mother octopus (2024)
Our first relationship experience is with our biological mother. None shapes us as much as this one: We grow up in her womb, it is she who nurtures us. We are one, protected from the world, which so far has only come to us in a muted way.
only muted. Until the abrupt end of our peaceful idyll, the first trauma
of our lives, the first act of (maternal?) violence. And so happy
birthday: we are pushed out, squeezed out, torn into the glaring, cold reality.
reality. No longer protected from the hands that reach out for us.
In mother octopus, two queer performers explore the relationship to their
mothers by approaching them through drag. In doing so, they
autobiographically with the traumas caused by their gender-stereotypical upbringing.
upbringing. In a performative dialogue about parenthood, they create a queer-positive
queer-positive family model that invites parents and children, mums and queers to an intergenerational
intergenerational exchange. Mother octopus approaches motherhood
from a queer-feminist perspective, in which motherhood has no gender and asks
and asks: how can mothers and queers be allies in the fight against patriarchy?