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instagram @alenacapone
Topic
maternity
childhood
caring
growth
everyday life
nurse
observe
carry
play
immersion
relationship
parenting
Medium
painting
sketch
installation
Artist Statement
In my work i focus on my daily life as young mother of two small kids. I observe and discover our relation, their growth and try to collect everything in painting.
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Hersbruck
Germany
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Alena Scharrer
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Alena Scharrer
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MAYDAY: distress call
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<a href="http://Www.Brettegabel.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Www.Brettegabel.com</a>
Topic
domesticity
motherhood
postpartum anxiety
Medium
textile
quilting
sculpture
installation
Artist Statement
My artistic practice is an ongoing examination of the subtle emotional space between feelings of comfort and discomfort. Since having a child in 2015 my work has explored my anxieties as a mother. The work considers domestic space, distress calls and repetition.
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Brette gabel
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Brette Gabel
domesticity
installation
motherhood
postpartum anxiety
quilting
sculpture
textile
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<a href="http://claraalden.se" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://claraalden.se</a>
Topic
maintenance art
maternal art
reproduction/production
Medium
video
audio
text
sculpture
drawing
installation
Artist Statement
Clara Aldén (1988) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Gothenburg, Sweden. During the last few years, her practice has revolved mainly around topics of domesticity and the maternal. Within Aldéns artistic practice, motherhood is considered a practice and not a state of being. Likewise, this practice is not considered to be limited by biological bounds. This view is inspired by Donna Haraway’s thoughts on kin-making, and even if the interest for the maternal grew out of Aldéns own experiences of motherhood, her practice stretches away from direct biological connotations and explores the practice of maternity in the expanded notion. The notion of care, regarding interruption as a positive force, and trying to work in a relational and non-autonomous manner are important maternal aspects within her work. Collaboration is another important aspect, and within her latest projects, her children have been her most important collaborators.
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Clara Aldén
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Clara Aldén
audio
drawing
installation
maintenance art
maternal art
reproduction/production
sculpture
text
video
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<a href="https://www.jacquelinebelljohnson.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.jacquelinebelljohnson.com/</a>
Topic
fertility/infertility
motherhood
children portraiture
child wonderment
mother and child art collaboration
Medium
installation
sculpture
photography
mixed media
printmaking
writing
Artist Statement
I spent almost 2 decades of my life with a chronic illness that was presumed to make pregnancy impossible. My work at that time explored the concepts of a body shriveled, of war between thought and failure, and anger at the system I was locked into. When I had children, at first, the art I made were these fleeting seconds of beauty in between the demands of infants. Now that my children are at an age (3 and 5) where they can participate with me on artistic adventures and pursue their own. We do projects together at times, collaborating in art making. I also take their portraits, fascinated at how such young little people can have fully developed personalities of their own. I watch them play and want to capture that magical disposition. My work et al is inherently feminist; addressing my past, and larger considerations of gendered labor, including the caregiving labor expected of women both inside and outside the home.
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Jacqueline Bell Johnson
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Jacqueline Bell Johnson
child wonderment
children portraiture
fertility/infertility
installation
mixed media
mother and child art collaboration
motherhood
photography
printmaking
sculpture
writing
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<a href="http://www.rcoutureart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.rcoutureart.com</a>
Topic
motherhood
postpartum depression
miscarriage
Medium
photography
sculpture
installation
video
Artist Statement
Influenced by the personal and the political, I explore a wide range of themes within my work. I have developed a diverse practice that allows my ideas to dictate media, form, and process. The project SUBROSA (Miscarriage) explores the confusion, sadness, conflicting emotions, and the process of moving forward after miscarriage. Sub rosa is the Latin term for "under the rose," which means "in secret.” For many, miscarriage is a secret and solitary experience. This may seem odd given one in four pregnancies result in miscarriage, approximately 750,000 to 1,000,000 every year in the United States. However, scores of women or families miscarry alone due to the “12-week rule.” Medically, miscarriage is treated as a “routine pregnancy complication.” Your doctor or midwife explain options. You receive a booklet with pictures and explanations designed to inform a woman/couple of the why’s and what-happens-next. People are uncomfortable talking about pregnancy loss, so they don’t. How do you mourn someone who never came into being? There are no rituals for miscarriage, thus no cultural steps or process designed to aid in mourning. You try to imagine a new future, a new what-happens-next. And in time, you do, though it is difficult.
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Renee Couture
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Renee Couture
installation
miscarriage
motherhood
photography
postpartum depression
sculpture
video
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<a href="http://www.christiancruzperformance.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.christiancruzperformance.com</a>
Topic
sex after children
birthing (labor)
breastmilk
postpartum
body positivity
sex after children
Medium
performance art
installation
painting
poetry
sculpture
Artist Statement
My work takes the form of performance, installation, video, and photo. Through the poetic exploration of the mundane, I dignify invisible labor. Invisible Labor includes the emotional, spiritual, and domestic labor that it takes for human reproduction. Invisible labor is undervalued within a capitalist society. I create environments and objects that reexamine what is valuable within our society today, heal the imagination, and ritualize this radical process into a future reality.
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Christian Cruz
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Christian Cruz
birthing (labor)
body positivity
breastfeeding
breastmilk
installation
painting
performance art
poetry
postpartum
sculpture
sex after children
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3553f61b507ce9167cc4e4c4469779ba
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<a href="https://elisa-ortega-montilla.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://elisa-ortega-montilla.com</a>
Topic
gender
women's rights
sexuality
objectification of the female body
immigration
adoption
Medium
installation
sculpture
Artist Statement
Growing up in the 1980s in Spain, ten years after my country transitioned from dictatorship to democracy, has marked the way I relate to materials in my art practice. I grew up hearing stories from my grandmother about the Spanish Civil War while she mended hand-me-downs for me from my cousins. What was a result of economic austerity from the Franco years later became an ethical choice for me. My work explores three fundamental parts of who I am: my experience of being a woman and my feminist values; my feelings of acculturation from living in the US while maintaining my Spanish identity; and my opposition to consumerism and commitment to environmental sustainability. My practice uses installations, wood sculptures, and reclaimed and overlooked textiles, addressing themes of memory, transformation, adaptation, and identity through materials that have been discarded, deconstructed, and reconstructed. I mix the found and the made, the new and the old; tradition and experimentation, the mass-produced and the handmade; my Spanish values and my American experience, the present and the past. I’m drawn to the expressive and experiential nature of abstraction because it provides me with a universal language that transcends regions, structures, and categories. Non-binary anthropomorphic volumes, bodily suggestions, sensual movements, and feminine shapes are oblique references to the human condition and a soft invocation of the female body.
Location
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Santa Barbara
California
USA
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Elisa Ortega
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Elisa Ortega Montilla
adoption
gender
immigration
installation
objectification of the female body
sculpture
sexuality
women´s rights
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<a href="https://www.annalouiserichardson.com/about.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.annalouiserichardson.com/about.html</a>
Topic
parenthood
rural
regional,
danger
anxiety
documentation of rural motherhood
farming
animals
Artist Residency in Motherhood
Medium
drawing
charcoal
installation
Artist Statement
Anna Louise Richardson is an artist and freelance curator investigating rural Australian identity and associated mythologies. Richardson works primarily in charcoal and graphite on cement fibreboard, using a realistic approach, flattened perspective, cut-out shapes and manipulated scale to amplify the subject matter. Her artistic practice reveals ideas of intergenerational exchange, parenthood and signifiers of identity based on her experiences of life in rural Australia living and working on a multi-generation family farm.
The complexities of human relationships with the natural world and the intergenerational qualities of these relationships are driving themes throughout her practice. Richardson's work depicts animals as a recurring motif to examine shared values on the role of animals in culture, commerce and ecology and how these are shaped through different histories, storytelling and imagination.
Richardson shares a studio on the farm with her husband Abdul-Rahman Abdullah– a Malay/Australian Muslim artist whose sculptural practice draws on the narrative capacity of animals to explore the intersection of politics, cultural identity and the natural world. Their two daughters, Aziza and Althea are the seventh generation to grow up on the property.
Richardson holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Curtin University of Technology, Perth and has been a practicing artist since 2014. Primarily a visual artist, since having her first child she has also contracted as a freelance curator working with Australian art institutions, festivals and organisations.
In 2019 Richardson completed Aziza’s Zodiac (2018-19), a 12-panel artwork featuring one animal for every month of a year after the birth of her first daughter. The work, a yearlong project created for an exhibition designed for child audiences reflected Aziza's life, told through the animals around her. This was the start of a new direction for Richardson's practice and serves as a record of her daughter’s personal history on the farm and responds to her own evolving narrative of motherhood in a rural setting.
Her most recent work examines what domestic and familiar objects may tell us about our own histories, presents and futures. She has been drawing objects that reflect household hazards such as rat poison, knives and power cords, highlighting the proximity of danger present in everyday life, particularly those that underline parental worry. These works speak directly to our common sense of anxiety about danger, our collective fear of death, and our innate need to protect the ones we love.
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Anna Louise Richardson
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Anna Louise Richardson
animals
anxiety
artist residency in motherhood
Danger
Documentation of Rural Motherhood
Farming
parenthood
Regional
Rural
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<a href="http://www.anadiaknox.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.anadiaknox.com</a>
Topic
breastfeeding
nurturing
postpartum body
sexuality
motherhood
parenthood
Medium
performance
sculpture
installation
video
photography
Artist Statement
My most recent body of work utilizes themes relating to body, identity and time, from the perspective of a mother, partner and individual. I am interested in the ways that nurturing and caring for a child translates as occupational labor, and how this makes common cause with the working class by exploring the laborious nature of parenthood. I approach these ideas through various methods, including casting, construction and performance. While the different series in this body of work investigate separate ideas relating to roles of the postpartum body, a shared use of material can be seen throughout. Construction materials such as wooden pallets, 2x4s and scaffolding reference blue collar workforce, while breast milk storage bags and nursing pads suggest the time-consuming and repetitive notions associated with motherhood. The series in this body of work evolves as my role as a caretaker evolves, and aims to question how modern society values parenthood.
Location
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Loris
South Carolina
USA
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Alexandra Knox
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Alexandra Knox
breastfeeding
installation
motherhood
nurturing
parenthood
performance
photography
postpartum body
sculpture
sexuality
video
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<a href="http://www.deirdrecolganjones.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.deirdrecolganjones.com</a>
Topic
found snack debris
tentative structures
Medium
sculpture
installation
found and discarded materials
Artist Statement
Neglected Space forms a structure for my work. Part of my practice is collecting ordinarily discarded objects, and their accumulation makes them primary building material. Having trained as an architect and as an artist, my installations and objects are grounded within existing architectural theory and vocabulary, yet seek to challenge the boundaries of formal practice. Most pieces are determined by their site and are supported by traditional architecture and materials. Together they produce a kind of absurd space. Through my work I seek to question the usual order and dominance inherent in our ordinary built environment.
Location
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Chicago
Illinois
USA
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Deirdre Colgan Jones
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Deirdre Colgan Jones
found and discarded materials
found snack debris
installation
sculpture
tentative structures
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4acc87dcfab45810f12915a39cf4b970
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<a href="http://www.daniellehatch.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.daniellehatch.com</a>
Topic
motherhood
the female body as a source of nourishment
Medium
installation
photography
Artist Statement
Working across disciplines of performance, installation, and sculpture, Danielle Hatch uses the materials of home-making and home-building to explore what lies underneath the surface of domesticity. Her work investigates feminine identity as something we build through narrative. In giving form to intergenerational knowledge, the interior lives of mothers, and intimate friendships between women, she seeks to make visible the underlying structures that have historically kept women from expressing themselves authentically, and turns to the feminine lived experience as a site of potential empowerment.
