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Author
Selma James
Editor
Nina Lopez
Contributor
The author of an article within an anthology
Margaret Prescod
Publisher
PM Press
Date of Publication
7/2021
ISBN 13
978-1-62963-838-6
Topic
feminism
care
economics
race
class
About
<p>For over sixty years, Selma James has been organizing from the perspective of unwaged women who, with their biological and caring work, reproduce the whole human race—along with whatever other labor they are performing. This work goes on almost unnoticed everywhere on the planet and in every culture. When this work is not economically prioritized, politically protected, or socially supported there are dire consequences for the whole of humanity, beginning with women and children.</p>
<p>This much-anticipated follow-up to her first anthology,<span> </span><em>Sex, Race, and Class</em>, compiles several decades of James’s work with a focus on her more recent writings, including a groundbreaking analysis of C.L.R. James’s two masterpieces,<span> </span><em>The Black Jacobins</em><span> </span>and<span> </span><em>Beyond a Boundary</em>, and an account of her formative partnership with him over three decades. Her experience with the Caribbean movement for independence and federation is reflected in her introduction to Ujamaa, the extraordinary work of Tanzanians to bypass capitalism, and much more.</p>
<p>Steeped in the tradition of Marx urging the need for a “practical movement,” James recounts the unusual history of how autonomous organizations formed within the International Wages for Housework Campaign and reshaped it. Women of color, queer women, sex workers, women with disabilities … each independent but mutually accountable (including to the men’s network with whom they work) as they confront sexism, racism, deportation, rape, and other violence.</p>
<p>James makes the powerful argument that the climate justice movement can draw on all the movements’ people have formed to refuse their particular exploitation, to end the capitalist hierarchy that is destroying the world. Our time is now.</p>
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Our Time Is Now: Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet
class
economics
feminism
Race
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Author
China Martens
Publisher
PM Press
Date of Publication
9/2017
ISBN 13
9781629634500
Topic
feminism
family relationships
About
<p>China Martens started her pioneering mamazine<span> </span><em>The Future Generation</em><span> </span>in 1990. She was a young anarchist punk rock mother who didn’t feel that the mamas in her community had enough support, so she began publishing articles on radical parenting in an age before the internet.</p>
<p>The anthology of her zine,<span> </span><em>The Future Generation: The Zine-Book for Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends & Others</em>, was first printed in 2007 and has been out of print for many years. Covering sixteen years, it uses individual issues as chapters, focusing on personal writing, and retaining the character of a zine that changed over the years—from her daughter’s birth to teenagehood and beyond.</p>
<p>We are proud to present a tenth-anniversary edition including a new afterword by China’s grown daughter, Clover.<span> </span><em>The Future Generation</em><span> </span>remains a timeless resource for parents, caregivers, and those who care about them. Though first published in the 1990s, many of the essays and observations—about parenting, children, and surviving in a hostile political climate—still ring true today. The next four years are going to be especially demanding for those trying to balance parenting, politics, and survival. We’re going to need the voices and experiences in<span> </span><em>The Future Generation</em><span> </span>now more than ever.</p>
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The Future Generation: The Zine-Book for Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends & Others
family relationships
feminism
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<p><a href="http://www.celiarocha.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.celiarocha.com</a></p>
Medium
drawing
photography
installation
social practice
Location
The location of the interview
Santa Ana
California
Artist Statement
<p>I am a Portuguese interdisciplinary artist living and working in Southern California. My lived experience and my interest in activism are the driving forces in my creative process. I use my artwork as a tool for activism, drawing on social issues that have affected me on a personal level, such as my experience of motherhood, the politics of childbirth or sexual violence. My artwork explores universal issues of gender and collective identity, culture, memory and loss, while it is imbued with the feeling of saudade, a typically Portuguese trait roughly translated as a nostalgic longing or yearning of someone or something of the past.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I have used a wide range of media - including painting, installation, social practice, video and sound - but drawing and photography remain at the core of my practice. Influenced by Vija Celmins's drawings, Andrea Bowers use of text and activism and Suzanne Lacy’s commitment to social justice, my work examines inequality and is borne out of a desire to call attention to the often invisible and overlooked issues that affect primarily women.<br /><br />@celiarochastudio</p>
Topic
parenting
caretaking
pregnancy
labor
childbirth
motherhood
maternal
c-section
cesarean section
natural birth
home birth
feminism
breastfeeding
baby clothes
babies
children
maternal mortality
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
2021 <a href="https://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/606" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maternochronics</a> | Virtual exhibition | maternochronics.com
2018 Maternal Matters | Bolsky Gallery | Otis College of Art and Design | Los Angeles
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Célia Rocha
babies
baby clothes
breastfeeding
c-section
California
caretaking
cesarean section
childbirth
children
drawing
feminism
home birth
labor
maternal
maternal mortality
motherhood
natural birth
parenting
photography
pregnancy
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.gracecross.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.gracecross.net</a>
Location
The location of the interview
Cape Town
South Africa
Artist Statement
Grace Cross (b. Harare, Zimbabwe 1988) is a material painter who draws symbols about motherhood, home, belief structures, and land; making shipting recipe's rooted in feminism, history, performative archaeology and African cosmology, to reflect her experiences of cultural transmission. Her painting practice, since the birth of her daughter, focuses on female storytelling, spirituality, and mining symbols of motherhood in her lush and colourfilled canvases. Her paintings seek to represent a cosmological world, where paint weaves images together to work as spells or incantations. The painded symbols thread ideas together, daming and mending, compositionally sewing the symbolic into the real, tethering the objects to one another. She traces a history of laboring women, their bloodline, their red thread of fate, through her paintings - <em>placenta red, metnrual red, nipple-suked-raw red. </em>This is the tie that binds - an umbilical cord - the maternal line. The thread is fine buth strong; it will not come undone; even as it unspools, running from the distant past to the present, from one canvas to another. Cross lives and works as a mother and painter in Cape Town
Topic
motherhood
parenting
breastfeeding
gender-based violence
play
caretaking
symbolism
fertility
nutrition
latch
food
storytelling
matriessence
babies
pregnancy
archaeology
feminism
psychic trauma
womb
birth
awakening
child's play
language acquisition
poetry
burdens
reproduction
patterns
textiles
women's work
domesticity
labour
performative
painting
spirituality
bloodline
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
<em>Mother is a Drum, </em>2019, Smith Studio, Cape Town
<em>Atlas is a Woman, </em>2020, The Vault, Zeitz Silo Hotel, Cape Town
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Grace Cross
archaeology
awakening
babies
birth
bloodline
breastfeeding
burdens
caretaking
child's play
domesticity
feminism
fertility
food
gender-based violence
labour
language acquisition
latch
matriessence
motherhood
nutrition
painting
parenting
patterns
performative
play
poetry
pregnancy
psychic trauma
reproduction
spirituality
storytelling
symbolism
textiles
womb
women's work
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.jenniferlong.ca" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.jenniferlong.ca</a>
Topic
memory
pregnancy
domesticity
girlhood
childhood
motherhood
mothering body
image
feminism
vulnerability
transformation
parenting
touch
intergenerational family
play
daily life
domestic labour
invisible labour
caretaking
mundane
Artist Residency in Motherhood
gesture
maternal body
mother/daughter relationship
Medium
photography
lens-based
Artist Statement
My practice is propelled by an interest in the varied experiences of girls and women, and the limited ways in which they are represented within image making. Through a Feminist lens, I work with constructed narratives that are inspired by the quiet moments in girls and women’s lives where seemingly nothing (and everything) occurs. I am especially interested in the complex emotions that underlie these mundane points in time. Themes of vulnerability, transformation, and discovery are explored in my image making through the use of touch, gesture, and the gaze as I observe conscious and unconscious modes of communication. Over the past decade, my art practice has focused on the early stages of motherhood and pregnancy as I navigated this new terrain in my personal life. My current series, ‘Caesura’, developed out of my observations of the struggle my daughters grapple with as they find a balance between their dependence on me and their growing independence. This series re-constructs and intertwines various remembrances, making visual the experience of seeing myself reflected in my daughters’ gestures and actions. At the forefront of this project is the need to make space for my ever-changing outlook of being a mother and an artist.
