MATERNAL FANTASIES
feminist art collective
Love is as Love does / performance by Mothers Artlovers (CZ) feat. MATERNAL FANTASIES, “Beyond Nuclear Family” at alpha nova galerie futura, April 2022.
Beyond Nuclear Family is the third phase of the Jindřich Chalupecký Society/’s long-term project Islands: Possibilities of Togetherness.
“Lovers,
I write to you because there are cracks in our space. I write to you because I am full of hope to mend these cracks. I write to you because otherwise the words will get stuck in my throat, they will decompose there and clog my breathing, they will make my speech smelly.”
photography: Isabell Spengler / MATERNAL FANTASIES
“Voice 1: Love is as love does.
#Breaks paper
Voice 2: Love is an act of will.
Voice 3: both an intention and an action.
Voice 4: Will also implies choice.
Voice 3: We do not have to love.
Voice 5: We choose to love.
#Breaks paper
Voice 6: This is why it is useful to see love as practice.
Voice 4: When we love we are changed utterly.
#Breaks paper and gives to Voice 5who continues reading
Voice 5: Genuine love is a personal revolution. Love takes your ideas, your desires, and your actions and welds them together in one experience and one living reality which is a new you
#Eats paper while reading
Voice 3: There can be no love without justice.
Voice 6 : Love is an action”