Location
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Bentonville
Arkansas
USA
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Danielle Hatch
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Danielle Hatch
installation
motherhood
photography
the female body as a source of nourishment
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<a href="http://www.babsiloisch.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.babsiloisch.com</a>
<a href="http://www.instagram.com/babsiactually/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">instagram.com/babsiactually/</a>
Medium
installation
video
photography
performance
public programming
sculpture
textile
drawing
reseach
writing
conceptual art
walking art
curation
Location
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Los Angeles
California
USA
Artist Statement
As an artist, conversationalist, mover, and archivist, I use video, sound as well as<br />unconventional and overlooked materials like words, time, relationships and movement as<br />components to create. My work revolves around acknowledging the body as simultaneous site<br />of production, care and labor.<br /><br /><br />While the body of the mother is still only barely tolerated within the contemporary art world, I<br />want to replace this isolation with the idea of sharing community in times of personal struggle.<br />By using "physicality as production" as a methodological principle my work provides glimpses<br />into the maze of enigmas - time precarity, gender roles within the arts, labor relations and the<br />body as a multifaceted vehicle - that I am trying to find a way through and that allows others to<br />share my questions and ask questions with me.<br /><br />Laying bare my experience in the strange, cozy, blurred zone of not being just one, but also not<br />being two the work aims to mirror and encourage an intimate approach to the interdependence<br />of minds and bodies. Embedded in curiosity, open-endedness and exposedness, I very much<br />believe in vulnerability and in art as a means of assemblage and survival in precarious times.<br />Seeing myself and my work as spinning a subtle thread of positive contamination, I want to think<br />of my practice as fostering a constellation in which art is a direct tribute to the spirit of sharing<br />and connection between communities.
Topic
care
labor
body
work
homework
gender roles
lactation
motherhood
parenthood
community
time
movement
parenting
caretaking
invisibility
production
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2020 Homework, ArtCenter DTLA, Los Angeles
2020 Suffra-Jetting, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago
2019 CURRENT LA 2019- food, Palms Park, Los Angeles
2019 I’m here, Art in the Park, Los Angeles
2019 Female Gaze, Art Share LA, Los Angeles
2019 shifting staying changing dissolving, The Reef, Los Angeles
2018 Reading catalog launch Rattlesnake Bells in the Desert, LACE, Los Angeles
2018 Mileage Allowance, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena
2018 Mileage Allowance, 48 hours of Socially Engaged Art, RedLine, Denver
2018 Festival Screening MôTif Film Festival, Fairbanks, Alaska
2018 Mileage Allowance, HFA, Woodstock Artist Association & Museum, NY
2018 Rattlesnake Bells in the Desert, The Box, Los Angeles
2018 lactation room, CalArts, Los Angeles (solo)
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Babsi Loisch
body
Care
caretaking
community
conceptual art
curation
drawing
gender roles
homework
installation
invisibility
labor
lactation
motherhood
movement
parenthood
parenting
performance
photography
production
public programming
research
sculpture
textile
time
video
walking art
work
writing
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2aef0c77a74b08523da40e0e30bd1ce5
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<a href="http://www.marrinlee.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">marrinlee.com</a>
Topic
postpartum depression
gender roles/equality
climate change/the natural world
Medium
interdisciplinary
painting
soft sculpture
installation
collage
poetry
choreography
Artist Statement
"I make art to move through and express the intensity of moods. Energized by acute sensitivity, I write poetry and create sculptural paintings that parallel the Natural World and experiences in Motherhood.
Moving slowly, I layer ink, dye, pastel and acrylic, until friction gives way to visual balance. A tangle of abstract shapes ripple across the canvas in a choreography of color. As in life, movement is essential in the work I develop."
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Marrin Lee Martinez
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Marrin Lee Martinez
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8df945f534f7f32abcfb9e5908b88ab6
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<a href="http://www.cassiearnoldart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.cassiearnoldart.com</a>
Topic
female identity
miscarriage
communication
Medium
fibers
installation
Artist Statement
My current body of work explores the unspoken and taboo topics connected to miscarriage, pregnancy and the transformative female form. By using traditional fiber techniques, stereotypically associated with women, I hope to create more consistent and honest conversations through approachable art.
Location
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Denton
Texas
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/495">Painting at Night, Fort Houston Gallery, Nashville, TN</a>
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Cassie Arnold
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Cassie Arnold
fiber
installation
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Website
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<a href="http://www.andiarnovitz.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.andiarnovitz.com</a>
Medium
print
artists books
installation
painting
Location
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Jerusalem
Artist Statement
One of the topics my work explores is the tensions that exist within societies
and with the religions in those societies that pressure women into bearing children, and the
insensitivities that arise from this pressure. I particularly explore the medical side effects of
hormone treatments, issues of biological clocks ticking and limited egg reserves. Of particular
interest to me are the ethical and moral issues that accompany sperm and egg donors:
especially issues of greed and overuse of sperm and eggs.
Topic
IVF
halachic infertilit
biblical infertility
motherhood
mothers of soldiers
mothers of soldiers
maternal worry
sperm banks
sperm banks
egg banks
half-siblings
Exhibitions
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“The Black List” /The Jerusalem Artist’s House/ 2017
“Persistent Realities” /USC/2015
Group Exhibit: “Trespassing” The Islamic Museum/Jerusalem/ 2020
Group Exhibit: “Relationships” HUC Museum/NYC/2019
Group Exhibit: “Intimate Transgressions” Chaing Kai Shek Museum of Tapei/ 2016
Group Exhibit: “Spectrum of Sexuality” HUC Musuem/NYC 2012
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Title
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Andi Arnovitz
artists books
biblical infertility
egg banks
halachic infertility
half-siblings
installations
IVF
maternal worry
motherhood
mothers of soldiers
paintings
prints
sperm banks
worry
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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.kimyibo.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.kimyibo.com</a>
Medium
printmaking
installation
drawing
cards
Location
The location of the interview
Geneva
Switzerland
Seoul
Korea
Los Angeles
California
Artist Statement
Since 2010 my art has been about processing my experience of giving birth to and raising children—both the emotional aspect of it and the social context in which my stories are situated. To create a space of shared reflection, I created a collective called Institute of Mothering Artists, IOMA. Here is an excerpt from the manifesto of IOMA: “We are writing a new definition of the word “mother” where the work of caring does not assume a body of a woman, hence we want to use “mother” as an action verb. To mother means to care for or to protect someone or something.” (an excerpt from the manifesto for Institute of Mothering Artists, 2018) My thoughts on “mothering” were inspired by the stance of women who were mothering in the margins. In a book “Revolutionary Mothering,” a collection of writings by radical and queer black feminists, the editors Alexis Pauline Gumbs and China Martens, define mothering as an act of caring, nurturing, affirming, and supporting life. For me, mothering is doing the reproductive labor with love and using this very act of caring for others to fight the injustice. It is transforming the society while being transformed by the act of caring. In my personal art making, I try to capture this metamorphosing process that takes place when we take care of one another. The spaces I create through drawing, printmaking and installation become a metaphoric place where the visual elements and logic recreate the dynamics of interpersonal relationships.
Exhibitions
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2018 oh motHER, Custom House Leith, Edinburgh, UK
2018 Casual Kitchen Art, Curated by Super Ego, Junkere 11, Bern, Switzerland
2018 À Table, Ressources Urbaines, Genève, Switzerland
2017 Paradoxical, Pneu, Velodrome Jonction, Genève, Switzerland
2012 Reflections (Duo Exhibition), Paul Whitney Larson Gallery, University of Minnesota, MN, USA
2012 Blessings II, Gage Family Art Gallery, Augsburg College, MN, USA
2011 Women: Relationship and Identity, Curated by Sarah Sampedro, Homewood Studios, MN, USA
Topic
art
art world
artist collective
artist mother
care
care giving
care labor
care taking
care work
caregivers
caregiving
emotional space
feminism
feminist
feminist art history
gender
gender equality
interdependence
maternal ambivalence
maternal care
maternal subjectivity
mother artist
mother artists
motherhood and art
motherhood and social context
mothering
racialized mothering
revolutionary mothering
queer parenting
representation of motherhood
reproductive labor
social justice
transformation
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KimyiBo
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.wednesdaykim.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.wednesdaykim.com</a>
Medium
multimedia
video
installation
Location
The location of the interview
United States
Artist Statement
Unwelcome experiences from sexual trauma have led me to having intrusive thoughts. These intrusive thoughts and unpleasant ideas became an obsession. The hidden forces of the unconscious blend with traumatic memories and incoherent mixtures from my subconscious mind, forming bizarre images, which appeared in my daydreams and night dreams. Much of my works are like the world refracted through the prism of a schizophrenic mind.
My art involves found objects, assemblage, videos, sculptures, and performance; a mixture of analog, digital, and movement.
I would like the experience of viewers seeing my art to be somewhat like a game of hide-and-seek with me, psychologically. Sometimes I am hiding in my work, trying not to be found; other times, I chase viewers. I do not wish to provide or prescribe what my work means to the viewers. My hope is to connect with the viewers’ own momentary expression as they experience the recordings of my story.
As far as others viewing my artwork, I like to think that momentary catharsis can occur.
Topic
pregnancy
nightmares
trauma
guilty
pleasure
depression
sleepyhead
flustered
scattered
dangling
Exhibitions
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"Mother Art Prize show 2018" / Mimosa House gallery, London, UK <br /><br />2019 Wednesday Kim’s Open studio (supported by The Procreate Project and Create London) / The White House Dagenham, London, UK
"SUPERNOVA 2017 Outdoor Digital Animation Festival" / Denver, USA
"Life 2.0", isthisit? pavilion, The Wrong Biennale 2017 / London, UK
"VIDEOHOUSE II" / Deslave,Tijuana, Méxic
"Lanzarote International Video Art" 2017/ Cultura Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Spain
"FUSE"2017 / Ättiksfabriken Art Space and Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Sweden
"Filmideo 2017" / Index Art Center, Newark, NJ, USA
"Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:"2017 / Re: Art Show, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2019 Wednesday Kim’s Open studio (supported by The <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Procreate Project</a> and Create London) / The White House Dagenham, London, UK
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Wednesday Kim
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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://laurenfrancesevans.com/">http://laurenfrancesevans.com/</a>
Medium
sculpture
collage
video
installation
Location
The location of the interview
Birmingham
Alabama
USA
Artist Statement
As an artist, I am intrigued by the materiality of the flesh and believe it to function as a microcosm that points to various aspects of the immaterial human experience. Years before ever becoming a parent, I was already fascinated by the spiritual and cosmic significance of the human belly button and its relationship to the creative act. As a child I pulled at mine, trying to flip it inside out. Years later, as a graduate student, I poured plaster into it regularly, making castings of its negative space. The belly button is the first mark that life leaves on the body; it is a scar that points to our origins.
Many creation myths describe our world as originating from a central point. The Greek term omphalos (navel) can refer to various symbolic centers that are believed to connect the earthly and divine. Just as the human belly button marks our connection to (and inevitable separation from) our mothers, these so-called navels of the world are often associated with myths of cosmic origin, functioning as physical markers of the very sites at which our earth was supposedly born into existence. This symbolism can be found across cultures and religions: ziggurats, temples, holy mountains, the tree of life, and more.
I’m excited and inspired by the navel, umbilical cord, and placenta as both site and symbol of the simultaneity that is embedded in the human experience. Questions of origin and existence are constantly shaping how I think about my creative work, and my belief is that the work of the artist, and perhaps especially the mother artist, is primarily ontological. Just as the human belly button marks both a connection to and a separation from our physical origins, the work that I make points to a similar simultaneity of opposites, referencing the body’s attraction and repulsion but also the immaterial void of human longing in us all.
Before becoming a mother, I thought of attachment and separation as psychologies experienced by the child. I didn’t realize until experiencing it firsthand that, not unlike the blood circulating through the placenta, these psychologies very much go both ways. I’ve been thinking a lot about this entanglement and have been working it out in a recent body of work. At times I imagine vividly that my daughter and I are still connected by this cord. It’s a tug of war. Often, I tug at the cord, longing for my independence from her, and more often than not, she tugs to bring me closer, unwilling to let me exist apart from her.
