Müller / Gurrola / Diallo / Selimović
JUSTITIA! Identity Cases

Concept, Performance: Gin Müller
Performance: Edwarda Gurrola, Mariama Nzinga Diallo, Sandra Selimović
Dramaturgy, Direction: Gin Müller, Natalie Ananda Assmann, Selina Shirin Stritzel, Andreas Fleck
Visuals: Sabine Marte
Sound/Music: Lisa Kortschak
Social Media: Hicran Ergen
Assistant: Ines Kaiser
Video Patches: Oliver Stotz
Stage Design: Rupert Müller
Costume Design: Noushin Redjaian
Graphic Design: Georg Starzner
Photos/Video Documentation: Magdalena Fischer
Sound Technician: Lisa-Maria Hollaus

A co-production between the Verein zur Förderung der Bewegungsfreiheit and brut Wien. With kind support from the City of Vienna Department of Cultural Affairs.

Natalie Ananda Assmann (*1988, she/her), is a freelance artist, director, curator and performer. Her works operate in the crossover between theatrical interventions in public spaces and the production of queer-feminist, anti-fascist images. From 2019 to 2020 she was a member of the Artistic Leadership Team for the Wienwoche – Festival for Art & Activism in Vienna. She produced her most recent work together with Nora Aaron Scherer, Janoushka Kamin and Magdalena Fischer for the Britney X Festival at Schauspiel Köln. Her last major directing work was ‘City of Whores’ as part of Red Rules Vienna at F23 in Vienna, a collaboration with Red Edition – Migrant Sex Workers Group. Together with Marlene Engel, Bahar Kaygusuz and Leonard Neumann she created ‘NONBINARY – A Tribute to Genesis P-Orridge’ last year at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin. Further projects have been seen at the Spectrum Festival and the Impulse Theater Festival. In 2022 she curated the Impulse ACADEMY ‘Ar/ctivism – Art and Activism in the Independent Theatre’ in Cologne together with Gin Müller. She lives with her partner and her dog in Berlin and Vienna.

Mariama Nzinga Diallo is a migrant, an activist and a Pan-African. As an artist, photographer and performer, she studied Contextual Panting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Born in Guinea, she works in visual arts and transformation and her art is political in origin. She is currently working at the University of Vienna and is part of the collective Schwabinggrad Ballet & Arrivati in Hamburg.

Andreas Fleck, born in Graz in 1985, studied Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna and Comparative Dramaturgy and Performance Research at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the Université libre de Bruxelles. He has worked as a Production Manager and Dramaturg for a variety of theatre institutions (including brut Wien, workspacebrussels, Schauspielhaus Vienna) and independent theatre companies (including Nesterval and Gin Müller). He is the leader of the male* cheerleading group Fearleaders Vienna, with whom he collectively devises party events, choreographies and workshops. He will be Artistic Director of WUK performing arts from May 2023.

Edwarda Gurrola (*1979 in Mexico) began working professionally for theatre, film and television in 1987. She has worked together with a number of acclaimed Mexican film and theatre directors. She has performed regularly at brut in Vienna in productions by Gin Müller since 2009. She is currently preparing a variety of projects in Mexico and Austria.

Ines Kaiser was born in Linz in 1998 und studied Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna. She worked as a Project Assistant at the Vienna Volkstheater in the 2019/20 season, where she ran the acting club ‘Ministerium für schlüpfrige Angelegenheiten’. Since 2020 she has worked as an Assistant Director, primarily in the independent sector at venues including Werk X. She has also been Production Manager of the frame[o]ut Open Air Cinema in Vienna’s Museumsquartier since 2021. As a performer, she has already been seen in ‘Cumernustag’ (Wienwoche 2021), works by Claudia Bosse (‘Thyestes Brüder! Kapital’ and ‘Oracle And Sacrifice in the Woods’) and at LOT Vienna. She also develops her own artistic works, partly as part of the Raw Matters Tender Steps Residency (January 2021).

Lisa Kortschak lives and works as a transmedia artist specialising in video, video installation and performance in Vienna. Sound and sounds play a major role in all her works. She is active as a musician and singer in bands such as Half Darling and In The Hills, The Cities. She has composed sound or music for her own live and video projects and together with Elise Mory for theatre productions by Lisa Hinterreithner.

