“MUME: Inside, Outwards and Back Within” is part of MUME’s annual program on memory and the right to be forgotten. The performance was conceived by Roberta Lazo Valenzuela (CL) and is presented in collaboration with Rosa Fuerpass-Netocny (AT). In her performance, Roberta Lazo crochets woolen threads reminiscent of organs while vocalizing songs of solace and belonging to mothers. In doing so, she unsettles the romanticized narrative of pregnancy and reveals the body as a vessel of both individual and collective memory.This body, oriented toward the functionality of nurturing a new other, later faces the grief of emptiness after having been occupied. Drawing from her personal experience, Lazo asks: How does this experience transform the relationship with one’s own body and identity? How does one reconnect with external normality and the surrounding world afterward? What memories are preserved, and what forgettings are set into motion? Inevitably, her proposal also alludes to the artist-as-vessel who, by hosting and nourishing, becomes filled and emptied, constantly deconstructing and reinventing. October 3, 2025, Kunstraum (former mortuary), Pfarrgarten, 3465 Koenigsbrunn am Wagram, Lower Austria.
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