- Venue
- Zoom
- Date
- Wednesday, October 13, 2021
01:00 PM - Address
- Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83371265699?pwd=K20xN0R6ai9ZQnpLQmVxTEZqYTFFdz09 Meeting ID: 833 7126 5699 Passcode: 663129
- Location
- London
- Organiser
- The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations
In this talk on Wed, 13 Oct at 13:00 BST, Simone Kennedy re-imagines a symbolic mother shaped from experience. Referencing the memory of her own mother interconnected with her sense of ‘self’, Kennedy extends a genuine exposure to the realm of something darker, revealing the uncanny mother, the strange and unexpected lost mother (the illusionary, ever-changing mother), the mother who reinterprets and delivers feelings of loss, mourning and fragmentation.
In this deep paradoxical attachment, Simone will use this Lunchtime Talk to open up questions about the unresolved difference that defines the history of absence and within this realm investigate with the audience, new ways of delivering a shared experience of absence.
Simone continues to amass a large body of work with unconventional themes which explore and challenge the intersubjective mother/child relationship. As Visiting Artist-in-Residence at the Tavistock Institute (1 September – 30 October 2021), in alliance with the UK/AU Season Cultural Exchange 2021-22, Simone responds to Tavistock thinking, drawing on shared methodologies, research, self-reflective analysis and the investigation of sleep/dreams, a site where visual methodologies are explored to tease out divergent points of storytelling.
Drawing on her experience as a children’s book illustrator, Simone utilises the number twenty-six to support the storytelling and movement apparent in her ideas. Experiments through series are created, often with the bifurcation of the number twenty-six into thirteen to re-imagine various forms of ‘conversation’, creating pathways sometimes leading to critical discussion with and without the symbolic mother.
