Aderounmu, Kessler & Spieler - Vertöchterung

What does it mean to be a daughter*—within a family, within a generational lineage, within a web of expectations, care, and transmission? In “Vertöchterung,” three students from the Institute for Language Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna explore the figure of the daughter* as part of a polyphonic, transgenerational context.

From a FLINTA* perspective, they examine mother-daughter relationships, care work, queer love, illness, memory, and transgenerational trauma. The works complement, interrupt, and comment on one another—an attempt at a multi-personal voice that makes itself heard in unison.

Somewhere between an essay, prose, and a lyrical fragment, a narrative unfolds about origin and resistance, about passing on and breaking free from patterns—and about the question of how many voices it takes to retell a story. 

Cast

Reader: Mattea Kessler

Reader: Lotti Spieler

Reader: Malak Jayeola Aderounmu