M(Other)HOOD: Camping

 With the inviation to present in Taipei Arts Festvial Think Bar 2022. 

A three-day, six-hour-long presentation. Artists and their child engage in practices of care, touch, creation and transformation, and through their actions they contemplate time, death, hybridity, queer heritage and the politics of care.

The presentation format spans exhibitions, interviews and live performances, and is combined with multiple video interviews, inviting voices from different backgrounds to participate: including street interviews, the LGBTQI+ community, Drag Queen mother CoCo & Chanel (from House of CoCo), indigenous parents from Taiwan, intersex rights activist Xixi from Hong Kong, Hong Kong gender fluid advocate Luo Xiaofeng and a consultant from a DNA testing clinic.

At the same time, a series of live talks and sharing sessions will be held, inviting participants from across fields to join the dialogue, including: Manasan, host of Bar NINE, Dr. WuWu, a pregnancy health advocate, Wang Mengchao, former artistic director of Taipei Performing Arts Center, Xu Yafen, a traditional Taiwanese opera performer, Lu Chongpu, a young animal communicator and host of the self-healing podcast, and Hong Kong choreographer Mei Zhuoyan, etc., and Madeleine Planesgok, curator of the Anticipations Museum at the Lafayette Foundation in Paris, to jointly expand the space for thinking about "motherhood", "queer experience" and "social structure".

Audiences can come and go freely during the performance, interact with the performers, and watch motherhood practices in action. They can also participate in video archives, join impromptu discussions, birthday celebrations and open activities such as "Healthy Pregnancy Practice".

獲邀於 2022 年臺北藝術節 Think Bar 發表。 本次展演以「正在發生的母職」為核心概念，結合日常與劇場空間，展開為期三天、每日六小時的長時段表演。藝術家們在其中進行關於照顧、觸碰、創造與轉化的實踐，藉由行動沉思時間、死亡、混種性、酷兒傳承與照顧政治。

整體呈現形式跨越展覽、訪談與現場表演，並結合多組影像訪談，邀請來自不同背景的聲音參與：包括街頭訪談、LGBTQI+ 社群、Drag Queen 母親 CoCo＆Chanel（來自 House of CoCo）、來自台灣的原住民父母、來自香港的雙性人權益行動者細細老師， 香港性別流動倡導者羅小風以及一位 DNA 檢測診所的顧問。

同時，也將舉辦一系列現場對談與分享，邀請跨領域的參與者加入對話，包括：酒吧 NINE 的主持 Manasan、孕期健康倡議者 Dr. WuWu、前台北表演藝術中心藝術總監王孟超、台灣傳統歌仔戲表演家許亞芬、年輕動物溝通師與自我療癒播客主持人盧崇璞、香港編舞家梅卓燕等，巴黎拉法葉基金會 Anticipations 美術館策展人 瑪德蓮.普拉內斯果克 共同擴展對「母職」、「酷兒經驗」與「社會結構」的思辨空間。

觀眾可在演出期間自由進出，與表演者互動、觀看母職實踐的進行，同時也能參與影像檔案、加入即興討論、現場對談、生日慶祝與「健康懷孕練習」等開放活動。