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<a href="http://www.oonahyland.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Www.Oonahyland.com</a>
Medium
printmaking
sculpture
artists books
Artist Statement
<span>I'm interested in how Silence from a trauma affects the descendents of a person. Forms of epigenetic history . How memory can be erased , masked and hidden and the consequences of doing so.</span><br /><br /><span>I'm making work about the Magdalene laundries and mother and baby home. I am a child of a victim of these abusive homes in Ireland.</span>
Topic
Active Forgetting Project
memory
trauma
transgenerational trauma
mother and baby homes
Bon Secours Tuam
silence
haptic art
transparency
installation
book art
frottage
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Oona Hyland
Active Forgetting Project
Bon Secours Tuam
book art
frottage
haptic art
installation
Ireland
memory
mother and baby homes
silence
transgenerational trauma
transparency
trauma
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MAYDAY: distress call
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<a href="http://Www.Brettegabel.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Www.Brettegabel.com</a>
Topic
domesticity
motherhood
postpartum anxiety
Medium
textile
quilting
sculpture
installation
Artist Statement
My artistic practice is an ongoing examination of the subtle emotional space between feelings of comfort and discomfort. Since having a child in 2015 my work has explored my anxieties as a mother. The work considers domestic space, distress calls and repetition.
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Brette gabel
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Brette Gabel
domesticity
installation
motherhood
postpartum anxiety
quilting
sculpture
textile
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2edf87a8be9335f82bec53be2685f4a5
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<a href="http://claraalden.se" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://claraalden.se</a>
Topic
maintenance art
maternal art
reproduction/production
Medium
video
audio
text
sculpture
drawing
installation
Artist Statement
Clara Aldén (1988) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Gothenburg, Sweden. During the last few years, her practice has revolved mainly around topics of domesticity and the maternal. Within Aldéns artistic practice, motherhood is considered a practice and not a state of being. Likewise, this practice is not considered to be limited by biological bounds. This view is inspired by Donna Haraway’s thoughts on kin-making, and even if the interest for the maternal grew out of Aldéns own experiences of motherhood, her practice stretches away from direct biological connotations and explores the practice of maternity in the expanded notion. The notion of care, regarding interruption as a positive force, and trying to work in a relational and non-autonomous manner are important maternal aspects within her work. Collaboration is another important aspect, and within her latest projects, her children have been her most important collaborators.
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Clara Aldén
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Clara Aldén
audio
drawing
installation
maintenance art
maternal art
reproduction/production
sculpture
text
video
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<a href="https://www.jacquelinebelljohnson.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.jacquelinebelljohnson.com/</a>
Topic
fertility/infertility
motherhood
children portraiture
child wonderment
mother and child art collaboration
Medium
installation
sculpture
photography
mixed media
printmaking
writing
Artist Statement
I spent almost 2 decades of my life with a chronic illness that was presumed to make pregnancy impossible. My work at that time explored the concepts of a body shriveled, of war between thought and failure, and anger at the system I was locked into. When I had children, at first, the art I made were these fleeting seconds of beauty in between the demands of infants. Now that my children are at an age (3 and 5) where they can participate with me on artistic adventures and pursue their own. We do projects together at times, collaborating in art making. I also take their portraits, fascinated at how such young little people can have fully developed personalities of their own. I watch them play and want to capture that magical disposition. My work et al is inherently feminist; addressing my past, and larger considerations of gendered labor, including the caregiving labor expected of women both inside and outside the home.
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Jacqueline Bell Johnson
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Jacqueline Bell Johnson
child wonderment
children portraiture
fertility/infertility
installation
mixed media
mother and child art collaboration
motherhood
photography
printmaking
sculpture
writing
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<a href="http://www.rcoutureart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.rcoutureart.com</a>
Topic
motherhood
postpartum depression
miscarriage
Medium
photography
sculpture
installation
video
Artist Statement
Influenced by the personal and the political, I explore a wide range of themes within my work. I have developed a diverse practice that allows my ideas to dictate media, form, and process. The project SUBROSA (Miscarriage) explores the confusion, sadness, conflicting emotions, and the process of moving forward after miscarriage. Sub rosa is the Latin term for "under the rose," which means "in secret.” For many, miscarriage is a secret and solitary experience. This may seem odd given one in four pregnancies result in miscarriage, approximately 750,000 to 1,000,000 every year in the United States. However, scores of women or families miscarry alone due to the “12-week rule.” Medically, miscarriage is treated as a “routine pregnancy complication.” Your doctor or midwife explain options. You receive a booklet with pictures and explanations designed to inform a woman/couple of the why’s and what-happens-next. People are uncomfortable talking about pregnancy loss, so they don’t. How do you mourn someone who never came into being? There are no rituals for miscarriage, thus no cultural steps or process designed to aid in mourning. You try to imagine a new future, a new what-happens-next. And in time, you do, though it is difficult.