Location
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Toronto
Canada
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Jennifer Long
Title
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Jennifer Long
artist residency in motherhood
caretaking
childhood
daily life
domestic labour
domesticity
feminism
gesture
girlhood
image
intergenerational family
invisible labour
lens-based
maternal body
memory
mother/daughter relationship
motherhood
mothering body
mundane
parenting
photography
play
pregnancy
touch
transformation
vulnerability
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Editor
Elena Marchevska
Valerie Walkerdine
Topic
Art & Visual Culture
Art & Gender
Visual Culture
Theatre & Performance Studies
Performance Theory
Humanities
Cultural Studies
Cultural Theory
Gender
Feminism
Social Sciences
Sociology & Social Policy
Gender Studies
Women's Studies
About
<p><em>The Maternal in Creative Work</em><span> </span>examines the interrelation between art, creativity and maternal experience, inviting international artists, theorists and cultural workers to discuss their approaches to the central feminist question of the relation between maternity, generation and creativity.</p>
<p>This edited collection explores various modes and forms of art practice which look at mothers as subjects and as artists of the maternal experience, and how the creative practice is used to accept, negotiate, resist or challenge traditional conceptions of mothering. The book brings together some of the major projects of maternal art from the last two decades and opens up new ways of conceptualizing motherhood as a creative and communicative practice. Chapters include intergenerational discussion of art practices in the 20th and 21st centuries, representations of breastfeeding and infertility in creative projects, the notion of the ‘unfit mother’ and childlessness, together with the experiences of women and men that take on maternal identities through many forms of kinship and social mothering.</p>
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<p><i>The Maternal in Creative Work</i><span> </span>will be essential reading for interdisciplinary students and scholars in cultural studies, gender studies and art theory and will have wider appeal to audiences interested in maternity, childcare, creativity and psychoanalysis.</p>
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Contributor
The author of an article within an anthology
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/293">Lisa Baraitser</a>
Valerie Walkerdine
Elena Marchevska
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/104">Natalie Loveless</a>
Mary Kelly
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/199">Myrel Chernick</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/252">Jennie Klein</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/276">Andrea Liss</a>
Deirdre M. Donoghue
Tina Kinsella
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/42">Lise Haller Baggesen</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/165">Ruchika Wason Singh</a>
Eleanor Bowen
Laura González
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/47">Rachel Epp Buller</a>
Aram Han Sifuentes
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/61">Elizabeth Philps</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/46">Lena Šimić</a>
Emily Underwood-Lee
Lizzie Thynne
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/144">Alison O’Neill</a>
Jo Paul
Sally Sales
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/250">Miriam Schaer</a>
Lois Tonkin
Lulu Le Vay
Irina Aristarkhova
Publisher
Routledge
City of Publication
London
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Date of Publication
11 December 2019
ISBN 13
9780815381693
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The Maternal in Creative Work: Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art
Art & Gender
Art & Visual Culture
Arts
Cultural Studies
Cultural Theory
feminism
gender
gender studies
Humanities
Performance Theory
Social Sciences
Sociology & Social Policy
Theatre & Performance Studies
visual culture
Women's Studies
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Artist Parent Organization Database
Service
An organization supporting artist parents.
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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Author
Alison Stone
Publisher
Routledge
City of Publication
New York
London
Date of Publication
2013
ISBN 13
9780415885423
Topic
feminism
psychoanalysis
maternal subjectivity
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Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity
feminism
London
maternal subjectivity
New York
psychoanalysis
Routledge
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Editor
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/47">Rachel Epp Buller</a>
Charles Reeve
Contributor
The author of an article within an anthology
Julia V. Hendrickson
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/223">Irene Pérez</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/252">Jennie Klein</a>
Tina Kinsella
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/78">Shira Richter</a>
Lydia Gordon
Caroline Seek Langill
Niku Kashef
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/98">Deirdre Donoghue</a>
Alicia Harris (Assiniboine)
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/247">Terri Hawkes</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/5">Dyana Gravina</a>
Anna Ehnold-Danailov
Line Langebek
Doreen Balabanoff
Heidi Overhill
Ruchika Wason Singh
Amber Berson
Juliana Driever
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/46">Lena Šimić</a>
Emily Underwood-Lee
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/104">Natalie Loveless</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/100">Christa Donner</a>
Andrea Francke
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/60">Kim Dhillon</a>
Martina Mullaney
Publisher
<a href="https://demeterpress.org/books/inappropriate-bodies-art-design-and-maternity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Demeter Press</a>
City of Publication
Bradford
Province of Publication
Onterio
Country of Publication
Canada
Date of Publication
2019
ISBN 13
9781772582093
Topic
maternity
maternal
expectations
norms
strategies for change
bodies
maternal body
design
art
systems design
appropriateness
inappropriateness
collectives
activism
feminism
queer bodies
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Inappropriate Bodies: Art, Design, and Maternity
activism
appropriateness
art systems design
Bodies
Bradford
Canada
collectives
Design
expectations
feminism
maternal
maternal body
maternity
norms
Ontario
queer bodies
strategies for change
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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
A name given to the resource
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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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
A name given to the resource
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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Exhibition Archive
Event
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Exhibition Website
<a href="https://www.whakatanemuseum.org.nz/exhibitions-and-events/mother" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.whakatanemuseum.org.nz/exhibitions-and-events/mother</a>
Curator
Sarah Hudson
Gallery
Te Kōputu - Whakatāne Library and Exhibition Centre
Curatorial Statement
M/other is an exhibition on contemporary artists from around New Zealand creating work about motherhood, mothering and maternal roles. Artist contributions from: Erena Baker, Leala Faleseuga, Rhonda Halliday, Turumeke Harrington, Claire Harris, Tash Helasdottir-Cole, Zoe Thompson-Moore, Jasmine Togo-Brisby, Kararaina Toi, Justine Walker
Location
The location of the interview
Whakatāne
New Zealand
Artists
Erena Baker
Leala Faleseuga
Rhonda Halliday
Turumeke Harrington
Claire Harris
Tash Helasdottir-Cole
Zoe Thompson-Moore
Jasmine Togo-Brisby
Kararaina Toi
Justine Walker
Topic
motherhood
mothering
maternal roles
artist mother
artist/mother,
artistic labor
artists with children
autonomy
binary tensions
birthday parties
bleeding
breast milk
breast pump
care labor
body
birth
contemporary art
conceptual art
IVF, mental health, miscarriage, maternal, needlework, postpartum, personal, women artists, women representation,
domestic families
