Adriana Disman

Adriana Disman (1989) is a performance art maker, thinker, and writer. She is Czech-Iraqi, born in Canada, and currently living in Berlin. Since 2010, her solo work has been presented in numerous festivals and galleries across Canada, the United States, Europe, and India. Disman's practice searches for minor modes of resistance as she seeks liberation – an interdependent and as yet un-imagined state – through refusing to adhere to the logics of power. Often engaging with self-wounding, her work is minimal, poetic, and intense. Having completed her PhD on the pathologisation of self-wounding in performance art from Queen Mary University of London in Jan 2023, she is now writing a novel. Tentatively entitled "Comfort", the book examines housing precarity in Berlin through obsession, faith, and social justice rhetoric to ask what stops us from living together, differently? Her present performance work reflects the same topic, as the writing and performing feed into each other. She investigates these topics during her residency at the MeetFactory, as well as possibly tracing her Czech-Jewish ancestors for a future project.