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clarapistner.com
Topic
pregnancy
breastfeeding
identity
carework
Medium
video
super 8
drawing
painting
Artist Statement
Since my pregnancy in 2020 i started to very much concentrate my artistic work on my state of being and becoming. I begun a quite extensive research on artists and writers who did works about pregnancy, motherhood, birth, care work. Shocked by the invisibility of these subjects in the art context and at the same time convinced by their importance, also from a political and feminist point of few i got more and more obsessed. Finding bit by bit and above all finding very touching and strong pieces i got totally dedicated. I made an artist book containing all the art works, poems and text fragments i found combining my own works i did during my pregnancy, reflecting all the parallels, kinships and the very wide range of feelings and life realities and their expressions.
In the first few months after the birth of my daughter in February 2021, I reduced my artistic practice mainly to drawing. However, it became a constant with which I reflected extensively and profoundly on this unique and intense stage of my life. The few hours, rather minutes, of daily drawing became my very personal time of concentration on myself. Feelings, perceptions, needs, situations of everyday life - I just start drawing, quickly, while the child is still sleeping; see what's going on inside me - make me aware, show me what's on my mind. In terms of content and practice, the boundaries between diary and drawing, diary and art merge - which is why I basically call my practice of diary writing a part of my artistic practice and my artistic work my diary.
Different forms of diary have become infinitely valuable and fundamental for me and an incredibly satisfying, insightful practice that delighted, amused, surprised, amazed and confirmed me.
Since i always worked a lot with video, I also made several videos that describe the everyday life with my child. The simultaneity of being a mother, a caretaker and an artist who is striving to continue working and needing to process questions of identity, feelings of (inter-)dependency, tasks, responsibilities, ambivalent feelings, different roles, strong and also gradual changes of the self, and many more.
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clara pistner
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Clara Pistner
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<a href="http://www.jamiegdiamond.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.jamiegdiamond.com</a>
Medium
photography
performance
Artist Statement
Jamie Diamond (b. 1983) is a performance artist, photographer and filmmaker living in Brooklyn, NY. Her work mostly focuses on the human figure, deconstructing images throughout an array of concepts such as motherhood, authenticity and memory. She uses personal narratives as a departure point to compose photographs that challenge the boundaries between reality and fiction.
365 Days: 1938/2017
In 2015, while visiting Berlin, I stumbled upon a discarded vernacular German family photo album. As I turned each page, I saw the life of a child unfold, 27 days old, 47 days old, 80 days old, ending at 365 days. I then looked at the date and it occurred to me that this was at the dawn of the Second World War. This body of work is a collaboration between me and my son and two strangers, a mother and a child and explores the interplay between shared global history and maternal identity. I have carefully re-enacted each picture with my son since his birth, set within the same time frame outlined in the album, from 27 days old to a year. My recreations are over-layed with the original source material from 1938, collapsing space, time and memory into one photograph. The pixels merge with the grain, in the way I merge with this stranger, our developmental milestones and fears become one. By collapsing the historical photograph with my staged re-enactment I create a new narrative in which our shared identity at a time of uncertainty become united.
Mother Love:
In this project I collaborated with an outsider art making community called the Reborners, a group of self-taught female artists who hand-make, collect and interact with hyper-realistic dolls. Working with the community allowed me to explore the grey area between reality and artifice where relationships are constructed with inanimate objects, between human and doll, artist and artwork, uncanny and real.
After spending a year investigating and recording their practice, I chose to become a Reborner to gain a better understanding of the community. Nine Months of Reborning documents my introduction to the community and the making of my first nine dolls, as well as the working nursery I established in my studio and on eBay, called the Bitten Apple Nursery. Before putting the finished dolls up for adoption on eBay, I took a portrait of each one. The final photograph is the remnant of this exchange. For the subsequent Amy Project, I invited celebrated Artists from the community to individually interpret and idealize the same doll. I then photograph each doll mimicking vernacular school portraits. Each of the dolls are unique to their maker’s hand, but share an uncanny similarity through their common origin. For the final act in the Reborn collaboration, I have identified and appropriated different canonical images of the Christ Child, and invited Reborn artists to create individual portrait babies. Depictions vary drastically from artist to artist, all ultimately presenting their personal, ideal representation of a singular figure. The photographs engage with the tradition of portraiture, evoking classical sculptural busts that are at once familiar and strange.
I Promise to Be a Good Mother:
In this series, I assume the role of subject and photographer and put on the mask of motherhood, dressing up in my mother’s clothes and interacting with Annabelle, a reborn doll. The project was inspired by and named after a diary I kept as a girl that documented the relationship with my own mother, written as a kind of rule sheet for later life. I started staging specific memories from my childhood, acting out recalled events and behaviors. Eventually the performance evolved into an exploration of the complexities surrounding the paradox of the mother/child relationship, investigating both its vernacular and art historical depictions, while mimicking and ignoring the traditional visual signifiers of motherhood. I’m interested in the fantasy of motherhood, the social structure of the relationship between mother and child, and the performance of inherited social and gender roles. Working in a variety of locations, both interiors and landscapes, I play out these scenarios with Annabelle for the camera, isolating specific idyllic and contradictory moments.
Location
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Brooklyn
New York
Topic
motherhood
family
photographic veracity
performance
family history
memory
identity
role play
reborn
doll
surrogate
pregnancy
fiction
album
archive
reenactment
Exhibitions
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Surrogate: A Love Ideal, Milan Osservatorio, Fondazione Prada, Italy
Curated by Melissa Harris, 2019
Nine Months of Reborning, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2019
I Promise to be a Good Mother, AJL Art, Berlin, Germany, 2012
365 Days: 1938/2017, Kewenig, Berlin, Germany, 2021
A New Society, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada
Family Affairs, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, 2021
Walk in My Shoes, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA, United States, 2015
Please Touch: Body Boundaries, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ, United States
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Jamie Diamond
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Jamie Diamond
album
archive
doll
family
family history
fiction
identity
memory
motherhood
performance
photographic veracity
pregnancy
reborn
reenactment
role play
surrogate
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<a href="http://www.karendmillerstudio.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.karendmillerstudio.com</a>
Topic
motherhood
textile art
identity
child-rearing
Medium
Textile art
Artist Statement
I’ve always been drawn to fibre as a medium, at first because it is so forgiving, and later for its almost perfect versatility. It provides me with a host of materials to work with, from the thinnest of threads to the heaviest of felts, and allows me to explore dimensionality, texture, and light. And it has a long tradition to it, particularly the hooking technique that I prefer, that reaches back across generations of women whose work was seen as functional rather than aesthetic. How appropriate that I use this technique today to consider the devalued labour of women and mothers. Its slow rhythm is in opposition to much of the pace of the motherhood journey. Yet each loop of yarn brings me closer to elevating and recognizing the experiences that we as mothers have long been told society is not comfortable hearing.
