Maternal Excercises - Deirdre Donoghue

The ’Research-Play-Ritual’ space in the exhibition of the Dolf Henkes Award 2014 is created by Ewoud van Rijn to explore the tangents and overlaps between contemporary artistic and spiritual practices. Within Ewoud van Rijn’s research project ‘Teacher, Student, Researcher’ Deirdre Donoghue will expand on her notion of ‘the mother’ as a guardian of time and space’ in her performance ’Exercises in Paying Attention & Holding the Space’ on sunday 11th of January from 14:00 till 16:00hrs.

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You’re invited to participate in ’Exercises in Paying Attention & Holding the Space’
Please send an email to esther@tentrotterdam.nl if you’re interested to participate in the performance.
These encounters are often recorded and subsequently presented through mediums such as video, performance, writing and installation.

Deirdre M. Donoghue (b. 1971, Finland) lives and works in Rotterdam. She is a mother, visual and performance artist, writer, researcher, doula-in-training and founder of the international m/other voices foundation whose purpose is to initiate discourse and the doing of maternal theory within arts and other fields of cultural production. In her artworks she sets up social scenarios and specifically framed human encounters where multiple relations can be set into motion, through which the production of new knowledge via cross-disciplinary approaches becomes mobilized.
She is initially trained as an actor at The Commedia School (DK) and worked for several years as a performer and a director. She received a BA Degree in Photography, Dublin Institute of Technology (IE), Diploma in Postgraduate Studies, Piet Zwart Institute (NL) and MA Degree in Fine Arts, The Plymouth University (UK).