Lisa Puchner
works as artist, curator and film production sound mixer in Vienna and Linz, and sometimes as radio journalist for the Austrian Radio channel Ö1 and science communication podcasts. Studied Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna and Social Design – Arts as Urban Innovation at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Believing in the liberating potential of collective laughter and action, Lisa Puchner is founder of the ‘Golfclub Hernals’, ‘Golfclub Favoriten’ and ‘Golfclub Asphalt Linz’, part of the self-organized Viennese bike workshop ‘Flickerei’, vegetable hairdresser at ‘Salon Schale’ and initiator and curator of the annual ‘die Feldversuche’ art symposia in Vienna.
Lisa Puchner focuses on the work with found structures of spaces, everyday usages and everyday materials, connected with the question of how one human and many humans form space and landscape, interact and stand amidst nature on a daily basis. Combining installation, text, sound, photography, research and playful approaches, her practice often takes a trans-disciplinary turn. There is a lot of potential for irritation in the supposed banalities, ‘forgotten’, disregarded items, preconditions or acts of diverse everyday existences. At core stands the attempt to create a more imaginative approach to everyday lives and thereby also contribute to a more socially and ecologically just urban, rural, common and in-between life.
