Archive: H13 2012 – Lower Austria Prize for Performance: Lilo Nein
This year the H13 – Lower Austria Prize for Performance will be awarded to the artist Lilo Nein for the performance WAS UNS BEWEGT! [What Moves Us!].
“Lilo Nein’s performances address the big problem of physical communication, in which artistic performance, too, is repeatedly caught up, namely the unavoidable relationship between the body and language.” This is how the artist Elisabeth von Samsonow, as a member of this year’s jury, explained the choice of the winning performance. Other jury members were the artist and curator Ursula Maria Probst and Christiane Krejs and Sissi Makovec (both from the Kunstraum Niederoesterreich).
After previous prize-winners had focused on themes such as gender, ageism and other socio-political areas in their works, this year’s H13 winner has spent years analysing the essence of performance itself, both theoretically and practically. She examines the live act and our understanding of it in various respects. In her work the performance travels through different media; it is text, instruction, document, it is sung, it moves and communicates.
