ENGAGE - Performance and the Maternal: Delivered as part of Performance and the Maternal, this series of online forums will consider, through different artistic and academic perspectives, how maternal performance helps us to understand the lived condition of motherhood. Each forum responds to a themed-provocation (question) and features a panel of guest speakers, plus a Q & A.
Performance and the Maternal is an 18 month research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council delivered by Dr Emily Underwood-Lee and Georgina Biggs at the University of South Wales (Cardiff) and Dr Lena Simic at Edge Hill University (Ormskirk).
Tuesday 6 October
Maternal Performance (Artist Forum)
Performance and the maternal are allied as durational, embodied, relational practices. What might be unique about a maternal performance aesthetic?
Speakers: Dyana Gravina and Lynn Lu, Jodie Hawkes, Kristina Gavran and Tina Hofman (Not Now Collective), Ruchika Wason Singh
Tuesday 13 October
Storytelling and Mothers
What maternal narratives might we want or need to tell and hear in these times? How might we represent the diversity of maternal experiences?
Speakers: Laura Godfrey Isaacs, Tracy Breathnach-Evans, Roiyah Saltus, Christine Watkins, Alison Perry, Zoe Brigley and Jude Brigley
Tuesday 20 October
Performing Climate, Gender and Maternal Futures
How might a maternal inclination help us to re-imagine the future? What maternal futures might we want to create?
Speakers: Ben Spatz, Rosemary Lee, Hannah Davey (Liberate Tate), Natalie Loveless and Sheena Wilson, prOphecy sun, Chantal Bilodeau
Tuesday 27 October
Migration and (Maternal) Citizenship in Performance
How can the maternal migrate, cross borders and enable us to think globally with responsibility and care towards one another? Is it possible to envision a maternal citizenship?
Speakers: Elena Marchevska, Jennifer Verson, Umut Erel, Jina Valentine, Sara C Motta
Tuesday 3 November
Health, Policy and Impact – Maternal Performance Matters
What are the pressing questions for maternal health and policy? How might performance help us to explore those questions?
Speakers: Prue Thimbleby, Helena Walsh, Vicky Karkou and Emma Perris, Michelle Hartney, Leah Salter