Projects
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concept, onderzoek Anne-Laure Vandeputte I onderzoek (?) Constanze Wouters I kostuums Thomas Van Imschoot I dramaturgisch advies Purni Morell I muziek Andrew Van Ostade I licht Caroline Mahieu I productie KWP Kunstenwerkplaats I coproductie CAMPO, KAAP, NTGent I met dank aan Brakke Grond, Monty, C-Mine, Explore The North. Dit onderzoek wordt gesteund door De Vlaamse Overheid.

Who’s your Daddy?

KWP production

Residencies

  • 13.10 > 17.10.2026
  • 14.09 > 26.09.2026

In Who’s your Daddy?, Anne-Laure Vandeputte exa­mi­nes the soci­al blue­print of parenthood. In this new research, she starts from the ques­ti­on: what do we con­si­der a ​‘suc­ces­sful’ fami­ly, and which beliefs dri­ve this ide­al? To what extent does the out­si­de world deter­mi­ne our view on the inti­ma­te spa­ce of our fami­ly, and the indi­vi­du­al choi­ces we make regar­ding whe­ther or not to have child­ren? In doing so, she focu­ses spe­ci­fi­cally on queer fami­ly struc­tu­res and fami­ly forms that fall out­si­de the tra­di­ti­o­nal nuclear fami­ly, whi­le also ques­ti­o­ning the posi­ti­on of the mother as the cen­tral care­gi­ver. This research pro­vi­des the ide­al bree­ding ground for cre­a­ting abra­si­ve per­for­ma­ti­ve mate­ri­al and rela­ta­ble, lay­e­red charac­ters, wit­hout searching for con­clu­si­ve ans­wers. What if parenthood is ele­va­ted to per­for­man­ce? Isn’t parenthood alrea­dy intrin­si­cally per­for­ma­ti­ve, when a cer­tain role is assu­med in order to rela­te to a cre­a­tu­re that is com­ple­te­ly depen­dent on you? And what free­dom can be found within that performativity?

In this pro­ject, Vandeputte uses male drag as a per­for­ma­ti­ve form. Drag is an art form that, among other things, chal­len­ges soci­al rules by exag­ge­ra­ting ste­reo­ty­pes for example. She explo­res the per­for­ma­ti­ve free­dom of drag, con­nects it to the the­me of parenthood, and see­ks cross-pol­li­na­ti­on with her back­ground in text-based theater.

Just as in her pre­vious work, the per­for­man­ce My Body as a Commodity, she explo­res the bounda­ry bet­ween the the­a­tri­ca­li­ty of rea­li­ty and the pure­ly per­for­ma­ti­ve. In this way, she aims to break open our soci­al nar­ra­ti­ves on sta­ge and ques­ti­on them together with the audience.

con­cept, onder­zoek Anne-Laure Vandeputte I artis­tie­ke onder­zoeks­part­ners Constanze Wouters, Thomas Van Imschoot, Purni Morell, Andrew Van Ostade, Caroline Mahieu I pro­duc­tie KWP Kunstenwerk­plaats I copro­duc­tie CAMPO, KAAP, NTGent I met dank aan Brakke Grond, Monty, C‑Mine, Explore The North. Dit onder­zoek wordt gesteund door De Vlaamse Overheid.