Mother Load—Katherine Nolan

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Join us for 'Mother Load' by  Katherine Nolan, as part of Becoming Tallaght Performing Arts Festival 2025

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Becoming Tallaght

Becoming Tallaght Performance Arts Festival 2025

15:00—16:00, Thursday, 25 SeptemberDuration: 60 minutesLocation: Lidl, 24 Main Rd, Tallaght → St.Mary's PrioryA mother walks through Tallaght village, laden down with little bodies, their arms clutching at her neck and legs dangling as she moves. Both visceral and absurd, this performance asks viewers to consider what it is like to bear the weight of care. Mothers' bare bodies in their bodies, sometimes those bodies are lost or never come into being, sometimes mothers are unable to nourish the bodies they are tasked with caring for. The physical and emotional burden can be at times unbearable, and yet invisible. The Mother Load makes the weight of motherhood visible, in all its burden, messiness and absurdity. Travelling from the mundanity of the supermarket, this performance drags motherhood through the streets to the elevated heights of the arches at St. Mary’s Priory.Audience members can choose to bring and donate an object of their relationship to motherhood if they wish: a baby grow outworn or one never worn, something sullied, something precious – if it’s hard to let go, the Mother Load will bear the weight for you.About Katherine NolanKatherine Nolan is an artist, lecturer, and curator. She works primarily in live and lens-based performance, investigating themes of gender and embodiment in live and digital spaces. Her recent project Fluid Flesh explored the maternal and the mortal through embodied experiences across performance, photography, and audio-visual installation.She has performed extensively at international venues such as Supermarket Art Fair Stockholm, MeinBlau Projecktraum Berlin, Mobius Boston and Panoply Performance Lab New York. Other notable performances include a twelve hour durational as part of Future Histories at Kilmainham Gaol (2016). Solo exhibitions include Fluid Flesh (2021) and The Mistress of the Mantle (2017) at MART Dublin. Recent group shows include The Irish Contemporaries (2023) at the Centre for Irish Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and Hold on Tight (2022) at The Golden Thread Gallery in Belfast. She is currently a Lecturer in Creative Digital Media at Technological University Dublin and co-curator with Livestock: Performance Art Platform.

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Mother Load—Katherine Nolan

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