Art & Beauty
Postpartum Punk: make space for unfiltered creativity
December 29, 2024
9:10 PM – 9:50 PM Add to calendar
9:10 PM – 9:50 PM Add to calendar
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After years as a journalist and filmmaker covering topics like crypto, holocaust and showbiz, everything changed for me 3 years ago after the birth of my daughter.
While I haven't planned to be a mother, I decided to keep this pregnancy at 41, however this grass turn out to be too high for lawn mower – I was ready to go for a rave, not to be locked in a baby dark room for 3 years.
I felt like my brain had been reprogrammed overnight. The analytical mindset I once relied on—quick to analyse, explore, and understand complex topics—seemed to vanish, replaced by a simpler, instinct-driven state that prioritized pure survival and nurturing yet mixed with unhinged chaos, aux naturelle psychedelic downloads plus no sense of inhibition or fear of being seen.
Hand cuffed to a rainbow I was gazing at the black clouds.
Despite the shock at this involuntarily IQ transplant, I quickly realised this new mind-tool-set was all in all fulfilling and liberating.
I became my own fire brigade with an alternative emergency strap-on.
Without the pressure to think analytically, I began channelling this raw energy into my joke band PUShY PUShY PUShY, creating what I now call postpartum punk movement.
The idea caught on – this summer we have been featured in the Guardian and The New Yorker.
This fuels my missionarism towards another level: how can we embrace this wild, intuitive mindset, not only as parents but as people? And could new technologies help us experience or even learn from this state?
In this talk, I’ll share my story and propose some solutions to help people connect and utilise with this raw, abstract, flippant side of the mind, whether or not they’ve experienced parenthood: algorithm jams, transcranial births, chaos VR sessions, coding wife swaps, quantum aerobics, fertility raves.
Additional information
| Live Stream | https://streaming.media.ccc.de/38c3/eins |
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| Type | Talk |
| Language | English |
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