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Renee Couture
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Renee Couture
installation
miscarriage
motherhood
photography
postpartum depression
sculpture
video
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<a href="http://www.christiancruzperformance.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.christiancruzperformance.com</a>
Topic
sex after children
birthing (labor)
breastmilk
postpartum
body positivity
sex after children
Medium
performance art
installation
painting
poetry
sculpture
Artist Statement
My work takes the form of performance, installation, video, and photo. Through the poetic exploration of the mundane, I dignify invisible labor. Invisible Labor includes the emotional, spiritual, and domestic labor that it takes for human reproduction. Invisible labor is undervalued within a capitalist society. I create environments and objects that reexamine what is valuable within our society today, heal the imagination, and ritualize this radical process into a future reality.
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Christian Cruz
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Christian Cruz
birthing (labor)
body positivity
breastfeeding
breastmilk
installation
painting
performance art
poetry
postpartum
sculpture
sex after children
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<a href="https://elisa-ortega-montilla.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://elisa-ortega-montilla.com</a>
Topic
gender
women's rights
sexuality
objectification of the female body
immigration
adoption
Medium
installation
sculpture
Artist Statement
Growing up in the 1980s in Spain, ten years after my country transitioned from dictatorship to democracy, has marked the way I relate to materials in my art practice. I grew up hearing stories from my grandmother about the Spanish Civil War while she mended hand-me-downs for me from my cousins. What was a result of economic austerity from the Franco years later became an ethical choice for me. My work explores three fundamental parts of who I am: my experience of being a woman and my feminist values; my feelings of acculturation from living in the US while maintaining my Spanish identity; and my opposition to consumerism and commitment to environmental sustainability. My practice uses installations, wood sculptures, and reclaimed and overlooked textiles, addressing themes of memory, transformation, adaptation, and identity through materials that have been discarded, deconstructed, and reconstructed. I mix the found and the made, the new and the old; tradition and experimentation, the mass-produced and the handmade; my Spanish values and my American experience, the present and the past. I’m drawn to the expressive and experiential nature of abstraction because it provides me with a universal language that transcends regions, structures, and categories. Non-binary anthropomorphic volumes, bodily suggestions, sensual movements, and feminine shapes are oblique references to the human condition and a soft invocation of the female body.
Location
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Santa Barbara
California
USA
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Elisa Ortega
Title
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Elisa Ortega Montilla
adoption
gender
immigration
installation
objectification of the female body
sculpture
sexuality
women´s rights
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<a href="http://www.anadiaknox.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.anadiaknox.com</a>
Topic
breastfeeding
nurturing
postpartum body
sexuality
motherhood
parenthood
Medium
performance
sculpture
installation
video
photography
Artist Statement
My most recent body of work utilizes themes relating to body, identity and time, from the perspective of a mother, partner and individual. I am interested in the ways that nurturing and caring for a child translates as occupational labor, and how this makes common cause with the working class by exploring the laborious nature of parenthood. I approach these ideas through various methods, including casting, construction and performance. While the different series in this body of work investigate separate ideas relating to roles of the postpartum body, a shared use of material can be seen throughout. Construction materials such as wooden pallets, 2x4s and scaffolding reference blue collar workforce, while breast milk storage bags and nursing pads suggest the time-consuming and repetitive notions associated with motherhood. The series in this body of work evolves as my role as a caretaker evolves, and aims to question how modern society values parenthood.
Location
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Loris
South Carolina
USA
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Alexandra Knox
Title
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Alexandra Knox
breastfeeding
installation
motherhood
nurturing
parenthood
performance
photography
postpartum body
sculpture
sexuality
video
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<a href="http://www.deirdrecolganjones.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.deirdrecolganjones.com</a>
Topic
found snack debris
tentative structures
Medium
sculpture
installation
found and discarded materials
Artist Statement
Neglected Space forms a structure for my work. Part of my practice is collecting ordinarily discarded objects, and their accumulation makes them primary building material. Having trained as an architect and as an artist, my installations and objects are grounded within existing architectural theory and vocabulary, yet seek to challenge the boundaries of formal practice. Most pieces are determined by their site and are supported by traditional architecture and materials. Together they produce a kind of absurd space. Through my work I seek to question the usual order and dominance inherent in our ordinary built environment.