Topic
pregnancy
breastfeeding
let down reflex
placenta
umbilical cord
belly button
knots
faith
religion
christianity
attachment
extended breastfeeding
creative act
origins
symbolic centers
Virgin Mary
Christ
breastmilk
breast milk miscarriage
birth and death
birth
artist mother
artist parents
art
artist network
artist/mother
artist/parent/academic
bedsharing
cosleeping
body
bodies
boundaries
devine feminine
early motherhood
early parenthood
education
embodied motherhood
embroidery
family and career
female body
feminist
gestation
lactation
Madonna
maternal
materiality
milk
nursing
pieta
subjectivity
teaching
ritual
Exhibitions
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Wrapped Up, Tied Up, Tangled Up – solo – 2019 – Samford Art Gallery – Samford University – Birmingham, AL
ArtFields – 2019 - The ROB – Lake City, SC
Art|Mother – Unfinished Business Art Show – 2019 – Los Angeles, CA
Are We There Yet? – CIVA Juried Exhibition (forthcoming - June) – 2019 – Johnson Gallery– Bethel University – St. Paul, MN
Simultaneous Letdown – solo – 2019 (forthcoming - October) – Gatewood Gallery – University of North Carolina, at Greensboro – Greensboro, NC
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Lauren Frances Evans
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Website
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<a href="http://www.JessicaBinghamArt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JessicaBinghamArt.com</a>
Topic
Childhood nostalgia of herself and now her growing daughter, as well as the house(s) she grew up in and the one where she raises her daughter.Her work also deals with loss, specifically that of a close childhood friend and their relationship, while also reflecting on the deep love and newness of motherhood in her current life.
motherhood
loss
Medium
painting
installation
assemblage
Artist Statement
Tangled thoughts of childhood and early adulthood are the core of my work. I am interested in the process of reflecting and recreating personal childhood memories through pairing happier moments with times that reveal the harsh reality of the human condition. After the passing of my closest childhood friend, due to drug addiction, memories from my youth resurfaced. Since his death, I have been dissecting our friendship, mulling over the years as it developed from innocent childhood play to complex and confused interactions of our early adulthood, a time he never left. Vivid memories of playing outside, building forts, and exploring the cemetery across from our homes are interwoven with late night bar sounds, long summer days, and tiresome arguments. As I wrestle with this new reality, my work has become an attempt to preserve those memories. The smell of grass, our blue playhouse, Barbie and G.I. Joe. Loose tie-dye shirts, tombstones across the street, memories that still, and will, play on repeat. Awkward knees and bright eyes, forts for us alone. Desires to be older, longing to be children, pain took you forever, and I took her home.
Location
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Peoria
Illinios
USA
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Jessica Bingham
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Jessica Bingham
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Website
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<p><a href="https://monikastocktonmadd.wixsite.com/maddux">https://monikastocktonmadd.wixsite.com/maddux</a></p>
Medium
installation
sculpture
Location
The location of the interview
Wichita
Kansas
USA
Artist Statement
My research is into the multiple aspects of motherhood and I am investigating the obsession that develops in response to the psychological impact of loss, specifically the effects of miscarriage. To that I’ve added a study about the desire to become like my mother and the inability to do the same mother/daughter things I had anticipated. This desire developed into an obsession. I am curious about why I feel I need to produce a female offspring. I have asked myself if it stems from a maternal need that is unfulfilled by my sons, or if it was ingrained in me by my family dynamic, the environment in which I was raised. I was either naturally predisposed to nurture or I was trained, from the beginning, when I received my first doll that cared for, pretended was my own child and named her Hannah. My mother had 3 daughters and she made matching dresses for us and I couldn’t wait until I had a daughter to wear my handmade dresses. I am examining whether it is that I WANT to be like my mother or that I am EXPECTED to be like my mother.
The narratives of MONIKAHOUSE are; motherhood, loss caused by miscarriage, obsession and its manifestations, desperation, dealing with resolution and hard adoptions of reality. All the work stems from this ‘brain’. It represents all my experiences as a mother, a daughter, a sister, a wife. In this space, I can create or recreate any experience I wish. It is an environment akin to a forest. It is often that you are not allowed to remove or even directly interact with the environment, however, you are encouraged to simply observe. An experience that is no less dynamic than if you were allowed to interact. Think Hiking verses Camping.
For the last several years I have been creating rooms in a house, now I am using a house for installations of rooms. My thesis exhibition consists of sixteen rooms in an 1891 Queen Anne home that I have transformed into my life size dollhouse. I have used textiles, ready-made objects from my childhood, furniture and building materials, to create a continuous body of work.
Topic
miscarriage
fertility
infertility
keepsakes
obsession
pregnancy tests
installation art
performance art
dollhouse
life size dollhouse
monikahouse
womanhouse
motherhood
loss
daughter
Exhibitions
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MONIKAHOUSE in Riverside. MFA Thesis Exhibition. Wichita, KS. (2019)
Publications
A catalog or monograph published by the artist
Sometime Babies Die, Children’s Book. March 2019
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Monika Stockton Maddux
daughter
dollhouse
fertility
infertility
installation
installation art
keepsakes
life size dollhouse
loss
miscarriage
monikahouse
motherhood
obsession
performance art
pregnancy tests
sculpture
womanhouse
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://laurayuile.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://laurayuile.com</a>
Medium
installation
sculpture
video
performance
Location
The location of the interview
London
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<p style="font-weight: 400;">My work is multidisciplinary, installation-based, and performative, exploring notions of the domestic and the urban through the intimate (or public) matters of living together; personal care and household maintenance; wellness and well-being; and the effects of globalization and technological development upon living space. Propelled by narrative, installations probe issues of social discomfort and our cultural obsession with cleanliness; the methods through which society sanitizes women; our desire for quick-fix methods of self-help and self-care; and the increasing invisibility of technological infrastructure in the urban and domestic landscape.<br /><br />I have recently been the societal tendency to position the figure of the Child as representative of “the future” – a reliance on reproductive futurism - and the problems of this representation for those who choose not to reproduce or cannot reproduce. I’m interested in positioning issues of social reproduction alongside those of biological reproduction and exploring the notion of reproductive futurity alongside the neoliberal characteristic of cleanliness as generating a forward-facing pathway. I’m interested in deconstructing notions of “the future” and asking questions about ideas of care in relation to reproductive futurity and the drive for technological “innovation”.</p>
Topic
reproduction
reproductive futurity
family
care
feminism
queer
non-binary
the body
domesticity
labor
home
future
technology
childfree
childlessness by choice
childlessness by chance
Exhibitions
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nGbK (Berlin); Galerie Kunstbuero (Vienna); Apexart (New York); The Blackwood Gallery (Toronto); Recent Activity (Birmingham); Tate Britain (London); Mauve (Vienna); t-space (Milan) and Collective (Edinburgh).
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Laura Yuile
Care
domesticity
family
feminism
home
installation
labour
non-binary
performance.
queer
reproduction
reproductive futurity
sculpture
technology
the body
the future
video
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://www.metrasaberova.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://www.metrasaberova.com/</span></a>
Medium
video art
animation
performance
painting
installation
Location
The location of the interview
London
United Kingdom
Riga
Latvia
Artist Statement
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Taking the bodily, medical and performative contents that make up my artistic practice, I use my own orchestrated experiences of medical tourism procedures as a public platform to encourage discussion about the cultural, political and social meanings assigned to the female body and its capabilities. The bodily interventions include tubal ligation in Thailand, hymenoplasty in Poland, IVF consultations in Bulgaria and full breast tattoos in Latvia. I believe that upholding the high status of motherhood and treating childfree people as deviations from the standard of motherhood is clearly limiting to childfree women in terms of their acceptance as valuable contributors to the society and as people free of biological determinism. The aim of my artistic research is to contribute to the growing field of investigation in the childfree lifestyle and to question the standard of the normativity of motherhood for women in the Western society and to link the social </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">stigmatization of childfree people with investigations in sociology, performativity, bioethics, body art, feminism and queer theory</span><b>.</b></p>
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Topic
childfree
motherhood
pregnancy
IVF
sterilization
gender
queer
body
feminism
bioethics
performance
Exhibitions
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<p><a href="http://kunstimaja.ee/2017/11/metra-saberova-pimpin-yo-mama-crib-avamine-17-11-kl-18-00"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Solo show Pimpin' Yo Mama Crib, curator Šelda Puķīte, Tartu Kunstimaja, Tartu, Estonia</span></a></p>
<a href="https://www.biennalejce.com/en/home/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jeune Creation Europeenne touring group exhibition in France, Italy, Denmark, Romania, Spain, Portugal and Latvia in 2018/2019</span></a>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Next Thing, Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre, Moving Image Gallery, Bury, UK</span></p>
MOTHER, CINEMQ, Elevator, Shanghai, China
Queer Art(ists) Now, And What? Queer Arts Festival, The Mill Co. Project, London, UK
International Videoart Week of Lanzarote, CIC El Almacen, Lanzarote, Canary island
Hiding in plain sight, The Flying Dutchman, London, UK
is this (not) a woman, tAD gallery, Texas, USA
Visions, Nunnery gallery, Bow arts, London, UK
RETHink Art Digital Festival, Crete, Greece
Amy Johnson Festival, The 75 Seconds Film Challenge, Hull, UK
Big Screen, Latitude festival, UK
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Mētra Saberova
animation
bioethics
body
childfree
feminism
gender
installation
IVF
Latvia
London
motherhood
painting
performance
pregnancy
queer
Riga
sterilization
United Kingdom
video art
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Echoes of Silence
Description
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film still
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.sarabrighty.co.uk">www.sarabrighty.co.uk</a>
Topic
pregnancy
birth
miscarriage
loss
Medium
mixed media
installation
photography
drawing
scuplture
Artist Statement
<p style="font-weight: 400;">My ongoing practise researches and investigates parenthood, including; pregnancy, child birth, the relationships we have with our children, and considers that parenthood may not always be that of gaining a child but may be about losing them too.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">I create installations as a visual interpretation of sensitive and personal experiences. I work across a variety mediums and disciplines using photography and film, painting, drawing and sculpture and the components can also be viewed as individual pieces.</p>
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Sara Brighty
Title
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Sara Brighty
birth
drawing
installation
installation art
loss
miscarriage
photography
pregnancy
sculpture
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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.nannalysholt.dk">www.nannalysholt.dk</a>
<a href="http://www.nannalysholthansen.com">www.nannalysholthansen.com</a>
Topic
pregnancy
motherhood
motherartist
mothervoice
technolgy
cyborg
feminism
language
posthumanism
meditation
memory
theory
intergenerational
Medium
live performance
video
installation
sculpture
photography
poetry
sound
Artist Statement
MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Art. BFA Faculty of Art, Design & Music, Kingston University London. In her artistic practice Nanna Lysholt Hansen is investigating relationships between the body, language, voice, gender and technology. By using her own personal experiences of the female body, sexuality, pregnancy, birth and motherhood she draws attention to the body as a technological and biological intergenerational mediator of knowledge, voice and memory.
Location
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Copenhagen
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Nanna Lysholt Hansen
Title
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Nanna Lysholt Hansen
biology
copenhagen
cyborg
feminism
installation
intergenerational
language
live performance
mediation
memory
motherartist
motherhood
mothervoice
photography
poetry
posthumanism
pregnancy
sculpture
sound
sound art
technology
theory
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<a href="http://carolinekelley.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://carolinekelley.com</a>
Topic
Artist Residency in Motherhood
autobiography
motherhood
home
building
making
nature
language
Medium
conceptual art
photography
drawing
installation
video
book art
research
writing
Artist Statement
Working across disciplines, I conduct research-based projects that take assorted forms, including installations, drawings, writing- and photography-based series. My academic work has been concerned with women's life-writing, literary theory and postcolonial literature. Since 2009, I've focused on projects that investigate the nature-culture dichotomy as well as stories of tourism, travel and exploration. I started an Artist Residency in Motherhood (ARiM) in October 2016, to document my experience of motherhood and explore the research process in this new (for me) context.