Sabine Marte is a video artist, performer and musician. In her video works, in which she often appears herself as a performer, a significant role is played by perceptions of the self and others. Marte uses the camera to focus on herself and her immediate surroundings. In her existential confrontations, she places the self-observing subject in relation to her immediate environment by integrating the real and filmic space. Language – her voice often provides off-camera commentary – and music are central elements of her work. They provide its rhythm or reflect what is shown. In addition, Sabine Marte distorts and deconstructs her video images or generates them from unconventional recording angles. Once they are reassembled, this creates a special and at times trashy visual aesthetic that is both confusing and attractive while having a liberating effect.

Gin Müller is a dramaturg and ar/ctivist who works in the field of Theatre/Performance/Queer Studies. He is a Lecturer at the University of Vienna (Theatre, Film and Media Studies). At the same time, he creates his own theatre and performance works in Vienna (brut) and Mexico City, including: ‘Fantomas Monster’ (2016/17), ‘TransGenderMoves’ (2014/15), ‘Melodrom/Rebelodrom – NoborderZone’ (2012/13), ‘the que_ring drama project’ (2018/19) and ‘Sodom Vienna’ (2020/21). He also co-founded the noborder VolxTheaterKarawane (2001–2004) and the band SV Damenkraft (2003–2008). He has been actively engaged in ‘Refugee Protest Vienna’ (2012/13) and ‘Queer Base’.

Noushin Redjaian was born in 1988 and studied Design/Fashion with Prof. Bernhard Wilhelm and Prof. Hussein Chalayan at the University of Applied Arts Vienna from 2010–2017. From 2012–2015 she also studied Graphic Design and Graphic Printing with Prof. Jan Svenungsson, and in 2015–2016 Transmedia Art with Prof. Brigitte Kowanz. She lives and works as an artist and fashion designer in Vienna. In her art, Noushin Redjaian engages with the transcendent nature of symbolic language and its conservation. Inspired by cultural history and poetry, she forms objects and sculptures that are confronted with their past and future.

Sandra Selimović is an actor, director, rapper and activist. Born in Zaječar, Serbia in 1981, she first appeared on stage in 1994. She is currently appearing at the Burgtheater Vienna in ‘The Doctor’ by Robert Icke and at the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin in ‘Roma Armee’ directed by Yael Ronen. She has worked as a freelance actor and director at the Volkstheater Vienna, Schauspiel Essen, Staatstheater Kassel and in the independent theatre sector in Austria, Germany and Romania. She acted in her first television series for ORF, ‘Operation Dunarea’, at the age of 12. Together with Tina Leisch, she co-directed her first documentary film ‘Gangster Girls’ in Schwarzau women’s prison, which was screened at the Viennale and the Munich Documentary Festival. In 2010 she founded the first ever feminist Roma theatre organisation Romano Svato together with her sister Simonida Selimović – at the same time the two of them started making music as the rap duo Mindj Panther. Their productions examine racism, sexism, identity, feminism and exclusion while shattering stereotypical images and clichés of the Roma as an ethnic group. As a self-aware and queer romni, Sandra Selimović is both a pioneer of women’s rights within the Roma community and also an activist against discrimination against gypsies. In 2013 her debut work as a director at the Vienna Akademietheater won her the Junger Burg’s audience award.

Selina Shirin Stritzel is a freelance theatre-maker, political education worker, cultural scholar and transmedia artist. She is studying for a Masters in Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with a thesis on ‘Post-migrant Identities – the things we do for love.’ She is a co-founder of the association Vielmehr für Alle! and the project PROSA-Projekt Schule für Alle!. From 2014 to 2017 she worked at Ballhaus Naunynstraße Berlin in a range of capacities including Assistant Director, Dramaturg, Co-Director and Head of the ‘akademie der autodidakten’. In 2018 and 2019 she worked with Gin Müller and Radostina Patulova at brut Wien on the ‘que_ring drama project’. She also worked as Project Co-ordinator for ‘Akademie geht in die Schule’ at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. As an art outreach worker, she currently works on KÖR NÖ’s INVENTOUR and Graz University’s DERLA project in co-operation with the OeAd. Her artistic works in the form of paintings, performances and films, have been seen at venues including mumok and Exhibit Eschenbachgasse.