Luisa Muhr

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) Muhr 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.

​Muhr is also the creator and curator of New York's former leading interdisciplinary women/non-binary artists series Women Between Arts at The New School (College of Performing Arts) and a member of the free improv band PlayField (577 Records), the audio-visual collective Dilate Ensemble, and the former 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.

​Residencies include: Pioneer Works (Music), Sounds of Freedom via 577 Records in Rome (Italy), Chulitna Lodge in Alaska, Rockefeller Pocantico Center (with Arturo O’Farrill), CounterPulse San Francisco (with Dilate Ensemble), and Judson Church (as part of Constellation Chor).

Noteworthy venues Luisa performed at include: Lincoln Center, The Getty Museum, Pioneer Works, Roulette Intermedium, MoMa PS1, National Sawdust, Rockefeller Center, The Austrian Cultural Forum NY, Jewish Museum, The Kitchen, Queens Museum,  Museum of the Moving Image, The Stone, Park Avenue Armory, Judson Memorial Church, Queenslab, The Albright Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo), Center for Maine Contemporary Arts (Maine), Museum im Schloss Bad Pyrmont (Bad Pyrmont, Germany), Kunstbetrieb and Rhiz (Vienna, Austria), and various others.

In 2024 Luisa will release her solo debut album TEUFLIN/SHE-DEVIL in collaboration with Boomslang Records, as well as perform at Volkstheater/Rote Bar and Porgy & Bess in Vienna, Austria.

​With her band PlayField Luisa is signed on the record label 577 Records, where the band already released 3 live recordings and 2 studio recordings.

​Additionally, Luisa is a certified Deep Listening® Practitioner (by the Center for Deep Listening after Pauline Oliveros).

She taught at The New School, College of Performing Arts and conducted workshops in Vocal Improvisation and Deep Listening at Pioneer Works, as a guest lecturer in Arturo O'Farrill's "Global Jazz Studies" class at UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, and at Portland State University (Art Practice division) in Becca Kauffman's "Participatory Exploration of the Vocal Arts" class.

Her primary focus is the art and exploration of voice, sound, and movement in space, often working with fellow-musicians in an experimental, ritualesque setting, exploring the relationship between sonic and physical movement (what she refers to as "field work").