LIESEL BURISCH
Gorilla Milk, Liesel Burish, 9 min 57 sec film, 2020.
With: Csilla Frank Images: Csilla Frank, Liesel Burisch, Daily Mail/Budapest Zooand.
Featured in the Anthropology of Motherhood: Kinship & Othermothering Film Series at the Harris Theater with the Three Rivers Arts Festival in 2024.
Image Description: Queer Nursing (The Phasing System) title by Liesel Burisch on plain white 92 page book photographed against a black background with a stack of five of the books to the right. Description of this Queer Nursing project is in link above, relating to the Gorilla Milk video/project.
Liesel Burisch (DK/DE) is an artist, writer, and birth activist/worker. Burisch’s interest currently lies in hybrid gatherings around healing and celebration. Influenced by night-life culture and dilemmas, Burisch explores the reconstruction, recontextualization and reinterpretation of rest as a form of collective healing from trauma and austerity.
Burisch is winner of the Prix JCE and a nominee for the CIRCA Prize 2023. Their most recent shows include exhibtions at O-Overgaden, Copenhagen, Art Tower Mito, Japan, Imagine The City, Hamburg and Palais de Tokyo, Paris. They practice as a trauma informed post partum doula world wide specializing on complicated pregnancy, birth and nursing circumstances.