Guadalupe Aldrete,
Grossi Maglioni, Käthe Hager von Strobele, Lena Rosa Händle, Anežka Jabùrková & Amalija Stojsavljevic, Isabella Kohlhuber,
Nora Mayr & Stephanie Winter, Musikarbeiter*innenkapelle, Claudia Sandoval Romero, Solar Manufaktur/Irene Lucas, Deniz
Sözen, Manuela Zechner
Initiated and curated by Barbara Mahlknecht
Child Care Pavilion
by Isabella Kohlhuber
Pre-opening: Saturday, 1 July 2023, 4 pm, 1060, Richard
Waldemarpark with a multi-voice lecture performance and action by Claudia Sandoval Romero
Opening: Thursday, 6 July
2023, 5 pm, 1020, Rustenschacherallee 2–4
Project duration: 6–29 July 2023
Location:
1020, Rustenschacherallee 2–4
Mothering Communities is a public art project focusing on
maternal caregiving – the continuous, repetitive, physical, emotional and at the same time “invisible” work that is carried
out for the nutrition, health, education and general integrity of a child. The project explores forms of communal care work:
How can care work be shared beyond existing but often inadequate family and institutional structures? How can caregiving be
reinvented and organised? What infrastructures, resources, forms of creativity, and time and collaboration does caring for
a future generation require?
Following the trajectory of these questions, Mothering Communities
brings together workshops for children and adults, performances, talks, live concerts, listening sessions, an energy-autonomous
solar kitchen, picnics, play and experimentation on the grounds and in the garden of Zentrum Fokus Forschung at the University
of Applied Arts Vienna. The audience is invited to temporarily leave the isolation and singularity of caretaking and to open
up communal caregiving as a shared field of research in the form of meeting, exchanging, caring, being creative, listening,
watching, experimenting and playing.
The central pivot and location of the project is the
walk-in sculpture Child Care Pavilion designed by Isabella Kohlhuber. It relocates care as an intermediate activity
between work and play, between the satisfaction of children’s primary needs and amusement, shifting it into the public space.
As a sculpture and object of use, it mediates between inside and outside spaces, serving simultaneously as a stage, a place
to linger and a site for exchange, conversation and play.
For the detailed public program, please
visit:
Mothering
Communities is funded by SHIFT BASIS KULTUR WIEN and hosted by Zentrum Fokus Forschung, University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
Opening
hours
During opening hours, visitors can visit and use the Mothering Communities site and the Child Care
Pavilion – you are welcome to stay and play.
Wed 15–18 h (12/07, 19/07 and 26/07)
Thur
15–19 h (13/07, 20/07 and 27/07)
Fri 15–20 h (07/07, 14/07, 21/07 and 28/07)
Sat 10–13 h and 15–21h (08/07
and 15/07)
Sat 15–21 h (22/07 and 29/07)