Location
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Paris
France
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Caroline Kelley
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Caroline Kelley
artist residency in motherhood
autobiography
book art
building
conceptual art
drawing
France
home
installation
language
making
motherhood
nature
Paris
photography
research
video
writing
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Medium
film
sculpture
textile
photography
installation
Location
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Ascot
Berkshire
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521640730501_24734"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521640730501_25484" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;">My work comes from a position of ambivalence – more specifically through ambivalent motherhood. My father died when I was a child and my mother before I had my own children. The chain from parent to child to becoming a parent oneself was broken. My work is around the space between these broken links.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521640730501_24734"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521640730501_24734"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521640730501_25185"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521640730501_25485" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;">In psychoanalysis the container/contained notion, as introduced by Wilfred Bion, holds a neutral position, without judgement, that can be used as an approach to thinking about motherhood. It provides numerous ways of probing the question: 'who is the container and who is the contained?'. How does the relationship between mother and child stand at any one moment? How does one see oneself - as a mother or as a child? What is the basis of the container at that moment? What is the emotion of the contained? The container can be actual, practical, or explicit. It can be metaphoric, emotional or implicit. Container/contained is a recurring theme in my work as I explore the fluctuating emotions of ambivalence.</span></span></div>
Topic
maternal ambivalence
maternal relationships
container / contained
depression
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/299">Left Overs</a>
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Jane Glennie
depression
film
installation
maternal ambivalence
photography
sculpture
textile
United Kingdom
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<a href="http://www.luisacallegari.com">www.luisacallegari.com</a>
Topic
girls
raising girls
sexism
baby
fetus
dolls
pink
clichés
beauty
grotesque
gender
sexuality
contradictions
dollhouse
Medium
painting
video
collage
installation
mixed media
objects
photography
Artist Statement
I am a South American women artist and mother. I believe that one of the most important art roles is to make people think and reflect about unpleasant subjects and situations that would otherwise be forgotten or passed by. In my artwork I attempt to address those delicate subjects bringing up themes such as clichés and motherhood, contradictions of the feminine universe, constructions of gender and sexuality. I make my artwork with a variety of media that goes all the way from traditional painting and photography to perishable elements and installations. Currently I am privileging the use of pink as the beginning and end of my creative process, subverting the notions of beauty and grotesque.
Location
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Sao Paulo
Brazil
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Luisa Callegari
Title
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Luisa Callegari
baby
beauty
Brazil
collage
contradictions
dollhouse
dolls
fetus
grotesque
installation
mixed media
objects
painting
photography
Sao Paulo
sexuality
video
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<a href="http://www.robynleroyevans.com" target="_blank">www.robynleroyevans.com</a>
Topic
mother-artist
body
motherhood
pregnancy
childbirth
ambivalence
Medium
photography
video
installation
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Robyn LeRoy-Evans
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Robyn LeRoy-Evans
ambivalence
body
childbirth
installation
mother as artist
motherhood
photography
pregnancy
video
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<a href="http://www.miriamschaer.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.miriamschaer.com/</a>
Medium
books
sculpture
installation
photography
Location
The location of the interview
Brooklyn
New York
USA
Artist Statement
My work is an exploration of questions for which I find no easy answers. Usually, I use a variety of materials and media to build narratives or depict the complexity of situations not easily resolved. Recently, my work has focused on the relationship of motherhood, and the absence of motherhood, especially how women without children fare in a world that values women largely for their fertility. I became sensitized to the relationships between these conditions as my own mother began to exhibit signs of dementia. As we age, how do we negotiate the role reversals inherent in coping with parents who live beyond the point at which they can care for themselves, as they become, like small children, individuals cared for by their own children, now adults? Finding no simple answers, I hope my work stimulates a dialogue about these difficult issues.
Topic
mother
child
fertility
absence of motherhood
childlessness by choice
childlessness by chance
Publications
A catalog or monograph published by the artist
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/463">The Maternal in Creative Work Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art, Contributor</a>
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Miriam Schaer
book
installation
photography
sculpture
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://carriescanga.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://carriescanga.com/</a>
Topic
postpartum maternal subjectivity
embodied parenting
attachment
sleep
love
caregiving
postpartum
Medium
installation
printmaking
Artist Statement
Carrie Scanga is a multi-disciplinary artist whose installations and works on paper reflect on personal mythologies, examine nostalgias for place and identity, and engage theories from ecology, architecture and design. Scanga attended Bryn Mawr College as an undergraduate and earned an MFA in Printmaking from University of Washington. She has held solo exhibitions in Berlin, Kansas City, Houston, St. Louis, and Philadelphia among other locales. Her work has been included in group exhibitions in commercial galleries, artist-run spaces, and museums, including the Portland Museum of Art, the Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, PLUG Projects, Islip Art Museum, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid. Fellowship awards from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The MacDowell Colony, Sculpture Space, Blue Mountain Center, and Fundación Valparaíso have supported the development of her work. Currently based in Maine, she is an Associate Professor at Bowdoin College where she also directs the Marvin Bileck Printmaking Project visiting artist program.
Location
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Portland
Maine
USA
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Carrie Scanga
Title
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Carrie Scanga
attachment
care taking
caregivers
caregiving
installation
installation art
love
Maine
Portland
postpartum maternal subjectivity
sleep
USA
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<a href="http://www.michelejaquis.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://www.michelejaquis.com</a>
Topic
parental roles and responsibilities
baby wearing
miscarriage
Medium
video
installation
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Michele Jaquis
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Michele Jaquis
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<a href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=6401" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=6401</a>
<a href="http://www.elizabeth-mackenzie.com/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.elizabeth-mackenzie.com&source=gmail&ust=1558724776144000&usg=AFQjCNFq3V1oVNx9mtQqbABDVatELWjR-Q" rel="noopener">http://www.elizabeth-<wbr />mackenzie.com</a>
<a href="https://vimeo.com/221027778" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Up and Down She Goes">https://vimeo.com/221027778</a>
<a href="https://vimeo.com/221026288" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Me First">https://vimeo.com/221026288</a>
Medium
drawing
installation
Location
The location of the interview
Vancouver
British Columbia
Canada
Artist Statement
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<p>I’ve always been interested in exploring the tension between the role of the (female) artist and the demands of the everyday. My identity as an artist mother has informed my work for many years.</p>
<p>Even before I had a child of my own I considered how it might be possible to combine these roles within my 1984 installation, <a title="Taking Care (1984)" href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=6423"><em>Taking Care</em></a>.</p>
<p>Four years later, in 1988, I gave birth to my first child. When she was eight months old I installed <a title="Baby Food (1989)" href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=4739"><em>Baby Food</em></a> in <em>Mothers of Invention</em>, a group exhibition about mothers and daughters curated by Jo-Anna Isaak. This piece describes my anxiety about my ability to nourish my daughter, as I struggled with both breast-feeding and art making.</p>
<p>The installation <a title="With Child (1991)" href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=6481"><em>With Child</em></a>, produced in 1991 for <em>The Embodied Viewer,</em> a group show curated by Vera Lemecha for the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, portrays some of the conflicts of over-identification and self‑immolation that were raised for me within the dyads of pregnancy and maternity. I was fearful that my child had become, even before birth, an autonomous creature I would never be able to encompass and keep safe. This combination of images on a long wall produced an impossible representation that had become increasingly normalized: we were able to see a pregnant body as well as what is inside the body. Although I was thrilled to become a mother, I was horrified by the loss of boundaries I experienced. Both my body and my psychic space were invaded.</p>
<p>In 1991 I also began graduate studies at the University of Saskatchewan. I wanted to review my 10-year practice as an artist as well as continue to investigate representations of pregnancy. The thesis I developed, <em>Spacemen and Invisible Women</em>, examined popular representations of pregnancy that obliterated the pregnant woman, and represented the fetus (or embryo) as a tiny self‑sufficient space traveler, floating in a black void. My 1993 graduating exhibition, <a title="Invisible/Stranger/Mine (1993)" href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=6491"><em>Invisible/Stranger/Mine</em></a>, examined maternal erasure and the cult of fetal personhood within a number of related works.</p>
<p>The installation <a title="Radiant Monster (1996-98)" href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=1190"><em>Radiant Monster</em></a>, completed in 1996, was shown in a number of different contexts. Once again, this work represented the ambivalent feelings I experienced in response to real and imagined pregnancies and children. I wanted to express a continuum between the desire and the anxiety that the contemplation and experience of maternity evokes. Not surprisingly, reproductive technologies that offer new choices to infertile women, and increase the opportunity for interventions during pregnancy and birth, extend and exaggerate our relationship to our reproductive capacities.</p>
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<p>From 1997 to 1999 I co-wrote a series of bimonthly columns with Martha Townsend for the Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA) newsletter (here’s a <a href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/files/2014/11/FPP-Artist-Mothers-March-1998.pdf">sample column</a> from March 1998).</p>
<p><span>I produced a number of videos about maternity during this period, including </span><i>Up and Down She Goes</i><span> (1998) and </span><i>Me First </i><span>(1999).</span><br /><br />In 2000 Martha and I co-produced a conference for artist-mothers, <em><a title="First Person Plural Symposium (2000)" href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=246">First Person Plural</a></em> for MAWA at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in Winnipeg. I co-curated an program of videos for the conference, <a href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/files/2014/11/LfT.pdf">Looking for Trouble: Tapes by Unruly Mothers </a>with Laurel Swenson, that was also shown at Video Out (Vancouver) in 2000. I also produced a video document, <em><a href="https://vimeo.com/221017621#t=40s">Delivery: Artist Mothers on Tape</a>, </em>in which 30 conference participants speak candidly about their mothering and art-making practices.</p>
<p>Essays where I consider my identity as an artist mother have been included in <a href="http://demeterpress.org/books/mothering-canada-interdisciplinary-voices/">Mothering Canada: Interdisciplinary Voices</a> (2010) and <a href="http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409426134">Reconciling Art and Mothering</a> (2012).</p>
<p>A collection of resources (articles, books, websites) specifically about artist-mothers can be found <a title="Artist-Mother Resources" href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=6513">here</a>.</p>
<p>Here’s a <a href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?p=6499">post</a> about a presentation I developed for a conference in 2015 (<em>Embody/In My Body</em>), as well as a video of the presentation itself (“Exquisite Tension”) available <a href="https://vimeo.com/125696100">here.</a></p>
<p>Although I haven’t made work specifically about maternity for some time, my current projects continue to be deeply affected by these investigations and what I discovered about inter-subjectivity within my role as an artist mother.</p>
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Topic
motherhood
artist/mother
identity
breastfeeding
food
pregnancy
ambivalence
desire
anxiety
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Title
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Elizabeth MacKenzie
ambivalence
baby food
breastfeeding
British Columbia
Canada
feeding
food
motherhood
motherhood and art practice
pregnancy
Vancouver
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://lauraendacott.com/home.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://lauraendacott.com/home.html</a>
Medium
sculpture
installation
performance
Location
The location of the interview
Montreal
Quebec
Canada
Artist Statement
