Li Lorian
(Jerusalem)

Li Lorian is an interdisciplinary artist and performer from Jerusalem. Her artistic process consists of a research of visual language and new performance practices; she is interested in political situations and how documentary elements can be processed into poetic means. She is co-founder of Pandora Collective (2010-2019) for independent contemporary theater. She was an artist-in-residence in Mamuta Art and Media Center in Jerusalem (2012), a grant-holder of Theaterformen Festival in Braunschweig (2014), artist-in-residence in Schloss Bröllin International Art Research Location (2015), Arad Art and Architecture Residency Program (2015) and Akademie Schloss Solitude (2016, 2017), there she developed the lecture-performance „Exodus“, selected for the Berliner Festspiele – Theatertreffen Stückemarkt (2018). She is a graduate of the School of Visual Theatre in Jerusalem (2011) and is currently an MA student in the CuP program at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen (2020), supported by a scholarship from the DAAD. www.lilorian.com