1 Diana Wesser | * 1970 in Stuttgart, lives in Leipzig / Germany

Diana Wesser | * 1970 in Stuttgart, lives in Leipzig / Germany
Contact Details: Diana Wesser | Simildenstr. 7 | 04277 Leipzig | Germany
Phone: +49 (0)341 3029623 | Mobile: +49 (0)152 29267529 | Email: [email protected]
www.dianawesser.de | www.urbancollaboratory.net
Education
2005
Postgraduate in the master class of Prof. Alba D'Urbano,
Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig (DE)
2001
Master of Fine Arts (Diploma Degree), Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig (DE)
2000
Study visit to Canada, Assistance at the performance centre
“Le Lieu – Centre en art actuel” (Richard Martel), Québec (CA)
1994 – 2001
Studies of Media Arts at the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig (DE)
1974 – 1987
Courses in classical Ballet and Modern Dance
Teaching / Curating
2010
Artistic Director “Movement in Urban Space“
Conference and festival, Tanzarchiv Leipzig (Dance Archive, Leipzig, in June 2010)
2008 / 2009
Artistic Director team “Zwischengruen”, public space festival
Kunstverein Leipzig (art society, Leipzig, in June 2009)
2007 – 2009
Founder and Artistic Director team „Werkstattmacher“,
Program to encourage young performance artists, LOFFT Theatre Leipzig
2006 / 2007
Teaching position, Academy of visual Arts, Leipzig
Co-Curator “A question(ing) of gesture”, Exhibition and Performance-Event,
Opera Leipzig (Leipzig, in Dec. 2006)
2005 / 2006
Assistance of the Artistic Director “Love Your City!”, international theatre festival
“Neues Theater“, Halle/Saale (in June/July 2006)
Prizes / Competitions / Grants
2009
CROP MARKS residency (together with English architect Helen Stratford),
Orchard Park, Cambridge (UK)
Residency at LOFFT theatre Leipzig (DE)
(together with Austrian choreograph Caroline Decker)
2008
Invitation Short Residency Program, Britto Arts Trust, Dhaka / Bangladesh (BD)
Project Grant, Fonds Darstellende Künste and City Council Leipzig
2007
Grant of the Kulturstiftung Sachsen
2004
Nomination for “Kunstfoerderpreis” by Stadtwerke Halle (Saale) and Leipzig
2000
Travel Grant awarded by the Office franco-allemand pour la Jeunesse
for a study visit to Québec (CA)
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Projects
2006 – 2008
Flexible Response, Performance collective, with the dancer Hermann Heisig
and the musicians Chris Weinheimer and Ole Schmidt
Since 2005
urban (col)laboratory, interdisciplinary artist duo with the English architect
And writer Helen Stratford (Cambridge/GB)
Ventejo, creation of a fictive Nation, Performance Project
Selected solo and group shows, festivals (since 2006)
2010
Movement in Urban Space, Dance Archive and Centraltheater Leipzig (DE)
2009
New Media Festival, Britto Arts Trust, Dhaka (BD)
DAS ZIMMER Installation – Visual Music, Mozarteum Salzburg (AT)
Work Exhibition Diana Wesser, Schaubühne Lindenfels, Leipzig (DE)
Festival of Ideas, University of Cambridge (UK)
Nightjar Festival, Art in Public Space Festival, Cambridge (UK)
Crop Marks Art Trail, Orchard Park, Cambridge (UK)
Subvurt Surveillance Festival, The Britons Protection, Manchester (UK)
Metropolis Biennale, Copenhagen (DK)
zwischengruen09, Art in Public Space Festival, Kunstverein Leipzig (DE)
Das Böse ist ein Eichhoernchen, Landgericht, Leipzig (DE)
2008
Festival internacional VideoDanzaBa Mexico 2008, Coatepec, Veracruz (MX)
Metropolis LAB 2008, Kopenhagen (DK)
get lost psychogeography festival, Manchester (UK)
TRIP psychogeography festival, Manchester (UK)
Dokville 2008, Haus des Dokumentarfilms Stuttgart (DE)
Zwischengruen08, Art in Public Space Festival, Kunstverein Leipzig (DE)
2007
Metropolis Biennale, Kopenhagen, Denmark (DK)
Body Navigation Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia (RU)
Videodanza Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires, Argentina (AR)
FIVU.07 International Videodance Festival of Uruguay, Montevideo (UY)
Junge Kunst International, OHO Oberwart, Austria (AT)
Videodance Festival, Athen / Thessaloniki, Greece (GR)
Videorassegna, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rom (IT)
Crossbreeds, WUK Vienna, Austria (AT)
A question(ing) of gesture, Fotohof Salzburg (AT) & Goethe Institut Rom (IT)
MitArbeit–Lebensrhythmen im Wandel, Dance Archive Leipzig (DE)
2006
A question(ing) of gesture, Opera building Leipzig (DE)
Film Festival Kassel (DE)
European Media Art Festival (EMAF), Osnabrück (DE)
1:0. Kunst–Fußball, 18m Galerie für Zahlenwerte, Berlin (DE)
„Geöffnet!“, Public Space Festival, Leipzig (DE)