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Laura Endacott is a practicing artist whose research speaks to the contemporary mother and how it is linked to social movements, cultural activism and intellectual histories that challenge, yet enable the category of maternal art histories, as a site for knowledge production today. Her MA SIP degree (Specialized Individual Programs) combined Studio Art Production and Art History, and she is one of a few artist scholars in Canada, that explores and teaches the critical work that deals with the complex representations of the mother image. Her activities include her practice, her teaching, conference presentations and writing. Her recent work considers the body as an archive. As such she is interested in social life and articulations of agency using performance. She considers her work to be in the tradition of storytelling.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Her large-scale sculptures, performances and installations are part of an interdisciplinary practice. Her work has been included in a new anthology entitled Performing Motherhood (2014) and she has exhibited in museums such as The Orillia Museum of Art & History (2014), Le Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec (2009) and The Textile Museum of Canada (2000). Her work has been included in artist-run galleries as well as non-traditional spaces such as the<span> </span><a href="http://bankonart.net/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://bankonart.net&source=gmail&ust=1558813210697000&usg=AFQjCNGI43acyTgOwD_uxFs0ROjjLp5PEQ">bankonart.net</a><span> </span>(2010), The Gladstone Hotel (2008) along with online exhibitions such as ArtWiki: Open Data for the Arts (2012). In 2014, the textiles objects she produced and that were used in a series of performances she staged in public space, were collected into the permanent collection of the Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec. It was the first time any craft object linked to contemporary performative work was included in their collection, which represents the largest craft collection in Quebec.</p>
Topic
motherhood
identity
biological mothers
symbolic mothers
domestic space
public space
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Laura Endacott
biological mothers
Canada
domestic space
identity
installtion
Montreal
motherhood
performance
public space
Quebec
sculpture
symbolic mothers
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://www.verastankovic.com" target="_blank">https://www.verastankovic.com/</a>
Medium
sculpture
installation
photography
collage
urban intervention
performance art
object
sculpture
photography
writing
interdisciplinary
Location
The location of the interview
Ljubljana
Slovenia
Europe
Artist Statement
<p class="p1">I am fascinated by transformation processes.</p>
<p class="p1">I observe transforming spaces, economy, environment, cities, work, cells, bodies, knowledge, history, countries, roles, education, technology, relationships, selves, languages.</p>
<p class="p1">Becoming and being a mother is for me all about transformation. My first solo exhibition in the Zepter Gallery in Belgrade, Serbia was called Metamorphosis<span class="s1"> . </span>The objects I made used banal everyday objects (plastic bags) and transformed them into an immense vagina or into umbilical cords falling from the ceiling. This story from 1999 was a intimate story of separating oneself from the primary family and a story about the everyday and the environment.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="p1">From 2006 to 2012 my partner and I went through a series of unsuccessful IVFs and several miscarriages. I did several sculptural works that documented this part of our lives - like the Womb exhibited in 2010 in Museum de Ceramica de l’Alcora, Spain. It was just about the pain, I guess.</p>
<p class="p1">In 2012, I was invited to make an urban intervention inside the Vesel Garden in Ljubljana, Slovenia. I was three months pregnant with my son and did not know what to expect about the occurring pregnancy. So I did an urban intervention with a participative performance and called this work Embryo garden. It was all about the thin line between life and death of the child to be, but also of the artistic child within myself.</p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s2">My experience as a parent has been both challenging and inspiring for me as an artist. I explored the relationship between the roles of artist and parent in my 2016 exhibition in the Glass Atrium of the City Hall of Ljubljana, called A Thank You Note To the Cleaning Lady. The work that lent its name to the exhibition questions the relation between reproductive, maintenance work and having greater purpose in life. As a whole, </span>the exhibition was born as a product of broken antagonism between being a parent and an artist and of cooperation between the two roles. The installation To Include Everything, Everything, Everything, Absolutely, Absolutely, Everything especially focused on that. And the work The Map is about the child experiencing and learning by himself, and the artist-mother just observing and taking notes. In this process, I sometimes feel as if steeling from him.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
Topic
play
daily life
work/life balance
parenting
domestic
artist/mother
fertility
infertility
vagina
parent/child collaboration
World War II
exploring
anger
cleaning
maintenence
everyday
powerlessness
ritual
grandmother's motherhood
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Vera Stankovic
anger
archive
artist/mother
calendar
cleaning
collage
daily life
domestic
everyday
fertility
grandmother
infertility
installation
maintenance
Maps
motherhood
parent/child collaboration
parenting
plastic
play
Poljanska
powerlessness
Pozega-Slavonia
pregnancy
readymade
ritual
sculpture
Serbia
Slovenia
toys
vagina
womb
work/life balance
World War II
writing
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Website
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<a href="http://www.laurenmclaughlin.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.laurenmclaughlin.co.uk/</a>
<a href="http://www.laurenmclaughlin.co.uk/artist-residency-in-motherhood/" target="_blank">http://www.laurenmclaughlin.co.uk/artist-residency-in-motherhood/</a>
Medium
collage
installation
photography
text installation
Artist Statement
My work explores the ever changing roles and identities we take on as artist-mothers and how these multi faceted identities can be both connected and conflicted. Motherhood; a concept both revered and ignored, informs the works I produce through a mixed media approach; collage, photography, text installation and sculpture all come together and allow me to investigate my own multi faceted identity through a process of visual experimentation and written investigations.
Topic
Artists Residency in Motherhood
identity
artist mother
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Lauren McLaughlin
artist residency in motherhood
collage
Edinburg
identity
installation
photography
Scotland
sculpture
text installation
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<a href="http://www.lindanclark.com" target="_blank">www.lindanclark.com</a>
Topic
motherhood
Practice-led Research Methodology
identity
ritual
personal experience
public space
private space
Medium
Installation
Artist Statement
My recent work explores the shifting re-interpretations of motherhood as subject matter in contemporary art. In particular, my work investigates the process of traversing mother/artist identities as a useful model to reinstate a creative space between motherhood and art practice. This premise involves re-orienting rituals and personal experience utilising a role of mother as ‘Keeper, Facilitator and Manipulator of Memory’ to create a new narrative which may highlight social undercurrents or create a new mythology. This narrative is conveyed through sculptural objects, video and sound that are used as innovative sites in installation art that blur private and public boundaries.
Location
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Augustine Heights
Queensland
Australia
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Linda Clark
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Linda Clark
AUGUSTINE HEIGHTS
Australia
identity
installation art
personal experience
Practice-led Research Methodology
private space
public space
Queensland
ritual
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<a href="http://www.pillarsofhome.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.pillarsofhome.com</a>
Medium
photography
installation
Artist Statement
‘Pillars of home’ are 30 minutes long, balancing sculptures by Csilla Klenyánszki The floor-to-ceiling constructions relay on their own inner stability while being framed only by the floor and the ceiling. The in situ installations are being made during my son’s naps, when our home becomes a studio for no more than a half an hour. The colorful hand-built pillars vary in size and complexity, depending on their territory. As the objects are being piled up, they become a coherent entity, but their delicate arrangement and balancing structure makes them vulnerable as they can be destroyed at any moment. Not only the existence of the images is in danger if the installation collapses, but the noise of the fallen objects might awaken the sleeping baby, which ends the studio session.
Topic
artist residency in motherhood
naptime
infants and sleep
motherhood
Publications
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/357">Pillars of Home</a>
Location
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Amsterdam
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Csilla Klenyanszki
artist residence in motherhood
infants and sleep
installation
motherhood
naptime
photography
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<a href="http://www.farheenhaq.com/#/drinking-from-my-mothers-saucer" target="_blank"><span>http://www.farheenhaq.com/#/drinking-from-my-mothers-saucer</span></a>
<a href="http://www.farheenhaq.com/#/new-gallery-38/" target="_blank"><span>http://www.farheenhaq.com/#/new-gallery-38/</span></a>
Medium
video
installation
fabric
textile
Location
The location of the interview
Victoria
British Columbia
Canada
Artist Statement
<p>My media based art practice explores the realm of the moving image as a place of re-examination and possibility. It is a way for me to pull apart and reconstruct the threads of my life. Working in video, installation, performance and photography, I investigate my body and my South Asian Muslim Canadian female identity as a social construction.</p>
<p>The impetus for my art-making has always been curiosity, questioning and investigating. I want to uncover the place of agency within the structures that are imposed upon me. Fabric is a recurring metaphor to represent the many layers of codes wrapped around women’s bodies. It is a structure for me to hang meaning on – fabric can flow, constrain, codify and signify. It represents culture.</p>
<p>Through observing the formal and aesthetic properties of cultural gestures such as prayer, wearing a hijab, dressing/undressing, I deconstruct and reimagine how social codes and rituals can occupy the body. I experiment by pushing gestures beyond where they normally rest.</p>
<p>My works begin from the personal place of my Islamic South Asian Canadian heritage and end as images that can be read by a wider audience. The 6 meter long sari is abstracted into a long swath of red silk. A hooded sweatshirt stands in for a hijab. I deliberately use the conventions of mass media such as cinematic projections and seductive imagery to invite viewers to enter my work and settle in. I slow down and repeat images to facilitate reflection and reconsideration. I magnify texture and body parts so as to connect the viewer to a physical sensation.</p>
<p>In the process of image-making I see myself and unveil meaning in my life. I invite viewers to inhabit this imaginative space and reconsider their own experience.</p>
Topic
mothers of color
South Asian
Muslim
gesture
motherhood
maternal care
domesticity
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Farheen Haq
British Columbia
Canada
fabric/textile
gesture
installation
maternal care
motherhood
mothers of color
mothers of colour
muslim
South Asian
Victoria
video
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7402760a904187d3d3929a47bede05e6
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<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=people_details&id=309" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=people_details&id=309</a></span>
Medium
performance art
installation
Location
The location of the interview
Santiago
Chile
Artist Statement
<span>Alejandra Herrera is a visual artist and performer from Santiago (Chile), currently living in Los Angeles. She has been an active organizer, artist and teacher in the field of performance art for more than a decade and has exhibited her work extensively, both in her native Chile and internationally. She has produced and organized visual arts shows, such as the Annual Showcase of Students of the Arts Faculty of the University of Chile, exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Santiago, "Av-ant Perfo", the first international performance art show in Valparaíso, and "Perfo Puerto", the First Latin American festival of performance art in Chile. Her recent performances question bodily sensuality and materiality, with particular emphasis on gendered power relations. She is mother to three daughters, four-year old twins Evelyn and Trinidad, and two-year old Diamanda.</span>
Topic
sensuality
materiality
gendered power relations
motherhood
maternity
domestic life
body exploration
Exhibitions
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New Maternalisms
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Alejandra Herrera Silva
body exploration
Chile
domestic life
installation
materiality
maternity
motherhood
Santiago
sensuality
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596b0391ab442d4df7afcf07d37fdf6d
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<a href="http://selinatrepp.info/section/384377-nap-animation.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://selinatrepp.info/section/384377-nap-animation.html</a>
Medium
mixed media
animation
installation
performance
Location
The location of the interview
Chicago
Illinois
Artist Statement
<span>Rather than documenting or representing the real world, I reflect on it by moving sideways from it, constructing a parallel reality, a reality that mixes the familiar with the uncanny, real and unreal at once. The making of my work is based on experimental situations. My process is chance based. I write instructions, which lead to scenarios, open-ended structures, for performances that result in artworks. While past works have featured others performing for me, my new work puts me into the frame. Pointing the lens on myself is decidedly uncomfortable for me; I feel safer behind the camera. The decision to cast myself both as subject and object comes out of the realization that I need to work with the discomfort and tension that this action creates in me. If I am embarrassed by my work, then it is worth pursuing.</span>
Topic
napping
motherhood
infants and sleep
sleep
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/452">http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/452</a>Extended Self: Transformations and Connections
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Selina Trepp
animation
Chicago
conceptual art
Illinois
infants and sleep
installation
mixed media
motherhood
napping
performance
sleep
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The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.zackbent.com" target="_blank">www.zackbent.com</a>
Topic
domestic life
fatherhood
rituals
family history
wilderness
Medium
photograpy
video
installation
Artist Statement
As an artist, I am drawn to incidences where the domestication and wilderness overlap and interact. The work I create takes various forms from sculptural installation, video and sound works as well as photographic studies and series. My current work draws from my experience visiting and photographing a parcel of forest fire land in Washington USA over the past year. The photographs include geometric sculptures and mythic performative acts by my sons that respond to the desolation of the forest while acknowledging the impending growth just beneath the surface of the land. The work is a study in the silence and death encapsulated in forest fires as an inside-out look at traditional views on the sublime and beauty in the wilderness.