Location
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Chicago
Illinois
USA
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Deirdre Colgan Jones
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Deirdre Colgan Jones
found and discarded materials
found snack debris
installation
sculpture
tentative structures
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4acc87dcfab45810f12915a39cf4b970
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Website
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<a href="http://www.daniellehatch.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.daniellehatch.com</a>
Topic
motherhood
the female body as a source of nourishment
Medium
installation
photography
Artist Statement
Working across disciplines of performance, installation, and sculpture, Danielle Hatch uses the materials of home-making and home-building to explore what lies underneath the surface of domesticity. Her work investigates feminine identity as something we build through narrative. In giving form to intergenerational knowledge, the interior lives of mothers, and intimate friendships between women, she seeks to make visible the underlying structures that have historically kept women from expressing themselves authentically, and turns to the feminine lived experience as a site of potential empowerment.
Location
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Bentonville
Arkansas
USA
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Danielle Hatch
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Danielle Hatch
installation
motherhood
photography
the female body as a source of nourishment
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<a href="http://www.babsiloisch.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.babsiloisch.com</a>
<a href="http://www.instagram.com/babsiactually/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">instagram.com/babsiactually/</a>
Medium
installation
video
photography
performance
public programming
sculpture
textile
drawing
reseach
writing
conceptual art
walking art
curation
Location
The location of the interview
Los Angeles
California
USA
Artist Statement
As an artist, conversationalist, mover, and archivist, I use video, sound as well as<br />unconventional and overlooked materials like words, time, relationships and movement as<br />components to create. My work revolves around acknowledging the body as simultaneous site<br />of production, care and labor.<br /><br /><br />While the body of the mother is still only barely tolerated within the contemporary art world, I<br />want to replace this isolation with the idea of sharing community in times of personal struggle.<br />By using "physicality as production" as a methodological principle my work provides glimpses<br />into the maze of enigmas - time precarity, gender roles within the arts, labor relations and the<br />body as a multifaceted vehicle - that I am trying to find a way through and that allows others to<br />share my questions and ask questions with me.<br /><br />Laying bare my experience in the strange, cozy, blurred zone of not being just one, but also not<br />being two the work aims to mirror and encourage an intimate approach to the interdependence<br />of minds and bodies. Embedded in curiosity, open-endedness and exposedness, I very much<br />believe in vulnerability and in art as a means of assemblage and survival in precarious times.<br />Seeing myself and my work as spinning a subtle thread of positive contamination, I want to think<br />of my practice as fostering a constellation in which art is a direct tribute to the spirit of sharing<br />and connection between communities.
Topic
care
labor
body
work
homework
gender roles
lactation
motherhood
parenthood
community
time
movement
parenting
caretaking
invisibility
production
Exhibitions
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2020 Homework, ArtCenter DTLA, Los Angeles
2020 Suffra-Jetting, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago
2019 CURRENT LA 2019- food, Palms Park, Los Angeles
2019 I’m here, Art in the Park, Los Angeles
2019 Female Gaze, Art Share LA, Los Angeles
2019 shifting staying changing dissolving, The Reef, Los Angeles
2018 Reading catalog launch Rattlesnake Bells in the Desert, LACE, Los Angeles
2018 Mileage Allowance, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena
2018 Mileage Allowance, 48 hours of Socially Engaged Art, RedLine, Denver
2018 Festival Screening MôTif Film Festival, Fairbanks, Alaska
2018 Mileage Allowance, HFA, Woodstock Artist Association & Museum, NY
2018 Rattlesnake Bells in the Desert, The Box, Los Angeles
2018 lactation room, CalArts, Los Angeles (solo)
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Babsi Loisch
body
Care
caretaking
community
conceptual art
curation
drawing
gender roles
homework
installation
invisibility
labor
lactation
motherhood
movement
parenthood
parenting
performance
photography
production
public programming
research
sculpture
textile
time
video
walking art
work
writing
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97b496d16d2014c2835f8689a3700cd8
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Website
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<a href="http://lowresgradstudios.ecuad.ca/hyip/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://lowresgradstudios.ecuad.ca/hyip/</a>
Topic
the impact of technology on human development
my role as a parent /mediator/ moderator of my children's use of screen based technology
parent-child connection
environments where parent and child interact
emotional labor
technology
Medium
video
mixed media
mixed media on paper and other surfaces
assemblage
intallation
Artist Statement
In my practice I am focused on investigating the impact of technology on human development. Specifically, my inquiry occurs within my own home and the context of my children’s ongoing obsession with smartphones and other related media. In the research that fuels my art practice I have launched a vigorous examination of my role as a parent whose responsibility it is to both mediate and moderate my family’s use of screen based technologies. In this relentless pursuit I have made many attempts to set up boundaries for my children’s use of their devices, which has inspired me to explore these concepts through the lens of my performing other motherly tasks such as doing laundry, vacuuming and cooking. It is through the use of some of the machines and objects that I use to perform these tasks that has afforded me the agency to create work in a more enjoyable and perhaps playful manner. My art practice also allows me the chance to be in my studio (an oasis) to escape if only temporarily from the frustration of the constant household and emotional labour that I must perform. It is the irony that as a parent I have introduced my children to technology and its accompanying objects and now because of this I have to restrict my children’s use of it. Because I suffer from guilt associated with this fact I have made it a part of my parental practice (which in turn enters into my art practice) my job to play more with my kids, this includes making blanket forts, playing tag and all kinds of board games to name a few things. It has also inspired me to investigate Nicholson’s theory of loose parts and to make sure my kids’ have more opportunities to play with all kinds of things ‘off-line’. As modalities in my practice I have employed video, installation as well as two dimensional mixed media art making in an attempt to try and understand my kids’ love of technology.
