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Lisa Newman

Lisa Newman is a writer, artist, curator and maker-of-connections living in the West of Ireland. She received an MA in performance and cultural location in contemporary Europe from Dartington College of Art in Devon, UK in 2007 and a Ph.D. in drama/art history and visual studies at the University of Manchester in 2014. Newman has performed in numerous festivals, residencies, and conferences throughout North America and Europe since 1995 and was co-director of 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts from 2000–19. In her research, she addresses the intersections of capitalism and performance art, and the effects of commercial exploitation of the performing body and radical actions within the contemporary art market.