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<a href="https://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/606" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maternochronics: Maternal Exhaustion in the Time of Pandemic</a>
Location
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Ottawa
Ontario
Canada
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Karen Miller
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Karen D. Miller
child rearing
identity
motherhood
textile art
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<a href="http://www.larysabauge.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.larysabauge.com</a>
Topic
female body
identity
belonging
connection
maternity
Medium
performance art
video
Artist Statement
My work challenges the very nature of the concept of belonging, roots, the necessity of being part of something bigger, a family, a tribe, a community, etc. I take this basic instinct as a main poetic driving force, I am on a quest of reestablishing (lost) connections between people. Strongly influenced by the socially engaged and feminist art practices, I usually work directly with the context and collaborate with concrete people in form of interview, collective music making, improvised theatre. Having gathered this material, I create embodied experiences (performance art pieces), often using sound and participative practices in public spaces. In the performance <span>CÁRITAS</span>, me (still childless, choosing then to be childfree) and my childless 70-yearold friend are in a barn with young cows raised for meat only. The piece is a reflection on what is female body if not used for reproduction, how does the maternity of our beings manifest itself.
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Larysa Bauge
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Larysa Bauge
belonging
connection
female body
identity
maternity
performance art
video
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<a href="http://.www.idbohemia.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">idbohemia.com</a>
<a href="http://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/christina-ignacio-deines?general_filter=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.artworkarchive.com/profile/christina-ignacio-deines?general_filter=2</a>
Topic
sexuality
maternal mental health
postpartum despression and recovery
trauma
PTSD
birth
desire
sexual power dynamics
identity
motherhood
parenting
intimacy
family legacy
Medium
Site specific installation
sculpture and assemblage
painting
photography
drawing
music and sound
experience design
Artist Statement
Why do we connect? What are the foundations on which connection is built? How do we nurture deep connection?
I have been exploring the phenomena and ecology of connection and belonging for more than a decade. My work examines our needs and motivations, the formative effect of culture and life history on identity, and the powerful influence that objects, experiences, and environment have on our well-being and relationships. In practice, I weave connection into the artistic process by bridging ideas and disciplines— applying 2D visual principles in 3D space, for example, and applying fine art, decorative and craft techniques. Scratch-built components may be combined with current, mass-produced materials, particularly in the installations, to ground a work in the present even when its inspiration is found in the past.
In my body of work, I have looked at the ways connection and belonging are expressed in romantic relationships relative to a single identity (1), and in national identity relative to the life cycle of a species (2). I have recast creative partners as a sacred ideal (3), and recreated sites of profound physical and spiritual union (4). I have challenged sexual and political power dynamics among social groups (5), and depicted temptation and sisterhood in sapphic narrative poetry (6), I have crossed cultures to create a fresh aesthetic language for modern marital relationships, fusing French and Inuit fairy and folk tales with arch-rib barns and Gothic churches (7), and the decorative arts of nomadic peoples from Mongolia to the Mojave (8). I have related the emotional experience of love to physical and visual sensations (9). I have translated the process of rehabilitation into a journey of connections between individuals, systems and the broader community (10). I have presented shelter and security as the basis for healthy intimate and parental relationships (11). Recently, I remodelled a mass-produced dollhouse into a one-of-a-kind heirloom, to describe how legacy and maternal identity connects generations of family (12).
While rooted in an ongoing practice of communicating connection and belonging in art by building immersive, experiential installations, my recent work is a deeply engaging progression into more visceral and nuanced emotional territory, and more daring and experimental explorations of materials, scale and collaboration. My work often seeks to translate our darker human struggles into objects and environments of protection, joy, and beauty. Recent shifts in our cultural and political climate, coupled with research and conversations I’ve had with healthcare professionals, mental health professionals, academics, and my own peer group of women, mothers and families, has convinced me that motherhood and maternal identity are important artistic subjects worth exploring, and that my approach is unique and substantive. In an increasingly divided and isolating culture, it is not simply relevant to lay bare the struggle of connection and belonging. It is in fact vital.
1 An Open Love Letter: There is no Japanese word for Identity, 2005; 2 Salmon Run - Comox, 2007; 3 The Writer and His Muse, 2006; 4 Some Like It Hot Pink, 2009 and Love Without Borders, 2011; 5 Queens (After John Singer Sargent), 2009; 6 Forbidden Feast (After Christina Rossetti), 2015; 7 Beauty & The Beast, 2010; 8 East x Southwest, 2014; 9 Sea of Light, 2011; 10 Explore The Map of Courage - Sculpture Series, 2016; 11 Light The Way Home, 2017; 12 Riven’s Dream Lodge, 2018
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Christina Ignacio-Deines
birth
desire
drawing
experience design
family legacy
identity
intimacy
maternal mental health
motherhood
music and sound
painting
parenting
photography
postpartum depression and recovery
PTSD
sculpture and assemblage
sexual power dynamics
sexuality
Site specific installation
trauma
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<a href="http://www.jenniferlugris.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.jenniferlugris.com</a>
Topic
motherhood
family
marriage
child
breastfeeding
identity
BIPOC
immigration
multiculturalism
biracial
family history
ancestors
California
Uruguay
South Korea
North Korea
Medium
painting
Artist Statement
I grew up in a house where asado was eaten with kimchi and where dinner conversations seamlessly shifted from English to Spanish to Korean and sometimes even Galego. My Korean, Uruguayan, Spanish, and Portuguese backgrounds lead to multi-cultural, idiosyncratic, ill-fitting puzzle pieces that make up who I am. Likewise, my multi-panel paintings are intensely fractured, creating conflict upon close inspection of the juxtaposed illusionistic and abstracted, flattened and textured forms. I disrupt the continuity from one piece to the next, as well as, push and pull on figure and ground to play with how front-to-back are perceived. Growing up, I received many quizzical looks as individuals attempted to understand and piece together my varied, ethnic background. I wish to recreate that same experience in my paintings by provoking the audience to question and work to find connections that pull the piece together. Comparable to the oddly placed blocks in the paintings, which are linked through composition and color palette, I too, am linked by a unified body made up of mixed traditions and ancestries.