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Heather Yip
Title
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Heather Yip
assemblage
emotional labor
installation
mixed media on paper and other surfaces
video
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https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/ea51dc497ccffe44d515c24a590e46a0.jpeg
8df945f534f7f32abcfb9e5908b88ab6
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Website
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<a href="http://www.cassiearnoldart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.cassiearnoldart.com</a>
Topic
female identity
miscarriage
communication
Medium
fibers
installation
Artist Statement
My current body of work explores the unspoken and taboo topics connected to miscarriage, pregnancy and the transformative female form. By using traditional fiber techniques, stereotypically associated with women, I hope to create more consistent and honest conversations through approachable art.
Location
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Denton
Texas
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/495">Painting at Night, Fort Houston Gallery, Nashville, TN</a>
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Cassie Arnold
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Cassie Arnold
fiber
installation
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997f50f47ef4b8b12446530afdd45116
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Exhibition Archive
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Exhibition Website
<a href="http://www.noeljoyash.com/exhibitions.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.noeljoyash.com/exhibitions.html</a>
Curator
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/443">Noël Ash</a>
Gallery
<a href="http://www.cwd.org/gallery/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Commonwealth Gallery</a>
Curatorial Statement
Why Mom is a local and International Group Show on Mothering, Mothers and Motherhood with 18 local and international artists working across a spectrum of disciplines to talk about this important and often overlooked subject. These artists draw on a wide range of material disciplines, from video installation and felted textile to abstract sculpture. The show’s three curators chose from an international selection of artists to put together a show that will tell a widely ranging story of the subject of mothers, from the experience of being shaped and formed to the act of forming another being. Noël Ash Bridgette Bogle Molly Brennan Crystal Brown Conley Clark Abigail Engstrand Rebecca Kautz Justyna Kosińska Helen Lee Craig Li Victoria Maidhof Kel Mur Fikriye Oz Emily Popp Douglas Rosenberg Bird Ross Kayla Story Tiana Traffas
Location
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100 S Baldwin St, Madison, WI 53703
Artists
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/443">Noël Ash</a>
Bridgette Bogle
Molly Brennan
Crystal Brown
Conley Clark
Abigail Engstrand
Rebecca Kautz
Justyna Kosińska
Helen Lee
Craig Li
Victoria Maidhof
Kel Mur
Fikriye Oz
Emily Popp
Douglas Rosenberg
Bird Ross
Kayla Story
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/427">Tiana Traffas</a>
Duration
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October 1-7, 2019
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WHY MOM
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Tiana Traffas
installation
motherhood
mothering
mothers
textile
video
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Website
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<p><a href="https://monikastocktonmadd.wixsite.com/maddux">https://monikastocktonmadd.wixsite.com/maddux</a></p>
Medium
installation
sculpture
Location
The location of the interview
Wichita
Kansas
USA
Artist Statement
My research is into the multiple aspects of motherhood and I am investigating the obsession that develops in response to the psychological impact of loss, specifically the effects of miscarriage. To that I’ve added a study about the desire to become like my mother and the inability to do the same mother/daughter things I had anticipated. This desire developed into an obsession. I am curious about why I feel I need to produce a female offspring. I have asked myself if it stems from a maternal need that is unfulfilled by my sons, or if it was ingrained in me by my family dynamic, the environment in which I was raised. I was either naturally predisposed to nurture or I was trained, from the beginning, when I received my first doll that cared for, pretended was my own child and named her Hannah. My mother had 3 daughters and she made matching dresses for us and I couldn’t wait until I had a daughter to wear my handmade dresses. I am examining whether it is that I WANT to be like my mother or that I am EXPECTED to be like my mother.
