11 — 15.05
Carolina Bianchi, Carolina Mendonça São Paulo-Amsterdam-Brussels
We do not comfortably contemplate the sexuality of our mothers
performance
| Portuguese, French → NL, FR, EN | ⧖ 1h15 | €16 / €13 | Not suitable for children
Can we understand someone’s oeuvre without knowing her personal life? At the invitation of the festival, theatre makers Carolina Bianchi – who caused a furore at last year’s Festival d’Avignon – and Carolina Mendonça enter into conversation with filmmaker and writer Chantal Akerman. Why are we so obsessed with finding out the truth about someone? In Ma mère rit, Akerman wrote: “I don’t have a life, I’ve never learned how to make one for myself”. According to Bianchi and Mendonça, the personal lives of female artists are often scrutinised to the point of eclipsing their work. Now, they propose a dialogue with Akerman, about sexuality, heredity and the autobiographical writing process. With this venture, Bianchi and Mendonça continue their investigation on women artists of previous generations and on an expanded form of motherhood, two crucial concepts in their artistic path. They draw inspiration from fragments of Ma mère rit – in which Akerman wrote her memoirs while caring for her ailing mother – and scenes from Les Rendez-vous d’Anna, a movie in which she spent a night with her mother in a hotel close to the Gare du Midi. A layered reading performance coloured by Akerman’s mood and language, in an abandoned cinema, some streets away from that very hotel room.
11.05
12.05
- 17:00
- + aftertalk
- Sold out — Register to the ticket alert
13.05
- 18:00
- New date
- Sold out
15.05
Presentation: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Movy Club
Creation and performance: Carolina Bianchi & Carolina Mendonça | Texts: Carolina Bianchi | Direction: Carolina Bianchi | Dramaturge and translation supervision: Larissa Ballarotti | Video: Montserrat Fonseca Llach | Light design: Jo Rios | Photo and art support: Luisa Callegari | Production and distribution: Carla Estefan – Metro Gestão Cultural
Commissioned and produced by Kunstenfestivaldesarts
With the support of KVS