feminism
handwork traditions
indigenous motherhood
infertility
intergenerational
IVF
mental health
miscarriage
maternal
needlework
postpartum
personal
women artists
women representation
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
April 20 - August 17, 2019
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Title
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M/other
Contributor
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Sarah Hudson
artist mother
artist/mother
artistic labor
artists with children
autonomy
binary tensions
birth
birthday parties
bleeding
body
breast milk
breast pump
care labor
conceptual art
contemporary art
domestic
families
feminism
handwork traditions
Indigenous motherhood
infertility
intergenerational
IVF
maternal
maternal roles
mental health
miscarriage
motherhood
mothering
needlework
New Zealand
personal
postpartum
Whakatāne
women artists
women representation
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://laurayuile.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://laurayuile.com</a>
Medium
installation
sculpture
video
performance
Location
The location of the interview
London
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<p style="font-weight: 400;">My work is multidisciplinary, installation-based, and performative, exploring notions of the domestic and the urban through the intimate (or public) matters of living together; personal care and household maintenance; wellness and well-being; and the effects of globalization and technological development upon living space. Propelled by narrative, installations probe issues of social discomfort and our cultural obsession with cleanliness; the methods through which society sanitizes women; our desire for quick-fix methods of self-help and self-care; and the increasing invisibility of technological infrastructure in the urban and domestic landscape.<br /><br />I have recently been the societal tendency to position the figure of the Child as representative of “the future” – a reliance on reproductive futurism - and the problems of this representation for those who choose not to reproduce or cannot reproduce. I’m interested in positioning issues of social reproduction alongside those of biological reproduction and exploring the notion of reproductive futurity alongside the neoliberal characteristic of cleanliness as generating a forward-facing pathway. I’m interested in deconstructing notions of “the future” and asking questions about ideas of care in relation to reproductive futurity and the drive for technological “innovation”.</p>
Topic
reproduction
reproductive futurity
family
care
feminism
queer
non-binary
the body
domesticity
labor
home
future
technology
childfree
childlessness by choice
childlessness by chance
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
nGbK (Berlin); Galerie Kunstbuero (Vienna); Apexart (New York); The Blackwood Gallery (Toronto); Recent Activity (Birmingham); Tate Britain (London); Mauve (Vienna); t-space (Milan) and Collective (Edinburgh).
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Title
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Laura Yuile
Care
domesticity
family
feminism
home
installation
labour
non-binary
performance.
queer
reproduction
reproductive futurity
sculpture
technology
the body
the future
video
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://www.metrasaberova.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://www.metrasaberova.com/</span></a>
Medium
video art
animation
performance
painting
installation
Location
The location of the interview
London
United Kingdom
Riga
Latvia
Artist Statement
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Taking the bodily, medical and performative contents that make up my artistic practice, I use my own orchestrated experiences of medical tourism procedures as a public platform to encourage discussion about the cultural, political and social meanings assigned to the female body and its capabilities. The bodily interventions include tubal ligation in Thailand, hymenoplasty in Poland, IVF consultations in Bulgaria and full breast tattoos in Latvia. I believe that upholding the high status of motherhood and treating childfree people as deviations from the standard of motherhood is clearly limiting to childfree women in terms of their acceptance as valuable contributors to the society and as people free of biological determinism. The aim of my artistic research is to contribute to the growing field of investigation in the childfree lifestyle and to question the standard of the normativity of motherhood for women in the Western society and to link the social </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">stigmatization of childfree people with investigations in sociology, performativity, bioethics, body art, feminism and queer theory</span><b>.</b></p>
<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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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.julialandois.com">www.julialandois.com</a>
Topic
motherhood
feminism
language
religion
divine feminine
abortion
mother body
text based
Medium
performance
video
works on paper
Artist Statement
My work uses pop cultural tropes and dark humor to address thorny subjects like gender roles, religion, sexuality, and borders. Explorations of language, from documentary narratives to sacred texts to remixed song lyrics, run throughout my work in performance, video, installation, and print. I play with the disjunctions that occur in language translation and use the conventions of onscreen and printed text to engage charged content. Code-switching and voice-switching then complicate the relationships between Spanish and English, masculine and feminine, victim and victimizer, abject and exalted. My projects cross a variety of media to examine the relationship between the intimate and the public, double meanings, mistranslations, and the ironic and unintended experiences of the written, sung, and spoken word. I have a number of works that address motherhood. The print series M*dres takes inspiration from use of the words mother/mom/madre in slang phrases from American English and Mexican Spanish. Serious Work is a performance that satirically contrasts the banalities of parental life with the performance artist persona, using a smartphone as mediator. The video works Don’t Explain and Star-Crossed II recontextualize popular music to look at motherhood, mothers’ bodies, and abortion through the lens of patriarchal religious traditions and the divine feminine. Julia Barbosa Landois is a performance, installation, and video artist who lives in Houston, TX with her partner and two children. Her work has been featured in galleries, museums and performance festivals in the USA, Latin America, and Europe. Awards include grants from Artpace and the Artist Foundation of San Antonio, and residencies at the Santa Fe Art Institute (USA), Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (Norway), and Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Germany). Barbosa Landois holds a BFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio and MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. She currently teaches at the University of Houston.
Location
The location of the interview
Houston
Texas
USA
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Julia Barbosa Landois
Title
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Julia Barbosa Landois
abortion
divine feminine
feminism
language
mother body
motherhood
Religion
text based
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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://www.nannalysholt.dk">www.nannalysholt.dk</a>
<a href="http://www.nannalysholthansen.com">www.nannalysholthansen.com</a>
Topic
pregnancy
motherhood
motherartist
mothervoice
technolgy
cyborg
feminism
language
posthumanism
meditation
memory
theory
intergenerational
Medium
live performance
video
installation
sculpture
photography
poetry
sound
Artist Statement
MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Art. BFA Faculty of Art, Design & Music, Kingston University London. In her artistic practice Nanna Lysholt Hansen is investigating relationships between the body, language, voice, gender and technology. By using her own personal experiences of the female body, sexuality, pregnancy, birth and motherhood she draws attention to the body as a technological and biological intergenerational mediator of knowledge, voice and memory.
