Gisèle Vienne is a Franco-Austrian artist, choreographer, and theatre and film director. Since her childhood, she was trained in visual arts by her mother, Dorothéa Vienne-Pollak. She studied dance and music, philosophy, and puppeteering. Over the past twenty years, her work, among them the productions Showroomdummies (2001/2009/2013/2020), I Apologize (2004), Kindertotenlieder (2007), Jerk (2008), This Is How You Will Disappear (2010), LAST SPRING: A Prequel (2011), The Ventriloquists Convention (2015) in collaboration with Puppentheater Halle, Crowd (2017), L’Etang (2021), and EXTRA LIFE (2023, invited to Theatertreffen Berlin 2024), has been touring in Europe, Asia, and America. Vienne has frequently exhibited her photographs and installations in museums, among them the Whitney Museum, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; and the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva. She has published two books: JERK/Through Their Tears with Jonathan Capdevielle, Dennis Cooper, and Peter Rehberg in 2011 and 40 PORTRAITS (2003–2008), in collaboration with Dennis Cooper and Pierre Dourthe in 2012. Her work has led to various publications and the original music of her shows to several albums. A new publication - This Causes Consciousness to Fracture - dedicated to the collaborative work of Gisèle Vienne and Estelle Hanania, with a text by Elsa Dorlin and an afterword by Anna Gritz, will be published by Haus am Waldsee together with Spector Books in fall 2024.