2024

This research and performance project will explore ideas and practices of motherhood

at the intersection of race, gender, and class. Drawing from the creators’ shared national background and mother tongue (both are Brazilian), yet with radically different

experiences, due to their diverse racial, gender, and class positionalities, the two artist-scholars will explore during dedicated sessions intimate memories and public/symbolic constructs of ‘motherhood’, as well as practices of mothering (or un-mothering) across cultures. By engaging their bodies in creative scholarship, the artist-scholars will prepare a performative experience that will instigate audiences to question their own assumptions about this central human theme, specifically untangling it from Euro-Anglocentric whiteness. The performance launch will be in September in the United States.” Awarded with one of CRRES GRANTS to support Race and Ethnicity Research