Location
The location of the interview
Copenhagen
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Nanna Lysholt Hansen
Title
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Nanna Lysholt Hansen
biology
copenhagen
cyborg
feminism
installation
intergenerational
language
live performance
mediation
memory
motherartist
motherhood
mothervoice
photography
poetry
posthumanism
pregnancy
sculpture
sound
sound art
technology
theory
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://www.alanatyson.com/">www.alanatyson.com</a>
Medium
sculpture
textiles
performance
Location
The location of the interview
Wales
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<p class="p0"><span class="c0">Alana Tyson’s work attempts to make sense of the world she inhabits. As an immigrant to the UK and a natural observer, she feels highly responsive to the contradictions of everyday life.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="c0"> </span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="c0">Her uncertain questioning of diverse thematic concepts is a tactic for working through the problems she encounters, incorporating performance, sculpture and installation utilising found, altered and constructed elements.</span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="c0"> </span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="c0">Tyson is drawn to dualities and incongruities. A commonality between her chosen materials is their link to domesticity. Everyday items, such as suit lining or crochet cotton, become carriers of meaning and reflections upon Tyson’s deep-rooted responses. The material contrasts and tension within Tyson’s work transforms the mundane into the visceral.</span></p>
<p class="p5"><span class="c0"> </span></p>
<p class="p6"><span class="c0"> </span></p>
Topic
feminism
crochet
breastfeeding
motherhood
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Title
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Alana Tyson
breastfeeding
crochet
feminism
motherhood
performance
sculpture
textiles
United Kingdom
Wales
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://komsomolfilms.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://komsomolfilms.com/</a>
Topic
childbirth
pregnancy
labor
care labor
maternal anxiety
feminism
Medium
film
video
Artist Statement
IRENE LUSZTIG is a filmmaker, visual artist, archival researcher, and amateur seamstress. Her film and video work mines old images and technologies for new meanings in order to reframe, recuperate, and reanimate forgotten and neglected histories. Often beginning with rigorous research in archives, her work brings historical materials into conversation with the present day, inviting viewers to explore historical spaces as a way to contemplate larger questions of politics, ideology, and the production of personal, collective, and national memories. Much of her work is centered on public feminism, language, and histories of women and women’s bodies, including her debut feature Reconstruction (2001), the feature length archival film essay The Motherhood Archives (2013), the ongoing web-based Worry Box Project (2011), and her newest performative documentary feature Yours in Sisterhood (2018).
Location
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Santa Cruz
California
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Complicated Labors</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/64" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Marternalisms - Chile</a>
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Irene Lusztig
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Irene Lusztig
California
care labor
childbirth
feminism
film
labor
maternal anxiety
pregnancy
Santa Cruz
video
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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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Editor
Ann Marie A. Short
Abigail L. Palko
Dionne Irving
Publisher
Demeter Press
City of Publication
Bradford
State of Publication
Ontario
Country of Publication
Canada
Date of Publication
April 2018
ISBN 13
978-1-77258-155-3
Topic
motherhood
breastfeeding
visual culture
maternal theory
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Breastfeeding & Culture: Discourses and Representations
art history
autonomy
breastfeeding
female sexuality
feminism
maternal bodies
maternal theory
maternity
motherhood
Race
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Author
Andrea Liss
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
City of Publication
Minneapolis
State of Publication
Minnesota
Country of Publication
United States
Date of Publication
January 12, 2009
ISBN 13
978-0816646234
ISBN 10
0816646236
Topic
feminism
art and mothering
maternal thinking
motherhood
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Feminist Art and the Maternal
feminism
feminist art
feminist art theory
maternal
mother artist
mother as artist
mother/artist identity
motherhood
motherhood and art practice
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Exhibition Website
<a href="http://criticalmediartstudio.com/index.php/2017/10/opening-of-quality-time-an-exhibition-by-the-artmamas-at-the-artbutus-gallery-in-the-coast-capital-library-kpu-kwantlen-polytechnic-october-2-27-2017/" target="_blank">http://criticalmediartstudio.com/index.php/2017/10/opening-of-quality-time-an-exhibition-by-the-artmamas-at-the-artbutus-gallery-in-the-coast-capital-library-kpu-kwantlen-polytechnic-october-2-27-2017/</a>
Curator
Art/Mamas
Gallery
The Artbutus Gallery in the Coast Capital Library , KPU | Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Curatorial Statement
This exhibition brings together individual works from A.M. (art/mamas), a group of Vancouver-based artist mothers, whose discussions have centred on motherhood and art practice and the intersections between reproductive and artistic labour. A.M. aims to elaborate a model for a feminist, women-centred, sustainable creation process that integrates life and all of its chaos into a viable and valued way of being and creating without being marginalized by and excluded from the male-dominated art system.
Location
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The Artbutus Gallery in the Coast Capital Library , KPU | Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, BC, Canada
Artists
Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda
Damla Tamer
Sarah Shamash
Maria Anna Parolin
Heather Passmore
Natasha McHardy
prOphecy sun
Robyn Laba
Matilda Aslizadeh
Duration
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October 2 - October 27, 2017
Topic
artistic labor
feminism
motherhood and art practice
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Quality Time
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Heather Passmore
artistic labor
Canada
feminism
mother artist
mother as artist
reproductive labor
sustainable practice
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Author
Jane Lazarre
Publisher
<a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/">Duke University Press Books</a>
City of Publication
Durham
State of Publication
North Carolina
Country of Publication
United States
Date of Publication
August 22, 1997 (reprint)
ISBN 13
978-0822320395
ISBN 10
0822320398
Topic
memoir
literary nonfiction
motherhood
feminism
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<a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-mother-knot">The Mother Knot</a>
duke
duke university press
feminism
literary nonfiction
memoir
motherhood
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Author
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/42">Lise Haller Baggesen</a>
Publisher
Green Lantern Press
City of Publication
Chicago
State of Publication
Illinois
Country of Publication
USA
Date of Publication
October 10, 2014
ISBN 13
978-0-9884185-5-4
Topic
literary nonfiction
feminism
contemporary art
Mothernism
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Mothernism
Amsterdam
Chicago
contemporary art
Denmark
feminism
literary nonfiction
Mothernism
Netherlands
science fiction
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Editor
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/199" target="_blank">Myrel Chernick</a>
Jennie Klein
Publisher
Demeter Press
City of Publication
Bradford
Province of Publication
Ontario
Country of Publication
Canada
Date of Publication
May 11, 2011
ISBN 13
978-0986667121
ISBN 10
0986667129
Topic
motherhood
art
mother artists
embodied motherhood
ideology of motherhood
visual culture
art and mothering
caretaking
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The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art
artist mothers
embodied motherhood
feminism
motherhood
mothering
mothers
mothers and art
visual culture
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Author
Adrienne Rich
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Date of Publication
October 1, 1976
ISBN 13
9780393312843
ISBN 10
0393312844
Topic
feminism
gender
birth
feminist theory
embodied motherhood
patriarchy
institution of motherhood
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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
birth
embodied motherhood
feminism
feminist theory
gender
institution of motherhood
patriarchy
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Author
Luce Irigaray
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13
978-3319392219
ISBN 10
3319392212
Topic
philosophy
feminism
birth
phenomenology
social philosophy
psychoanalysis
Date of Publication
February 19, 2017
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To Be Born: Genesis of a New Human Being
birth
feminism
Irigaray
Luce Irigaray
phenomenology
philosophy
psychoanalysis
social philosophy
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://ireneperez.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://ireneperez.net</a>
Topic
motherhood
learning
education
feminism
ecology
body
care labor
autonomy
mother
daughter
mothering
conversation
sexuality
teaching
birth
empowerment
politics
economics
racism
migration
fanzines
music
death
language
comic books
feminist science fiction
Medium
textile based works
works on paper
sound
Artist Statement
I use textile materials and techniques, and most recently also sound, to explore experiences, as well as to make artworks that aim to become the vehicle to create new ones. My most recent project, New Universe: Discovering Other Possibilities, was born from my interest to explore the learning processes that occur between a mother and her child. What and how we learn, when do we learn, where do we learn, and from whom do we learn are some of the ideas that I have been investigating through and for this project. New Universe presents a group of works that take as their starting point moments and experiences within the family and in particular through the child-mother relationship. From these experiences, my creations explore ideas related to discovery, invention and the unknown. Thus, there are pieces born from daily activities such as playing, time spent with family and care labor, as well as those born from conversations with other parents and research. In its entirety the project included and exhibition, a workshop and several activities during a three month period at the Textile Museum and Documentation Centre in Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain. This project is still growing.
