Monica: A Game for Diasporic Genealogies
Pablo Lilienfeld and Federico Vladimir
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Times: 10am to 4pm
Tickets: Free – booking required
Running Time: 6 hours, including a 1 hour lunch break
Age Recommendation: 18+
This workshop takes place in person in our Members Library
In this workshop, join artists Pablo Lilenfeld and Federico Vladmir to speculate through role play about family stories that complicate kinship, disturb the pillars of the nuclear family—genetics, nationality, inheritance—and bring to light the silenced narratives of gossip, secrets, and intimate memories.
Starting from the artists’ own biographical coincidence—two mothers sharing the name Monica, with parallel European origins, war-related diasporas, and image-making practices—Pablo and Federico open a space to ask: how might genealogy be conceived differently?
A workshop for those interested in developing experimental dramaturgical tools or exploring games as methods of artistic research, it also welcomes anyone—parents or not—who wishes to imagine other forms of kinship, family, and relation.
Inspired by the artistic practices of their mothers, join Pablo and Federico to reflect on the intertwinement between mothering and artistic creation. Through fiction and embodied play, the group will form a temporary kinship around a shared act of imagination—to envision genealogies that look not only backward, but forward—toward what we may yet become.
This workshop is part of Open Research: How to be Many Mothers?
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Biographies
Pablo Lilienfeld and Federico Vladimir
Pablo Lilienfeld (a musician and choreographer), and Federico Vladimir (a visual artist), both known as Pablo and Fede, have been together since 2014. Since then, their work has become interwoven with their relationship. Starting from intimacy, their pieces explore representations of collectivity that question the hegemonic ways of narrating ourselves. “Narrarse es cuidarse”, they tell each other. ”To narrate ourselves is to take care of each other”.
Their performances, videos, installations and games are tools for the creation of worlds and genealogies. Speculative fiction is the common ground in all their works, a terrain on which practices as diverse as artistic swimming, raving and role-play games intersect.
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PRE EVENT INFORMATION
This event takes place in person in our Members Library. 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.
This workshop may involve the sharing and listening to personal stories related to family, genealogy, and lived experience. Participants will be invited—but never required—to draw on their own memories or personal narratives, and to listen to those shared by others. The workshop is conceived as a respectful and voluntary space for exchange, and participants are encouraged to take care of their own boundaries throughout the process.
The artists invite participants to bring a small object charged with personal meaning—something that carries a story they may wish to share.
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.
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