Luisa Muhr

Bio

Luisa Muhr is an interdisciplinary vocalist and art-maker, with a focus on vocal, movement and performance art. Her range includes her capacity as a performer, improviser, installation artist, sound artist, composer, director, and experimental theater maker.

Originally from Vienna (Austria), Luisa lives and works in New York and finds a home in the experimental/avant-garde. Her creations range from interdisciplinary installation performance works, experimental and music theater pieces, improvised music and movement, graphic scores and compositions, to video works, and opera. Luisa is also the creator and curator of the interdisciplinary women/non-binary artists series Between the Arts (FKA Women Between Arts) at The New School (College of Performing Arts), a member of the free improv band PlayField (577 Records), and the vocal-movement ensemble Constellation Chor. 

She has been commissioned to create new works by the Austrian Cultural Forum, as well as Roulette Intermedium, where she premiered her interdisciplinary piece “Babəl” in June 2021, which also received a grant by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

Collaborations include: Daniel Carter, Tania Chen, Kenneth Goldsmith, Shelley Hirsch, Arturo O’Farrill, William Parker, Jenny Romaine, Peter Schumann, Kenny Wollesen, John Zorn, and through Constellation Chor: William Brittelle, Claire Chase, Sarah Hennies, Ashley Fure, and the New York Philharmonic.

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