October 12th, 2024 from 12:00 to 13:45
In the maKINg – a score to design models of kin families
An intervention at the event Family Labor/atory, initated by SOPHIA
Recyclart, Brussels
In the maKINg is a tool; a game; a score; and mainly a reason to get together to collectively stretch the imagination muscle.
Many of us wish to engage with kin commitments, expanding our ideas of what a family can be. Yet, when we look around us; at the relationships that society supports and legitimates; at the ways in which romantic love prevails over friendship, and how nuclear family models inform our desires, we realize that our choices are limited and that our imagination is ever so narrow.
Upon joining the game, you will be invited to sit around a table with 4 people who will become your kin family members for an hour. Through a guided score, you will collectively articulate the kinship bonds practiced in your fictional family. Through fantasizing about the roles, relations, values, needs, rebellions, powers, interdependence, and loves that bring family members together, unexpected models might emerge which, hopefully not too far from here and now, might be made possible.
