke
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January 13, 2014 the day before + my dada parents = met
in-the-moment story creation is the most fun thing i can imagine. i am totally hooked. i lose myself completely in all parts of the process. with an idea of the direction i’m going based on intuition, images and feelings. i find half in the moment of shooting and half during picture and sound editing. i usually see a couple of steps ahead but those can change based on what i find in the moment. while i tend to have a clear idea of what i am looking for, i surprise myself with sometime finding more authentic, unexpected or wilder than i imagined. like mama dada having two heads on occasion.
i see clearly what i am shooting tomorrow, therefore, i know i’m on the right track. i am actually compelled to start shooting right now fifteen after midnight, but slow is my new fast. enjoy the time to play create and i a learning to take a breath in between.
your ’till the usa drinks canada dry
lisa anita wegner
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January 10, 2014 Papa Dada: Rewriting Haus History Lab Experiment Day 1
I have a vision of creating myself as a whole family. Father, mother, self, sister, brother, child. I saw it as a silent black and white film series telling the fictional history of the Haus of Dada. The beginning is the meeting of Mama and Papa Dada. Mama Dada is an artist and Papa is a romantic fool who does everything Mama’s love. He is in love with the reflection of himself in her.
Slow is the new fast, so I decided to break this down to tiny pieces. Today I found a look and the beginning of Papa. He turned out silly and vain feeling like the bastard child of The Burger King and Dali. I think I’m onto something. Papa’s musical uncle is Klaus Nomi.
With this act, I activate the history of the Haus and so Papa Dada is born. Happy Birthday Papa I look forward to meeting you soon again.
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January 9, 2014 Haus of Dada Laboratory Experiments 2014
- Haus of Dada Happening Series: unadvertised pop-up projections installations
- Sleight of Gesture, interactive digital magic show in collaboration with Vincent John Vincent of GestureTek
- LAW of TRANSFORMATION: research. Video series with live gallery transformation by hair and makeup artist Wanda MacRae.
- You are Mother Nature. A performance art and interactive projection showMoment Factory Me: Dada Dreams Laboratory video series
- Ongoing body of pixel paintings
- Daily video experiments
- Ongoing body of collages with found objects
- Ongoing series of self portraits: moving + still
- Flash Mob concept creation and execution
- My Favourite Mistake: White Tragedy Feature Film
- Welcome to Your Guidance System: Inner.Space
- Neverwet on White: You are The Artist
- A collaboration with Istavan Cantor
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January 3, 2014 They’ve forgiven my mistakes: If you listen carefully, there is music in the silence
I had my first projection happening on New Years Day. It was -19 degrees outside and I had a flu that had knocked me almost senseless. I had set up and tested the equipment the day before when I had my wits about me, so I decided to go ahead with it as planned. And I’m very glad I did.
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December 28, 2013 venus is in the haus
countdown:
6 peanut butter balls left in the whole tin
5 days to the haus of dada happening
4 cookies fit in my mouth at once
3 rear projection screens fitted, cut and edged
2 video playlist curated, created, tested and ready to screen
1 new idea, set-up, experience and the documentation of it
0 things left to do
333
perhaps an ongoing series of happenings?
333
i’m heading outside for a spin around the ‘hood with the canine component
venus is in the haus, of dada
❤
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December 16, 2013 Outside the Haus: New Year’s Day Dada Happening
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May 29, 2011 Selection 2011: No Festival Required
Sunday, June 26, 1 pm (doors open at 12:30pm)
Whiteman Hall, Phoenix Art Museum
1625 North Central Avenue, Phoenix AZ 85004
Free Admission! Ask for movie pass at front desk
Short films by local, national and international filmmakers combine for the annual eclectic selection curated by Steve Weiss, executive director of No Festival Required Independent Cinema.
Note: This is the last screening by No Festival Required Independent Cinema at Phoenix Art Museum. Join us to celebrate, since 2004, truly independent film programming at PAM, and learn about other new opportunities to see No Festival Required presentations!
Mature content. Runtime: 75 minutes
Filmmakers Selection 2011
Bartek Kulas (Poland), Yuri Makino/Cindy Stillwell (Tucson Arizona/Bozeman Montana), Bob Miller (New York), Mathieu Rigot (France),
Lisa Anita Wegner (Toronto CA), Steve Weiss (Phoenix Arizona), Dragana Zarevska (Macedonia)
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Lisa Anita Wegner 