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Selected performances (since 2003)
2009
urban (col)laboratory: Choreographing Knowledge, lecture performance walk,
together with Helen Stratford, Nightjar Festival & Festival of Ideas, Cambridge (UK)
urban (col)laboratory: Home is, where the piano is (How can you feel at home
in Orchard Park?), interventions in public space, together with Helen Stratford,
CROP MARKS art trail, Cambridge (UK)
TauchGang – a journey below the surface, performative walk at Leipzig’s main station,
“Zwischengruen” public space festival, Kunstverein Leipzig (DE)
urban (col)laboratory: Fissures in the Harbour of Knowledge, lecture performance walk,
together with Helen Stratford, symposium DANCE MAKES SPACE –
SPACE MAKES DANCE, (Tanzplan Essen), Ruhr University Bochum (DE)
Im Namen des Volkes, performative walk, festival „Das Böse ist ein Eichhörnchen“,
Leipzig (DE)
2008
urban (col)laboratory: blind spots (picadilly gardens), lecture performance walk,
together with Helen Stratford, get lost festival, Manchester (UK)
Learning of a Fishtank, performance, LOFFT.Leipzig (DE)
2007
Movements of Lindenau, dance- and video-performance,
with Hermann Heisig, LOFFT Theatre Leipzig & public space (DE)
Movements of Lindenau Walk, performance lecture walk,
Together with the dancer Hermann Heisig and the city planner Roland Beer,
exhibition ‘Rhythmus und Arbeit’, Lindenfels Westflügel/Dance Archive Leipzig (DE)
Lift extended, participatory performance installation, OHO Oberwart (AT)
in collaboration with the media artist Herber Kopitar
2006
Situs Opera, site specific performance, performance collective “flexible response”,
Opera Building Leipzig (DE)
room with(out) a view, site specific performance, performance collective
“flexible response”, LOFFT Leipzig, (DE)
Contact Photo Company Ventejo: Nach Süden! Nach Süden!, performance,
International festival of theatre MANöVER, LOFFT Leipzig (DE)
John Cage: Variations V, multi-media-performance, performance collective
“flexible response”, LOFFT Leipzig (DE)
2005
Ventejo farigos Mondcampiono (Ventejo will be football champion)
performative intervention in public space, Hamburg (DE)
2003
Das Hochzeitsfest (The Wedding Celebration), participatory performance
in public space, Hotel-Neustadt, international festival of theatre, Halle (Saale) (DE)
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Workshops (in public space) & Lectures
2009
urban (col)laboratory: Choreographing Knowledge, Poster presentation,
Symposium Constructing Knowledge, Faculty of Architecture, RWTH Aachen
Nora Roma Interventions, Workshop, Schaubühne Lindenfels, Leipzig
RANDGEBIETE, Work presentation, Theatertreffen OFF 09, weltecho, Chemnitz
Dancing with Buildings, Workshop, LOFFT.Leipzig
Interne Störungen, Workshop, Chemnitz
Unter den Pflastersteinen das Meer, Workshop, Berlin
KünstlerIn im Osten – Was heisst Erfolg und wie geht das? Workshop together with
film maker Gunther Scholz, Symposium ‘Frauen machen Neue Länder’, Leipzig
2008
Performing with buildings, Lecture, Symposium „Mobility Visions“,
Theater der Welt, Halle/Saale
Stadtstreichler, workshop and walk, together with Bertram Weisshaar,
public space event “Zwischengrün”, Leipzig
city.space.body, performance workshop in public space for children
and youngsters, Kreative Kreuzberger, Berlin
2007
Copenhagen Incorporated, performance workshop in public space & lecture,
METROPOLIS Biennale Copenhagen (DK)
Dancing with walls, performance workshop in public space
in collaboration with TeaterKUNST, METROPOLIS Biennale Copenhagen (DK)
2005
Productive disruptions, lecture, symposium “Technologies of Space“,
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
2004
Das Hochzeitsfest (The Wedding Celebration), lecture, University Leipzig
Participation in other projects
2009
Performer for WALL2WALL – the morning after, performance of TheaterKUNST (DK),
Metropolis Biennale Kopenhagen 2009 (DK), kindly supported by the Goethe-Institut
Video for Abstracts of Men, Theatre play of Theater 11. August,
directed by Romy Weyrauch, Theaterhaus Hildesheim & Hannoversche Kammerspiele (DE)
2008
Video for Iphigenie auf Tauris, Theatre play, directed by Alexander Schilling,
Schauspiel Wuppertal (DE)
Performer for escalators Interventionen, Performance of Dani Lima,
Festival Theater of the World, Halle (Saale) (DE)
Performer and video for WALL2WALL 08 Performance of TheaterKUNST (DK),
Metropolis LAB Copenhagen 2008 (DK)
Video for In the Nude, Performance of TheaterKUNST (DK),
Hotel Skt. Petri Copenhagen (DK)
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