Mothers without Hands - Folkestone Women's Form & Tereza Bušková
The premiere of a new video artwork featuring members of the local Czech, Slovak, Roma & artist communities.
Date: Friday 10 October
Opening Times: 20.00 - 22.00
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Location: Kollectiv, 69 The Old High Street CT20 1RN
Join us in Folkestone for the world premiere of Mothers without Hands (2025), a new video artwork by contemporary Czech-born artist Tereza Bušková, featuring local members of the Czech, Slovak, Roma & British communities. The screening will be followed by a discussion between Bušková and project curator Dr Nicola Baird and an audience Q&A.
Mothers without Hands (2025) marks the culmination of an international, multidisciplinary & folklore-inspired community art project encompassing a series of empowering workshops & participatory processions in the UK & Czechia designed to raise awareness of violence against women. Mothers without Hands represents Bušková’s belief in art for social change that is not only defiant, but also symbolic, soulful & celebratory. It features ethereal performances by the artist’s muse, Zoe Simon, hauntingly beautiful folk singing by Karolina Wegrzyn & rousing accompanying music by cellist Bela Emerson & violinist Ann Jones.
Rooted in ritual and collective creativity, the project featured a series of empowering workshops and participatory processions. In Folkestone, Bušková joined forces with Take Up Space Festival and Folkestone Women’s Forum for a striking International Women’s Day procession. Local Czech, Slovak, Roma and British participants – including three ‘bread women’ clad in mirrored, bread-encrusted armour – took to the streets, carrying hand-crafted totems charged with symbolism and strength.
These surreal, defiant images were born out of community baking and making sessions with women and non-binary people – setting the tone for a project that fuses myth, magic and social action.
Dr Nicola Baird
Editorial Assistant, International Yearbook of Futurism Studies, De Gruyter
Most recent publications:
Baird, Nicola, Heritage and Identity, Museums and Memory- Recreating Heritage: The Case of David Bomberg and The Sarah Rose Collection at London South Bank University, AMPS Proceedings Series, 35.3, 2024. https://amps-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Amps-Proceedings-Series-35.3_2024_B.pdf
Baird, Nicola “Who’s Sidney Hunt? … He Was a Homosexual”: Artist, Editor, and Forgotten Pioneer of Queer Art and of the European Avant-Garde in Britain. Journal of Avant-Garde Studies, vol. 3 no.1-2, 2023, p.201-228. https://brill.com/view/journals/jags/3/1-2/article-p201_10.xml
Baird, Nicola. "“In Itself a Work of Art”: Word-Image Encounters in Ray: Art Miscellany." The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, vol. 13 no. 1, 2022, p. 182-198. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/857998.
Most recent exhibition: Knots: Jonny Briggs x Burgh House- Contemporary Interventions into an Historic House, Burgh House, London, Sept 2021-March 2022
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Find out more about the artist:
Tereza's Website
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Facebook: Tereza
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Facebook: Folkestone Women's Forum
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