Luisa Muhr is a multi-lingual, multi- and
interdisciplinary performer, improvisor, director, installation artist,
sound artist, and theater maker, originally from Vienna (Austria), lives
and works in New York, and is at home in the experimental/avant-garde.
As a performer she specializes in performance, vocal, movement,
installation, sound, and theater arts. Luisa is also the creator and
curator of New York’s leading interdisciplinary womxn/non-binary artists
series Women Between Arts at The New School (CoPA) and a member of the
vocal-movement ensemble Constellation Chor, the free improv band
PlayField (577 Records) the audio-visual band Dilate Ensemble, and the
online NowNet Arts Lab Ensemble. Her creations have been ranging from
interdisciplinary installation performance works, experimental and music
theater pieces, improvised music and movement, graphic scores and
compositions, to video works, writings, and opera. Luisa was a Music
Artist in Residence at Pioneer Works, with Arturo O’Farrill at the
Rockefeller Pocantico Center (both in 2019) and has been commissioned by
the Austrian Cultural Forum (2018 and 2020) and Roulette Intermedium
(2021). She has collaborated with artists such as Iva Bittová, Daniel
Carter, Kenneth Goldsmith, Shelley Hirsch, Frank London, Arturo
O’Farrill, Jenny Romaine, Peter Schumann, Sarah Weaver, John Zorn, and
through Constellation Chor with William Brittelle, Claire Chase, Sarah Hennies, Ashley
Fure, and the New York Philharmonic.
Luisa is a certified Deep Listening practitioner (after Pauline Oliveros, by the Center for Deep Listening).
Her interdisciplinary piece Babəl is premiering at Roulette Intermedium in New York on June 24.