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Jennifer Lugris
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Jennifer Lugris
ancestors
BIPOC
biracial
breastfeeding
California
child
family
family history
identity
immigration
marriage
motherhood
multiculturalism
North Korea
South Korea
Uruguay
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<a href="http://www.kristinskees.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.kristinskees.com</a>
Medium
photography
fiber art
Location
The location of the interview
Virginia
USA
Artist Statement
The ongoing Cozy Portrait portrait series combines traditional women’s craft, contemporary DIY culture, portraiture, and a love of the unexpected and absurd. This work morphs and conforms to each person I photograph and the cozy is custom made for each subject. Reminiscent of an ill-fitting handmade sweater, the cozy represents the fine line between comfort and constriction. It is simultaneously a warm cocoon and a claustrophobic straight-jacket. It is this relationship of artist and subject that represents my own journey as a daughter and a mother. For me, these primal relationships are fraught with contradictions. Where protection becomes suppression, and one’s identity is consumed, blurred and defined by that relationship. In addition to the Cozy Portrait series, these themes of motherhood and identity are explored throughout my work, including the photographic series Mother/Artist, Yawning Beagles, Tiny Trophies, and others
Topic
caretaking
mothering
cozy
craft
fiber
knitting
cocoon
protecting
daughter
constriction
identity
motherhood
Exhibitions
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Cozy Portraits, solo exhibition, New Image Gallery, James Madison University, VA, 2018
Mother / Artist, solo exhibition, the Charles H. Taylor Art Center, Hampton, VA, 2018
Yawning Beagles, solo show, Charles H. Taylor Arts Center, Hampton, VA, 2013
Family Matters, PhotoPlace Gallery, (Online Annex), Middlebury, VT,, 2015
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Kristin Skees
caretaking
cocoon
constriction
cozy
craft
daughter
fiber
fiber art
identity
knitting
motherhood
mothering
photography
protecting
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Artist Parent Organization Database
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Location
The location of the interview
Salem, Oregon
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Topic
reproduction
family
sex
gender
inclusive
zines
crowdsourcing
advocacy
paid family leave
care
caregiving
community
pregnancy
abortion
miscarriage
fetal loss
infertility
birth
gestation
identity
fashion
non-binary
LGBTQIA+
activism
performative action
library
collaboration
equity
policy
education
art
feminism
motherhood
fatherhood
parenthood
workshop
consent
About
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We (Cayla Skillin-Brauchle and Danielle C. Wyckoff) have come together to birth </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reproductive Media</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a project that focuses on all things family, gender, sex, and reproduction. Iterations of Reproductive Media have included a Mobile Zine Library and performative actions and workshops in which we facilitate discussions on these themes. The Reproductive Media Zine Library’s collection includes dozens of contributors who have produced zines related to these topics, ranging from personal experiences to statistics and facts. Our curatorial vision for this library is inclusive: we encourage individuals to share diverse information, experiences, and interpretations. This collection is an ongoing and ever-growing library.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Part of Reproductive Media’s larger mission is to provide educational and advocacy materials and support. Current resources we have produced as free booklets include ways to advocate for family-friendly* workplaces, suggestions for creating more inclusive educational settings, and other tools to advocate for legislative change such as ones that would support families for medical leave. (*We recognize an inclusive definition of family and remember that people receive love and support from partners, elders, children, siblings, lovers, pets, friends, and more.) </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reproductive Media stems from our shared investment in discussion and because our individual artistic practices utilize conversation and crowdsourcing as a tactic to research and create projects. Wyckoff’s project, “Please Tell Me a Story About Love,” has traveled around the world asking folks to do just that. The project’s open-ended structure situates the artist as listener, hearing and recording stories about all forms of love. Skillin-Brauchle’s “Data Collection” performances seek to create local data sets by interviewing community members in public places. While disparate in their approaches, these projects act as non-judgemental agents, recorders of contemporary experience. Our projects focus on the ‘local,’ whether that be a site or a community, and both projects collect responses that fuel our individual artwork in other material forms.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We believe that critical discussions require space. Reproductive Media creates such a space, one that is a public yet private forum, to talk about all things family, sex, gender, and reproduction: the choice to parent or not; the experiences of non-binary lives; governmental policy that is restrictive and policy that is protective; the challenges and rewards of parenting; experiences of becoming a parent through adoption, foster care, birth, or other paths; LBGQTIA+ rights; infertility and the emotional, physical and financial implications; miscarriage and fetal loss; birth control; abortion; models of prenatal care and giving birth (medical model and midwifery model); reproductive rights; reproductive privilege based on identity and socio-economics; sex; babies; gender; consent.</span></p>
Organization Website
reproductive.media@gmail.com
Organzation Director
Cayla Skillin-Brauchle
Danielle C. Wyckoff
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Reproductive Media
abortion
activism
advocacy
art
birth
Care
caregiving
collaboration
community
consent
crowdsourcing
education
equity
family
fashion
fatherhood
feminism
fetal loss
gender
gestation
identity
inclusive
infertitlity
LGBTQIA+
library
miscarriage
motherhood
non-binary
paid family leave
parenthood
performative action
policy
pregnancy
reproduction
sex
workshop
zines
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Location
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Baltimore
Maryland
Topic
maternal form
maternal body
motherhood
postpartum
maternal relationship
mother-child relationship
identity
race
pregnancy
form
weight
postpartum body
abstract
figurative
magazine
publication
visual art
photography
creative writing
breastfeeding
milk
maternal experience
fruit
About
Containing an intentionally curated body of work, conceptually driven, and visually
focused, MILKED is a new publication that focuses on the undertones of the maternal figure.
Styled like a newspaper, and published as a book, this full color, 8.5” x 14” publication features
76 pages of visual art, photography and written word by international, female artists. MILKED is
an independent project, initiated and curated by Lee Nowell-Wilson and designed by Darin
Michelle. Both artists. Both mothers.
Organization Website
<a href="http://www.leenowellwilson.com/milked-magazine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leenowellwilson.com/milked-magazine</a>
<a href="http://www.milkedmagazine.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">milkedmagazine.com</a>
Organzation Director
Lee Nowell-Wilson (founder, editor, and curator)
Darin Michelle
(creative director and designer)
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MILKED
abstract
breastfeeding
creative writing
figurative
form
fruit
identity
magazine
maternal body
maternal experience
Maternal form
maternal relationship
milk
mother- child relationship
motherhood
photography
postpartum
postpartum body
pregnancy
publication
Race
visual art
weight
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<a href="thejessicastudy.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thejessicastudy.com</a>
Medium
multidisciplinary
Location
The location of the interview
Berlin
Germany
Artist Statement
Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor (b. 1984, Florida) is an artist, filmmaker and community organizer. Taylor's work manifests through performance, text, dialogue and community building for Black People and People of Color. Her work centers on themes of ritual, visibility and identity mythology. She is chiefly concerned with ways to dismantle oppressive institutions and the creation of racial equity in art and theater. She strives to address race politics as a performer, maker and artist.
