Making and Unmaking Family:
Mothering as World-Building
Sophie K. Rosa
Information
Time: 5pm
Tickets: Free – booking required
Running Time: 1 hour and 30 minutes (no interval)
Age Recommendation: 13+
This talk takes place in person in our Recreation Room
How are families formed, and what does this mean for those within them — and for those who live outside them?
In this talk, Sophie K. Rosa explores ideas about mothering, family, and how new ways of living together might be imagined and made. The nuclear family has long been shaped by systems of power and inequality. And yet, (re)making life contains the potential for creating new worlds and new ways of relating.
Sophie will be joined by artists Federico Vladimir & Pablo Lilienfeld, Louise Ashcroft, and Samra Mayanja to unpack questions such as: What might mothering mean in relation to revolution and liberation? What does it mean to bring children into the world, and how does the world shape that decision — if it is a decision at all? How do traditional gender roles and power structures shape parenting today?
Together, we will consider how imagining mothering differently can open up space for care, struggle, creativity, and change.
This talk is part of Open Research: How to be Many Mothers?
How To Be Many Mothers? compliments our Spring programme, responding to shared themes in Second Trimester (14–25 Apr) and Monica (1–2 May).
You can follow the programme in full, or join us for the moments that resonate most with you.
Looking for tickets?
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Biographies
Sophie K. Rosa
Sophie K. Rosa is a writer and psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She is the author of Radical Intimacy (Pluto Press, 2023) and writes an anti-advice column, Red Flags, for Novara Media.
Access
PRE EVENT INFORMATION
This talk takes place in person in our Recreation Room. This space is on the first floor, with step-free access via a lift.
If you have booked a ticket you will receive an email from us before the event detailing important information about your visit.
Content
- References to gendered violence
This event will be Relaxed. We invite you to make yourself comfortable and move around if you need to and if you need to leave the event at any point you will be allowed to return to the space when you feel ready.
Part of Open Research: How to be Many Mothers?
In an exciting new partnership with Kaaitheater (Brussels), BAC expands the Open Research programme with a curated series of talks, workshops and performances exploring mothering, family, and care beyond the norm.
This artistic research program offers multiple entry points, ranging from playful speculative thinking to the creation of new scenarios for (chosen) family dynamics. It shares imaginative strategies for combining (co-)parenting with artistic practice, while also challenging and unmasking idealized notions of motherhood.
