Roots
Roots (Unbelonging) is a poetic exploration of family ties, heritage and loss. From a trans*crip perspective, the piece looks at mothering (unmothering, remothering, antimothering) and its limits.
Still from the performative poem “Kiwi” from Robin Ilian Grossmann’s Roots (Unbelonging). Photo Credit: Rosa Knecht
Who cares for us beyond the failing structures of the state and the nuclear family? How do we construct kinship without insisting on blood relations? What is the nature of the “other”, and what is its function?
Through a series of performative poems, Robin Ilian Grossmann constructs a kaleidoscopic mirror, confronting the audience with their own projections. Roots (Unbelonging) engages its audience viscerally through textual images surrounding the body, its processes and its end points.