Book launch: ‘Motherload’ by Anna Margrethe Pedersen and Ditte Soria

Wednesday, February 20 at 5–6.30 pm the book ‘Motherload’ is launched in Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Motherload is a collection of new and older works that circles loosely around the subject of motherhood. “It is clear to us that the mother does not have a fixed role but that she performs centrally or at the periphery of virtually everything. Motherhood is made up of a polyphonic and rather penetrating choir of voices, and it is a small selection of these voices we have gathered in this book in harmony and murmur.” The book has been edited and layout by Anna Margrethe Pedersen and Ditte Soria and contains works and excerpts from Margaret Atwood, Judy Chicago, Sara Deraedt, Hannah Heilmann, Maria Hesselager, Elfriede Jelinek, Kristine Kemp, Liv Sejrbo Lidegaard, Reba Maybury, LeRoy McDermott (et al.), Jonathan Messe, Rasmus Myrup, Maggie Nelson, Saskia te Nicklin, New Noveta, Pernille Zidore Nygaard, Michala Paludan, Anna Margrethe Pedersen, Rasmus Røhling, Emma Sheridan, Ditte Soria, Lewis Teague Wright og Amelie von Wulffen.

For the occasion, artist and actor Casey Jane Ellison’s  entertaining talk show ‘Mothers and Daughters’ (or ‘M.A.D.’) is screened for the first time in Denmark. “Mothers. You can’t live with them. You can’t live without them. Literally.” Casey Jane Ellison’s surreal unscripted talk show sits mothers and their daughters down to help them explore their own, often underrepresented, connections. Full of unexpected twists and turns, M.A.D. critically asks what it is to have, become, and be a mother.

Furthermore, there will be Motherload music by artist and DJ Lewis Teague Wright, and writer Liv Sejrbo Lidegaard will read ‘Et kryppespil’ from the book.