From Between My Legs, 2019, Textile based art piece.
STATEMENT:
From Between My Legs is a work born from the experience and exploration of motherhood through the interactions of the bodies of mother and daughter. Thus, this work, framed in relation to the natural world, refers to the acquired independence of the daughter's body, to the consciously feminist mothering practice and to the sexual pleasure of the body of the mother, events all of them that have the literal or metaphorically starting point in the place between the legs of the mother.
From between my legs
a new combative and vindicating being is born
that has made me rethink my limits
and the limits of what surrounds me.
From between my legs
is born the strength to understand
the world beyond binary conceptions.
From between my legs
an invigorating pleasure is born
and it makes me feel powerful.
Seeds For Resistance, 2017- ongoing, multidisciplinary (actions, works on paper, textile works)
STATEMENT:
Multidisciplinary project that stems from the conversations I have been having with my daughter. They are conversations about favorite colors, our bodies, super-(s)heros, comic books, feminism(s), illness, politics, sexuality, clothing, economics, racism, migration, fanzines, ecology, music, death, language and many other things. In progress.
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/452">Extended Self: Transformations and Connections</a>
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Irene Pérez
Title
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Irene Pérez
care labor
ecology
feminism
learning
teaching
textile
the body
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.carrying-stones.com/ties-that-bind/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://wwww.carrying-stones.com</a>
Medium
sculpture
performance art
data visualization
social practice
Location
The location of the interview
San Francisco
California
USA
Artist Statement
The Carrying Stones Project is an ongoing series of sculpture, data visualization, and<br />social practice works that explores women’s work inequity in its many forms.<br /><br />Cooking, cleaning, childcare and eldercare responsibilities often still default to women, keeping them from<br />advancing at work and in society. Even community volunteerism—care-taking of the larger<br />community—falls disproportionately on women. This project documents the physical, emotional, and<br />practical effects of these imbalanced burdens.<br /><br />The inequalities that working women face are both systemic and pervasive, and those biases affect<br />individual women differently. As such, the concepts for the Carrying Stones works are viewed through an<br />intersectional lens, and are distilled from the personal narratives of women of diverse ages, ethnicities,<br />orientations, working roles, and socio-economic statuses.
Topic
parenting
caretaking
non-binary parenting
women's work
women's labor
gender inequity
wage gap
unpaid labor
unpaid work
work life balance
feminism
intersectional feminism
domestic work
housework
elder care
data visualization
Exhibitions
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(Opening September 2019) “Counting the Hours: Art, Data, and the Untold Stories of Women’s Work,” Sculpture, photographic portraiture, social practice, from The Carrying Stones Project, Code and Canvas, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Art Market San Francisco, 2 main floor on-site installations from The Carrying Stones Project
Force of Nature: Women’s Work Visualized," sculpture, photographic portraiture, social practice, from The Carrying Stones Project, Classic Cars West Gallery, Oakland, CA. Curated by Dasha Matsuura, director, Spoke Art (solo)
"The Weight of Your World," social practice public interactive event, Classic Cars West Gallery, Oakland, CA
"Ties That Bind," public sculpture, social practice, and performance, from the Carrying Stones Project, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco, CA (solo)
"Ties That Bind," social practice public sculpture assembly event, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco, CA
"Ties That Bind," 10-minute performance with 13 actors, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco, CA
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Sawyer Rose
arenting
California
caretaking
childcare
data visualization
domestic labor
domestic work
elder care
feminism
gender equality
gender inequity
housework
intersectional feminism
non-binary parenting
performance art
sculpture
unpaid labor
unpaid work
wage gap
women’s labor
women’s work
work life balance
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copyright Grace Acton Roberts
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copyright Grace Acton Roberts
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.graceacton.com/" target="_blank">http://www.graceacton.com/</a>
<a href="http://www.graceacton.com/cry-over-spilt-milk.html" target="_blank">http://www.graceacton.com/cry-over-spilt-milk.html</a>
Medium
mixed media
Artist Statement
<span>Grace Acton Roberts has a background in visual arts having trained as a visual artist at Keele University. On leaving university she co-curated the first UK Gypsy, Roma, Traveller art exhibition, Second Site, at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Greenwich, which went on successfully to secure Arts Council, England funding to commission new works and tour around England in 2006.<br /><br />She subsequently worked for a number of multidisciplinary arts organisations including Metal Culture Ltd, providing project, events and finance management. In 2011, whilst at Metal, she organised Showflat, a series of site-specific exhibitions in artists’ homes and its accompanying publication. Since 2011 she has been the coordinator for the visual arts programme at Greenbelt Festival, exhibiting artists such as Willie Williams, Anthony Green RA, Simone Lia, Michael Leunig, Nicola Green, Sokari Douglas Camp CBE, Guler Ates, Hollie McNish, Nicola Canavan and Sinéad Bligh. She currently works for Applecartlive Ltd, a Storytelling, film and theatre production company based in East London. In 2015 she completed her MA in Curating and Collections at Chelsea School of Art, UAL, h</span><span>er research interests centre on feminist maternal art practice and curating the personal.</span>
Topic
motherhood
breastfeeding
mother/child relationship
feminism
maternal art
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Grace Acton Roberts
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Artist retains copyright to image
breast milk
breastfeeding
feminism
mother
mother/child relationship
motherhood
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Name
Arzu Ozkal
Claudia Costa Pederson
Nanette Yannuzzi
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://homeaffairs.website/about/" target="_blank">http://homeaffairs.website/about/</a>
Artist Statement
Art and caregiving intersect in the rhetoric of “labor of love”. In the art world, this belief is embodied in stereotyped notions of the artist. We are all familiar with them. There is the starving artist, the crazy artist, the hermit artist. And then there is the childless artist. Automatically assumed to be a woman, the childless artist is center stage among the handful of women art stars. As the discourse goes, this is because art making is an all-consuming undertaking antithetical to childrearing.<br /><br />By contrast, representations of ‘woman’ as caregiver abound in art. Images of the passive, self-less, self-sacrificing Madonna are emblematic. That both stereotypes overlay retrograde gender hierarchies and divisions of labor in art and care is corroborated by the numbers. According to a June 2015 article in ARTNews, the statistics relative to the number of women artists represented in major art museums and galleries remains dismal with the Hayward Gallery in the UK being the worst. Only 22 percent of their solo exhibitions were devoted to women in the past seven years. In the U.S., the Metropolitan Museum appears to suffer from a particularly harsh time warp. It appears that in 2012 only 4 percent of the artists they supported with exhibitions were women and that figure is worse than their 1989 figures. France isn’t far behind these bad boy scores. The Centre Pompidou has only dedicated 16 percent of its exhibition to women since 2007. Parallel statistics report that women continue to bear the brunt of housework chores and child care. One recent government-funded survey suff ices to put this in perspective: “men typically do about 9.6 hours of housework each week; women typically do about 18.1 hours. When it comes to child care, men average about 7 hours a week while women put in about 14 hours.”<br /><br />It appears then that the labor of love rhetoric permeating art making and caregiving is nothing but a metaphor for unpaid labor. And because of societal expectations, women artists are most impacted. Art institutions can and must play a role in changing these dynamics. The point is not to include women merely as tokens, but to structurally account for and support artists who are also caregivers.