Topic
matriarchal lineages
blackness
diaspora
critical race studies
critical race theory
marginalization
academic writing
activism
story-telling
equity
discourse
archive
community
racial politics
oppression
trauma
statistics
dialogue
discussion
text
performance
film
identity
ritual
visibility
resistance
BPOC
diversity
inclusion
contemporary art
radical
artist/mother
artistic labor
intergenerational
gender roles
heteronormativity
interdisciplinary
multidisciplinary
communal
ancestry
postcolonial
Exhibitions
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Mother Art Prize Exhibition (2019) Procreate Project London, UK
WITNESS ( 2018) Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin, Ireland
Muttererde Screening ( 2018) Rogaland Kunstsenter Stavanger, Norway
Muttererde Screening ( 2018) Berlin Feminist Film Festival Berlin, Germany
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Title
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Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor
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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<p class="p1"><a href="http://www.zoefreney.com">www.zoefreney.com</a></p>
Medium
oil paint
pastel
Location
The location of the interview
Adelaide
South Australia
Artist Statement
<p class="p1">Zoe Freney is an artist, writer, educator and mother. These roles jostle for attention and time, but mothering is a constant occupation, and it is this never-letting-up that is borne out in Freney’s works. For Freney, painting remains a vital means of expression. The painting Thinking of Flying (2018) describes the frustration of having to forego the creative, meaning-making practices of painting as one struggles instead with the daily tasks of child rearing and the demands of the household. But within mothering there is still room for dreaming and reflection. There are opportunities to nurture children’s imaginations, to initiate them into creative lives. While Freney’s work examines the banality and joys of mothering, it is also about transcendence. We are all thinking of flying.</p>
Topic
Matricentric feminism
feminist mothering
empowered mothering,
control
lack of control
definition
identity
maternal subjectivity
Madonna
‘yummy mummy,’
maternal subjectivity
contemporary painting
embodied knowledge,
contemporary drawing
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
Silver Linings, Praxis Artspace, Bowden, South Australia, 20 June – 17 July 2019
Motherology, Collective Haunt Inc, Norwood South Australia, 8 November – 9 December 2018
Good Mother, Central Gallery, Glenside South Australia, 12 August—7 September 2018
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Title
A name given to the resource
Zoe Freney
‘yummy mummy
’ contemporary painting
contemporary drawing
control
definition
embodied knowledge
empowered mothering
feminist mothering
identity
lack of control
Madonna
maternal subjectivity
Matricentric feminism
oil paint
pastel
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://kiaelena.format.com">https://kiaelena.format.com</a>
Topic
early parenthood
identity
accidents
adulthood
anxiety
art making
artist mother
motherhood
baby
birth
breastfeeding
building
caregiving
domestic object
everyday
exhaustion
daily routine
guild
feeding the family
humor
loss of self
Medium
photography
Artist Statement
Nothing can prepare you for parenthood is a phrase often shared with a knowing half-smile that belies the over-exhaustion in the wake of superiority (or is it pride?) . Replying with hollow grins, I secretly wanted to smack every single person who uttered that phrase. And yet, they were right. For the record, also totally justified in their self-satisfaction. It turns out that something as ubiquitous and ‘natural’ as growing, giving birth to, and caring for your progeny has a long adjustment period. It’s not just the changing diapers, the schedules, the meal times, the money, the dressing, the undressing, the endless battle for sleep. It’s not just the negotiation of how your time is spent, and how to best care for your family, your home, and your future. A year in, and I still don’t feel like I’ve joined the ranks of those we call “parents” or “mothers.” This series, made from moments stolen during the odd nap or distraction, is a reckoning and a tool. It’s an attempt to connect who I was with who I have become, now that my life is filled with the incessant though profound mundanity of clearing scraps of food from a high chair, finding matching socks, nursing, teaching, exposing, loving–performing the theater of life to an awed audience of one.
Location
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Providence
Rhode Island
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Kia Elena Petrovic Davis
Title
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Kia Elena Petrovic Davis
early parenthood
identity
photography
Providence
Rhode Island
USA
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Person
An individual.
Location
The location of the interview
Berlin
Germany
About
MATERNAL FANTASIES is an evolving and interdisciplinary group of international artists and cultural producers based in Berlin, Germany. We (re)connected in 2018 to share experiences and insights into the most marginalised topic within both the art world and feminist discourse: Motherhood.
We join forces to embrace, discuss, elaborate and express contrasting experiences and family stories, memories, fantasies, desires and horror scenarios related to ‘Maternal Fantasies’.
Currently we meet every three-weeks to examine through artistic research, collaborative artworks and lived experience the dynamics between artistic creation and motherhood seeking to shape the discourse of motherhood through our artistic working process.
We are an organic group that produces works in different constellations between the individual group members.
Current group members are: Aino El Solh, Hanne Klaas, Isabell Spengler, Lena Chen, Magdalena Kallenberger, Maicyra Leão, Melanie Schlachter, Mikala Hyldig Dal, Olga Sonja Thorarensen, Sandra Moskova.
Organization Website
<a href="https://www.maternalfantasies.net/">https://www.maternalfantasies.net/</a>
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://www.maternalfantasies.net/">https://www.maternalfantasies.net/</a>
Medium
photography
video
performance
collective
creative writing
Artist Statement
MATERNAL FANTASIES is an evolving and interdisciplinary group of international artists and cultural producers based in Berlin, Germany. We (re)connected in 2018 to share experiences and insights into the most marginalised topic within both the art world and feminist discourse: Motherhood.
We join forces to embrace, discuss, elaborate and express contrasting experiences and family stories, memories, fantasies, desires and horror scenarios related to ‘Maternal Fantasies’.
Currently we meet every three-weeks to examine through artistic research, collaborative artworks and lived experience the dynamics between artistic creation and motherhood seeking to shape the discourse of motherhood through our artistic working process.
We are an organic group that produces works in different constellations between the individual group members.
Current group members are: Aino El Solh, Hanne Klaas, Isabell Spengler, Lena Chen, Magdalena Kallenberger, Maicyra Leão, Melanie Schlachter, Mikala Hyldig Dal, Olga Sonja Thorarensen, Sandra Moskova.
Topic
academic writing
ambivalence
anger
art
art and research
art history
art making
artist collective
artist mother
artist network
artist residency
artist/mother
artistic labor
artists with children
artists with children
binary tensions
body
capitalism
care
care labor
care work
caretaking
choreography
collaboration
collaborative project
community
discourse
contemporary art practice
costume
creative strategies
curatorial practice
daily practice
daily routine
daily tasks
domestic objects
domestic scene
domestic space
economy and caregiving
empathy
ethics
everyday activities
fair wages
relationship
feminism
feminist art
feminist art theory
feminist theory
feminist theory
gesture
identity
ideological motherhood
immigration
instinct
intuition of motherhood
interdependence
interdisciplinary
intergenerational
intersectionality
labor
maintenance
maternal
maternal affect
maternal ambivilance
maternal anxiety
maternal body
maternal bodies
maternal care
maternal collaboration
maternal defense
maternal desire
maternal experience
maternal fear
maternal guilt
maternal healthcare
maternal identity
maternal labor
maternal lineage
maternal mental health
maternal practice
maternal protection
maternal relationships
maternal subjectivity
maternal theory
maternal thinking
maternal time
maternal voice
maternal work
practice-led research
race
representation
representations of motherhood
reproductive labor
resistance
single mother
skillshare
social practice
story telling
studio practice
subjectivity
text
theory
time
women representation
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
M1, Arthur Boskamp Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt, April 2019 The photo-text installation "Like so many..." was exhibited at "Colleagues Wanted I - Superheroines and visionary associates for everyday challenges", at alpha nova galerie Berlin in September 2018.
upcoming: Soloexhibition, M1 Arthur Boskamp Foundation, Hohenlockstedt, March 2020 catalogue, Maternal Fantasies, to be published March 2020
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Title
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maternal fantasies
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://emiliawhite.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://emiliawhite.com/</a>
Medium
performance
video
animation
Location
The location of the interview
Ann Arbor
Michigan
Artist Statement
Mother Skins is an interactive photo performance series about motherhood,
self-identity and postpartum depression. Wearing colorful full-body suits with neutral faces sewn
into them, participants photographed themselves doing various domestic tasks in relation to
their roles as mothers. The photographs reveal moments of tenderness and mundanity while
playfully addressing the alienation that many mothers feel after having a child. The images
included in this selection were taken by Emilia White.