The narratives of MONIKAHOUSE are; motherhood, loss caused by miscarriage, obsession and its manifestations, desperation, dealing with resolution and hard adoptions of reality. All the work stems from this ‘brain’. It represents all my experiences as a mother, a daughter, a sister, a wife. In this space, I can create or recreate any experience I wish. It is an environment akin to a forest. It is often that you are not allowed to remove or even directly interact with the environment, however, you are encouraged to simply observe. An experience that is no less dynamic than if you were allowed to interact. Think Hiking verses Camping.
For the last several years I have been creating rooms in a house, now I am using a house for installations of rooms. My thesis exhibition consists of sixteen rooms in an 1891 Queen Anne home that I have transformed into my life size dollhouse. I have used textiles, ready-made objects from my childhood, furniture and building materials, to create a continuous body of work.
Topic
miscarriage
fertility
infertility
keepsakes
obsession
pregnancy tests
installation art
performance art
dollhouse
life size dollhouse
monikahouse
womanhouse
motherhood
loss
daughter
Exhibitions
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MONIKAHOUSE in Riverside. MFA Thesis Exhibition. Wichita, KS. (2019)
Publications
A catalog or monograph published by the artist
Sometime Babies Die, Children’s Book. March 2019
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Title
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Monika Stockton Maddux
daughter
dollhouse
fertility
infertility
installation
installation art
keepsakes
life size dollhouse
loss
miscarriage
monikahouse
motherhood
obsession
performance art
pregnancy tests
sculpture
womanhouse
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://laurayuile.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://laurayuile.com</a>
Medium
installation
sculpture
video
performance
Location
The location of the interview
London
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<p style="font-weight: 400;">My work is multidisciplinary, installation-based, and performative, exploring notions of the domestic and the urban through the intimate (or public) matters of living together; personal care and household maintenance; wellness and well-being; and the effects of globalization and technological development upon living space. Propelled by narrative, installations probe issues of social discomfort and our cultural obsession with cleanliness; the methods through which society sanitizes women; our desire for quick-fix methods of self-help and self-care; and the increasing invisibility of technological infrastructure in the urban and domestic landscape.<br /><br />I have recently been the societal tendency to position the figure of the Child as representative of “the future” – a reliance on reproductive futurism - and the problems of this representation for those who choose not to reproduce or cannot reproduce. I’m interested in positioning issues of social reproduction alongside those of biological reproduction and exploring the notion of reproductive futurity alongside the neoliberal characteristic of cleanliness as generating a forward-facing pathway. I’m interested in deconstructing notions of “the future” and asking questions about ideas of care in relation to reproductive futurity and the drive for technological “innovation”.</p>
Topic
reproduction
reproductive futurity
family
care
feminism
queer
non-binary
the body
domesticity
labor
home
future
technology
childfree
childlessness by choice
childlessness by chance
Exhibitions
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nGbK (Berlin); Galerie Kunstbuero (Vienna); Apexart (New York); The Blackwood Gallery (Toronto); Recent Activity (Birmingham); Tate Britain (London); Mauve (Vienna); t-space (Milan) and Collective (Edinburgh).
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Laura Yuile
Care
domesticity
family
feminism
home
installation
labour
non-binary
performance.
