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Lisa Anita Wegner

“I make stuff and sometimes write about it”

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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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