elephy is an artist-run, Brussels-based production and distribution platform for film and media art. It supports its productions by providing them with professional framework which ensures that they can be made with the greatest artistic freedom. The distribution of elephy works goes beyond the festival and cinema circuits to include museums, art centres, educational and new media contexts. In 2019, elephy initiated MIA (Moving Image Atelier) and became a member of the open platform PAM (Platform for Audiovisual and Media arts). more
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Elephy presents Talking Collectively – Mother Artists
With Hettie Judah, Laure Prouvost, Sophia Satchell Baeza, Emeraude Kabeya, and Vida Dena.
Moderated by Christina Stuhlberger
film, conversations, workshop
WE 18.06 13:00 till 15:00 FREE
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This roundtable conversation brings together artists, cultural workers, and others to reflect on how parenthood intersects with artistic practices. We will discuss the difficulties, contradictions, structural pressures, moments of joy, and often invisible struggles that come with navigating care and creativity.
Hettie Judah, author of How Not To Exclude Artist Mothers (and Other Parents), will share insights from her long-term engagement with the topic, offering concrete strategies for structural change in the art world alongside reflections on the ongoing tensions between caregiving and cultural work. She will be joined by artist and filmmaker Laure Prouvost, film curator Sophia Satchell Baeza, Kunstenpunt/Flanders Arts Institute advisor Emeraude Kabeya, and artist and filmmaker Vida Dena, in a conversation moderated by Christina Stuhlberger from elephy.
The afternoon includes an experimental film screening suitable for children, curated by Sophia Satchell Baeza followed by collaging workshop around motherhood led by Vida Dena.
While the title centers mothers, the conversation tries to be inclusive to all with caregiving responsibilities in the cultural field. At the same time, we acknowledge the deeply gendered realities and long histories of undervalued labor that continue to shape the experience of motherhood.
Free entry. Everyone is welcome, cultural workers with children, without children, unsure if parenting is possible within practice, and children themselves.
Realized as part of Double Voiced, an artistic research project by Christina Stuhlberger at LUCA School of Arts / KU Leuven.
All the while, elephy’s heart and mind is with the people of Gaza and the hostages taken on the 7th of October. We support, unequivocally, an immediate ceasefire and a free Palestine, and condemn Israel’s unrelentless attack on the Palestinian people.
Hunting for safety
and eager for peace
We follow the leaders who chew up
the land (…)
I’m standing in place
I’m holding your hand
and pieces of children
on patches of sand
- June Jordan, ‘March Song’, Living Room (1985)
Living Room June Jordan Palestine Reader
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