Category Archives: Lise Patt

Lise Patt is a visual researcher, educator, and founder of the Institute of Cultural Inquiry. For over 25 years, she has treated collaboration as her primary ‘art medium,’ utilizing its principles and practices in the development of two non-profits and in ongoing projects such as Traumbagger, The Manual of Lost Ideas and the AIDS Chronicles, all of which explore entrenched technologies that operate in the gaps between visual and written sign systems. She has written and lectured on museum projects that push at the edges of traditional display paradigms including the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles and Guillermo Gomez-Peña’s multi-sited ‘museum interventions. With collaborators, through travels and without photographs, she is currently building a post-Barthesian and post-Peircian theory of photography that begins with dust and includes (but does not end with) film.

Projects:

Fingerübungen
Forget Foucault
AIDS Chronicles
AIDS Bottle Project
Traumbagger

ICI Publications:

2007 Searching for Sebald
2001 Benjamin’s Blind Spot & The Manual of Lost Ideas
1997 Bataille’s Eye & ICI Field Notes 4

Field Projects:

1993 Wunderkammern: Salzburg, Wien, Guggingen, Praha, Dresden, Berlin, Bochum, Köln
1999 Museums of Remembering: Berlin, Krakow, Ausschwitz, Praha, Venezia
2004 Searching for Sebald: London, Oxford, Lowestoft, Southwold, Dunwich
2012 Barthesisan Musings: London, Gränna, Sweden