Lisa Torell is working with us
at the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts as a Post Doc Researcher since 1st
of October 2019.
Lisa Torell (1972, Gothenburg) is educated at
Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in
Stockholm and at the Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå University and
holds a PhD from Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art and Creative
Writing / The Norwegian Program for Artistic Research with her
project Potential of the Gap.
The research contributed to several turning points in my art,
approaches were deepened and developed. A number of performative
site-related works were created where increased audience
understanding, spectator positions and different kinds of audience
participation to build an us and a shared responsibility were
emphasized. This performative pluralism that I [we] create in the
art, which is about being seen and to see, in togetherness and in
singularity is what I during the post-doctoral period at the
Academy of Fine Arts at Umeå University will focus further on, says
Lisa Torell.
Lisa Torell's practice explores question related to the public
sphere, human rights and the right to be. She has exhibited widely
in group shows and solo shows, venues that include Marabouparken,
Bonniers konsthall Stockholm, Luleå Biennial, NNKM, Tromsø,
Research Pavilion, Venice and Gallery Depo, Istanbul. She is
in the board of Paletten, has been the chair of Index foundation
and representative in NRKU. Torell has also written for
various publications such as Contemporary Urban
Structures (DK), Oslo Pilot (2015-17) - A Project Investing
the Role of Art in Public Space (NO), Paletten (SE), A-Prior
Magazine (BE). She is the editor of Place to Place, 9 artists
reflection about site-specificity and place related processes.
She's now part of two KORO financed projects: Waterfront Tromsø; a
collaboration between the municipality and Raumlabor and Artplan
Nyhavna in Trondheim with Anne-Gro Erikstad and Katja Assman.
Image on front page:"Installation of" the exhibition
Potential of the Gap at NNKM, Tromso_2018_Filmstill_Nicolas
Horne
