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Exhibition Archive
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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
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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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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
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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