Topic
parenting
motherhood
caretaking
postpartum depression
humor
identity
performance
photography
costume
mask
bodymask
alienation
solo parenting
loneliness
mundanity
toys
messy house
laundry
domestic chores
vacuuming
young children
breastfeeding
Exhibitions
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Something Growing Inside, TrustArt Gallery, Ann Arbor MI, May 2018
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Emilia White
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Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<p class="p1"><a href="http://www.jessdobkin.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jessdobkin.com</a></p>
Medium
performance
social practice
Location
The location of the interview
Toronto
Canada
Artist Statement
<p class="p1">I’ve been a working artist, curator, community activist and teacher for more than 25 years, creating and producing intimate solo performances, large-scale public happenings, socially engaged interventions and performance art workshops and lectures. My practice extends across black boxes and white cubes, art fairs and subway stations, international festivals, and single bathroom stalls. I’ve operated an artist-run newsstand in a vacant subway station kiosk, a soup kitchen for artists, a breast milk tasting bar, and a performance festival hub for kids. I’m forever inspired by the rebel queers, renegade witches, and other dyke moms I run with, and bound to many brilliant artists, activists, spell-casters and healers. <span class="s1">For many years I made performances that drew from my own experiences of trauma and transformation, intimacy and motherhood. More recently, I’ve experienced a shift in my practice, where my attention has turned to wider theoretical questions about the nature of performance itself to </span>ask questions about when, where, how we perform - in theatres and galleries, on social media, and in our everyday lives.</p>
Topic
abjection
activism
adulthood
aging
archive
art
art and research
artist mother
art making
artist parent
artist/mother
artistic labor
artists with children
autobiography
binary tensions
bioethics
biology
birth
birth and death
birth trauma
bleeding
body
body exploration
body transformation
breast milk
breast pump
breastfeeding
breastmilk
care
censorship
childhood
creative practice
creative strategies
cultural reproducers
culture
curating
curation
curator
curatorial practice
documentation
domestic labor
domestic life
domestic space
domesticity
early motherhood
early parenthood
empathy
ethics
exhaustion
family
family accessible event
family portrait
feminism
feminist
feminist art
feminist art theory
gender
gender roles
gender stereotypes
human body
humor
identity
interdisciplinary
intimacy
invisible labor
lactation
love
materiality
maternal
maternal body
maternal bodies
maternal care
maternal desire
maternal experience
memory
menstruation
mess
milk
mother
mother artist identity
mother as artist
mother body
mother/artist identity
mother/child relationship
motherhood and political context
motherhood
motherhood and art
motherhood and art practice
motherhood and creative practice
motherhood and social context
motherhood and studio practice
motherhood as art practice
mothering
mothers
nursing
nursing mothers
objectification
parent
parent artists
parent/child relationship
parenthood
parenting
parents
patriarchy
performativity
personal experience
play
subjectivity
power
public breastfeeding
public space
pumping
queer
queer identity
queer parenting
representation
representations of motherhood
research and art
resistance
ritual
rituals
sexuality
single mothers
single mother
social justice
social practice
stories
storytelling
theory
time
transformation
trauma
vagina
visual culture
woman
women
women and gender studies
women artists
women representation
women's health
women's identity
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
The Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar 2006, 2012, 2016
Imagined Family Portraits 2007 - ongoing
Free Childcare Provided 2013
Fee for Service 2006
Being Green 2009
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Title
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Jess Dobkin
abjection
activism
adulthood
ageing
archive
art
art and research
art making
artist mother
artist parent
artist-parents
artist/mother
artistic labor
artists with children
autobiography
binary tensions
bioethics
biology
birth
birth and death
birth trauma
bleeding
body
body exploration
body transformation
breast milk
breast pump
breastfeeding
breastmilk
Care
censorship
childhood
creative practice
creative strategies
cultural reproducers
culture
curating
curation
curator
curatorial practice
documentation
domestic labor
domestic life
domestic space
domesticity
early motherhood
early parenthood
empathy
ethics
exhaustion
family
family accessible event
family portrait
feminism
feminist
feminist art
feminist art theory
gender
gender roles
gender stereotypes
human body
humor
identity
interdisciplinary
intimacy
invisible labor
lactation
love
materiality
maternal
maternal bodies
maternal body
maternal care
maternal desire
maternal experience
memory
menstruation
mess
milk
mother
mother artist
mother artist identity
mother artists
mother as artist
mother body
mother/artist identity
mother/child relationship
motherhood
motherhood and art
motherhood and art practice
motherhood and creative practice
motherhood and political context
motherhood and social context
motherhood and studio practice
motherhood as art practice
mothering
mothers
nursing
nursing mothers
objectification
parent
parent artists
parent/child relationship
parenthood
parenting
parents
patriarchy
performativity
personal experience
play
power
public breastfeeding
public space
pumping
queer
queer identity
queer parenting
representation
representations of motherhood
research and art
resistance
ritual
rituals
sexuality
single mother
single mothers
social justice
social practice
Stories
storytelling
subjectivity
theory
time
transformation
trauma
vagina
visual culture
woman
women
women and gender studies
women artists
women representation
women’s health
women’s identity
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Person
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Name
Katherine Rutecki
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.katherinerutecki.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.katherinerutecki.com</a>
Topic
woman's work
divisions of self as artist/mother
identity
Medium
glass
cast metal
ink
paper
Artist Statement
Katherine Rutecki is a multidisciplinary artist who specializes in cast glass sculpture and in recent years has expanded into performative works. Rutecki’s current work explores defenses and boundaries of self. She holds a BFA in sculpture from the New York College of Ceramics at Alfred University, New York and a MFA in glass from Southern Illinois University, Illinois. She has been involved in several international group exhibitions, taking place at such venues as the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Ebeltoft Glass Museum in Denmark; and solo exhibitions in the US, New Zealand, and Europe.
