‘Motherswitch (2020) is a durational performance project that attempts to discover new ways of relating between my sons and I, in particular my high-energy six year-old. It involved daily performance actions carried out in our home in May 2020. The actions we created were developmental – each action was a response to, or grew out of, the previous one. We were exploring both efficacy (which ones actually work?) and also playfulness and joy (which ones do we enjoy most?). I discussed this with my sons before we began, and they both agreed in principle to the idea. This essay is the first public iteration of the work.’
Motherswitch is a chapter in the book Mothering Performance: Maternal Action, edited by Lena Šimić and Emily Underwoord-Lee. This book contains a combination of scholarly essays and creative responses which focus on maternal performance and its applications from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives.
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