„I see dance under visual arts aspects and related to a situation rather than under theatrical aspects. Developing a dancepiece the visual work comes from the same source like the dance following the same logic.
Working visually I derive from aspects of perception and dynamics, if you want from physical aspects. Physicality means a direct form of intelligence to me. The perception of the body is always the beginning of a work no matter if I deal with other bodies in space or with my own. In this frame I develop my visual work independently from performances. It gives me an enormous freedom. When creating a niew dancepiece I see myself working in the context of contemporary visual arts history.“

Already in her education Britta Lieberknecht related dance to visual elements and developed this concept further during her professional live. Britta Lieberknecht created drawings/ paintings, sculptures, films, concepts for spaces and installations related to her danceperformances. Especially her drawings, sculptures and films have been shown also separately from the performances. The museum Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl presented the performance KANGA- FUCKIN- ROO in the programme „Grenzgänge 2004“ and showed the installation which was the result of the performance process in an exhibition afterwards. Since 2001 her visual artwork is also independent from her stagework.

STUDIES

1977-79 Equivalent to Bachelor of Arts in Düsseldorf with Beuysdisciple Sigrid Schwarz
continued with autodidactic studies
1980/81 Projects at the Academy of Arts Düsseldorf ( painting and motion) and at the German Film- and TV-Academy Berlin ( film and dance)
1980 Film by Monika Vogel „Red and Blue- Own Speed“ (25 min.) 16 mm about the dancesolo „Spinning Dance“ by Britta Lieberknecht related to the Architecture of Sharoun

EXHIBITIONS

2003 Kanga-Fuckin-Roo
Museum for Sculpture Glaskasten Marl, Program „Grenzgänger“
Installation with videosculpture and colourpigments
2004 Drawings to the dancepiece "Procession" by Nik Haffner/ Thomas Mc Manus, presented at the Brotfabrik Bonn
2005 Drawings to the dancepiece "Baud" v. Rodolpho Leoni, presented at Pact Zollverein, Essen 2006

FILMS

1980 "Gold" Super 8, Perfromance annd Film in Venice, Italy
Camera: Mathias Schwerbrock
1981 Crocodile Boxing Day, Super 8
Camera: Detlef Klepsch
1995 Barbiehypnose, Videofilm, Camera: Gerrit Busmann
Commissioner and performer of " Muybridge-Dances" by Mathias Schwerbrock, 10 min. b/w Videofilm
2001 7 Videofilms/ Installations in Australia's desert landscape, Camera: Britta Lieberknecht
Videosculpture from 8 Barco Monitors with 8 videosequences (70 min.), Camera: Britta Lieberknecht
Teatree Meditation / Rundschwenk Weetootla / Walking the Line / Kangaroos / Running Totem / Jumping Totem / Fußmalerei / Hand Totem
2006 KARIJINI SONG Videofilm, Camera: Britta Lieberknecht, Editing: Britta Lieberknecht/Gerrit Busman

 
Several Films were presented at VIPER Luzern (CH), Festival Charleroi Danse (B) und Video Dansa Barcelona (ESP)

DRAWINGS

2003-09 ca. 200 drawings/ paintings about motion

INSTALLATIONS FOR THE STAGE

1986-89 DINOSAUR
Dance- Slideprojection-Motion-Performance
3 manually moved and soundsteered slideprojectors, fotos by Max Hudson projection and animation related to the scenes on a tryptich of screens
1991 BOMBSVILLE
installation from furniture, household articles and clothing, destroyed and transformed during the performance
1992 GUT HOLZ
installation with 2 chipboards and wooden chair, which is destroyed. Theme: body and square presented in the cultural program of documenta IX
1993/94 KUNSTRASEN
computerized stage decor as sound installation
8x8 m green outdoor doormatts and chipboards. Theme: body and square
1995 MUYBRIDGE-DANCES
Commissioned film MUYBRIDGE- DANCES, theme: body and grid
1995 IRXSPROCKS HORIZON
vectorial geometric system, theme: body and cube
1995 BARBIEHYPNOSIS
set with filmprojection, theme: body and morphing form
1996 PRESS THE TROMBONE PLAYER
installation from lightbulbs by light artist Michael Vorfeld, theme: body in excerpts
2001 KANGA- FUCKIN- ROO
Farbpigmente, flüssige Farbe, Videoskulptur aus 8 Barco Monitoren, Rauminstallation
Thema Körper und Farbe
2003 EARSIGHTED
installation from stools related to the space allowing the audience 4 different viewing perspectives of the performance. Theme: perspective of perception
2006 TREMBLING/ VIBRATO
body and object: wooden table
theme: boundness of the body to the object
2007 FUNKY WALTZ
coloured lspaces, theme: the diffuse space
2008 VIOLINE DANCES
Perfomance in a medieval building
theme: medieval architecture
2009 TOUCH AND TEAR
Concept for tearing cloths and projection of drawings on the body
theme: eros