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Katarina Radaljac: Cross-species Motherhood under Oppression: Education through Sound Communication
UNFAMILIAR AREA: Katarina Radaljac Cross-species Motherhood under Oppression: Education through Sound Communication Monday, 3 March 2025
On-line exhibition and audio-video lecture Available through the Alkatraz Gallery webpage at www.galerijalkatraz.org
In Slovene Free entry
UNFAMILIAR AREA: Katarina Radaljac Cross-species Motherhood under Oppression: Education through Sound Communication What does it mean to be a mother in today’s world? Who is seen and accepted as a mother and who isn’t? Does a mother need to be a woman, does a mother need to be biologically connected with a child, do a mother and a child need to be of the same species? Do we acknowledge other-than-human mothers at all? Do we acknowledge their efforts and wishes to raise their young ones in piece, their wishes to provide shelter for their children, wishes to calm them down, and to support and teach them how to be independent? What does it mean to be a mother during a genocide, a mother in a war zone, a mother in a farrowing crate, a mother in animal agriculture? Audio-visual piece Cross-species Motherhood is created in the form of a performative lecture and educates broader public about cross-species motherhood with a focus on the importance of sound communication between a mother and a child for safety, bonding, or educational reasons. The intersection of oppressive systems in which these mothers are raising their infants is also emphasized. The main part of Cross-species Motherhood piece is a sound compilation, created with the recordings of Palestinian, Ukrainian, Kurdish, and Selk’nam lullabies, sound communication of a humpback whale mother and a calf, egg song, hen sounds that teach chicks where the food is and pigs lullabies – one recorded at a free range farm and one at an intensive farm, while mother was in a farrowing crate. *This video is the first part of the project Cross-species Motherhood. The broader aspects of the project, including live instalation and lecture will be a part of next International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns. Katarina Radaljac is a Slovenian activist with an MA in musicology. In their research, they are focusing on non-human animal music and sound communication. In this process, they connect different scientific and artistic fields, such as zoomusicology, applied ethnomusicology, sound ecology, human-animal studies, animal ethics and others. They are a curator of the cross-species, ecological concert cycle ‘AnimotMUZIK,’ co-author of an interactive workshop for children ‘Along the paths of interspecies communication’ and author of several articles and publications addressing animal music, sound ecology and animal ethics. Currently, they are studying at the Nuremberg University of Music in Germany at the master’s program Interdisciplinary Music Research with the focus on Human-Animal Studies. Info Organization: 26th International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns (KUD Mreža) Coproductin/co-organisation: Alcatraz Gallery (KUD Mreža)) Curated by: Ana Grobler Proof-reading: Sonja Benčina Graphic image design: Lenča Malec Contacts for the media: Saša Nemec, rdece.zore@gmail.com Translation (to English): Ana Makuc Financial support: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, City Council Ljubljana |
Katarina Radaljac: Cross-species Motherhood under Oppression: Education through Sound Communication
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