Location
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Seattle
Washington
USA
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Zack Bent
Title
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Zack Bent
domestic life
fatherhood
installation
photography
rituals
Seattle
video
Washington
wilderness
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<a href="http://www.leslirobertson.com" target="_blank">http://www.leslirobertson.com</a>
<a href="http://www.leslirobertson.com/the-mother-load/" target="_blank">http://www.leslirobertson.com/the-mother-load/</a>
Medium
mixed media
textiles
installation
Location
The location of the interview
Denton
Texas
Artist Statement
<p>In my artwork and creative projects, I use textile based media as a tool for communication; to record and speak about the individual, society, and the hand of the maker. I work with concepts of time, labor, and cloth as a tool for personal expression. My current body of work explores the value of cloth on both a personal and societal level.</p>
<p>I create visual recordings through the use of detritus from my life and studio. These elements and works from the past are employed into new forms that serve to document and comment on the material objects that tangibly define the work of my hands. These are woven pieces, broken forms, and cut offs of previous works. They track time and place, creating a sequence of objects that allude to written text and recording through the use of fiber, concrete, and metal. Through community based interactive weavings, I am able to create works in collaboration with diverse individuals, providing each person a platform to express their ideas. I value textile objects and processes and by bringing them out of my studio, and recreating the way they are being perceived, I work to give the viewer a new perspective on their value.</p>
Topic
individual
society
time
labor
cloth
The Motherload Project
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Lesli Robertson
cloth
Denton
individual
installation
labor
mixed media
motherload
society
Texas
textiles
time
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.axisweb.org/p/alisononeill/#artwork" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.axisweb.org/p/alisononeill/#artwork</a>
Medium
drawing
film & video
installation
research
Location
The location of the interview
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<p>My practice based research uses autoethnographic and feminist methodologies to examine maternal subjectivities with a particular focus on the mother as a classed and gendered subject.</p>
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<p>I am also interested in the performativity of motherhood and in examining narratives of the good and bad mother and how these narratives are perpetuated in everyday encounters and experiences.</p>
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Topic
motherhood
feminist theory
the maternal
autoethnography
subjectivity
memory
remembering
performativity
class
Publications
A catalog or monograph published by the artist
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/463">The Maternal in Creative Work Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art, Contributor</a>
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Alison O’Neill
autoethnography
Cambridge
class
drawing
feminist theory
film
installation
memory
motherhood
performativity
remembering
subjectivity
the maternal
United Kingdom
video
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<a href="http://implausibot.com/" target="_blank">http://implausibot.com/</a>
Artist Statement
<span>Dillon de Give is an artist and educator acting in a spirit of humane experimentalism. He stages subtle alterations to everyday performances that aim to distribute art in public experience. He is a co-founder of the </span><a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwalkexchange.org&t=ZWY1MzU2ZTUwYjMzM2UwNTBhYzAxMGEzZTgyMDhlYzNjMzY4ZjE4NCxUbU4zdWpESg%3D%3D" target="_blank">Walk Exchange</a><span>, a cooperative walking group. He organizes the annual </span><a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fcoyotewalks.wordpress.com&t=ZTJmN2MzY2RhMjA3MjFiODliNGQzZDk5ZmMwNjA5YjljYjA3Nzk5ZCxUbU4zdWpESg%3D%3D" target="_blank">Coyote Itinerancy</a><span>, a retreat that traces a footpath between New York City and the wild. He holds a BS in Radio/Television/Film from Northwestern University and an MFA in Art and Social Practice from Portland State University. He lives, works and helps to raise a child in Brooklyn NY. For more information you can see a </span><a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fdl.dropboxusercontent.com%2Fu%2F19628738%2FdeGive_cv.pdf&t=NjE2YTE4NTRkYTI2MTA2ODU4ZTg2ZDEwMTg1NjkzNWM3YzliOGRhZixUbU4zdWpESg%3D%3D">CV here</a><span>, write an email to implausibot (at) yahoo (dot) com or call the project phone at (917)-300-9521.</span>
Medium
installation
performance
Location
The location of the interview
Brooklyn
New York
Topic
parenthood
adulthood
father/son relationship
bedtime routine
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/3" target="_blank">The Letdown Reflex</a>
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Dillon de Give
adulthood
bedtime routine
father/son relationship
installation
parenthood
performance
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a3f0fedc8e2f959c4989028305dabb12
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<a href="http://elizabethclaffey.com/" target="_blank">http://elizabethclaffey.com/</a>
Medium
photography
installation
Location
The location of the interview
Bloomington
Indiana
Artist Statement
<span>Elizabeth M. Claffey is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Indiana University in Bloomington. She is an honors graduate of Earlham College and has an MFA in photography from Texas Woman's University, where she also earned a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies. She received a 2012-13 William J. Fulbright Fellowship, which she used to support her documentary and creative research in Eastern Europe. Elizabeth's work focuses on the way personal and familial narratives are shaped by interactions with both domestic and institutional structures and spaces. Her work has been recognized by PDN Magazine, Project Basho Gallery, Abecedarian Gallery, The Eddie Adams Workshop, and various other galleries and publications including The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Dallas Morning News, and The Kinsey Institute.</span>
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Topic
personal
familial narratives
domesticity
maternity
isolation
aging
illness
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Elizabeth Claffey
aging
Bloomington
domestic
familial narratives
illness
Indiana
installation
isolation
maternity
personal
photography
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<a href="http://www.helenknowles.com/index.php" target="_blank">http://www.helenknowles.com/index.php</a>
Medium
installation
mixed media
screen print
Location
The location of the interview
Manchester
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<span>HELEN KNOWLES (b.1975) is an artist and curator of Birth Rites Collection. She studied at Glasgow School of Art and Goldsmiths University on the MFA and lives and works in Manchester and London. Recent exhibitions include; Goldsmiths University Interim show, (2015), COLLABORATE! Oriel Sycarth Galley Wrexham, (2015), The Withdrawing Room, Folkstone, (2014), Mokuhanga, Tokyo (2014), ‘Private View : Public Birth’, GV Art London (2013), Women’s Art Library, Kingsway Corridor Programme, Goldsmiths University, London (2013); Life is Beautiful’, Galerie Deadfly, Berlin (2012); Digital Romantics, Dean Clough Gallery (2012) and Walls are Talking, Whitworth Art Gallery (2010). She recently carried out a residency in Moscow/Vishny Volochok with the Moscow Institute of Contemporary Art. Knowles has carried out other residencies at Santa Fe Arts Institute (2013), Gatley Primary (2010), UCLAN (2002) and Jodrell Bank Science Centre and Arboretum (1999-2001). A recipient of awards from Arts Council England, The Amateurs Trust and winner of The Great Art Prize, Neo Art Prize (2012). Her work is held in public and private collections including, The Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection, Winchester Special Collections, The National Art Library, RCA and GSA Special Collections, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Tate Library and Archive, Museum of Motherhood, New York and Birth Rites Collection.</span>
Topic
birth
homebirth
childbirth
pregnancy
women
motherhood
social media
censorship
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Helen Knowles
birth
censorship
childbirth
homebirth
installation
Manchester
mixed media
motherhood
pregnancy
screen print
social media
United Kingdom
women
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3288fb0fac8ce40a102831f79dbcbdb3
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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://jessicapaigegreig.blogspot.com/p/contact.html" target="_blank">http://jessicapaigegreig.blogspot.com/</a></span>
Medium
mixed media
sculpture
video art
installation
photography
collage
Location
The location of the interview
Nottingham
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<p>I am a mixed media artist, exploring themes of the Maternal, Relationships, Sexual Politics and the Cycle of Life.</p>
<p>I am particularly attracted to Flora's life cycle; I link these to human experience using Anthropomorphism and Pareidolia, these are documented via Photographs & Sculptures, where inspiration from the natural world has become fundamental to my practice.</p>
<p>My sculptures are made from non-traditional materials, based on seeds, their shape & form are often reminiscent of human body parts</p>
<p>Currently my work focuses on pregnancy, motherhood and in particular the dynamics of Mother-Daughter Relationships, Since becoming a Mother myself, I have become obsessed with trying to document 'Moments' & 'Memories', and the 'Essence of my mother', in an attempt to understand the complex relationship that I have with my own mother.</p>
Topic
maternal relationships
sexual politics
life cycle
human body
motherhood
mother/daughter relationship
pregnancy
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Jessica Greig
collage
human body
installation
life cycle
maternal relationships
mixed media
mother/daughter relationship
motherhood
Nottingham
photography
pregnancy
relationships
sculpture
sexual politics
United Kingdom
video art
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<a href="http://www.jacklynbrickman.com" target="_blank">http://www.jacklynbrickman.com</a>
Medium
photography
installation
sculpture
drawing
video
Artist Statement
<p class="font_7"><span><strong>Domestic Landscapes</strong> are oneiric installations made with light, kitchen utensils and shadows.</span></p>
<p class="font_8"><br /><span>The complexities of how we inhabit and engage with our surroundings and the entities we share them with are at the core of my work. Informed by the photographic process, larger works and installations tend to incorporate light and projection as well as sound or video while smaller scale works often consist of everyday objects and multiples. Simulating nature with man-made items and transforming life’s daily chaos into delicacy, my work edges between childlike playfulness and a longing for the seemingly out of reach. Grounded in the home and activated by life with young children, necessary and repetitive daily tasks are absorbed into my work and reappear to expose beauty through reflections on domestic life.<br /><br /></span></p>
<p class="font_7"><strong>Homage to Heqet </strong></p>
<p class="font_7"><span>2012</span></p>
<p class="font_7"><span>Mott Community College Art Gallery, Flint, MI</span></p>
<p class="font_7"> </p>
<p class="font_7"><span>The complexities of how we inhabit and engage with the earth and the entities we share it with are at the core of my work – systems within systems.</span></p>
<p class="font_7"> </p>
<p class="font_7"><span>Over the past two years, frogs and toads have been a vessel for my perpetual interest in the simulation of nature. This exploration has manifested through drawing, installation, video and sound. My materials and habits tend toward everyday objects, multiples, and layers. Homage to Heqet is an extension of this work; An offering to frog-headed Heqet: Goddess of fertility, midwives, and newborns.</span></p>
<p class="font_7"> </p>
<p class="font_7"><span>In the spring, amidst frog calls and blooming earth and henna on my belly.13 days later, a daughter was born into water, a force of nature.</span></p>
<p class="font_7"><span> </span></p>
<p class="font_7"><span>Ritual is intention & process. I’m focused on honoring repetitive, menial daily tasks in mothering an infant, while embedding and reflecting on elements of our wetland counterparts.</span></p>
<p class="font_8"><span> </span></p>
Topic
nature
cultural ecosystems
interrelationship
domestic life
repetitive tasks
daily tasks
living with children
Location
The location of the interview
Pleasant Ridge
Michigan
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Title
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Jacklyn Brickman
cultural ecosystems
daily tasks
domestic life
drawing
installation
interrelationship
living with children
nature
photography
repetitive tasks
sculpture
video
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Person
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Website
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<a href="https://amyfdignam.weebly.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://amyfdignam.weebly.com/&source=gmail&ust=1559842557155000&usg=AFQjCNEwH_uX-DziNyIOKQNSd8dl7CtuTA">https://amyfdignam.<wbr />weebly.com/</a>
Medium
drawings
photography
video
performance
installation
Artist Statement
<p class="paragraph_style_1"><span>Italian born, Amy moved to London in 1998 and graduated from Central Saint Martins College in 2005. Her work is mainly autobiographical but also holds a socio-political dynamic. Making the personal public her work originates from the female body, concepts of everyday life, loss of identity, the importance of memories and the abstraction of longing are central to her practice. Domesticity as a ‘visual language’ where maternal subjectivity is explored via different media such us drawings, photography, video installation and performance. </span></p>
Topic
motherhood
maternity
domestic
women artists
feminism
feminist mother
activism
Location
The location of the interview
London
United Kingdom
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Amy Dignam
domestic
drawings
installation
London
maternity
motherhood
performance
photography
UK
United Kingdom
video
women artists
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fb047ff581b6b8645ccd71878ab8ecb2
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.roxanaalgergeffen.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.roxanaalgergeffen.com</a>
Medium
mixed media
painting
collage
installation
photography
Location
The location of the interview
Washington, DC
Artist Statement
<p> I’ve spent the last decade exploring the world of domestic life and family systems. Although I started as a painter, describing the chaotic and contradictory world of parenting seemed to require a multi-layered, eclectic approach, and I have expanded my practice to include collage, installation and photography. Recently, I’ve been drawn into the digital worlds my children inhabit so readily (in part because the subject of ‘screen’ causes so much debate and anxiety in the cultural discourse) and the imagery I’ve found there has been surprisingly inspiring and oddly familiar. One game had a pixelated, modular landscape—touched with moments of surprising, naturalistic beauty—that became an excellent metaphor for my domestic world. I use this imagery layered with realism, as well as a layering of techniques, to develop the idea of parenting and domestic life as a many-layered experience: funny, moving, and labor-intensive.</p>
Topic
domestic life
family systems
parenting
parenthood
realism
abstraction
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Roxana Alger Geffen
abstraction
collage
domestic
domestic life
family systems
installation
mess
mixed media
painting
parenthood
parenting
photography
realism
toys
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Website
The Artist's website
<div style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.luheintz.com/" target="_blank">http://www.luheintz.com/</a></div>
Medium
conceptual art
textiles
metalsmithing
video
sound
sculpture
installation
performance
paper works
writing
Location
The location of the interview
Providence
Rhode Island
Artist Statement
My work is engaged in discourses around feminism, labor and technological change. Embedded in the works are confluences of technique and meaning, craft and digital media, and everyday materials with fine art forms. The work is situated at the nexus of life and art, and walks a boundary between work and love. Labor and love act broadly as dual domains which sustain my interest in the ways a subject acts and is acted upon by intersecting social, economic, intimate, emotional and political forces. While some works describe the ways in which labor and love converge in personal and economic experience, others begin to search for meanings of love that may deviate from material, economic conditions to transform the terms of our intimate and collective relationships.
