Event overview
Artist/Researchers working with the Women’s Art Library - (M)otherwise and How to Be Together: Exploring Matriarchal Spaces
Hannah Bowles and Galit Criden met through the Women’s Art Library and became co-facilitators of How to Be Together? Exploring Matriarchal Spaces
Hannah Bowles is the researcher behind the CHASE-funded project (M)otherwise. She joins us to share her experience of the project which was influenced by her research in the Women’s Art Library’s collection on Motherhood. This culminated in weekly reading group sessions from 26 Oct – 23 Nov 2021.
“(M)otherwise is a reading and research group born out of the lack of conversation and study of parenting and caregiving in the art school. Parenthood is kept invisible in the art institution; childcare is not considered an essential part of the infrastructure and several art schools have a no under-18 policy in all their campus buildings. (M)otherwise invites mothers or otherwise to be together, take up space, and discuss topics historically omitted from the art institution. Its establishment at the Women’s Art Library seeks to create intergenerational exchange asking where were we, where are we now and where are we going. (M)otherwise is the first reading group of its kind, not only at Goldsmiths but art schools across London. (M)otherwise aims to Imagine what an art world might look like if it prioritizes care as a key part of its infrastructure.”
Galit Criden was Women’s Art Library artist-in-residence during the first term of full return to campus after the lockdown in Autumn 2021. She will discuss her research project How To Be Together during which she explored alternative ways to collaborate and learn together, using the matriarchal perspective as a tool to further feminist queer activism.
Galit collected conversations between women and students living in the UK, co-convening a series of reading groups, performative workshops, and leading a love letter webinar. Through the simple act of listening, drawing, sharing of space, begin acts of exchange, solidarity, and imagination.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 22 Jun 2022 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
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