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.

Birke has had solo exhibitions across Canada and in Germany 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 Film Festival (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 has served on juries for the Canada Council for the Arts, Mirror Mountain Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, International Short Film Week Regensburg, Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival of Expanded Media, PAVED Arts, as well as others. Birke is currently Associate Professor of Digital and Extended Media at the University of Saskatchewan.

Instagram: @birke.lisa

Artist Code: 1051