MATERNAL FANTASIES
Suspended Time, on Caring
2020
Experimental essay film, UHD video, 16:9, 12:06 min.
© maternal fantasies
In “Suspended Time, On Caring” the feminist art collective MATERNAL FANTASIES combines colourful Tableaux Vivants, – re-stagings of art historical references – with chimerically orchestrated scenes, and playful and improvised performances in a low-tech, DIY-style surrealist setting. Through interactions between bodies, objects, and spaces, mothers* and children re-re-re-assemble and turn maternal fantasies into playful experiences, personal narratives into social questions, and body dimensions into fields of interaction. The experimental film proposes new vocabularies and visual performative translations of the maternal experience with the goal of integrating intergenerational knowledge, and stretches tensions between social invisibility and fantastical visibility. Within the exhibition “On the Horizon: Care,” their experimental film puts forth a vision for alternative, intergenerational forms of care that strive towards an otherwise, towards collective actions.
MATERNAL FANTASIES
Suspended Time, on Caring
2020
Experimental essay film, UHD video, 16:9, 12:06 min.
© maternal fantasies
In “Suspended Time, On Caring” the feminist art collective MATERNAL FANTASIES combines colourful Tableaux Vivants, – re-stagings of art historical references – with chimerically orchestrated scenes, and playful and improvised performances in a low-tech, DIY-style surrealist setting. Through interactions between bodies, objects, and spaces, mothers* and children re-re-re-assemble and turn maternal fantasies into playful experiences, personal narratives into social questions, and body dimensions into fields of interaction. The experimental film proposes new vocabularies and visual performative translations of the maternal experience with the goal of integrating intergenerational knowledge, and stretches tensions between social invisibility and fantastical visibility. Within the exhibition “On the Horizon: Care,” their experimental film puts forth a vision for alternative, intergenerational forms of care that strive towards an otherwise, towards collective actions.