Topic
labor
love
power
gender
consumerism
intimacy
communication
silence
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Lu Heintz
communication
conceptual art
consumerism
gender
installation
intimacy
labor
love
metalsmithing
paper works
performance
power
sculpture
silence
sound
textiles
video
writing
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4f45bcbe1c73e2f416ab21fc4a167552
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://chloe-irla.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://chloe-irla.com/</a>
Medium
painting
fiber
textile
mixed media
installation
Location
The location of the interview
Baltimore
Maryland
Artist Statement
<span>I maintain an interdisciplinary studio practice grounded in both traditional and alternative approaches to painting and drawing. My recent work investigates the data visualization of increments over specific time periods. I collect information within an established time constraint and then analyze the data set. Based on the conceptual direction of the project, I incorporate the use of textiles and digital media to visualize the research.<br /><br /> The <em>Year One</em> series is based on one year’s worth of data collected about my daughter’s first year of life. From January 18, 2015 to January 18, 2016, I tracked the times of each nursing session, pumping session, nightly sleep and morning wake-up, daytime nap, diaper, bath, bottle, and solid food acceptance. My initial goal was to create wool blankets based on the graph-like data visualizations, but as a new parent, I simply do not have the time to dedicate to hand-felting and sewing large-scale quilts at this point in my practice. I decided to utilize digital media to create the compositions, so my process began with hand-dyeing samples of wool, scanning the samples and adjusting them into digital files, and then arranging the “tiles” into blanket-like digital compositions. <br /><br /><em>Year One</em> allows me to compare data about my daughter’s growth and development, and also visualizes the absolute time commitment that goes into being a primary caregiver. Every hour of the day with an infant is busy, and with this project, each hour is also accounted for. I can compare my daughter’s first month of life to the last month of her first year, which shows a drastic difference in feeding and sleeping routines. The overall appearance of the compositions is similar to my initial goal of creating handmade wool blankets, but the process is much better suited to my busy, primary caregiving lifestyle.</span>
Topic
daughter
life
motherhood
parenthood
data
tracking
visualization
repetitive tasks
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Title
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Chloe Irla
data
daughter
fiber
installation
life
mixed media
motherhood
painting
parenthood
repetitive tasks
textile
tracking
visualization
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.lynnlu.info" target="_blank">www.lynnlu.info</a>
Topic
milk
lactation
tending
empathy
reality
Medium
performance
installation
kinetic sculpture
Artist Statement
In my practice, the sentient body is seen as the main medium for perceiving and presenting (versus representing) meaning (versus message) through direct personal experience. Engaging vigorously with the present reality of all that is here-and-now, the meaning of my context-specific works often manifest in the resonant relationships created between myself and my audience, and between the audience themselves. My current research looks at the connection between experiential knowledge and the innate human capacity for empathy, in relation to a genre performance art I call “gutty”. This gutty form of performance art which uses the body just as it is – as vulnerable/resilient/sensitive as it is in everyday life – relies heavily on empathy to create meaning that is not merely conceptual but also affective and visceral. In other words, I look at why some performances not only tickle our brains but also quite literally leave us feeling like we’ve been punched in the gut.
Location
The location of the interview
London
United Kingdom
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Lynn Charlotte Lu
empathy
installation
kinetic sculpture
lactation
milk
performance
reality
spillage
tending
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Website
The Artist's website
http://www.christadonner.com
Topic
community
motherhood
collaboration
childcare
Medium
drawing
painting
printmaking
installation
social practice
Artist Statement
Artmaking is my microscope and my scalpel: the tool I use to investigate the human organism through sensation and imagination. My recent studio practice looks to early feminist sci-fi while drawing from the matriarchal colony structures of social insects and the internal ecosystems of the microbiome to propose speculative models for human communities of the future, and to reimagine the architecture of our own bodies. Such inquiry must incorporate the experiences of others if it is to evolve. Embedded in my artistic practice is an exchange between individuals and communities that extends from the fictional to lived experiences and experiments. In 2012 I initiated the creative platform <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cultural ReProducers</a>, which incorporates artist interviews and skillsharing, small-press zines, collaborative events, institutional interventions, and an active online forum to explore the intersection of parenthood and creative practice. My speculative work in the studio is amplified by the community of creative thinkers and cultural workers raising children who I collaborate with and advocate for. This community will continue to evolve as its participants grow and change.
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/388">Mother Load</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/452">Extended Self: Transformations and Connections</a>
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Christa Donner
Chicago
childcare
collaboration
community
drawing
Illinois
installation
motherhood
painting
printmaking
social practice
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<a href="http://www.paulachambers.co.uk/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.paulachambers.co.uk/index.html</a>
Medium
sculpture
installation
Location
The location of the interview
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
My mother was not a feminist, yet growing up in 1970s suburban north London I was witness to, and complicit in, her active refusal to conform to the expectations of a good housewife. Cleaning, tidying, dusting, washing up, were all low on the list of my mother’s priorities, instead she played tennis, she grew vegetables, she went out dancing; my sister and I were left to our own devices. As a feminist artist, I have adopted my mother’s domestic dissent, integrating it as philosophy into the processes and outcomes of my art making practice. I do not have a studio but make art in my kitchen; I rarely clean or tidy up, I utilize my domestic space and the objects that inhabit it, as a temporalized site of domestic resistance.<br /><br />The domestic objects and household ornaments of our childhoods take on an emotional value that shape our notions of self; that construct significant personal identities. In the body of work " "Transcendental Housework", I subvert these domestic objects that haunt our retrogressive imagination. This is dysfunctional furniture and ambivalent ornamentation. Sculptural objects, both floor based and wall based seem to lurk or loiter in the gallery space, they have a whiff of discontented anthropomorphism.
Topic
motherhood
feminism
childhood
domestic space
housework
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/404" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The M Word, One Paved Court Gallery, 1 – 12 May 2019</a>
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Paula Chambers
childhood
domestic
feminist
installations
motherhood
sculpture
United Kingdom
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4aaa5fa665dd9bcb983d881f5e286b05
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<a href="http://www.emmafinucane.com/" target="_blank">http://www.emmafinucane.com/</a>
Medium
screenprint
photography
video art
performance art
printmaking
installation
Location
The location of the interview
Bray
County Wicklow
Ireland
Artist Statement
I develop artwork through dialogue, process based, participatory and collaborative practice. I investigate the way we connect and communicate with others and ultimately how it contributes to the quality of our lives. I am looking at the role of the artist in society and questioning how “useful” the role of art can be when entering into different areas. My work has frequently combined education, research and artistic practice. My visual research consists of screen print, digital images and photography, slides and video experiments. I have been using video in both documentary and performance based formats, combining live action with static projections, improvisation and language. <br /><br />I am currently Artist in Residence in UCD College of Health Sciences where I am the principle investigator on a research team with a midwifery lecturer Dr. Maria Healy (UCD) and midwife, Teresa McCreery based at the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street. Together we are working on the research initiative: An interpretive phenomenological study: Illuminating childbirth experiences of women attending a midwife-led service via visual art works. Insights from this research will highlight women’s lived experiences of childbirth vis visual artworks and academic publications. The final artworks will be included in the UCD Health Sciences Library in book format as an educational tool alongside academic books.
Topic
childbirth
motherhood
maternal
education
parenting
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Emma Finucane
Bray
childbirth
County Wicklow
education
installation
Ireland
maternal
motherhood
parenting
performance art
photography
printmaking
screenprint
video art
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.trishmorrissey.com/" target="_blank">http://www.trishmorrissey.com/</a>
Medium
photography
installation
video art
spoken word
Topic
motherhood
parenthood
parent/child collaboration
face painting
pregnancy
karaoke
family dynamics
family vacation
parenting
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a>
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Trish Morrissey
face painting
family dynamics
family vacation
installation
karaoke
motherhood
parent/child collaboration
parenthood
parenting
photography
pregnancy
spoken word
video art
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6df8725a23ec08f7105eef04366c2953
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://lizziephilps.com/" target="_blank">http://lizziephilps.com/</a>
Medium
walking
installation
theatre
mother/daughter relationship
Location
The location of the interview
Bristol
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
I make participatory performance projects, including theatre, installations, site-based and walking events. The work is playful and irreverent, and explores the sensory, the landscape, and the ways audiences can create and negotiate meaning. I make performance to address the limitations of language, my fascination with identity politics, and my desire to illuminate and document the performative in daily life. I am currently developing Live Art walking practices around the personal geographies and the intimate (and simultaneously very public) performances associated with parenting.
Topic
maternity
motherhood
parenting
childcare
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Lizzie Philps
bristol
childcare
installation
maternity
motherhood
parenthood
theatre
United Kingdom
walking
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290e2337d435e9dadee3f04f0729eb0c
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://lisehallerbaggesen.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://lisehallerbaggesen.wordpress.com/</a>
<a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780988418554/mothernism.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780988418554/mothernism.aspx</a>
Medium
installation
writing
audio
Location
The location of the interview
Chicago
Illinois
Artist Statement
Mothernism is a nomadic tent camp audio installation and a book, dedicated to staking out and making speakable the “mother-shaped hole in contemporary art discourse.” <br /><br />Since 2013, the installation has travelled to various venues in the United States (The Poor Farm in Manawa, Vox Populi in Philadelphia and Ordinary Projects and the Glass Curtain Gallery in Chicago) and has also spawned a series of panels and “story time” readings as well as the curatorial project 3am Maternal at Vox Populi in Philadelphia. T<span>he Mothernism installation will tour in spring 2016 to The Elisabeth Foundation and A.I.R. Gallery and to The Contemporary Austin.</span><br /><br />The book, with pictures of the installation, was published in 2014, by Poor Farm Press and Green Lantern Press. It is available in the US through SPD: <a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780988418554/mothernism.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780988418554/mothernism.aspx</a>
Topic
motherhood
motherhood and art practice
contemporary art discourse
science fiction
disco
music
biography
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/388">Mother Load</a>
Publications
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/463">The Maternal in Creative Work Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art, Contributor</a>
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Lise Haller Baggesen
audio
biography
Chicago
contemporary art discourse
disco
Illinois
installation
motherhood
motherhood and art practice
Mothernism
music
science fiction
writing
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5107111b15115bff6bdcac1774cafb22
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.helensargeant.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.helensargeant.co.uk/</a>
Medium
drawing
painting
installation
video art
sound
performance
photography
Location
The location of the interview
Todmorden
England
Artist Statement
Sargeant makes artwork about the female body, identity and mental fragility. She works across drawing, painting, photography, sound, video, performance and installation to explore her ideas.
