LISELLI
FUSION IDENTITIES - THE RECIPE FORMAT
DIGITAL COLLAGE & PARTICIPATORY RECIPE-BOOK (2025)
digital collage, participatory recipe notebook.
34 cm x 51.4 cm (300 dpi)
14.8 x 21 cm..
An artwork that speaks to generational knowledge within hybrid (mixed) identity. Through collective food-making and fusion recipes, the work explores the notion of time through intergenerational food-making practices and asks: which recipe and food processes are being passed on? Which aspects will be remembered and which will be hybridized into new ones?
The work invites people to write up recipes, real or fictional, in the accompanying notebook, to reflect on their local area and its communities.
An artist-book merging the artist's texts with new digital collages based on the contributed recipes is in the making and will be published in june 2025. This artist book is a continuation of the artist's research on colonial and human-centred legacies within mixed identity generational knowledge. The artist book will be made available digitally, and a limited number of copies will be published and sent to the contributors.
The work invites people to write up recipes, real or fictional, in the accompanying notebook, to reflect on their local area and its communities.
An artist-book merging the artist's texts with new digital collages based on the contributed recipes is in the making and will be published in june 2025. This artist book is a continuation of the artist's research on colonial and human-centred legacies within mixed identity generational knowledge. The artist book will be made available digitally, and a limited number of copies will be published and sent to the contributors.
Gentrificacíon, Group Exhibition, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, (2025)
THE RHYZOMATIC TREE(S)
INSTALLATION & SOUNDWORK (2025)
Forsythia bush branches (clippings from hedge trimming), willow branche (fallen branch), cherry branches (clippings from tree trimming), Pine tree stumps (cut from fallen tree), carpets, books from preliminary research, hanging books.
400cm x 400cm x 500cm.
This installation re-created a ‘world’ within which the public was welcome to enter, sit, relax, interact with the space and with each other, read and daydream. The aim was for these interactions and actions to inspire dialogues and reflections on the importance of generational knowledge, time, identity and decoloniality, in relation to how we humans co-relate with the other.
A collaborative workshop with ceramic artist Sara Zamecnik, also took place during the exhibition period (see workshops). This gathering space also hosted a storytelling evening,
during the exhibition period, as another way to convey artistic practices.
RITUALS TALKING DECOLOGY is an ongoing research project that looks at generational knowledge through Decology as a way to question the systemic racist, colonial and anthropocenic paradigms within mixed identity. Through a series of ritual-workshops, the artist questions these paradigms together with a public similar to her own mixed-identity context.
A collaborative workshop with ceramic artist Sara Zamecnik, also took place during the exhibition period (see workshops). This gathering space also hosted a storytelling evening,
during the exhibition period, as another way to convey artistic practices.
RITUALS TALKING DECOLOGY is an ongoing research project that looks at generational knowledge through Decology as a way to question the systemic racist, colonial and anthropocenic paradigms within mixed identity. Through a series of ritual-workshops, the artist questions these paradigms together with a public similar to her own mixed-identity context.
Bli Noe Annet, Group Exhibition, National Academy of Arts, Oslo (2025)
THE RHYZOMATIC TREE(S): SOUNDWORK I
RECOLLECTION I (2025)
RECITATION I in collaboration with
sound artist Vjolla Emiri (2025)
RECOLLECTION I (2025)
RECITATION I in collaboration with
sound artist Vjolla Emiri (2025)
0h 10m 54s.
click here for link to soundwork.
click here for link to soundwork.
The Recollection I artwork is based on the conversations from the artist’s ongoing ritual-workshops. These conversations and soundwork have in turn inspired The Rhyzomatic Third Tree text- the recited text in the collaborative soundwork with sound artist Vjolla Emiri.
The soundwork was played from a directional speaker above three tree-stumps sitting together under a canopy of branches.
RITUALS TALKING DECOLOGY is an ongoing research project that looks at generational knowledge through Decology as a way to question the systemic racist, colonial and anthropocenic paradigms within mixed identity. Through a series of ritual-workshops, the artist questions these paradigms together with a public similar to her own mixed-identity context.
Bli Noe Annet, Group Exhibition, National Academy of Arts, Oslo, NO (2025).