Topic
feminism
gender stereotypes
child care
caregivers
women
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Home Affairs
caregivers
child care
feminism
gender stereotypes
women
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Artist Parent Index
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<a href="http://www.nicolacanavan.com" target="_blank">http://www.nicolacanavan.com</a>
<a href="http://www.raisingtheskirt.com" target="_blank">http://www.raisingtheskirt.com</a>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/nicolahuntercanavan/?fref=ts" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/nicolahuntercanavan/?fref=ts</a>
Medium
painting
performance art
Location
The location of the interview
Jarrow
South Tyneside
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span>Over the last 10 years I have been developing an artistic practice which is rooted in image making and spans live work, documentations of its products & traces and the re-presentation of these in other forms. With performance at its core, I investigate themes around feminism, abjection and ritual with a focus on interpreting or creating experiences in my own body. I have an active interest in the anthropological body, exploring the ways that social, cultural and political dynamics shape the perception and understanding of the human body and how these interactions are interpreted through social engagement how they are controlled through mass media and the arts.
</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">In 2014 I created '<a href="http://www.raisingtheskirt.com" target="_blank">Raising the Skirt</a><a href="http://www.raisingtheskirt.com" target="_blank">'</a> in collaboration with Dawn Felicia Knox, which has since had international success being named one of Dazed and Confused's photo series of the year 2015. RTS is a multi-layered arts project which calls for the (re)claiming of the cunt, we are working on representing a diverse and fierce femininity through re-appropriating the defiant act of <em>raising the skirt </em>which is buried deep into many of our cultures.
'Landing in Her Skin' began in the spring of 2015 and aims to document the transition of woman to mother and back again, being a mother comes with its own otherness, this project will follow the lives of women and their ever changing body.<br /><br /></p>
<p><strong>Biography</strong></p>
<p>Born in North East England (UK), Nicola Hunter (formerly Canavan) has been performing and showing work nationally and internationally since 2007 within programmes such as Momentum Festival (Brussels), ]performance s p a c e[ (London), Inbetween Time Festival (Bristol), City of Women (Ljubljana) and SPILL National Platform (Ipswitch). She has collaborated with Predrag Pajdic, Manuel Vason (Double Exposures) and Ernst Fischer and has been awarded the Artsadmin Bursary, the Artists International Development Fund and has been financially supported and mentored by Unlimited, Live Art Development Agency and Pacitti Company.</p>
Topic
feminism
abjection
ritual
aesthetics
motherhood
motherness
human body
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Nicola Hunter
abjection
aesthetics
feminism
human body
motherhood
motherless
painting
performance art
ritual
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<a href="http://www.ellinakevorkian.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.ellinakevorkian.com</a>
<a href="http://www.ellinakevorkian.com/#!raising-children/c20q" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.ellinakevorkian.com/#!raising-children/c20q</a>
Medium
painting
photography
video
performance
Artist Statement
Ellina Kevorkian is an interdisciplinary artist who creates hybridized relationships between painting, photography, video, and performance. Using tropes, humor, and the visual languages of art and popular culture, Kevorkian suggests other possibilities in the ways women are represented. Kevorkian has shown in Los Angeles and beyond; among the many, Western Project, a showing of selected videos at MOCA, Los Angeles, and inclusion in the Southern California Council of the National Museum of Women in the Arts sponsored retrospective Multiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Artists, 1980-2006.<br /><br />As a commissioned artist for Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions she presented Recollecting Performance, an exhibition of 1970s and e.1980s garments worn by Southern Californian performance artists for Los Angeles Goes Live: Performance Art in Southern California 1970-1983, as part of The Getty funded initiative Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945-1980. Kevorkian’s year-long, site-specific installation for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, violetagainstwomen.tumblr.com, can be viewed online. An AVK Arts Foundation grant supported her recent artist-in-residency at The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA. The resultant piece Some Dreams Contain Dead Time was performed on the Royce Hall Stage.<br /><br />Her work has been written about in The LA Times, The LA Weekly, ArtForum, ArtPulse and Artnet. She received her MFA from Claremont Graduate University and graduated from the inaugural year at the Institute of Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University. She's a recent participant in Portland Emerging Arts Leaders (PEAL) which is affiliated with the Emerging Leaders Network, a program of Americans for the Arts. She is currently is an Artistic Director for Residency Programs at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.
Topic
feminism
children
motherhood
Location
The location of the interview
Minneapolis
Minnesota
USA
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Ellina Kevorkian
children
contemporary art
feminism
humor
motherhood
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performance
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video
women representation
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Event Type
Exhibition
Exhibition Website
<a href="http://www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=program&id=226" target="_blank">http://www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=program&id=226</a>
<a href="http://www.newmaternalisms.ca." target="_blank">newmaternalisms.ca</a>
Location
The location of the interview
Toronto
Ontario
Canada
Curator
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/104" target="_blank">Natalia Loveless</a>
Curatorial Statement
<div><span>New Maternalisms</span><span> is a multi-pronged project conceived of by art historian, curator, and conceptual and performance artist </span><a href="http://www.artdesign.ualberta.ca/Faculty_and_Staff/Faculty/Natalie_Loveless.aspx" target="_blank"><span>Natalie S. Loveless</span></a><span> in 2010. It consists of three curated exhibitions (</span><span>New Maternalisms</span><span> in 2012, held at the </span><a href="http://www.mercerunion.org/" target="_blank"><span>Mercer Union</span></a><span>; </span><span>New Maternalisms Chile</span><span> in 2014, co-curated with</span><a href="http://www.artes.uchile.cl/noticias/40662/soledad-novoa-la-mujer-a-la-que-hay-que-tratar-con-cuidado" target="_blank"><span>Soledad Novoa</span></a><span>, and held concurrently at the </span><a href="http://www.mac.uchile.cl/" target="_blank"><span>Museo de Arte Contemporáneo </span></a><span> and the </span><a href="http://www.mnba.cl/617/w3-channel.html" target="_blank"><span>Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts</span></a><span> in Santiago de Chile; and </span><span>New Maternalisms Redux </span><span>in 2016, held at the University of Alberta’s </span><a href="http://www.artdesign.ualberta.ca/fab_gallery.aspx" target="_blank"><span>FAB Gallery</span></a><span>), satellite events surrounding these (most notably the colloquium </span><span>Mapping the Maternal: Art, Ethics, and the Anthropocene, </span><span>co-organized with </span><a href="http://sheenawilson.ca/" target="_blank"><span>Dr. Sheena Wilson</span></a><span>), an individual three-year artistic research project, </span><a href="http://www.maternalecologies.ca/" target="_blank"><span>Maternal Ecologies</span></a><span>, </span><span>and publications (both catalogues and critical writings).</span></div>
<div> </div>
