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Mother State: on Housing – Watch Back

Project Arts Centre presents

12 May - 12 June 2022

An image with a poster on the left and a black and white photograph on the right. The poster is from See Red Womens Workshop, 1976-7. A graphic black and white depiction of women and children, each alone in their flats, looking out their windows. Bold red writing at the bottom reads ALONE WE ARE POWERLESS…TOGETHER WE ARE STRONG. A small handwritten note reads ”What did you do to-day dear?” The photo on the right is of homeless families occupying the chamber of the Derry Guildhall in 1968, from the archive of the Museum of Free Derry. A black and white photograph shows a group of women, men and children gathered together around a heavy, carved wood table. Women sit at the table and small children sit on it, near large pots of tea and cups. An ornate carved wood panel is behind them.
Mothering is a spatial practice: housing is everything. In this talk, Helen Charman will share some of her research into mothering and alternative housing practices in Britain and the north of Ireland in the 1970s and 80s.

Mothering is a spatial practice: housing is everything. Where does mothering happen? Where is mothering safe? Under which conditions can it be pleasurable? What might we learn from the rich history of such care that took place outside the traditional four walls of the traditional family unit? In this talk, Helen Charman will share some of her research into mothering and alternative housing practices in Britain and the north of Ireland in the 1970s and 80s.

 

Watch back the recording of this event which took place 10 May - available until Sunday 12 June:

 

Mothering is a spatial practice: housing is everything. Where does mothering happen? Where is mothering safe? Under which conditions can it be pleasurable?

What might we learn from the rich history of such care that took place outside the traditional four walls of the traditional family unit? In this talk, Helen Charman will share some of her research into mothering and alternative housing practices in Britain and the north of Ireland in the 1970s and 80s.

Watch back the recording of this event which took place 10 May – available until Sunday 12 June:

 

BIOGRAPHIES

Helen Charman is a writer and academic based in Glasgow. Her first book, Mother State— a political history of motherhood — is forthcoming from Allen Lane. Her latest poetry pamphlet, In the Pleasure Dairy, was published by Sad Press in 2020. She teaches in the English Studies department at Durham University.

FUNDING

Project Arts Centre is proud to be supported by the Arts Council Ireland and Dublin City Council

Tickets

Free

Time

79mins

On Demand

Location

Online

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