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Person
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Website
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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
Title
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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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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://christineaholtz.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">christineAholtz.com</a>
Medium
fibers
performance
Location
The location of the interview
St. Louis
Missouri
United States
Artist Statement
<p>My artwork is a visual diary about my obsessive thoughts and humorous take on habit, identity and time. Juggling three part-time jobs in addition to being an artist, spouse and mother feels like I live six different lives simultaneously. I constantly try to make sense of the nonsensical through installations, sculptures and performances. As a pathway to self-inquiry, I meticulously craft ridiculous objects and performances to visually embody the absurdities of my daily experiences. The processes are both a struggle and cathartic — just like parenting.</p>
Topic
parenting
caretaking
habits
repetition
mundane
performance
process
Exhibitions
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<a href="https://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/606" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Maternochronics: Maternal Exhaustion in the Time of Pandemic</em></a>, online exhibition 2020
<a href="https://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/639" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2020 “It Hits Home,” (two person show with Jessica Witte) The Gallery at The Kranzberg, St. Louis, MO</a>
2018 "Artists and Children," Edwardsville Art Center, Edwardsville, IL
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Christine A. Holtz
caretaking
fibers
habits
Missouri
mundane
parenting
performance
process
repetition
St. Louis
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Author
Barbara Kutis
City of Publication
New York
London
ISBN 13
9781138605664
Editor
Routledge
Date of Publication
June 2020
Topic
motherhood
fatherhood
gender
domesticity
parents
artist/parents
performance
video art
About
<span>This book calls attention to artists’ representations of parenting, their children, and the domestic as a critical and much needed reflection on contemporary life. Artists have long been parents but rarely have they dealt with it as the subject matter of their art—this has significantly changed in the contemporary period. I assert that the championing of the simultaneous linkage of art and parenting by contemporary artists reflects a conscientious self-fashioning of a new kind of identity, one that I am calling the ‘artist-parent.’ By examining the work of three artists from distinct national backgrounds—Guy Ben-Ner, Elżbieta Jabłońska, and the collective Mothers and Fathers—this project reveals how these artists have engaged with the domestic and personal in order to articulate larger issues of parenting in contemporary life. Through this examination of three case studies of artist-parents, we begin to see the social, political and artistic pressures that circumscribe contemporary parenting. The artists highlighted in this project, enter this discourse to make sense of their own identities, of their own roles as cultural workers and parents, and to show that art about children, the domestic, and parenting need not be kitschy, sentimental, or saccharine.</span>
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Artist-Parents in Contemporary Art: Gender, Identity, and Domesticity
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://layoftheland.net">http://layoftheland.net</a>
Topic
Stroller Flâneur
walking
performance
psychogeograph
Medium
video/performance
Artist Statement
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Stroller Flâneur<br /></strong></span><br />Pushing a baby stroller, I examine the minutiae of my suburban neighborhood searching for patterns and narratives in the genealogies of architectural structures and topographies while simultaneously searching for items of interest for my son. My observations collage both real and imagined systems into metaphors of community. The methodology informing this video is a gendered rift on the practice of the flâneur where the necessity of childcare becomes a platform for textualizing suburban space.
Location
The location of the interview
Gainesville
Florida
USA
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Katerie Gladdys
Title
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Katerie Gladdys
Florida
Gainesville
stroller
Stroller Flâneur
USA
walking
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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<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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Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor
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Exhibition Archive
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Exhibition Website
<a href="https://gallery400.uic.edu/our-events/upcoming-events/opening-reception-alberto-aguilar/">https://gallery400.uic.edu/our-events/upcoming-events/opening-reception-alberto-aguilar/</a>
Gallery
Gallery 400
Location
The location of the interview
Chicago
Illinois
USA
Curator
Lorelei Stewart
Curatorial Statement
Alberto Aguilar’s first large scale survey explores how the Chicago-born and based artist’s various life roles and surroundings have shaped a searching, inquisitive practice that is grounded in, and produces, a radical everyday. Aguilar’s creative work often incorporates whatever materials he has at hand and has extended into collaborations and exchanges with others, including his own family. Navigating measurement and limits, of his own body or in his ready materials—whether it’s the structure of a sheet of mini legal paper or the territory of an area rug, to name a few examples—his work bridges media, from painting and sculpture to video, installation, performance, and sound as well as the use of social media and teaching as art forms.
Though his hand, direction, or intervention is typically straightforward, seemingly simple, his work has an enticing self-effacement that sparks curiosity and identification. Moreover, Aguilar’s systems-based processes build into their own monumentality, hinting at the broader implications of the deeply democratic ethos at the heart of his work. Beyond the works in the gallery space, the exhibition expands to include interventions into Gallery 400’s home building, extended projects off-site, and digital forays that may or may not be announced as part of the exhibition
Artists
Featuring: Isabella Aguilar, Joaquin Aguilar, Madeleine Aguilar, Paolo Aguilar, Sergio Manuel Aguilar, Sonia Aguilar, Dana Bassett, Alex Bradley Cohen, Pete Fagundo, Chiara Galimberti, Kirsten Leenaars, Nazafarin Lotfi, Jorge Lucero, John Preus, Josh Rios, Alexia Rodriguez, Edra Soto, Southwest Signs, Clintel Steed, Hui-min Tsen, Rafael E. Vera, Danny Volk, Sean Ward, Jim Woodfill, and more
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/33">Alberto Aguilar</a>
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
April 26-June 15, 2019
Topic
collaboration
walking
everyday life
passage of time
performance
play
democratic
routine
routine
repetition
fatherhood
sound conversatinos
monument
domestic
sale signs
legacy
commemoration
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moves on a human scale
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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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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Website
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<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>
<p></p>
Topic
childfree
motherhood
pregnancy
IVF
sterilization
gender
queer
body
feminism
bioethics
performance
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
<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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Title
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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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ISBN 13
978-1-927335-92-5
Year of Publication
December 2014
Editor
Amber Kinser
Kryn Freehling-Burton
Terri Hawkes
Contributor
The author of an article within an anthology
Courtney E. Brooks
Kelly A. Dorgan
Laura Endacott
Bronwyn Preece
Martha E. Gonzalez
Joani Moartenson
Lisa Sandlos
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/104" target="_blank">Natalie Loveless</a>
Kelly Jeske
Elyse M. Warford
Lynne M. Webb
Pavna Sodhi
Sheilah Wilson
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/200" target="_blank">Jennie Klein</a>
J. Lauren Johnson
Date of Publication
January 7, 2015
Topic
motherhood
activism
public space
mothers
performance
Publisher
Demeter Press
City of Publication
Bradford
Province of Publication
Ontario
Country of Publication
Canada
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Performing Motherhood: Artistic, Activist, and Everyday Enactments
activism
motherhood
mothering
performance