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

  2. TBDWBAJ: THIS BABY DOLL WILL BE A JUNKIE

  3. Food Sluice

  4. Happy Together

  5. JUGEND WOHN ZIMMER

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

  7. Lücke

Timeline

  1. Creation of short film "Parrhesia in Schwarzau"

    A documentary short, detailing aspects of project participant Esma Bronkovič life, presented in 2 raps she recorded.

  2. development of digital MOVEMENT MAPPING tool

    MOVEMENT MAPPING: ASCRIBING VISIBILITY; A interactive, digital map, representing each individual biographers geographical history.

  3. PROJECT CONTINUATION IN KLAGENFURT PRISON (AT)

    Meeting with a participant Parrhesia Edition:PT; 14 May 2025

  4. PROJECT CONTINUATION IN SANTA CRUZ DO BISPO PRISON (PT)

    Extended project implementation with participants Parrhesia Edition:PT; 5 May 2025

  5. Accomplices' meeting : On restrictive spaces (PT)

    Ulrike Möntmann in conversation with architect Alvaro Siza, regarding the meaning and impact of spaces on human beings. ; 5 May 2025, Porto PT

  6. Outcast Registration at LisbonAddictions 2024

    Exhibition (screen-based) showcasing the results of art-based research involving women with drug dependencies in Europe

  7. PARRHESIA at Santa Cruz do Bispo Womens Prison (PT)

    Fourth edition of the Parrhesia project at Santa Cruz do Bispo Women’s Prison (PT); 30 September to 11 October 2024

  8. PROJECT CONTINUATION AT SCHWARZAU PRISON (AT)

    Extended project implementation with participant from Parrhesia Edition:AT; 8 April 2024

  9. PROJECT CONTINUATION AT SCHWARZAU PRISON (AT)

    Extended project implementation with participants from Parrhesia Edition:AT; 20 November 2023

  10. Parrhesia at W139 in Amsterdam (NL)

    Presentation of the research findings from the current Parrhesia projects in Austria (2022) and Norway (2023)

  11. PARRHESIA at Women's Prison Navnløs (NO)

    Third edition of the Parrhesia project at Navnløs Women’s Prison (NO); 2 to 14 October 2023

  12. PANEL : ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON IMPRISONMENT – AND HOW ART CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THIS (NL)

    Public debate on artistic reform of the prison system in the Netherlands; 9 May 2023, SPUI23, Amsterdam NL

  13. Expert meeting : WOMEN IN PRISON (AT)

    JURISPRUDENCE PSYCHOLOGY SOCIOLOGY II Public debate with female lawyers, psychologists and sociologists on the Austrian prison system for women; 18 April 2023, DEPOT, Vienna AT

  14. PROJECT CONTINUATION IN SCHWARZAU PRISON (AT)

    Extended project implementation with participants Parrhesia Edition:AT; 17 April 2023

  15. PROJECT CONTINUATION AT SCHWARZAU PRISON (AT)

    Extended project implementation with participants Parrhesia Edition:AT; 22 to 23 March 2023

  16. Accomplices' meeting : FOCUS AUSTRIA (AT)

    JURISPRUDENCE PSYCHOLOGY SOCIOLOGY I Revolving door effect among incarcerated female drug addicts in Austria. Availability of counselling, support and substitution after release from prison; 20 March 2023, DEPOT, Vienna AT

  17. PROJECT CONTINUATION AT SCHWARZAU PRISON (AT)

    Extended project implementation with participants Parrhesia Edition:AT; 19 to 20 January 2023

  18. project continuation at Schwarzau Prison (AT)

    Extended project implementation with participants from Parrhesia Edition:AT; 10 to 11 November

  19. PARRHESIA at Women's Prison Schwarzau (AT)

    Second edition of the Parrhesia project at Schwarzau Women’s Prison (AT); 11 to 22 July 2022

  20. PARRHESIA at Schweizer Haus Hadersdorf Wien (AT)

    First implementation of the parrhesia concept at Schweizer Haus Hadersdorf (SHH) therapeutic centre in Vienna (AT); 5 to 19 March 2022

  21. Start of project Parrhesia