Sargeant's arts practice is communicated through the visceral physical reality of the female body and psychological contexts. The work combines fiction and autobiography. Central to this practice is the utilisation of lived experience as a way to communicate emotions directly to an audience by making the personal public.
"We are born and we make marks through the vapour of our first breath, through our first excrement and from the saliva of our mouths enclosing around our mothers breasts."
– Helen Sargeant
Recent drawings represent the vulnerability and power of the biological body through pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding. The pregnant body is schematised and seen as, a vessel or a holding place. Dr Jacques Rangasamy writes:
"In her drawings, the space of pregnancy overflows the confines of the body; expectations are transmuted into feelings, and are located in parts of the body that are connected by tubular structures, the curved flights of single arrows and what appears as knotted ropes or rosary beads. It is perhaps an echo of the intelligence of life as it is instinctually felt rather than reasoned and rationalised. And therefore more authentic.In the way Chinese artists use ink as a symbol of the creative potential of the Tao, or primordial essence, Helen Sargeant uses ink to represent the bodily fluids essential to the alchemy of life. The ink and the forms it engenders form part of the same organic nature."
Drawings representing birth were recently published in Studies in the Maternal visual editor Rebecca Baillie writes:
"In her series’ of birth drawings Sargeant unites the public practice of watching YouTube birth videos with the more personal experience of giving birth oneself. The drawings aim to expose both the physical and emotional experience of birth, paying attention to feelings of emotional detachment during the delivery of her sons The birthing body is explored as an indicator of cultural and social anxiety, giving voice to pain and trauma beyond that of the actual birth."
Images documenting breastfeeding through drawings and photography look to show maternal jouissance and the sensual pleasures of the mother baby relationship. Maternal subjectivity is further explored within recent photographs documenting a performance where Sargeant bakes at home with her children to make loaves of bread formed into birthing figures that are subsequently eaten by her family at breakfast. Another performance documents her baking bread from the dust in her vacuum cleaner. Throughout this practice Sargeant seeks to explore, challenge and critique normative discourses and idealised representations of motherhood.
Topic
pregnancy
birth
motherhood
breastfeeding
bread baking
fertility
pain
identity
vulnerability
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a>
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Helen Sargeant
birth
bread baking
England
motherhood
pregnancy
Todmorden
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://courtneykessel.com/home.html" target="_blank">http://courtneykessel.com/home.html</a>
Medium
performance art
sculpture
installation
video art
sound
Location
The location of the interview
Ohio
Artist Statement
My current work and research is focused on the possibility of what a feminist form may consist of beyond current feminist content, imagery, and histories. Through sculpture, performance, video, and sound, I perform a visibility that, in normative patriarchal society, is preferred to remain invisible. The question of feminist form transcends the product and is inclusive of my practice and methodology. In doing this, a slippage occurs where the separation of studio activity and domestic responsibility is blurred.
In the performance In Balance With, my six-year-old daughter, Chloe, and I sit at opposite ends of an empty sixteen-foot seesaw. During the thirty-minute performance, I add items that represent our lives such as toys, her books and sketchbook, my research books, food, laundry, tools, and pots and pans to her side of the seesaw. Constantly checking in with her well being, I continue until both sides have reached equilibrium. While hovering in a balanced state, I am continually counteracting her every move. Here we remain until she is ready to come down. In communication the entire time, the words we share are available to the audience but are not for the audience.
This piece is the confluence of many of my ideas. It relays and relies upon the non-privileged, unspoken language of the maternal, the process as opposed to the product, and the repositioned domestic dialog. When the performance ends, what remains is a laden seesaw complete with identifiable objects representing one’s life: a sculpture that tells a tale.
The non-hierarchical triad of feminism, language, and maternity forms the unique basis for my work. The French feminist Luce Irigaray describes woman “as waste, or excess, what is left of a mirror invested by the (masculine) ‘subject’ to reflect himself, to copy himself”1. I use language as a medium in my work to represent the gap in both “meaning” and “intention,” as well as the notion of “excess” as Irigaray connotes. How does the methodology I will use be sympathetic to feminist form? How will my decisions be based on this? Feminist form is non-hierarchical. It has options and choices; it is excess and multiplicitous, not singular. It will not be categorized, but create it’s own category. It is a process that is not based on product. It accumulates and is messy, but is not interested in making messes. It is an invitation, not a statement.
Topic
motherhood
daughter
feminism
language
domestic life
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/4" target="_blank">Complicated Labors</a>
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/274" target="_blank">Labors</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/64" target="_blank">New Maternalisms - Chile</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/161" target="_blank">New Maternalisms - Redux</a>
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Title
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Courtney Kessel
daughter
domestic life
feminism
language
motherhood
Ohio
performance art
sculpture
sound
video art
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://nataliemball.com/section/33295.html">http://nataliemball.com/section/33295.html</a>
Medium
performance art
installation
Artist Statement
"To Be Continued" is a claim for visual sovereignty. It is about taking back power through the relationship of a mother and her daughter in relation to historical genocide and disenfranchisement of the Modoc and Klamath people. I enlist auto-ethnography as an apparatus to offer you a visual articulation of a mother’s conscious actions to connect her daughter to her complex history, her water, her land, and her cultures for survival.
For me, for my family, for many native people, and for my daughter the “Indian Wars” are not over. “To Be Continued” acknowledges my daughter’s Indigenous womanhood within a reality where the wars have not subsided. There are other kinds of war, with legislation, not howitzers; water rights, land acquisition, dam removal, salmon restoration, self determination and blood quantum. There is always a fight.
When Ojibwe scholar Scott Lyons writes about native identity, "When the Indian speaks, it always speaks as an Indian," he is stating that it is not possible to ignore the complex narratives that create the idea of the Indian. I address this through traditional native markers, quilt pieces, a pony, but just in case you missed that the Indian is speaking as an Indian, I put the name Modoc in lights at the center of the piece. The door and floor put the installation in space and time, adding another layer of information. The space is being occupied, at least for the time being. What always was Indian land is back to being Indigenous space. The installation leaves no doubt, occupied or not, the space is Indian, Modoc in lights, telegraphing presence and native survivance.
Topic
motherhood
mother/daughter relationship
daughter
native american
genocide
heritage
Klamath Tribe
Modoc Tribe
auto-ethnography
Indigenous womanhood
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Title
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Natalie M. Ball
auto-ethnography
daughter
genocide
heritage
Indigenous motherhood
installation
Klamath Tribe
Modoc Tribe
motherhood
Native American
performance art
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<a href="http://denisewhitebreadfanning.com/homeland-security.html" target="_blank">http://denisewhitebreadfanning.com/homeland-security.html</a>
Medium
sculpture
performance art
installation
Location
The location of the interview
Michigan
Artist Statement
Created from the perspective of mother, Homeland Security is an ongoing body of work comprised of (often futile or absurd) survival and escape gear made by a mother to protect her family and loved ones from a threatening array of inevitable tragedies or disasters, from simple domestic accidents to acts of terrorism and environmental catastrophes. Fusing the artist's converging interest in survival preparedness and mundane domestic survival, this body of work continues to manifest as a response to the ever present fears of the mother/caregiver, who, influenced by media and the societal commodification of fear, desires to protect that which she most fears losing. Using language culled from Survival Preparedness Handbooks which often doubles as domestic survival mantras, the work explores the line between utmost gravity and the absurd, between our real and daily dangers, and the sense of humor necessary for our survival. All of the work in this series speaks to human fears of loss and mortality, as well as the ego attached to the implied ability to prevent such mortal guarantees.
Topic
motherhood
protection
survival
disasters
accidents
survival planning handbook
survival preparedness
fear
maternal fear
mortality
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Title
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Denise Whitebread Fanning
accidents
installation
lifeboat
maternal fear
Michigan
mortality
motherhood
performance art
sculpture
survival
survival gear
survival handbook
survival preparedness
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<a href="http://www.sarahirvinart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.sarahirvinart.com</a>
Biographical Text
When I started my graduate program in 2013, I was confident that becoming a mother was not compatible with my studio practice. In the middle of my first semester, I began to question this assumption. As an experiment, I assumed the opposite was true, that there was work that I could only make if I was a mother. I was suddenly able to envision not only the work, but also myself in the role of “mother” for the first time. Three months later I was pregnant and I got to work. Creating in this way allows me to form myself in a role of “mother” and in turn motherhood continually redefines my practice. The work opens up dialogues about circumstances that are publicly debated, but only privately experienced.
I measured my stomach with a piece of yarn at navel height the day I found out I was pregnant. I tied the yarn off in a loop. I repeated this every day until the day I went into labor. Every week of the second trimester, I lifted 26 pounds, one pound over the recommended amount a pregnant woman should lift, using a block and tackle pulley system and created a transfer drawing with the impact when it was dropped from nine feet.
I established mechanisms to capture the physical actions of parenting as a mark on a page, beginning while I was in labor. For instance, the area rug in the nursery created transfer drawings as we walked across the room, the glider rocker created drawings as we rocked, and the stroller created drawings as we strolled. These works were enabled by the activities of our daily lives and captured the kinetic energy and labor involved in the care and nurturing of an infant.
During the second and third months of my daughter’s life, I created a series of watercolors exclusively while she slept, with each set considered complete when she awoke, allowing my circumstances to dictate aspects of my creative output. While breastfeeding, I made drawings on paper I created from my bed sheets with looping marks corresponding to individual suck and swallow motions of nursing providing a real-time read out of this experience. I commissioned a reproduction of the plastic measuring scoop that comes in a container of Similac infant formula to be cast from silver baby spoons.
Other iterations of this series include my daughter’s nursery as camera obscura; cyanotypes created with her blankets, toys and clothing; early stages of her own mark-making captured through fingerprint dust; silverpoint drawings tracing her early movements made with jewelry from my grandmother; and paintings made with a baby bottle and formula. As a whole, this project-based work is a personal narrative taking form as poetic visual data.
The works are exhibited as sets and series. An entire year’s action of rocking a baby is a set of 59 drawings made with our rocking chair. One year of walking across a nursery rug is a row of 12 large transfer drawings. Fifty feet of watercolors represent a tiny sampling of the available time during early parenthood when the baby slept. The work visualizes how care taking has shaped me as an individual and how it has transformed my mark making.
I view everything related to the experience of parenthood as a valid subject matter and/or mark making tool and this has opened up new methods of creating. The pieces are derived from the everyday. The interface of specific materials and processes with the everyday provides an entry point into broader topics of gender, production, reproduction, care, biological processes and cultural systems.
Medium
painting
drawing
papermaking
video art
photography
installation
Topics
The topics addressed within the Artist's work.
motherhood
parenthood
breastfeeding
infants and sleep
pregnancy
Location
The location of the interview
Richmond
Virginia
Topic
breastfeeding
motherhood
infants and sleep
pregnancy
baby formula
caretaking
gender and caretaking
domestic labor
maternal ambivalence
Artist Residency in Motherhood
gender equality
home
domestic space
care work
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/274" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Labors</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/392">The End & The Beginning</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/452">Extended Self: Transformations and Connections</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/495">Painting at Night, Fort Houston Gallery, Nashville, TN</a>
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Title
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Sarah Irvin
ambivalence
body
breastfeeding
care work
domestic labor
domestic space
drawing
gender
gender equality
home
infant care
labor
maternal abivalence
maternal body
maternal time
motherhood
mothering
painting
paper
papermaking
repetition
repetitive tasks
ritual
tracking
video