Liz Magic Laser

Liz Magic Laser is a New York-born multimedia artist working in video, performance, sculpture, and installation. Her projects trace the aesthetics and theatricality of power, examining how authority is rehearsed and performed across political, journalistic, spiritual, and medical systems. Her ongoing installation cycle Convulsive States explores hysteria, Jean-Martin Charcot, and the entanglement of performance with the early histories of psychiatry and neurology. The project has been presented in various forms at Pioneer Works, Tate Modern, The Watermill Center, the Denver Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art / Samtidskunst, Denmark, and the Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, where the central film was shot. Her work has also been presented at Centre Pompidou, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Mudam Luxembourg, and Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. Sternberg Press published her monograph Public Relations / Öffentlichkeitsarbeit in 2014, and her writing has appeared in The New York Times. Forthcoming projects will be presented at STUK, Leuven, Playbill, Amsterdam and MACBA, Barcelona, in 2027.