LISA TRUTTMANN
“If we
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people up,
we’d find
Landscapes.”
- Agnès Varda
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BIO.
Lisa Truttmann is an artist and filmmaker based in Vienna, Austria. In her practice she ties documentary elements into staged settings and rhythmic compositions, tracing the structures of social, architectural and ecological landscapes. She studied media arts in Vienna and received a M.F.A. in Film/Video at California Institute of the Arts, where she developed her feature film debut "Tarpaulins" (2017). Lisa’s moving images and installations have been shown in exhibitions and film festivals such as CPH:DOX Copenhagen, New York Film Festival, Images Festival Toronto, Viennale, Kunsthalle Vienna, Kunstsammlung NRW, among others. Teaching activities since 2017, grants and awards since 2005.
Lisa Truttmann is an artist and filmmaker based in Vienna, Austria. In her practice she ties documentary elements into staged settings and rhythmic compositions, tracing the structures of social, architectural and ecological landscapes. She studied media arts in Vienna and received a M.F.A. in Film/Video at California Institute of the Arts, where she developed her feature film debut "Tarpaulins" (2017). Lisa’s moving images and installations have been shown in exhibitions and film festivals such as CPH:DOX Copenhagen, New York Film Festival, Images Festival Toronto, Viennale, Kunsthalle Vienna, Kunstsammlung NRW, among others. Teaching activities since 2017, grants and awards since 2005.
Photos: © Lisa Truttman
Critters Chorus, Cycle 1 (2022)
2-channel video installation, 13:30 min.
Whirring and flashing in the night sky. Wild foliage on a moist forest floor, rapidly passing by. Nervous encounters at a redwood tree, gurgling chatter with turkeys at dusk. Casually coiffed horses, unpredictable flying objects and flapping rotors. Speckled skin scrabbles, covered in lush ferns. Swirling fog, dripping haze, old men’s beard, light – diffracted. Sassy badgers, strings and figures.
"Critters Chorus, Cycle 1" is the first part of an ongoing project, developed while delving into unfamiliar habitats. Lead by questioning the so-called “species problem”, Truttmann investigates the (im)possibilities of taxonomic categorization of living organisms from an artistic point of view. This way she creates a fictional ecosystem of rhythmic montage and unruly composition, in which the species raise their voices against imposed classification.
Shot at Maajaam Project Space, Estonia, 2019 and Djerassi Resident Artists Program, California, 2022, exhibited at Mz* Baltazar's Laboratory.
Photos: © Lisa Truttman
Memorabilien (2021)
Cinema projection and photo exhibition
In 2019 Lisa Truttman’s apartment and studio were destroyed entirely in Mjor fire. In her work “Memorabilien” she takes up this decisive life event in order to reflect upon the meaning of personal things and their value as possible art objects.
Truttman recued fragmentary objects, archived and staged them as photographic and cinematic still lifex. In a playful and essayistic manner, Truttman shares her work and thought processes, spanning a web in which the relationship between subject and object is continuosly re-woven. During this process of medial abstraction, the memorabilia undergo a spatial transformation as well: Moving images soon detach themselves from the projection screen, the cinema space opens up, the stage becomes a temporary photo and film studio and finally transforms into a walk-in exhibition space.
Developed and presented at Le Studio Film und Bühne.
Photos: © Lisa Truttman
Tracks I-III (2021)
3-channel video installation, 19:57 min
At the beginning of film history, fast-moving landscapes haunted early cinemas as “Phantom Rides”. Back then, cameras mounted on trains visually conquered supposedly untouched areas at top speed, now mobile radio signals control our technological gaze and access rural areas. Tracks I-III searches for traces, following the former section of the “Ischlerbahn” between the towns Mondsee and Srobl. On a digital phantom ride of the present, we cross the landscape, associate connections, looking forward in fragments and backwards in time. We ask how invisible signals travel, how they manifest themselves in moving images, and why we are now looking at cell phones instead of the screen in a cinema.
“Tracks I-III” is parte of the collective project “Techno Scapes”, using visitors’ mobile devices as cinema screens. It was developed by members of The Golden Pixel Cooperative for the Supergau Festival, and installed in the area around Lueg, a former train station of the “Ischlerbahn”.