queer
reproduction
reproductive futurity
sculpture
technology
the body
the future
video
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Website
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<a href="https://www.metrasaberova.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://www.metrasaberova.com/</span></a>
Medium
video art
animation
performance
painting
installation
Location
The location of the interview
London
United Kingdom
Riga
Latvia
Artist Statement
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Taking the bodily, medical and performative contents that make up my artistic practice, I use my own orchestrated experiences of medical tourism procedures as a public platform to encourage discussion about the cultural, political and social meanings assigned to the female body and its capabilities. The bodily interventions include tubal ligation in Thailand, hymenoplasty in Poland, IVF consultations in Bulgaria and full breast tattoos in Latvia. I believe that upholding the high status of motherhood and treating childfree people as deviations from the standard of motherhood is clearly limiting to childfree women in terms of their acceptance as valuable contributors to the society and as people free of biological determinism. The aim of my artistic research is to contribute to the growing field of investigation in the childfree lifestyle and to question the standard of the normativity of motherhood for women in the Western society and to link the social </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">stigmatization of childfree people with investigations in sociology, performativity, bioethics, body art, feminism and queer theory</span><b>.</b></p>
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Topic
childfree
motherhood
pregnancy
IVF
sterilization
gender
queer
body
feminism
bioethics
performance
Exhibitions
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<p><a href="http://kunstimaja.ee/2017/11/metra-saberova-pimpin-yo-mama-crib-avamine-17-11-kl-18-00"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Solo show Pimpin' Yo Mama Crib, curator Šelda Puķīte, Tartu Kunstimaja, Tartu, Estonia</span></a></p>
<a href="https://www.biennalejce.com/en/home/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jeune Creation Europeenne touring group exhibition in France, Italy, Denmark, Romania, Spain, Portugal and Latvia in 2018/2019</span></a>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Next Thing, Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre, Moving Image Gallery, Bury, UK</span></p>
MOTHER, CINEMQ, Elevator, Shanghai, China
Queer Art(ists) Now, And What? Queer Arts Festival, The Mill Co. Project, London, UK
International Videoart Week of Lanzarote, CIC El Almacen, Lanzarote, Canary island
Hiding in plain sight, The Flying Dutchman, London, UK
is this (not) a woman, tAD gallery, Texas, USA
Visions, Nunnery gallery, Bow arts, London, UK
RETHink Art Digital Festival, Crete, Greece
Amy Johnson Festival, The 75 Seconds Film Challenge, Hull, UK
Big Screen, Latitude festival, UK
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Mētra Saberova
animation
bioethics
body
childfree
feminism
gender
installation
IVF
Latvia
London
motherhood
painting
performance
pregnancy
queer
Riga
sterilization
United Kingdom
video art
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Echoes of Silence
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film still
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.sarabrighty.co.uk">www.sarabrighty.co.uk</a>
Topic
pregnancy
birth
miscarriage
loss
Medium
mixed media
installation
photography
drawing
scuplture
Artist Statement
<p style="font-weight: 400;">My ongoing practise researches and investigates parenthood, including; pregnancy, child birth, the relationships we have with our children, and considers that parenthood may not always be that of gaining a child but may be about losing them too.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">I create installations as a visual interpretation of sensitive and personal experiences. I work across a variety mediums and disciplines using photography and film, painting, drawing and sculpture and the components can also be viewed as individual pieces.</p>
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Sara Brighty
Title
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Sara Brighty
birth
drawing
installation
installation art
loss
miscarriage
photography
pregnancy
sculpture
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Title
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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.nannalysholt.dk">www.nannalysholt.dk</a>
<a href="http://www.nannalysholthansen.com">www.nannalysholthansen.com</a>
Topic
pregnancy
motherhood
motherartist
mothervoice
technolgy
cyborg
feminism
language
posthumanism
meditation
memory
theory
intergenerational
Medium
live performance
video
installation
sculpture
photography
poetry
sound
Artist Statement
MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Art. BFA Faculty of Art, Design & Music, Kingston University London. In her artistic practice Nanna Lysholt Hansen is investigating relationships between the body, language, voice, gender and technology. By using her own personal experiences of the female body, sexuality, pregnancy, birth and motherhood she draws attention to the body as a technological and biological intergenerational mediator of knowledge, voice and memory.
Location
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Copenhagen
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Nanna Lysholt Hansen
Title
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Nanna Lysholt Hansen
biology
copenhagen
cyborg
feminism
installation
intergenerational
language
live performance
mediation
memory
motherartist
motherhood
mothervoice
photography
poetry
posthumanism
pregnancy
sculpture
sound
sound art
technology
theory
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.sherfickart.me">www.sherfickart.me</a>
Topic
motherhood
medication
post-partum depression
anti-depressants
family
family history
medical care
medicine
Medium
mixed media installation
textile mixed media
textile
Artist Statement
