Projects

OUTCAST REGISTRATION serves as an archive of all research projects by Ulrike Möntmann and documents their results.

Since 1998 Ulrike Möntmann has been realising multi-year projects with partners from art, science and politics in cooperation with drug addicts in European prisons, therapy facilities and reception centres. In interdisciplinary artistic research and practice, complex issues are discussed that arise from the cooperation of all participants. The aim of the investigations is to uncover facts and to identify concrete connections from different perspectives. This is not about confirming the asymmetrical relationships with the women affected which certainly exist or about discussing the measures of the organs of executive power; the aim is to uncover the conditions in societal systems that are unthinkingly taken for granted and accepted.

OUTCAST REGISTRATION is a form of intervention that requires reflection and commentary to reveal the conditions that are structurally entrenched in social processes and make them perceptible as public affairs.

The following overview offers more detailed information on all projects devised and conducted by Ulrike Möntmann thus far.

  1. PARRHESIA: THE RISKY ACTIVITY OF SPEAKING UP AND SPEAKING OUT

    continues the investigation carried out in TBDWBAJ. Individual implementations of the project are to take place in prisons in northern and southern Europe in 2021-2027.

  2. European Outcast Choir at MAK Vienna

  3. THIS BABY DOLL WILL BE A JUNKIE

    consists of eighteen biographies of female drug addicts from five western European countries and it forms the basis of OUTCAST REGISTRATION.

  4. Happy Together

    Happy Together is a sequence of full-color posters, depicting a person standing next to a flower box in different public spaces in Amsterdam.

  5. JUGEND WOHN ZIMMER

    A participatory art project in the juvenile wing of a women’s prison in Vechta, Germany, combined storytelling, collaborative design, and tailored furnishings to transform the living space and engage detainees' creativity.

  6. PRISON CLOTHES COLLECTION (PCC) PHASES 1,2,3

    The project consists of several phases inside and outside a prison, the Justizvollzugsanstalt für Frauen Vechta (women's prison Vechta, Germany) to be conducted in collaboration with present or former detainees who are (or were) drug addicts

  7. Lücke

    As most inmates will tell you, I too ended up in prison by accident; namely, in the Justizvollzugsanstalt für Frauen, in Vechta, Germany.

Timeline

  1. Outcast Registration at LisbonAddictions 2024

    Screen-based exhibition based on 20 years of arts-based research done with drug addicted women in European prrisons

  2. Parrhesia at W139 in Amsterdam

    Presentation of the most recent project implementations by Parrhesia in Austria (2022) and Norway (2023).