Lisa E. Harris

Lisa E. Harris, Li, is an independent and interdisciplinary artist, creative soprano, performer, composer, improvisor, filmmaker, writer, singer/songwriter researcher and educator from Houston Texas. She received a 2022 Gugghenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts and is also the 2021 recipient of the Dorothea Tanning Award in Music/Sound from the Foundation for Contemporary Art.  

 Li's work focuses on the energetic relationships between body, land, spirit and place. She uses voice, theremin, electronics, movement, improvisation, meditation and new media to explore healing in performance and living. Li is trained as a classical voice/opera singer and performs across a wide range of genres and mediums. She is a certified facilitator of DEEP LISTENING®, the sonic philosophies of composer Pauline Oliveros.

Li is the founder and creative director of Studio Enertia, an arts collective and production company in Houston Texas. She wrote, directed and produced Cry of the Third Eye: a new opera film in Three Acts, a decade long meditation on legacy, loss, and gentrification in Third Ward Houston. With Studio Enertia, Li created and curated Houston’s inaugural Free Time Flow Festival at MacGregor Park, celebrating the intersections of basketball, electro-acoustic music and improvisational performance. Studio Enertia produced and instating Pauline Oliveros Day at Discovery Green Houston, curated by Li.

Li is a performance, concert, recording solo artist and collaborator. Her albums include Life and That(Studio Enertia 2021) The Last Resort Original Soundtrack(Studio Enertia 2019), Cry of the Third Eye Original Soundtrack (Studio Enertia 2017), and EarthSeed, her co-composition with composer/flautist Nicole M. Mitchell (FPE Records 2020). Her current solo exhibition UNLIT: SOF LANDIN is on view at Ballroom Marfa until September 16,2023.

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