Liesa Lietzke

Liesa Lietzke earned her MFA in sculpture at California College of the Arts in 2009. In her sculptural practice, she creates troubled fetishes that invade the installation space as bulbous, many-limbed and multi-textured forms, complicating bodily perceptions and flirting with appeal and aversion. As a performer, she creates sculptural costumes and inhabits them in offstage settings. The performances play in the space between preciousness and disturbance; they also struggle with a longing for union and a greiving of irrevocable divisions.Her current areas of research include the object/body relationship proposed by sculpture and its impact on the proprioceptive sense of the viewer, worn/performed sculpture, and prosthetics and phantom limbs sensations. www.liesalietzke.com or liesamook@yahoo.com.