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In 2022, the right to decide when and how to become a mother is still a controversial one. In many places they are fighting to legalise abortion, while it is about to be made illegal again in others. The discourse is polarised around birth rates that are too high or too low, fertility treatments, the legalisation of surrogacy, adoption by single people and homosexual couples. Motherhood is political.


Written from the narratives of mothers with histories of migration, of trans fathers, of heterosexual mothers who resort to fertility treatments, of gay fathers with children in co-parenting systems, of women who have had abortions, of women who are childfree by choice, Mother Tongue creates a hybrid space between library and cabinet of curiosities.

With Ufuk Tan Altunkaya, Kay Garnellen, Alice Gedamu, Millay Hyatt, Nyemba M’membe, Leisa Prowd, Sandra Ruffin, Cochon de Cauchemar 

In English and German / With surtitles

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Participating artists
Ufuk Tan Altunkaya
Cochon de Cauchemar
Kay Garnellen
Alice Gedamu
Millay Hyatt
Nyemba M'membe
Sandra Ruffin
Meike Clarelli
Luciana Acuña
Johannes Kirsten
Dates
September 2024
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