Come to Centraal Laat x SPRING on September 11.
On a few nights a year, the Centraal Museum organises Central Laat, a new museum experience especially for adventurous culture visitors who are always looking for something new. Explore art in a new way, with performances, workshops, music, panel talks, and more, from emerging talent to established artists. In collaboration with local partners, a surprising program is created that puts exhibitions in a fresh perspective.
In collaboration with SPRING, this edition, we dive deeper into the theme of chosen families and family structures; during the upcoming Centraal Laat, SPRING Performing Arts Festival broadens the theme of the exhibition. Good Mom/ Bad Mom at the Centraal Museum. During Centraal Laat, another cultural organization from Utrecht takes over the museum in one evening and creates a one-off event that is in line with the current exhibition. There are art performances, live music and space for fun and reflection through our talk and reading group. You'll meet artists you've seen before at SPRING, and completely new faces.
The program includes the performance Shoe farm, a introduction of the Buren collective. As the daughters of a shoe store and a farm, Melissa and Oshin ask questions about how family ties and ancestry influence ideas about labor, class, and money. Discover the importance of chosen families alongside organic parenting. House of Extinction performers take you into the world of Drag. Researcher and Drag mother Taka Taka (House of Løstbois) will discuss performing arts, parenting and community at the PanelTalk. Be inspired by art, stories and new insights.
About Good Mom/Bad Mom
Supermama. Regretful parent. Raven mother. Single mom. Consciously non-mother. Wishing mother. Bonus mom. Adoptive mother. Co-mother. Never mother. There are countless variants of motherhood. Good Mom/Bad Mom is an exhibition about motherhood, about caring, about the politics of the womb, about emancipation.
The exhibition offers a contemporary reflection on the art-historical cliché of the “good mother” and takes visitors on a journey through the history of the imagination of motherhood: from ancient, stereotypical and often romanticized mother-and-child imaginations to works by new and exciting generations of artists who deal with this theme in their own — and often very personal — way.
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