The soundwork was played from a directional speaker above three tree-stumps sitting together under a canopy of branches.
RITUALS TALKING DECOLOGY is an ongoing research project that looks at generational knowledge through Decology as a way to question the systemic racist, colonial and anthropocenic paradigms within mixed identity. Through a series of ritual-workshops, the artist questions these paradigms together with a public similar to her own mixed-identity context.
Bli Noe Annet, Group Exhibition, National Academy of Arts, Oslo, NO (2025).
FOREST LIBRARY & SOUNDWORK
INSTALLATION & SOUNDWORK (2024)
Fallen Forscythia branches & Lilac bush branches,
re-used Pine tree stumps, carpets,
books from preliminary research.
re-used Pine tree stumps, carpets,
books from preliminary research.
An installation and soundwork expressing the intra-connectivity between non-human, human, man-made and natural bodies. An intra-connectivity evoking the reciprocal exchange of knowledge happening within a holistic context.
RITUALS TALKING DECOLOGY is an ongoing research project that looks at generational knowledge through Decology as a way to question the systemic racist, colonial and anthropocenic paradigms in today’s Norwegian society. With the hybrid lens of an immigrant, mixed-race mother and person of colour, living in Norway, I question these paradigms and engage with a public similar to my own hybrid context, through a series of ritual-workshops, developed over the last few years.
RITUALS TALKING DECOLOGY is an ongoing research project that looks at generational knowledge through Decology as a way to question the systemic racist, colonial and anthropocenic paradigms in today’s Norwegian society. With the hybrid lens of an immigrant, mixed-race mother and person of colour, living in Norway, I question these paradigms and engage with a public similar to my own hybrid context, through a series of ritual-workshops, developed over the last few years.
Tree Witches: Collective Rituals joint exhibition with artist Marie Cole & artist-architect Mimmi Koponen, Galleri Seilduken 2, Oslo, NO (2024).
STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
IN BOOKFORM
IN BOOKFORM
INSTALLATION (2024)
Re-used cotton canvas, Reinfann ink, Pine bark ink, Nettle ink, Rødrandkjukke ink, found Plain tree leaves, Beech leaves,
organic orange wool thread, text.
This larger-than-life book installation was also used as a stage for a performance reading during the exhibition opening.
Extract from Text:
‘Forest Library. Periods of transition. Rituals that we’re initiated to from nature that we’re not aware of. Which ones. ‘we all have forests in our minds’. What does your forest look like? And also what’s a forest library. A library of thoughts and memories. A space of intersubjective communication with, and between, humans and more-than-humans. A space where ritual formulas open to other worlds. Il etait une fois. Yekrik! Yekrak! Lemme tell yuh sometin’. That (communication) is ‘primary orality: a relationship of speakers and listeners’. A community. Ritual (noun): a meaningful act, done with awareness, that is repeated cyclically. This from my own (forest) personal dictionary. Ritual (noun): symbolic acts that pass on and represent the values & orders in which a community is based. Paraphrased from philosopher Byung-Chul Han.’
Tree Witches: Collective Rituals joint exhibition with artist Marie Cole & artist-architect Mimmi Koponen, Galleri Seilduken 2, Oslo, NO (october 2024).
THE GUARDIAN OF THE FOREST
INSTALLATION &
COLLABORATIVE BOOK (2023-ongoing)
Fallen Lichen, organic neutral wool thread,
concertina artist book, fallen twigs, light.
An installation inspired by the research of the Guardian of the Forest ongoing project. It aims to collectively challenge the current extractive notions seen in the way certain humans relate to Norwegian forests, through stories.
In answer to an open call, stories relating to the Guardian of the Forest character (seen in various folk stories from various cultures around the world) were published first as a concertina artist book, then as a first volume of short stories. The concertina artist book became part of the installation while the volume of short stories is the first of an ongoing collective story-making workshop project, in collaboration with various publics related to present-day Norwegian forests.
In answer to an open call, stories relating to the Guardian of the Forest character (seen in various folk stories from various cultures around the world) were published first as a concertina artist book, then as a first volume of short stories. The concertina artist book became part of the installation while the volume of short stories is the first of an ongoing collective story-making workshop project, in collaboration with various publics related to present-day Norwegian forests.