<div><span>The first <em>New Maternalisms</em> exhibition asked: Forty years after the intervention of feminist art, what is the experience of the daughters of that era who have become mothers? </span><span>What are the discursive and material differences between early maternal artworks of the 1970s and those being produced in the first two decades of the 21st century? How might a return to the discourses that shaped the birth of feminist art help reshape how to think about the contours of political and activist art in today's cultural climate? </span><span>Grounded in these questions, this exhibition brought together a group of artist who use performance to bring attention to the embodied, biological, and material enmeshment of early maternal practice in the context of feminist art theory and practice today.</span></div>
<div> </div>
<div><span>This second iteration of </span><span>New Maternalisms</span><span> was a co-curation with the Chilean curator Soledad Novoa. It brought together North American and European artist (curated by Loveless) with Chilean artists (curated by Novoa) to stage an international conversation on the status of the maternal in contemporary art. These works reflect the expressed need of many artists to find creative ways to integrate their practices as mothers, artists, curators, writers and teachers. By taking seriously the need to create from local conditions and materials, these practices give visibility and value to motherhood </span><span>in</span><span> art and </span><span>as</span><span> art.</span></div>
<div> </div>
<div><span>New Maternalisms Redux</span><span> is the third and last in the </span><span>New Maternalisms</span><span> exhibition series (following Toronto 2012 and Santiago 2014). These exhibitions feature performance and project-based artists working with the maternal as a contemporary political and affective force. </span><span>New Maternalisms Redux</span><span> features five artists culled from the first two exhibitions, each of whom have been investigating the maternal, iteratively, for years. A three-day colloquium, </span><a href="http://newmaternalisms.squarespace.com/colloquium" target="_blank"><span>Mapping the Maternal: Art, Ethics, and the Anthropocene</span></a><span>, will be held in conjunction with the exhibition and include a number of prominent voices on feminist art and the maternal today (including Mary Kelly and Dr. Griselda Pollock as keynote participants). This colloquium, open to the public, brings crucial thinking on the anthropocene and anthropogenic climate change together with thinking on the maternal as metaphor, practice, and politics.</span></div>
Artists
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/24" target="_blank">Jill Miller</a>
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/160" target="_blank">Alejandra Herrera Silva</a>
Lovisa Johansson
Marlene Renaud-B
Hélène Matte
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/search?query=lenka+clayton&submit_search=Search" target="_blank">Lenka Clayton</a>
Beth Hall and Mark Cooley
Masha Godovannaya
Gina Miller
Dillon Paul & Lindsey Wolkowicz
Victoria Singh
Alice de Visscher
Christine Pountney
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
Fri March 23rd - Sun March 25th
Topic
feminist art
maternal
motherhood
maternity
art and activism
Gallery
<a href="http://www.mercerunion.org/" target="_blank">Mercer Union</a>
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New Maternalisms - Toronto
feminism
feminist art
maternal
maternity
motherhood
performance works
political art
video works
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Event Type
Exhibition
Exhibition Website
<a href="http://www.newmaternalisms.com/2014-overview/" target="_blank">http://www.newmaternalisms.com/2014-overview/</a>
<a href="http://www.newmaternalisms.ca." target="_blank">newmaternalisms.ca</a>
Location
The location of the interview
Santiago
Chile
Curator
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/104" target="_blank">Natalie Loveless</a>
Soledad Novoa Donoso
Curatorial Statement
<div><span>New Maternalisms</span><span> is a multi-pronged project conceived of by art historian, curator, and conceptual and performance artist </span><a href="http://www.artdesign.ualberta.ca/Faculty_and_Staff/Faculty/Natalie_Loveless.aspx" target="_blank"><span>Natalie S. Loveless</span></a><span> in 2010. It consists of three curated exhibitions (</span><span>New Maternalisms</span><span> in 2012, held at the </span><a href="http://www.mercerunion.org/" target="_blank"><span>Mercer Union</span></a><span>; </span><span>New Maternalisms Chile</span><span> in 2014, co-curated with</span><a href="http://www.artes.uchile.cl/noticias/40662/soledad-novoa-la-mujer-a-la-que-hay-que-tratar-con-cuidado" target="_blank"><span>Soledad Novoa</span></a><span>, and held concurrently at the </span><a href="http://www.mac.uchile.cl/" target="_blank"><span>Museo de Arte Contemporáneo </span></a><span> and the </span><a href="http://www.mnba.cl/617/w3-channel.html" target="_blank"><span>Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts</span></a><span> in Santiago de Chile; and </span><span>New Maternalisms Redux </span><span>in 2016, held at the University of Alberta’s </span><a href="http://www.artdesign.ualberta.ca/fab_gallery.aspx" target="_blank"><span>FAB Gallery</span></a><span>), satellite events surrounding these (most notably the colloquium </span><span>Mapping the Maternal: Art, Ethics, and the Anthropocene, </span><span>co-organized with </span><a href="http://sheenawilson.ca/" target="_blank"><span>Dr. Sheena Wilson</span></a><span>), an individual three-year artistic research project, </span><a href="http://www.maternalecologies.ca/" target="_blank"><span>Maternal Ecologies</span></a><span>, </span><span>and publications (both catalogues and critical writings).</span></div>
<div> </div>
<div><span>The first <em>New Maternalisms</em> exhibition asked: Forty years after the intervention of feminist art, what is the experience of the daughters of that era who have become mothers? </span><span>What are the discursive and material differences between early maternal artworks of the 1970s and those being produced in the first two decades of the 21st century? How might a return to the discourses that shaped the birth of feminist art help reshape how to think about the contours of political and activist art in today's cultural climate? </span><span>Grounded in these questions, this exhibition brought together a group of artist who use performance to bring attention to the embodied, biological, and material enmeshment of early maternal practice in the context of feminist art theory and practice today.</span></div>
<div> </div>
<div><span>This second iteration of </span><span>New Maternalisms</span><span> was a co-curation with the Chilean curator Soledad Novoa. It brought together North American and European artist (curated by Loveless) with Chilean artists (curated by Novoa) to stage an international conversation on the status of the maternal in contemporary art. These works reflect the expressed need of many artists to find creative ways to integrate their practices as mothers, artists, curators, writers and teachers. By taking seriously the need to create from local conditions and materials, these practices give visibility and value to motherhood </span><span>in</span><span> art and </span><span>as</span><span> art.</span></div>
<div> </div>
<div><span>New Maternalisms Redux</span><span> is the third and last in the </span><span>New Maternalisms</span><span> exhibition series (following Toronto 2012 and Santiago 2014). These exhibitions feature performance and project-based artists working with the maternal as a contemporary political and affective force. </span><span>New Maternalisms Redux</span><span> features five artists culled from the first two exhibitions, each of whom have been investigating the maternal, iteratively, for years. A three-day colloquium, </span><a href="http://newmaternalisms.squarespace.com/colloquium" target="_blank"><span>Mapping the Maternal: Art, Ethics, and the Anthropocene</span></a><span>, will be held in conjunction with the exhibition and include a number of prominent voices on feminist art and the maternal today (including Mary Kelly and Dr. Griselda Pollock as keynote participants). This colloquium, open to the public, brings crucial thinking on the anthropocene and anthropogenic climate change together with thinking on the maternal as metaphor, practice, and politics.</span></div>
<p> </p>
Artists
Catalina Bauer / Amelia Ibanez
Yennyferth Becerra
Carolina Hernández
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/160" target="_blank">Alejandra Herrera Silva</a>
Loreto Pérez
Ángela Ramirez
Gabriela Rivera
Alejandra Ugarte
Ximena Zomosa
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/44" target="_blank">Lenka Clayton</a>
