PROGRAM ▼
KAUNAS
Meno Parkas Gallery (Rotušės a. 27,
44279)
4-12 November | Opening on November 4 at 6 PM
▸ Video program | Exhibition
4-27 November
▸ Part of video program will be available on
Vimeo: vimeo.com/menoparkas
VIENNA
"MinusZwei" off space
(Domgasse 6, AT1010)
13-19 November
▸ Video program | Exhibition
Supported by: Instituto cultural Mexicano and the University of applied arts of Vienna
BERLIN
"Grüntaler9" performance space
(Grüntaler Straße 9, 13357)
27 November
▸ Video program | Exhibition
▸ Live performance by Nathalie Anguezomo Mba
Bikoro
▸ Discussion | Artist talk
Co-curated with Teena Lange and Adriana Disman
PARTICIPANTS ▼
Larysa Bauge (BY), Surya Tüchler (DE), Isabel León (ES), Alice De Visscher (BE), Alejandra Herrera Silva (CL), Anaïs, Héraud-Louisadat (FR), Regina Jose Galindo (GT), Ruth Biene (DE), Casey Jenkins (AU), Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro (GA), Dyana Gravina (IT), Nel Acosta Bravo (VE), Johanna Folkmann (AT), Nancy Gewölb (CL), Alexia Miranda (SV), Marija Griniuk (LT), Guadalupe Aldrete (MX), Vaida Tamoševičiūtė (LT)
◢ S Mom is growing rapidly and this
year we are presenting 16 amazing artists, including one work by each of the
curators – Guadalupe Aldrete and Vaida Tamoševičiūtė. We create this
international network, encouraging estranged topics of (non)motherhood to stay
connected, to belong, to state our tribe through performance art.
The works shown in this selection reveal two parallel levels of information. On
the one hand, the conceptual and artistic content that the author herself
decided to share, in which she relates her relationship to (non)motherhood, the
external and internal tensions that these entail, such as the relationship with
herself and with the "product" (as a newborn is called in some
spanish speaking countries), as well as in many cases the violence (even physical)
to which pregnant women are subjected. On the other hand, in a subtle and
almost invisible way, the technical aspects of each video reflect the often
precarious circumstances in which artists, especially mothers, are forced to
create and share their work.
The sense of the lockdown is tangible in some of the videos. Bodies are thirsty
for live connection and audience; while new mothers were familiar with this
feeling for a long time before the pandemic, COVID made isolation a shared
feeling. Performing for the camera, searching for new perspectives of
embodiment, even when the body is not present anymore, one can feel it rooted
in the gaze, in a feeling of space by the sometimes absent performer.
Mothers, (non)mothers, hurt children inside of all of us. Various topics and
approaches that matter, that are a mirror of our society and yet are so little
known and seen. We think these aspects of our lives should be discussed more
loudly, more proudly, more bravely. The extensions we let from ourselves
connect us to others. Living through a cycle of women's bodies – no matter
whether they are mothers or not, there are things which connect us – a common
language of Creation, our bodies are mostly craving for. Thus we leave our
small traces of care.