MATERNAL FANTASIES
feminist art collective
In/Visible Connections
an intergenerational workshop performance by Magdalena Kallenberger and Hanne Klaas from MATERNAL FANTASIES collective
Based on the creative methods of the artists' collective MATERNAL FANTASIES, this performative workshop will playfully explore in/visible relations.
What connects us with other humans? With the mother, the child, the uncle, the aunt, the neighbour, the friend, the girlfriend, the grandma, the grandpa, biological and non-biological connected allies? What experiences bring us closer together? What is it that separates us maybe without even noticing? Where to draw a line between connection and dependency, especially in regard to different generations? How can these underlying and invisible connections be put on stage, and thus made visible?
The working practice of MATERNAL FANTASIES is guided by the idea of equally bringing together the interests and perceptions of children with those of adults, thus creating a dialogue between concrete individual experiences and fantastic ideas.
By using performance exercises and simple props such as masking tapes etc., positions, postures, compositions and perspectives are discovered in public space that symbolize the relationship of people to each other and to things. During this process, the sphere of everyday life is traversed and eventually left behind. Instead absurd, surreal and poetic images open up, where an emotional and perhaps utopian, social connectedness can be imagined, explored and challenged.
With special thanks to Léna Szirmay-Kalos and the whole team of Montags Modus
photography: Lisa Koch / Montags Modus