Samantha Toyer

About Samantha’s Research:

A practice research project developed by the fact that mothers remain disadvantaged despite decades of public policy and activism. Contemporary cultural and political thinking focuses on individual experience- yet motherhood matters to us all. We are all children of mothers. In performance research, maternal autobiography challenges dominant discourses. However, its typical staging of individual stories risks reinforcing marginalisation and reducing the political potential of maternal identity. ‘Maternal Multiplicities’ will explore the potential of solo autobiographical performance representing not only multiple maternities, but motherhood itself as multiplicity. Resituating motherhood as interconnected, relational and collective extends established performance practice and through this, disrupts individualist discourses which serve to oppress and marginalise.