Katarina Lanier is a bosnian-american dancer, visual artist, and independent researcher based in Lisbon. She has a background in philosophy, dance, and social sciences. In 2018, she obtained an undergraduate degree in dance from Université Paris 8 and a master’s in visual arts from the Haute École des Arts du Rhin in 2020. In 2022, she completed the PACAP5 program curated by João Fiadeiro, where she presented the first step of Call Me Three Times, a piece exploring the relationship between image-production, desire, dance, and sex-work. The piece was selected as the winner in dance in the Mostra Nacional de Jovem Criadores in 2022.
She is interested in collaborative processes, the possible relationships between image production and body practice, and experimental uses of social codes. She has worked as a performer for artists such as João Fiadeiro, Violaine Lochu, Francisco Ruiz de Infante, Olga Mesa, and Dani Pizamiglio. These days she is assisting and collaborating with choreographers, performers, and videographers, and researching contemporary contexts of erotic production and poetics of desire.
In 2019, she was a part of the Kunstart residency program at the Fondation François Schneider with the collective l’Abreuvoir. She created the collaborative project Quand Tu Marches Tu Cours , a week-long residency of 10 artists sleeping and working in the Temple Saint Étienne in Mulhouse and Les Garces de la Saison Froide, a duo with Daphnée Gharaee researching alpine culture and diaspora methodologies in Gruyère (CH). She was a founding member of the radio collective BaklawaFm.
In 2023, she was chosen as a performer to participate in the NOVe - NOVos Tempos NOVas Dramaturgias in Viseu (PT).
