Speaker: Lise Autogena

Lise Autogena
Danish artist Lise Autogena creates ambitious works that often incorporate landscapes and their communities. In Black Shoals (2015), Lise and her partner Joshua Portway turned stock market data into an ever-changing starscape, ‘Black Shoals’. The work was installed at the Tate Modern. Foghorn Requiem mobilised a seafaring community and local brass bands to create a heartbreaking one-time-only performance that culminated in the final blast of the horn at Souter Lighthouse. Lise says: “From the outset, I am often not sure whether it will be possible to realise my rather Utopian projects. I nevertheless commit years of research and development. Risk is an important part of my work.”