Location
The location of the interview
Aukland
New Zealand
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Katherine Rutecki
Title
A name given to the resource
Katherine Rutecki
Aukland
cast metal
glass
identity
ink
mother/artist identity
New Zealand
paper
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<p class="p1"><a href="jesstaylorartist.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jesstaylorartist.com</a></p>
Medium
sculpture
new media
Location
The location of the interview
Adelaide
Australia
Artist Statement
<p class="p1">I am an early career artist whose practice explores my fascination with fictional horror through primarily digital methods of making. Within the broader realm of horror, I have a particular interest in monsters, voyeurism, and depictions of female brutality, sadism, and masochism. Using my own image and body exclusively, my work presents versions of womanhood that transgress the bounds of what we are taught is acceptable, uncanny spectres of female experience that society is keen to repress. Here, monstrosity is configured as a source of damnation and agency, reflecting womanhood as complex and contradictory.</p>
<p class="p2"></p>
<p class="p3">My own experience as a mother has been one of profound contradiction, of exhilarating highs and profound lows, of love and fury, comfort and trauma. I struggle to reconcile the fact that the greatest time in my life is also the one when it was the darkest, and that my body birthed a miracle but feels like a ruin. I am not as I was, but not quite sure what I am now; I’ve yet to turn into anything resembling the gargantuan mother archetype we’re fed, and too much of the old Jess remains for me to consider myself someone new. I have been transformed, reborn, reconfigured using the old parts. Some days those new parts feel like they were made of steel, making me infinitely stronger than I was, and other days that steel bites into my flesh, broken limbs fused back together suddenly failing to bear my weight.</p>
<p class="p4"></p>
<p class="p3">Motherhood is a monstrous condition; it is incredible and disturbing, beautiful and completely fucked up. Like monstrosity, it is transformative, and for the woman-monster, this transformation is a source of both agency and damnation, strength and weakness. My work since my son is in part an attempt to reconcile the contradiction inherent in my own experience of motherhood, and to bridge the divide between what I am and what we are told a mother should be.</p>
<p class="p3">Experiencing pregnancy for the second time has greatly influenced my work, causing me to reflect much more closely on the process of bearing a child. There is the strange bodily awareness and attempts to reconcile this cavernous space that exists within me, and evocations of my own paranoias as I imagine this space as a place of both hope and doom. I like to think there is also some absurdity when one looks at a ridiculous, bulbous woman, or my lady-giants, but there is also the tenderness of the nets that keep the babies close to her body, or the way a stomach is opened up to sate the curiosity of the smaller figures who peer inside. There is the sorrow of the figure on the bridge as she surveys the fallen before her (a mediation on periods in history where the practice of fallen-mothers ending their lives and the lives of their offspring was not only a grim expectation, but an act of redemption), and my attempt to see a ruin as a place of beauty and life.</p>
Topic
abjection
ambivalence
anger
anxiety
artist mother
attachment
autonomy
bad mother
birth
birth trauma
body transformation
boundaries
childbirth
contemporary
contemporary art practice
contradictions
domestic
family ties
female experience
female sexuality
feminine
femininity
feminism
feminist
feminist art
feminist art theory
fertility
grotesque
growth
guilt
identity
loneliness
longing
loss
loss of identity
maternal ambivalence
maternal anxiety
maternal body
maternal desire
maternal experience
maternal fear
maternal guilt
mother
mother artist
motherhood
postpartum body
pregnancy
pregnant body
psychoanalysis
representation
science fiction
self portrait
technology
trauma
voyeurism
womb
women
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Title
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Jess Taylor
abjection
ambivalence
anger
anxiety
artist mother
attachment
Australia
autonomy
bad mother
birth
birth trauma
body transformation
boundaries
childbirth
contemporary art
contemporary art practice
contradictions
domestic
family ties
female experience
female sexuality
feminine
femininity
feminism
feminist
feminist art
feminist art theory
feminist theory
fertility
grotesque
growth
guilt
identity
loneliness
longing
loss
loss of identity
maternal
maternal ambivalence
maternal anxiety
maternal bodies
maternal body
maternal desire
maternal experience
maternal fear
maternal guilt
mother
mother artist
motherhood
new media
postpartum body
pregnancy
pregnant body
psychoanalysis
representation
science fiction
sculpture
self portrait
technology
trauma
voyeurism
womb
women
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.ArtistRaulGonzalez.com">www.ArtistRaulGonzalez.com</a>
Topic
stay-at-home parent
fatherhood
gender roles
primary caregiver
domestic labor
identity
labor
Medium
drawing
painting
performance
Artist Statement
My work explores topics such as work, fatherhood, identity, gender roles, construction, labor, the working class, identity, and abstraction. I use versatile methods of painting, drawing, printmaking, performance, and dance. I believe in demystifying the canvas, redefining social stereotypes, and working towards evolving as an individual, father, and artist. I use my artwork to share my personal experience and to educate. I also use it as a place to share energy, joy, and love. What we create is both a reflection of the internal self and the world we absorb. I am constantly exploring new cultures through music, dance, and art. Through my experiences, the artwork I create evolves just as well. My motto is Werk. Hustle. Sleep Repeat.
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Raul Gonzalez
Title
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Raul Gonzalez
abstraction
domestic labor
drawing
fatherhood
gender roles
identity
painting
performance
primary caretaker
stay-at-home parent
working class
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Website
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<a href="http://www.lucianarosado.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.lucianarosado.com</a>
Topic
memory
identity
failure
writing
list making
Artist Residency in Motherhood
artist/mother identity
Medium
painting
drawing
Artist Statement
In recent creative explorations I am examining my inner emotions not only in relation to a very specific moment of my personal life - becoming an artist-mother- but also establishing a link with the present moment of instability and uncertainty sensed in our contemporary society. What do we keep to ourselves and what do we share with others? I explore the concepts of memory, identity and place through visual expression. Most recently, I have been interested in exploring ideas of life expectations and failure. My work focuses in visually exploring hidden thoughts, feelings and memories and I get my inspiration from the natural element Water, music and the written word. I live and work in Cambridge since 2010. I hold a Degree in Painting-Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon and I have been exhibiting regularly since 2000.
