Lisa Birke's work is a result of the collision of video, performance art, and installation. The thin line between theatrics and documentation is blurred, exposing an indeterminate subject and an even shakier subjectivity.
Lisa Birke has had solo exhibitions across Canada and her award-winning short films have been screened at more than 100 film/video festivals and media centres internationally, including: Time is Love, International Video Art Program, CCA (Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland), Vancouver International Film Festival (Canada), CAFKA (Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area, Canada), Tom Thomson Art Gallery (Canada), Remai Modern (Saskatoon, Canada), Athens International Film + Video Festival (USA), New Museum of Networked Art (Cologne, Germany and touring), Slamdance (Park City, USA), Florida Film Festival (USA), Arizona International Film Festival (Tucson, USA), Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media (Stuttgart, Germany) along with many others. Most recently, the short film "Dawn of Melancholy: A Birthday Soliloquy" was awarded a “Jury Award for Creative Achievement” at the Arizona International Film Festival (USA) in 2024 and the year before "Signs of Our Times" was awarded "Best Experimental" at the same festival. A survey program of Birke’s short film work and installation was presented at the International Short Film Week Regensburg (Germany, 2018). Birke is currently Associate Professor of Digital and Extended Media at the University of Saskatchewan where she is also the principal investigator for a augmented reality development project called shARed spaces.
Audience Award
The Big Bloom Drop (Death by Selfie)
Pebbles Underground Film and Video Art Festival
Online
2025
Finalist
The Big Bloom Drop (Death by Selfie)
Festival Fotogenia
Mexico City
2025
Finalist
Dawn of Melancholy: A Birthday Soliloquy
Bideodromo International Experimental Film and Video Festival
Bilbao
2024
Finalist
Dawn of Melancholy: A Birthday Soliloquy
International MetaKansk Video Festival
Gallipoli
2024
Jury Award: Creative Achievement
Dawn of Melancholy: A Birthday Soliloquy
Arizona International Film Festival
Tucson
2024
Best Experimental Short
Signs of our Times
Arizona International Film Festival
Tucson
2023
Official Selection
Signs of our Times
Moving-Image-Arts International Short Film Festival
Toronto
2023
Exhibition
Signs of our Times
PAVED Arts
Saskatoon
2023
Official Selection
Signs of our Times
The Magikal Charm Experimental Video & Film Fest
New York
2022
Official Selection
Signs of our Times
Tortona IndieFilm Session
Tortona
2022
Finalist (3rd place finish overall)
The Land of Milk and Honey
Bideodromo
Bilbao
2021
Official Selection
The Land of Milk and Honey
FIVARS (Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories)
Mississauga
2021
Best 360
The Land of Milk and Honey
Geelong Underground Film Festival
Geelong
2020
Curated Exhibition at Art Museum
The Land of Milk and Honey
borderLINE: Contemporary Art Biennial, Remai Modern
Saskatoon
2020
Nominated: Best Director
The Knits
Mirror Mountain Film Festival
Ottawa
2017
Jury Award
Calendar Girls
ForadCamp
Barcelona, Spain
2015
Jury Award: Creative Achievement
Calendar Girls
Arizona International Film Festival
Tucson, Arizona, USA
2015
College
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
Studio Art (BFA)
19941999
College
University of Waterloo
Studio Art with distinction (MFA)
20112013
Birth Date
July 16, 1976
Birth City
Prien am Chiemsee, Germany
Current City
Saskatoon, Canada
Gender
Female
Ethnicity
Caucasian
Married To
Michael Fleig
Lisa Birke's work is a result of the collision of video, performance art, and installation. The thin line between theatrics and documentation is blurred, exposing an indeterminate subject and an even shakier subjectivity.
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