Leena Kela
<a href="Courtney%20Kessel" target="_blank">Courtney Kessel</a>
Tanya Lukin-Linklater
<a href="Irene%20Lusztig" target="_blank">Irene Lusztig</a>
Hélène Matte
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/24" target="_blank">Jill Miller</a>
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
June 25th - June 28th, August 27th
Topic
feminist art
motherhood
maternity
maternal
mother/daughter relationship
political art
activist art
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New Maternalisms - Chile
Chile
feminism
feminist art
maternal
maternity
mother/daughter relationship
motherhood
political art
Santiago
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://kimdhillon.wordpress.com/invisible-spaces-of-parenthood-isp-with-andrea-francke/" target="_blank">https://kimdhillon.wordpress.com/invisible-spaces-of-parenthood-isp-with-andrea-francke/</a>
Medium
social practice
writing
Location
The location of the interview
Vancouver Island
Canada
Artist Statement
<span>Kim Dhillon writes, organizes projects, and makes works </span><span>that explore the legacies of Second Wave feminism and of Conceptualism. </span><span>She is part of the on-going research collaboration Invisible Spaces of </span><span>Parenthood with artist Andrea Francke. In 2010, Dhillon initiated _Crib </span><span>Notes _(2010-ongoing), a series of talks and tours for parents and </span><span>carers with children under 5 at the Whitechapel Gallery, London. She has </span><span>since 2012 led a campaign for changes in policy and infrastructure at </span><span>the Royal College of Art to increase accessibility, support, and </span><span>visibility of parents in the student body and faculty. This research led </span><span>to the publishing of a chapter on “Invisible Care: Care Provision for </span><span>Infants and Children in UK Art Schools” in the forthcoming _We Need to </span><span>Talk About the Family: Essays on Neoliberalism, The Family, and Popular </span><span>Culture _(Cambridge Scholars). She has developed a course module </span><span>"Radical Pragmatics" (2014) for MA level art and design students at the </span><span>RCA to re-imagine the potential of workplace childcare in an art school.</span>
Topic
childcare
parenthood
nursery
creative platform
feminism
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Kim Dhillon
childcare
creative platform
England
feminism
London
nursery
parenthood
social practice
United Kingdom
writing
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://courtneykessel.com/home.html" target="_blank">http://courtneykessel.com/home.html</a>
Medium
performance art
sculpture
installation
video art
sound
Location
The location of the interview
Ohio
Artist Statement
My current work and research is focused on the possibility of what a feminist form may consist of beyond current feminist content, imagery, and histories. Through sculpture, performance, video, and sound, I perform a visibility that, in normative patriarchal society, is preferred to remain invisible. The question of feminist form transcends the product and is inclusive of my practice and methodology. In doing this, a slippage occurs where the separation of studio activity and domestic responsibility is blurred.
In the performance In Balance With, my six-year-old daughter, Chloe, and I sit at opposite ends of an empty sixteen-foot seesaw. During the thirty-minute performance, I add items that represent our lives such as toys, her books and sketchbook, my research books, food, laundry, tools, and pots and pans to her side of the seesaw. Constantly checking in with her well being, I continue until both sides have reached equilibrium. While hovering in a balanced state, I am continually counteracting her every move. Here we remain until she is ready to come down. In communication the entire time, the words we share are available to the audience but are not for the audience.
This piece is the confluence of many of my ideas. It relays and relies upon the non-privileged, unspoken language of the maternal, the process as opposed to the product, and the repositioned domestic dialog. When the performance ends, what remains is a laden seesaw complete with identifiable objects representing one’s life: a sculpture that tells a tale.
The non-hierarchical triad of feminism, language, and maternity forms the unique basis for my work. The French feminist Luce Irigaray describes woman “as waste, or excess, what is left of a mirror invested by the (masculine) ‘subject’ to reflect himself, to copy himself”1. I use language as a medium in my work to represent the gap in both “meaning” and “intention,” as well as the notion of “excess” as Irigaray connotes. How does the methodology I will use be sympathetic to feminist form? How will my decisions be based on this? Feminist form is non-hierarchical. It has options and choices; it is excess and multiplicitous, not singular. It will not be categorized, but create it’s own category. It is a process that is not based on product. It accumulates and is messy, but is not interested in making messes. It is an invitation, not a statement.
Topic
motherhood
daughter
feminism
language
domestic life
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/4" target="_blank">Complicated Labors</a>
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/274" target="_blank">Labors</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/64" target="_blank">New Maternalisms - Chile</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/161" target="_blank">New Maternalisms - Redux</a>
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Courtney Kessel
daughter
domestic life
feminism
language
motherhood
Ohio
performance art
sculpture
sound
video art
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Gallery
UC Santa Cruz Sesnon Gallery
Curator
Irene Lusztig
Artists
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/44" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Lenka Clayton</a>
Mary Kelly
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/295" target="_blank">Irene Lusztig</a>
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/24" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Jill Miller</a>
Mother Art Collective
Alejandra Herrera Silva
Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Natalie Loveless
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/199" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Myrel Chernick</a>
Mark Cooley
Beth Hall
Masha Godovannaya
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/27" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Courtney Kessel</a>
Ellina Kevorkian
Dillon Paul
Lindsey Wolkowicz
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
February 5 - March 15, 2014
Curatorial Statement
"Nearly forty years after Mary Kelly’s germinal 1976 exhibition of Post-Partum Document, the work of women artists who explicitly engage with images, processes, and experiences of maternity remains marginalized in the art world. Despite a notable resurgence of attention to the maternal in 21st Century art theory and practice, such work is, more often than not, read inside a discourse of indulgence, sentimentality, and identity rather than as representative of larger concerns with ecological systems, ethics, care, or labor. Complicated Labors investigates this problem, bringing together historical and contemporary work addressing maternal labor to ask questions about the status of feminism — and feminist art — today.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a one-day symposium on February 5, 2014 at UCSC, with a keynote address by foundational feminist artist Mary Kelly. The symposium will create a space for critical interdisciplinary dialogue around issues of maternity, feminism, art-making, and writing, explicitly putting the 1970s in conversation with the current moment and putting writers in conversation with visual artists.
Complicated Labors builds on recent group exhibitions on the topic, including Myrel Chernick’s and Jennie Klein’s 2004 and 2006 Maternal Metaphors and Maternal Metaphors II and Natalie Loveless’s 2010 New Maternalisms. This exhibition addresses recent books such as Andrea Liss’s 2009 Feminist Art and the Maternal, new journals such as Studies in the Maternal, and new collectives such as Broodwork."
- From http://people.ucsc.edu/~ilusztig/complicated_labors/about.html#
Topic
maternity
creative practice
feminism
motherhood
Exhibition Website
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Complicated Labors: feminism, maternity and creative practice
feminism
maternal labor
maternity