Screening

Labkhand Olfatmanesh & Ashley Menestrina: Cycle II “Baby Maybe Series”

13 Sep 2020

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Sun, 13 Sep: 09:00 – 10:00

Timezone: Europe/London

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Hosted by: Maiden LA

Language: English
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Labkhand Olfatmanesh & Ashley Menestrina: Cycle II “Baby Maybe Series”

Sunday, September 13, 2020
9:00 AM 10:00 AM

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Launched in 2018, Baby Maybe is an ongoing project by Labkhand Olfatmanesh comprising performance, photographs, film, and interviews with women of childbearing age, and interactive gallery experiences that really explores the emotions around this question.

Ashley and Labkhand are collaborating on a series of conceptual movement-based recordings structured around the nine-month gestation period from conception to birth.
By showcasing forms of water in progressively growing frames of movement and
Existence, they also show the cleansing properties of how women can wash away these
Loaded expectations put upon them.

Labkhand states, “Being born female means being born having to answer to others for
The choices you make with regards to your body.”

Ashley said, “Inner turmoil of monthly cycles serves as enough reminder of what our bodies can do. Weight. Pain. Flow. Embarrassment. But our bodies know how to wash themselves out. We will not use what is not needed.”

The series of nine videos will be displayed daily on the Baby Maybe website from 09/09/2020 at 9 am and each day is a series of performance and documentation daily installations that dance around motherhood myth.

Please note, there will be an Artist Talk on Sep 20 at 11 am, Live on ZOOM: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/labkhand-olfatmanesh-maiden-la-30927037371 / RSVP labbiemanesh@gmail.com

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Image Credit: Nousha Salimi “Underpining Syncopations”