Open Research:
How to be Many Mothers?
Kaaitheater and BAC
“Challenging the nuclear family is not about puritanical rejection of anything that resembles it; it is about creating alternatives to its hegemony, to the dismembering of social relations.”
–Carla Bergman and Nick Montgomery, quoted by Sophie K. Rosa in her book Radical Intimacy
In a new partnership with Kaaitheater (Brussels), we are expanding the Open Research programme with a curated series of talks, workshops and performances exploring mothering, family, and care beyond the norm.
This artistic research programme 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.

Explore the Line-up
25 Apr
Monica: A Game for Diasporic Genealogies
Pablo Lilienfeld and Federico Vladimir
A workshop open to those interested in developing experimental dramaturgical tools or in exploring games as methods of artistic research.
25 Apr
Making and Unmaking Family:
Mothering as World-Building
Sophie K. Rosa
In this talk, Sophie K. Rosa explores ideas about mothering, family, and how new ways of living together might be imagined and made.
28 - 29 Apr
What To Expect
When You're Not Expecting
Louise Ashcroft
Artist Louise Ashcroft revisits her acclaimed autobiographical meltdown about turning 39 and realising she’s forgotten to have children.
2 May
Domestic Anarchism:
Köket (The Kitchen)
Andrea Zavala Folache and Adriano Wilfert Jensen
Is it possible to both abolish the family and do group dancing?
2 May
Dynamic Families
Louise Ashcroft
In this workshop, Louise Ashcroft brings together elements of her ongoing artistic research into family, kinship, and relational dynamics.
2 May
CLOWNS - An unfinished mini lecture
Samra Mayanja
A series of unfinished mini-lectures that loosely explore a developing work.