<br /><span>As an artist, I never identified myself with my family. My having a family was just a part of my biology, driving relations and the cause of both joy and sorrow. All of these identifiers caused ambiguity within me. Constriction, restraint, joy with sorrow, and invisibility were the products of my familial experiences. Unfortunately, this separatist attitude developed into a denial of my complete person. I AM a woman, a daughter, a granddaughter, an aunt, a sister, a wife, and a mother. I carry the practices of many generations- messages of motherhood and womanhood in my very veins and soul. As I began an archeological dig into my familial ties, I re- discovered and acknowledged - for the first time - my family history and existence. My works now include the very ambiguity I feel over this issue. The use of domestic and childhood materials and constructions of fabric and vintage apparel reveal the paradox of family history – myths, storytelling, truth, lies, misunderstandings, and, above all, the difficulty of unconditionally loving one another. By questioning what family ties mean to me, I offer a record of one artist’s journey into acceptance and the embrace of the familial spirit I have denied for years. My work now reflects the depolarization of my familial/individual self.<br /><br /></span>My art intends to question the roles of women and women artists. My use of domestic and childhood materials and constructions of fabric and prescription bottles reveal the paradox of the life of this woman artist. I have embraced my love of the color pink and the vintage teal that stands for home and comfort and I celebrate the drugs which allow me to create and thrive. By questioning what femininity and pharmaceuticals means to me, I hope to offer a record of one-woman artist’s journey into acceptance and the embrace of the feminine spirit I have denied for years. Recent works visualize the depolarization of my artist/feminine self. <br /><br />In <a href="https://www.sherfickart.me/#/artgallery/a-paxil-a-day/"><strong>A PAXIL A DAY</strong></a>, I chose to display the medications themselves in clear, pharmacy style mylar bags. Hung plainly on the wall in a grid pattern, I make my medical and emotional history transparent to the viewer. I am not ashamed of needing the prescriptions, I am proud of myself for seeking and developing a regime for well-being. A PAXIL A DAY serves as an announcement and/or ‘bulletin’ board of my status. By celebrating the pharmaceuticals which help me to live and thrive, by being unashamed to live authentically – I hope to alleviate the social prejudice that exists against mothers on medication.<br /><br />In <a href="https://www.sherfickart.me/#/artgallery/coping-skills/"><strong>COPING SKILLS,</strong></a> I have confronted and embraced my history of medical issues and my use of anti-anxiety and anti-depression prescriptions. After a practice of collecting all the prescriptions and their bottles since 1997, I chose to crazy quilt them with vintage fabrics utilizing tatting thread in rough, utilitarian stitches. By displaying these bottles (45 which equal one year of medications) on a plain wooden altar with a plexi-mirrored shelf, I celebrate the life I have been able to live due to their remedies. As a result of pharmaceutical intervention, I maintain a well-being of physical and emotional health which allows me to be the best wife, mother, artist, and human I can be.
Location
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Spring Hill
Tennessee
USA
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Sher Fick
Title
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Sher Fick
anti-depressants
family
family ties
installation
medication
mixed media
motherhood
postpartum
postpartum depression
textile
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://carolinekelley.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://carolinekelley.com</a>
Topic
Artist Residency in Motherhood
autobiography
motherhood
home
building
making
nature
language
Medium
conceptual art
photography
drawing
installation
video
book art
research
writing
Artist Statement
Working across disciplines, I conduct research-based projects that take assorted forms, including installations, drawings, writing- and photography-based series. My academic work has been concerned with women's life-writing, literary theory and postcolonial literature. Since 2009, I've focused on projects that investigate the nature-culture dichotomy as well as stories of tourism, travel and exploration. I started an Artist Residency in Motherhood (ARiM) in October 2016, to document my experience of motherhood and explore the research process in this new (for me) context.
Location
The location of the interview
Paris
France
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Caroline Kelley
Title
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Caroline Kelley
artist residency in motherhood
autobiography
book art
building
conceptual art
drawing
France
home
installation
language
making
motherhood
nature
Paris
photography
research
video
writing
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Medium
film
sculpture
textile
photography
installation
Location
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Ascot
Berkshire
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521640730501_24734"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521640730501_25484" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;">My work comes from a position of ambivalence – more specifically through ambivalent motherhood. My father died when I was a child and my mother before I had my own children. The chain from parent to child to becoming a parent oneself was broken. My work is around the space between these broken links.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521640730501_24734"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521640730501_24734"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521640730501_25185"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521640730501_25485" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;">In psychoanalysis the container/contained notion, as introduced by Wilfred Bion, holds a neutral position, without judgement, that can be used as an approach to thinking about motherhood. It provides numerous ways of probing the question: 'who is the container and who is the contained?'. How does the relationship between mother and child stand at any one moment? How does one see oneself - as a mother or as a child? What is the basis of the container at that moment? What is the emotion of the contained? The container can be actual, practical, or explicit. It can be metaphoric, emotional or implicit. Container/contained is a recurring theme in my work as I explore the fluctuating emotions of ambivalence.</span></span></div>
Topic
maternal ambivalence
maternal relationships
container / contained
depression
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/299">Left Overs</a>
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Jane Glennie
depression
film
installation
maternal ambivalence
photography
sculpture
textile
United Kingdom
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.luisacallegari.com">www.luisacallegari.com</a>
Topic
girls
raising girls
sexism
baby
fetus
dolls
pink
clichés
beauty
grotesque
gender
sexuality
contradictions
dollhouse
Medium
painting
video
collage
installation
mixed media
objects
photography
Artist Statement
I am a South American women artist and mother. I believe that one of the most important art roles is to make people think and reflect about unpleasant subjects and situations that would otherwise be forgotten or passed by. In my artwork I attempt to address those delicate subjects bringing up themes such as clichés and motherhood, contradictions of the feminine universe, constructions of gender and sexuality. I make my artwork with a variety of media that goes all the way from traditional painting and photography to perishable elements and installations. Currently I am privileging the use of pink as the beginning and end of my creative process, subverting the notions of beauty and grotesque.
