Lisl Ponger

Lisl Ponger is a visual artist, working at the interface of art, art history and ethnology. Her works dismantle cultural stereotypes and challenge the power of images about others. In the decades of her work with photography, film and installation, the artist has consistently developed a characteristic "Pongerish perspective" on the world. Her pictorial constructions are invariably also deconstructions of dominant scopic regimes that operate in the interstitial spaces between art, society and politics.
 
Elisabeth Streit (film scholar and head of the library at the Austrian Film Museum) and Dietmar Schwärzler (managing director of sixpackfilm, a film and media agency) have invited scholars, curators, friends and colleagues to examine the entire spectrum of Ponger's artistic and socio-political commitment for the first time. The result is a prolifically illustrated compendium of essays in English and German that explore Ponger's imagery and her visual strategies to counter the iconographies of injustice.

With contributions by Tara Najd Ahmadi, Del Barrett, Elena Baumeister, Petra Belc, Thomas Eduardo, Dominique Gromes, Mariam Hage, Martin Hochleitner, Nina Höchtl, Christoph Huber, Naoko Kaltschmidt, Kurt Kladler, Michael Loebenstein, Ryts Monet, Katrin Mundt, Jean Perret, Gudrun Ratzinger, Thorsten Sadowsky, Dietmar Schwärzler, Julian Sharp, Tim Sharp, Elisabeth Streit, Franz Thalmair, Serpil Turhan, and Tom Waibel

Lisl Ponger: Semiotische Geister/Semiotic Ghosts
Elisabeth Streit, Dietmar Schwärzler (eds.)