Dear Marie Therese,

We asked you to co-create with us a big public event. Saturday the 20th september 2008 we will come to you in a political demonstration and we will ask you to leave your authoritarian body of stone and enter a totally new democratic body concept We will carry you around in this new shape and bring you to the brut theatre to witness the new developments of art in vienna.

demonstration starts at 15h at brut ( take walking shoes with you) we walk for a bigger influence of art in politics, now it will be the time for creative thinking, do not beleive anymore in power based thinking, think more in a way how mothers take care of their childs when we think of big social problems, yes we ask everyone to become a anyone a mother without fear, also the leading men among us. and we liberate marie therese from her historical connotationand ask her to become the mother of creativity.

evening programme starts at 20h at brut (take dancing shoes with you) there will be a mysteryplay about the quest of contemporary art. rudimetary contemprary courtdances, democratic kitchen roccoco costumes, a lot of acts and at last of course a contemporaruy viennese bal. during this evening everone is invited to offer marie therese something of their own creativity, in the form of a painting or act of 30 seconds.

The people who took this initiative are Frans Poelstra & Robert Steijn as united sorry, Anne Juren, Roland Seidel,Pieter Ampe and Theater Am Bahnhof. But we need a lot of people. So, spread the word!, we would love to see if we can involve a wide range of people, and not only people who work in the arts. So, pregnant women, children, elderly people, professors, teachers, taxi-drivers, etc, anybody who would like to spend some time and enjoys to create this event with us.

we will prepare this event in one week, the week before this saturday in brut.

working schedule in brut

• 15 - 19 September Working on the objects, costumes, dances, texts etc./ every day at 19h there are the communal rehearsals for everyone
• 18 - 19 September Rehearsals Mysterienspiel in blaublut (Ed Hauswirth/ Theater am Bahnhof)
• 20 September the big day

There will be simple catering, drinks, sandwiches, fruits, during the whole week for all participants.

We thought, it was so silly that you still had your back towards the Museumquartier, so you could not witness what happened in the contemporary arts at the moment.

We asked you if you wanted to investigate with us the latest developments of dance, performance art and visual arts. And when you said yes to it, we were so happy.

Not that we don’t like Sisi. But we want the tourists also to get more interested in you. And not only the tourists, but also the citizens of Vienna. Yes we want to make a big public event, where a lot of people can meet you.
Many tourists make a picture of you, perhaps you even more photographed than any other statue in the city. But do these photograhers now, what you did for the government. And do they know that you had sixteen children.

Yes. let’s talk about being a mother, and what it would happen with our politicians when we take care of the world as a mother does for her child. Do you think, that would make any sense. Don’t you think we still live in a men’s world, or let say father-son culture. You had time enough to think about this, hadn’t you.

Sehr Geehrte Kaiserin,

es tut uns wirklich leid, wir möchten gerne für Euch tanzen, aber unsere Kleider sind nicht die Kleider des Kaisers. Wir verstecken unsere Bäuche nicht mehr länger und unsere Pirouetten heißen heutzutage postmodern, was sicher nicht hilfreich für deren Eleganz ist. Wir meinen es wirklich gut. Wir finden es wird höchste Zeit dass Ihr der modernen Kunst nicht länger den Rücken zukehrt.