Edition Zyphius presents a new book, Semiotische Geister / Semiotic Ghosts, about visual artist Lisl Ponger, who has worked for decades at the interface of art, art history and ethnology using photography, film, installation and text. Her works dismantle cultural stereotypes and racism, challenging the power of images about others and the construction of the gaze.
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 an illustrated compendium of essays in English and German that explore Ponger’s imagery and her visual strategies to counter the iconographies of injustice.
It features 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.)
Edition Zyphius
Mandelbaum Verlag, Vienna 2025
288 pages with 96 illustrations
In German and English
ISBN: 978399136-109-1
€ 30
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