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Luciana Rosado
artist residency in motherhood
Cambridge
drawing
identity
memory
mother artist
mother artist identity
painting
United Kingdom
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Youngstown
Ohio
USA
Artist Statement
<p><strong>Joy Christiansen Erb</strong><span> </span>is a contemporary photographer and artist whose creative research explores themes such as memory, identity, and storytelling. Her most recent body of work explores the subjects of motherhood and family. This body of work is an autobiographical journey examining the lives of her family and her domestic space. The images included in the series document both the struggles and triumphs of everyday life.</p>
<p>Her photography has gained recognition through regional and national exhibitions and lectures as well as a 2015 Ohio Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council. Recent and upcoming solo exhibition venues include the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Center for the Emerging Visual Artists in Philadelphia, Peoria Arts Guild and the Galveston Arts Center. Recent group exhibitions include Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, OR, the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA, Center for Photography at Woodstock and the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. Her artwork has also been highlighted in a variety of publications including two notable textbooks. A portfolio of her most recent work is housed at the Museum of Contemporary Photography as a part of the Midwest Photographers Project in Chicago, IL.</p>
<p>She currently resides in Youngstown, Ohio, where she is an Associate Professor of Photography at Youngstown State University. She received her B.F.A. from Miami University, Oxford, OH and her M.F.A. from Texas Woman’s University.</p>
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.joychristiansen.com/index.html">http://www.joychristiansen.com/index.html</a>
Medium
photography
Topic
mothering
memory
identity
storytelling
domestic space
autobiography
everyday life
medical care
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Joy Christiansen Erb
autobiography
domestic space
everyday life
identity
medical care
memory
mothering
Ohio
photography
storytelling
USA
Youngstown
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Exhibition Archive
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Exhibition Website
<a href="http://www.procreateproject.com/portfolio/left-overs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.procreateproject.com/portfolio/left-overs/</a>
Curator
Dyana Gravina
Curatorial Statement
Artists participating in the ProCreate Project Mother Art Prize 2017 competition responded to the theme ‘Left Overs’: What’s left of our sanity, bodies, sexuality, time and identities when mothering? What remains unused or unconsumed? How do left overs feed creativity?
Artists
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/302" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mary Martins</a>
Aimee Bourne
Alex March
Anna Hughes
Daphne Groves
Dawn Yow
Elizabeth Schoen
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/307">Jane Glennie</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/305" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jemimah Patterson</a>
Jessica Timmis
Julie LeFevre
Martina Hynan
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/301" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michele Landel</a>
Odette Farrell
Paulina Kwietniewska
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/38" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rachel Fallon</a>
Rajaa Paixao
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/312">Saskia Saunders</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/303" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stiliyana Minkovska</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/48" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tracey Kershaw</a>
Gallery
<a href="http://www.198.org.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">198 Contemporary Arts and Learning</a>
Location
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London
England
United Kingdom
Duration
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November 16 - 29, 2017
Topic
mental health
maternal time
identity
maternal body
creativity
sexuality
mothering
mother work
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Left Overs
creativity
England
identity
London
maternal body
maternal time
mother work
motherhood
mothering
ProCreate Project
sexuality
United Kingdom
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Resource Library
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Author
Lisa Baraitser
Publisher
Routledge
City of Publication
London
New York
Date of Publication
December 10, 2008
ISBN 13
978-0415455008
ISBN 10
0415455006
Topic
women
psychology
interpersonal relations
time
interruptions
ethics
feminism
mothering
identity
relationship
sense of self
psychoanalysis
social theory
transformation
maternal time
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Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption
alterity
ethics
feminism
identity
interruption
mothering
psychoanalysis
psychology
Routledge
sense of self
social theory
time
transformation
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="chingchingcheng.com" target="_blank">chingchingcheng.com</a>
Topic
Apron sculpture series
apron
home
identity
Medium
aprons
epoxy resin
Artist Statement
“Build” is a series of works that explore cultural identities in contemporary motherhood. The works are a portrait of myself as artist, wife and mother living in the United States. In history, human beings built shelters physically for their families, and even in some cultures today. We are always adapting, changing and shaping our environment by physically constructing a home, or building a home virtually. At the same time, our identities are slowly modified and morphed into a unique distinctive perspective.
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ching ching cheng
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Ching Ching Cheng
apron
epoxy
home
identity
motherhood
resin
sculpture
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<a href="http://www.daniellekhoury.com" target="_blank">www.daniellekhoury.com</a>
Topic
motherhood
childhood
identity
Medium
Photography
Artist Statement
Becoming Mother (2013 – present) This is me, becoming mother. During this time there is no quiet, no stillness, and no control. There are only moments of falsehood, moments when I think I have it all together or all figured out. These moments are often followed by chaos and provide a nice slap in the face back to reality. The reality that I have become a mother to three young children and in the process left my previous identity behind. <br /><br />There are moments of joy and laughter, but more often there are times of yelling, crying, and being pulled in three different directions. I find stability and refuge while photographing my chaotic life. I look for times of peace and sanity, which often times go by too fast to remember. These images represent the small amount of peace that I have as a mother and are a way to hold on to that peace for longer than life allows. These are the in between moments that came before and more than likely ended in chaos. <br /><br />- Danielle René Khoury
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Danielle Khoury
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Danielle René Khoury
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Exhibition Website
<a href="http://www.sedimentarts.org/exhbitions/#/maternity-leave-paranatural-pregnancies-1/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://www.sedimentarts.org/exhbitions/#/maternity-leave-paranatural-pregnancies-1/</a>
Gallery
SEDIMENT
Location
The location of the interview
Richmond
Virginia
United States
Curatorial Statement
<span>Maternity Leave: Para-Natural Pregnancies is a collection of six suits that invoke notions of “anti-fertility” and preternatural birth. Exploring various birthing phenomena through myth-making, the outfits work to disintegrate the stigmas, regulations, and narratives surrounding the relationship between having a uterus and giving birth. </span><br /><br /><span>With wearable suits as our medium, we give power to the performative identity. </span><br /><br /><span>We deconstruct conventional outfit making materials to imagine a fashion that can shift our reality of what giving birth means. Our labor is interested in appropriating “women’s work”, emphasizing its gendering and selling ready-to-wear accessories to subvert the unpaid status of domestic and reproductive labor. </span><br /><br /><span>The collection examines how pregnancy and birth distorts and redefines what is human and thus what is “femininity”. The aim is to shift the stigmas in the positive by investigating phenomena such as sci-fi human-alien hybrid birth, fetus mutation, Hippocrates’ treatises on infertile woman, female hominid ancestors, ancient birth control, and witchcraft. </span><br /><span>Ultimately, our suits embody characters that evoke the prehuman, the human, and the para-human - considering metaphorical fertility as something fluid and something to weaponize. </span><br /><br /><span>Come see Maternity Leave with cash in hand to buy the ready-to-wear accessories with your contributions going to the Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project (</span><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FRRFP.net%2F&h=ATP3zIcgQws7dMMGKD1jVYRNgfjvXICZJ-MkTYCna45Q9nx1pihw4wfBSeSSEutZsJoPF4wEgvSRO-yhevQ6b3-a6NqtwrAYoWkRP6cYyaGVja0W0Ky-vEHYWQMGTx1w4djdQV5nADo&enc=AZNHwsnCw3e2FumMf0ngInE4jlI6BHsAQjDdyfSZzrg4Kz_emV47ajZbve5feNvYdQQ&s=1">RRFP.net</a><span>) to fund abortions for those that otherwise would not be able to afford them!</span>
Artists
Kristen Sanders
Devin Harclerode
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
March 3rd - 26th, 2017
Topic
reproduction
anti-fertility
preternatural birth
birth
"womens' work"
femininity
stigmas
identity
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Maternity Leave: Para-Natural Pregnancies
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.katharinabosse.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">www.katharinabosse.com</a>
Topic
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mother
childcare
caretaking
identity
Medium
book
photography
Artist Statement
After living in New York for six years, I moved to Germany and became pregnant. Nothing in my career as a photographer and artist had prepared me for this experience. Not only were the physical demands of carrying and caring for the babies challenging, it was also a forced change from everything I had learned so far: individuality, ambition and workaholism. I felt like a teenager again, changing rapidly into a new person, not knowing the outcome. I started to look for articles, and images about this process and found lots of advice, but very few actual descriptions of the unsettling shift in identity I was experiencing. And so, over the course of five years, I brought to life two children and a series of photographs. I felt compelled to undress (or dress up) and create images of motherhood I had not seen before. I gave up control of the shutter release, and got in front of the camera to extract a knowledge only my body could tell.
