Franziska Aigner, Katharina Aigner, Robert Müller, Astrid K. Wagner, Mathias Windelberg

Mutter‘s Vielfalt an Masken oder Was zum Teufel gibt‘s denn noch zu opfern. (working title)

a filmproject 

66 years after the german 1944 film The Sacrifice by Veit Harlan and 22 years after Christoph Schlingensief's filmic adaptation Mutter's Maske, a group of young artists will meet during summer 2010 to film the the adaptation of the adaptation. A filmnight on 8th of March 2010 at Filmmuseum Vienna, during which both films were screened inside the frame Deutschland in der Nacht - eine Filmgeschichte, gave impulse for this venture.
The planned Reformulation, which does not relate to one film, but will approach and process both films, original and adaption at once, is an attempt to enter into conversation with strategies of reformulation and adaptation as well as with one's cultural history.

with the support of Impulstaz Vienna through a Turbo residency and funds by the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien
working time 15th July - 15th August 2010

Biographies

Franziska Aigner, born in Salzburg/Austria in 1985, graduated from P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels) in the summer of 2008. Franziska finished her education at P.A.R.T.S. with the duet Throwing Rocks together with her colleague Gabriel Schenker, which is part of the Aerowaves network and touring widely. Together with four former schoolcolleagues (Fabian Barba, Marisa Cabal, Tuur Marinus, Gabriel Schenker) she works within the frame of the collective/the platform Busy Rocks. Apart from her own choreographic work, Franziska is also performing in the works of Alexandra Bachzetsis, Benjamin Vandewalle, Ula Sickle and Thomas Hauert/Thiery de Mey.

Katharina Aigner, born in Salzburg/Austria in 1983, lives and works in Vienna. Katharina studied at the
Stage School of Music, Dance and Drama in Hamburg and at the Theatre Science Institute at the University of Vienna. Since 2007 she is part of the Performance class led by Prof. Carola Dertnig at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien of which she was study assistant in 2009 and 2010. From September 2010, Katharina will continue her studies at the Saint Martin College of Art&Design, London. Excerpts of Katharina's performance and exhibition work 2009-2010: screening (Hotel de France Kino, Berlin); temporealität (fluc, Wien); alle anderen (Secession, Wien); and places we love the best (brut_konzerthaus, Wien); Perfomer for Pavillion, Dorit Margreiter, La Biennale di Venezia; vienna rocks, vien suterov (Funen Art Academy, Dänemark); 3rd Transit, Performance Pool 2 (brut_konzerthaus, Wien); You´re a mess honey (grundsteinsieben, Wien).

Robert Müller, born in Berlin/Germany in 1979, finished his Architecture studies at the Bauhaus- Universität Weimar and the TU Wien in 2007. Since then, Robert is active as an independent architect, awarded honoree of the 2008 Henning Larsens Fond in Kopenhagen and worked as an external lecturer at the TU Wien in 2009. Since 2008, Robert is part of the Performative Art and Sculpture class of Prof. Monica Bonvincini at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien and works as study assistant for the Institute of art and cultural sciences. Next to his studies, Robert writes as an independent author for art publications, amongst others Texte zur Kunst.

Astrid Käthe Wagner, born in Zeulenroda/Germany in 1982, is part of the Performative Art and Sculpture class led by Prof. Monica Bonvincini at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien since 2007. Focus of Astrid Wagner's work - for instance in her research about 'Stadt des Kindes' and its architecture by Anton Schweighofer - are the complex connections between architectural forms, the use of specific materials in the public and the herewith connected multi-layered social and pedagogic programs. With her fine and multifaceted collages, Astrid is questioning the political and identity-political implications of actual, medial visual spaces. (Sören Grammel, Grazer Kunstverein)

Mathias Windelberg, born in 1983 in Stralsund/ Germany studied painting from 2003 to 2005 at the Caspar David Friedrich Institute under Prof. Ulrich Puritz. Since 2006, Mathias is part of the Video and Videoinstallation class led by Prof. Dorit Margreiter at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Next to his own artistic projects, he works as a light designer for artistic and commercial Film and Video productions.