ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Luisa Pisetta Ravanelli is a performance artist working with dance, sound, and text. These media are often reworked through video, graphics, and sound post-production.
Current research focuses on inclusive and alternative mechanisms of knowledge exchange, exploring how multiple narratives can coexist without being reduced to a single linear framework. For Luisa, dance enunciates what cannot yet be uttered, even prior to recognition, as the body knows before it can state. Dance is also an urgent bodily orientation toward pleasure, understood as a tool for social encounter. Movement becomes an excuse to gather and to activate forms of connection in which embodied sensitivity enables dialogue across difference. Luisa’s research asks how pleasure might be mobilized within human rights discourses.
What drives the artist's practice is an obsession with understanding how to connect social spheres that often clash. In this, autobiographical archives play a significant role, weaving intimate obsessions into the fabric of politically dense discourses.
BIO
Luisa Pisetta Ravanelli is an artist working across performance, artistic research, pedagogy, and cultural production.
Collaborations as artist include TanzQuartier Wien, Brunnenpassage, Bears in the Park (Vienna, AUSTRIA), BASIS Vinschgau Venosta (Silandro, ITALY), Klangraum Krems Minoritenkirche (AUTRIA), and LAKE Studios (Berlin, GERMANY).
Recent research includes participation in the FWF-funded project 'Choreo-Ethical Assemblages – Narrations of Bare Bodies' (2025, led by Mariella Greil) and 'Towards the Realm of Materiality: Designing Philip K. Dick’s Non-Existing Devices Through Transmedia Processes', published by NERO Editions (Rome).
Practice extends to teaching and curatorial contexts, including work as a teaching assistant at the Angewandte Performance Lab (University of Applied Arts Vienna) and as a program curator for the Premio Vienna residency, in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Italian Cultural Institute in Vienna. Additional experience includes radio direction assistance and sound post-production at NEUradio(Bologna).
Luisa Pisetta Ravanelli holds a Master’s degree in Applied Human Rights from the University of Applied Arts Vienna (with distinction) and a trilingual Bachelor’s degree in Design and Art from the Free University of Bolzano/Bozen. Further training in performance and dance includes the DanceWEB scholarship program at ImPulsTanz (2024, mentored by Isabel Lewis) and the Schule@Im_flieger (2026, mentored by Laura Villar).
Currently active as a performer, outside eye, and freelance artist, work spans collaborative projects and performance workshops.
Alongside performance and research, the practice extends into drumming and drag performance under the name Luis Pira.