Brigitte Aloise Roth

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Brigitte Aloise Roth , Aloise Roth or (in the English-speaking context) Brigitta Roth (* April 5, 1951 in Vienna ; † February 13, 2018 in Vienna) was an Austrian performance artist , photographer, educator, feminist and (environmental) activist. She described herself as a "matriarchal art utopian".

Life

Brigitte Aloise Roth spent her childhood and youth in St. Pölten . Her studies took her to Vienna. In 1974 she obtained her diploma for commercial graphics, illustration and photography and the teaching post for visual education and work education at the University of Applied Arts . In 1975/76 she received the British Council Scholarship for Photography in London , where she worked with the performance art group The Theater of Mistakes . Performances and photo documentation were created, including the photograph "Hampelfrau", with which she is represented in the Verbund collection .

From 1977 until 1979 she taught at the Anton-Krieger-Gasse grammar school in Vienna. In 1979 she spent half a year in New York , where she worked for an advertising agency and designed campaigns for Austrian wines in the USA. During this time she photographed celebrities such as Andy Warhol .

From 1980 she worked as a freelance artist in Vienna. In 1996/97, Aloise Roth took part in numerous artistic campaigns for the first Austrian women's referendum, for example she cleaned Heldenplatz in Vienna, renamed Heldinnenplatz, of its fascist history with a witch's broom. She was a founding member of kosmos.frauenraum (from 2002 Kosmos Theater ), the realization of which was thanks to the feminist occupation of the Vienna Rondell, a former porn cinema, which lasted 9 days and nights. There she stretched u. a. her network in the truest sense of the word: a meter-high woven and crocheted art installation, into which every occupant could incorporate wishes and demands. On May 15, 2000 the kosmos.frauenraum was opened on Siebensternplatz in Vienna. Aloise Roth was very actively represented on the board until her death. From 2001 to 2005 she was a district councilor in Vienna's 13th district Hietzing for the Greens . She chained herself to trees that were to be felled. In her political work in Hietzing, in addition to women's policy, the preservation of green spaces with the motto "Save Gschtettn" was a matter close to her heart.

She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) for the first time in her 30s . Despite her illness, she vigorously continued her political and artistic work. In 2018 she passed away after a long and serious illness. In 2020 it was posthumously part of the exhibition Feminist Avantgarde - Made in Austria (curated by Gabriele Schor), Verbund Collection.

Exhibitions and performances (selection)

  • 1982: Photo exhibition "31 - What a panic" in the Un Art Gallery
  • 1983: Photographs for the exhibition "Laufmasche" in the gallery next St. Stephan
  • 1997: Installation for the women's referendum UFF (Independent Women's Forum): network installation and photo documentation a. a. with Johanna Dohnal , Madeleine Petrovic , Eva Rossmann , Hilde Schmölzer
  • 1998: Net actionism at the women's parliament event, which took place in front of the parliament in Vienna
  • 1999: Net actionism in parliament
  • 2001–2017: Internet action and workshops at the Volksstimmefest
  • 2020: Group exhibition: Feminist Avant-garde - Made in Austria (Verbund Collection)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aloise Roth: Roth, Aloise. In: platform 20000 women. Retrieved March 22, 2020 .
  2. ^ Marie-Anne Mancio: An AZ of The Ting: Theater of Mistakes - P. In: bookleteer. Proboscis, September 3, 2009, pp. 10-11. , accessed on March 22, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ Barbara Klein: Foreword . In: Johanna Dohnal, Susanne Riegler (eds.): The theater with gender. 10 years of KosmosTheater. Löcker, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85409-544-6 , p. 9 .
  4. ^ The district group 13: The new district council team of the Greens. In: Hietzinger district newspapers. The Hietzinger Green Alternatives, September 1, 2001, p. 3 , accessed on March 22, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Katharina Rustler: Feminist Avantgarde: With Spread Legs Ahead - derStandard.at. In: derstandard.at. Oscar Bronner, February 20, 2020, accessed on March 21, 2020 (Austrian German).
  6. ^ Almuth Spiegler: Feminism label becomes socially acceptable. In: diepresse.com. Rainer Nowak, February 19, 2020, accessed on March 22, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Susanne Rohringer: Feminist Avantgarde - Made in Austria: The social gender. In: artmagazine. artmagazine Kunst-Informationsgesellschaft mbH, February 25, 2020, accessed on March 22, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Association brings feminist avant-garde "made in Austria" to the curtain. In: Leadersnet. February 19, 2020, accessed March 22, 2020 .
  9. ↑ VERBUND COLLECTION: The VERBUND art collection. VERBUND AG, accessed on March 22, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Roth, Brigitte Aloise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roth, Aloise; Roth, Brigitta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian performance artist, photographer, educator, feminist and (environmental) activist
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 2018
Place of death Vienna