Delighted to announce that my article Double Void, Time, trauma and Matrescence has been published in The International Journal of performance arts and digital media. In a special edition, edited by Elena Marchevska, I explore maternal performance and time-based film work made in the late 90s to the early noughties within the context of matrescence (the time of ‘mother becoming’) and argue that through time and trauma it is a process that is continual and never finalised.
For more information about the project is on my project archive: Double Void 2001 – Delpha Hudson or get in touch Contact – Delpha Hudson if you would like to receive a free link to the journal online.
Abstract: Double Void, Time, trauma and Matrescence by Delpha Hudson
My personal story is a significant part of a story that now at 60 (and a ‘good enough’ grandma), I feel more than ever is about time and trauma. In re-visiting past performance and media art works that I made in the early noughties with a matrescent lens I explore the continual process of becoming mother as a process of Self that can never be finalized.
I made maternal performance-media works from 1998 with the aim of making visible lived experiences of motherhood because I didn’t see ‘real,’ if any representations of motherhood around me. Re-visiting my performance and media installations of the 90s within the context of matrescence is a belated activity. Looking at Double Void 2001 in detail and its use of live performance juxtaposed with time-based film, I continue to explore the unfolding trauma and return in which mothers adapt to motherhood, I continue conversations with past selves, past theory and research and multiply time frames (and the gaps between) to explore and amplify the ever-changing landscape of ‘becoming mother’.