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Katharina Bosse
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Katharina Bosse
book
caretaking
childcare
identity
photography
portrait
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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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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
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Artist Parent Index
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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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Title
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Lauren McLaughlin
artist residency in motherhood
collage
Edinburg
identity
installation
photography
Scotland
sculpture
text installation
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.sallylewry.com" target="_blank">http://www.sallylewry.com</a>
Topic
artistic practice
mother/artist identity
identity
shocks of motherhood
shifting identity
Artist Residency in Motherhood
Medium
performance art
visual art
mixed media
Artist Statement
Based in Melbourne Australia, I am an independent artist and writer working within various mediums including performance and visual arts. My work engages with a deep sense of socio-political content examining the human condition. I value long, intuitive processes in which I interrogate shifting identities and personal politic; the starting point of a work often arising from lived experience. My current enquiry investigates themes of motherhood and grief. Valuing highly-skilled craft, my practice engages in somatic research, movement, imagery, language, light, sound and a range of mixed media within solo and collaborative contexts, collaborating with a range of artists from various disciplines. My current enquiry explores forms and processes within a visual arts context while my lineage in performance making continues to inform the work I make. I seek to create moving and challenging relationships in which an audience can be active and present. I invest in on-going training and research, in various forms and value shared dialogue within a community of artists in order to facilitate a rigorous and pertinent practice. Engaged in exploring the possibilities of various forms I am invested in creating a body of work which speaks to the time in which it is created.
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Sally Lewry
Title
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Sally Lewry
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://raisecain.net" target="_blank">http://raisecain.net</a>
Topic
self-imaging
identity
mothering
authotheory
personal boundaries
Medium
performance
photography
film
writing
Artist Statement
My current work focuses on the prurient maternal. How is being a mother not a sexual act/event/activity? I explore the boundaries of motherhood using performance, writing, photography and film.
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Magda
Title
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Magdalena Olszanowski
autotheory
film
identity
mothering
performance
personal boundaries
photography
writing
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Website
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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
Title
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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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Fontana di Trevi, 2016
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My point of departure is based on my physical awareness. The vanishing necessity to be physically present somewhere to act opens up a large window of questions, which I detect and elaborate in my work. The confrontation of the human body, its functions and its expressions in relation to society interests me the most. There is a displacement going on which I use for a redefinition of my own identity.
The female body, which undergoes complex transformations, is still under the public spotlight when it comes to a justification of professional interests. Why should it be intellectually less valuable to talk about pregnancy in a theoretical context when a woman is also pregnant at the same time? This doubt still unmasks the western belief in the dichotomy of mind and body and its gender classification. I am well aware of the risks of subjectivity, yet I think that personal drives can lead to splendid creations and discoveries. For me as an artist, life and art are closely related and they interchange their influences. The division between an in- and an out-side, a private and a public, is constantly going through an osmotic transition.
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<a href="http://www.barbaraphilipp.com" target="_blank">www.barbaraphilipp.com</a>
<a href="http://www.mbassyunlimited.org/008-barbara-philipp/" target="_blank">http://www.mbassyunlimited.org/008-barbara-philipp/</a>
Medium
performance art
video art
artists' books
drawing
painting
Location
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
Artist Statement
My point of departure is based on my physical awareness. The vanishing necessity to be physically present somewhere to act opens up a large window of questions, which I detect and elaborate in my work. The confrontation of the human body, its functions and its expressions in relation to society interests me the most. There is a displacement going on which I use for a redefinition of my own identity. The female body, which undergoes complex transformations, is still under the public spotlight when it comes to a justification of professional interests. Why should it be intellectually less valuable to talk about pregnancy in a theoretical context when a woman is also pregnant at the same time? This doubt still unmasks the western belief in the dichotomy of mind and body and its gender classification. I am well aware of the risks of subjectivity, yet I think that personal drives can lead to splendid creations and discoveries. For me as an artist, life and art are closely related and they interchange their influences. The division between an in- and an out-side, a private and a public, is constantly going through an osmotic transition.<br /><br /><br />
Topic
body
female body
identity
pregnancy
breastfeeding
motherhood
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Barbara Philipp
Amsterdam
artists books
body
breastfeeding
drawing
female body
identity
maternal body
Netherlands
painting
performance art
video art
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Website
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<a href="http://www.magda-stawarska-beavan.com/mother.php" target="_blank">http://www.magda-stawarska-beavan.com/mother.php</a>
Medium
printmaking
screenprint
digital audio technology
Artist Statement
In Mother Tongue (2009) traditional printmaking methods (screenprint on paper) connect with new (digital audio) technologies.
I use the recorded sounds of my child’s speech development, from his first noises when he was born, to the words and sentences which he has spoken since; from birth to three years old in three minutes.
My aim is to engage the viewer first with the work visually, by drawing them to the delicate marks on the paper, then to persuade them to try to decipher phonetic bilingual text or to interpret the waveforms. They can then activate the sound connected to the visual. Each sound pieces for each print is three minutes long and not repeated, this allows for a chronological audio experience.
The three prints depict recognizable visual representations of sound such as wave forms and phonetic symbols. These marks are visual artefacts of temporal sounds. Although these particular marks are associated wit the objectivity of technology and linguistics, the refined use of aesthetics; colour tone and scale bring to the work a level of personal account.
I am trying to represent a passage of time and preserve the ephemeral moments in the development of a child’s relationship with language.
This is also essentially an investigation into the parental obsession with passing on our identity through and to our children.
Topic
speech development
data visualization
phonetic symbols
audio waves
language
parental obsession
identity
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<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a>
Location
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Manchseter
United Kingdom
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Magda Stawarska-Beavan
audio
audio technology
audio waves
data visualization
identity
language
language development
Manchester
parental obsession
printmaking
screenprint
silkscreen
speech development
United Kingdom
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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