Liza Rinkema Rapuš (she/they)
is an artist and cultural organizer,.

In their artistic work they engage with the continuum of corporeality and literacy, musing on the various intelligences and histories of non~human bodies and engaging in speculative somatic practices that re-write embodied scripts of division and capitalization.
Their work includes sitespecific sonic storytelling, speculative essays, as well as workshops blending somatics, critical thinking and fictional writing.

They are a part of the makerscommunity at Buitenplaats Brienenoord, situated on the Brienenoord Island on the Maas river in Rotterdam.  At Zone2Source, testing ground for art & ecology, they develop public programme for co-creative artistic research in the Amstelpark. Up until recently they were part of the advisory board of APRIA, ArtEZ Platform for Research Interventions in the Arts, and Field of Study, a residency and publication project aiming to facilitate infrastructures for anti-extractivist, collective and embodied study within the arts.  

Liza graduated from the Dutch Art Institute with an MFA in Art & Critical Theory, as well as from Utrecht University with a BA in theatre and dance studies.





photo by dandelion eghosa