Bio

Lisa Graves has a diverse background in video production and digital media. She completed her undergraduate degree in film studies from the univesrity of Manitoba and her graduate degree in Media studies from Concordia University. For her graduate thesis, she produces a video installation dealing with the impact of airport space on lesbian travelers. She has worked on numerous video productions with dancers, choregraphers and video artists in Winnipeg and Montreal since 1990.

Works

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  • 1996
  • Deborah VanSlet

Outside a school in the dust, in a windy vacant lot, in a muddy lake: these spaces influenced an energetic choreography created for the camera. The camera itself is incorporated and...

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Pixel Pose

  • 1996
  • Lisa Graves

Pixel Pose depicts a lesbian’s life in three stages: the single lesbian, the lesbian couple and lesbian family. This movement based video uses queer text and carnal poses to explore issues of lesbian intimacy and representation.

Pixel Pose

Unfolding Posture

  • 1993
  • Lisa Graves

This collaborative video project explores the ontological landscape of the feminine body by integrating video, black and white still photography, choreography, audio and a poetic narrative. It reveals the process of the feminine body by examining how the body is represented in space. By working in an altered context (underwater), a nonlinear space is created, a space without definitions, where the distinct personality of the female body can move freely.

Unfolding Posture