Wunschloses Unglück von Peter Handke (1972), Une Femme (1987) und L`événement (2000) von Annie Ernaux, Combats et métamorphoses d`une femme von Édouard Louis (2021) und Man kann Müttern nicht trauen von Andrea Roedig (2022) sind auto/sozio/biografische Texte über die Mütter der Autor:innen. Sie zeichnen die Spuren deren Leben und des gemeinsamen Lebens nach und versuchen zu verstehen, was dieses Leben ausgemacht hat, was es begrenzt hat, was es speziell und was es alltäglich gemacht hat. In Momenten stellen die Autor:innen Verbindungen zu ihren eigenen Lebenswegen her, zu ihrer Verwobenheit in den Un-/Möglichkeiten ihrer Mütter und deren Zeit, die schrittweise auch zu ihrer geworden ist.

In ihrer künstlerisch-wissenschaftlichen Arbeit in Confronting Realities legt Wolfram den Schwerpunkt auf die Rolle der Familie in der Formation und Weitergabe von autosoziobiografischen Narrationen. Über drei Jahre und drei Laboren werden die Themenblöcke Mutter/ Mütter, Vater/ Väter und Geschwister behandelt und deren Relation zu autosoziobiografischen Narrationen erforscht.

Das erste Labor von Wolfram widmet sich der Mutter. Es nimmt die oben genannten literarischen Werke als Ausgangspunkt und Anstoß, um zusammen mit Negin Rezaie, Nasima, Robin Jentys, William Joop, Caspar Thiel und Christina Wintersteiger, die Verbindungs- und Kreuzungslinien von Frauen und ihren Kindern und deren Lebenswegen nachzuzeichnen. In einer genealogischen Perspektive werden Orte, Zeiten, Körper, soziale Klassen und Alter von den Müttern der Teilnehmenden erforscht und durch künstlerische und wissenschaftliche Explorations-, Translations-, Reflexions- und Re-Iterationsmethoden durchleuchtet. Durch die Verbindung von literarischen und filmischen autosoziobiografischen Elementen wird nach einer filmischen autosoziobiografischen Übersetzung und Darstellung dieser Relationen gesucht und diese kritisch reflektiert.

Improvisation LAFA/Mothers by Robin Jentys.

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Wunschloses Unglück by Peter Handke (1972), Une Femme (1987) and L`événement (2000) by Annie Ernaux, Combats et métamorphoses d`une femme by Édouard Louis (2021) and Man kann Müttern nicht trauen by Andrea Roedig (2022) are auto/socio/biographical texts about the authors’ mothers. They trace their lives and their life together and try to understand what made this life, what limited it, what made it special and what made it ordinary. At moments, the authors make connections to their own lives, to their entanglement in their mothers’ im/possibilities and their time, which has gradually become theirs as well.

In her artistic-research work in Confronting Realities, Wolfram focuses on the role of the family in the formation and transmission of autosociobiographical narratives. Over three years and three laboratories, the thematic blocks of mother/mothers, father/fathers and siblings are addressed and their relation to autosociobiographical narratives explored.

Wolfram’s first laboratory is devoted to the mother. It takes the above-mentioned literary works as a starting point and impetus to trace, together with Negin Rezaie, Nasima, Robin Jentys, William Joop, Caspar Thiel and Christina Wintersteiger, the lines of connection and intersection between women and their children and their lives. In a genealogical perspective, places, times, bodies, social classes and ages of the mothers of the participants are explored and illuminated through different artistic and scientific methods of exploration, translation, reflection and reiteration. By combining literary and filmic autosociobiographical elements, a filmic autosociobiographical translation and representation of these relations will be worked out and critically reflected.

Artist-Researchers

Negin Rezaie

Negin Rezaie is a visual and performing artist, curator, artist/researcher and activist. After she was forced to flee from Iran to Austria in 2015, Negin Rezaie has worked on a variety of artistic, museum and musical projects. In the meantime, she also realises her own projects – in various constellations. Since 2021, Rezaie has been a student of the Performance Class at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Nasima

Nasima comes from Afghanistan, where she completed a bachelor’s degree in economicsbefore fleeing to Austria in 2015. During her training as a nurse, Nasima participated in several art and theatre projects. She has been writing poetry for Afghan Women Writers and Afghan Voices for years.

Robin Jentys

Robin Jentys was born in Vienna and initially studied theatre, film and media studies as well as Romance languages and literature at the University of Vienna and acted at the Vienna Burgtheater before beginning his acting studies at the Babelsberg Film University “Konrad Wolf” in Potsdam in 2014. His first positions were at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden, the Volkstheater Wien, the Berliner Ensemble and the Hans Otto Theater Potsdam. In the 2018/19 season he was permanently engaged at Theater Trier. In the same season, he was invited to the 56th Berlin Theatertreffen with the production DAS GROSSE HEFT (directed by Ulrich Rasche). Since then he has worked as a freelance actor for film and theatre. Jentys lives in Berlin and Vienna.

William Joop

Since leaving his native island of New Caledonia in 2010, William Joop has been commuting between his native France and the city that his heart has made his home: Vienna. After a bachelor’s degree in theatre studies in Paris, he is now studying stage design at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and thinking about the theatre of the future. His Aquarius Sun makes him quite idealistic, and he wants to fight for what is “right”, even if that is a rather suggestive term…

Caspar Thiel

Caspar Thiel was born in Peru in 1988 and grew up between Paris and Vienna. After studying theatre, film and media studies in Vienna, his first cinematic steps and freelance work as a lighting technician and camera assistant followed. The subsequent Master’s degree in International Development and various stays abroad in Brussels and Madrid sharpened the socio-political commitment and led to various transdisciplinary works with a focus on image design and dramaturgical accompaniment. Caspar is currently working as an assistant director on various international film projects.