Location
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Sao Paulo
Brazil
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Luisa Callegari
Title
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Luisa Callegari
baby
beauty
Brazil
collage
contradictions
dollhouse
dolls
fetus
grotesque
installation
mixed media
objects
painting
photography
Sao Paulo
sexuality
video
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The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.robynleroyevans.com" target="_blank">www.robynleroyevans.com</a>
Topic
mother-artist
body
motherhood
pregnancy
childbirth
ambivalence
Medium
photography
video
installation
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Robyn LeRoy-Evans
Title
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Robyn LeRoy-Evans
ambivalence
body
childbirth
installation
mother as artist
motherhood
photography
pregnancy
video
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Website
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<a href="http://www.miriamschaer.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.miriamschaer.com/</a>
Medium
books
sculpture
installation
photography
Location
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Brooklyn
New York
USA
Artist Statement
My work is an exploration of questions for which I find no easy answers. Usually, I use a variety of materials and media to build narratives or depict the complexity of situations not easily resolved. Recently, my work has focused on the relationship of motherhood, and the absence of motherhood, especially how women without children fare in a world that values women largely for their fertility. I became sensitized to the relationships between these conditions as my own mother began to exhibit signs of dementia. As we age, how do we negotiate the role reversals inherent in coping with parents who live beyond the point at which they can care for themselves, as they become, like small children, individuals cared for by their own children, now adults? Finding no simple answers, I hope my work stimulates a dialogue about these difficult issues.
Topic
mother
child
fertility
absence of motherhood
childlessness by choice
childlessness by chance
Publications
A catalog or monograph published by the artist
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/463">The Maternal in Creative Work Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art, Contributor</a>
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Miriam Schaer
book
installation
photography
sculpture
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://carriescanga.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://carriescanga.com/</a>
Topic
postpartum maternal subjectivity
embodied parenting
attachment
sleep
love
caregiving
postpartum
Medium
installation
printmaking
Artist Statement
Carrie Scanga is a multi-disciplinary artist whose installations and works on paper reflect on personal mythologies, examine nostalgias for place and identity, and engage theories from ecology, architecture and design. Scanga attended Bryn Mawr College as an undergraduate and earned an MFA in Printmaking from University of Washington. She has held solo exhibitions in Berlin, Kansas City, Houston, St. Louis, and Philadelphia among other locales. Her work has been included in group exhibitions in commercial galleries, artist-run spaces, and museums, including the Portland Museum of Art, the Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, PLUG Projects, Islip Art Museum, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid. Fellowship awards from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The MacDowell Colony, Sculpture Space, Blue Mountain Center, and Fundación Valparaíso have supported the development of her work. Currently based in Maine, she is an Associate Professor at Bowdoin College where she also directs the Marvin Bileck Printmaking Project visiting artist program.
Location
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Portland
Maine
USA
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Carrie Scanga
Title
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Carrie Scanga
attachment
care taking
caregivers
caregiving
installation
installation art
love
Maine
Portland
postpartum maternal subjectivity
sleep
USA
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.myrelchernick.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.myrelchernick.com/</a>
Medium
projections and multimedia installation
single channel video
photography
Location
The location of the interview
New York, NY
USA
Artist Statement
<p>Myrel Chernick grew up in Metuchen, New Jersey, traveling to Paris for a year with her family at age nine. There she discovered culture, history, literature, art, food, beauty. This formative experience fueled her determination to leave the suburbs and live a different life.</p>
<p>Chernick’s fascination with language began with her experience of learning French with the facility of childhood, understanding that it was very different from the language she knew, and that language was connected to culture. She studied art, receiving her <span class="caps">MFA</span> from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago after having moved to New York to participate in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Influenced by the conceptual art she saw around her, she sought to combine her love of literature and writing with light-filled installations. She began adding short phrases to her installations in 1977, influenced by Marguerite Duras, her austere but sensuous language, and her focus on the spaces between the words.</p>
<p>Living in New York, Chernick has continued to work with projections and multimedia installations, single channel video and photography, while taking a detour to raise twins, curate two exhibitions on motherhood, edit <span>The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art</span>, and to expand her writing to include longer text/image works. She spends as much time in Paris as she possibly can, and is currently writing and illustrating a hybrid novel that takes place in her favorite city.</p>
Publications
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/463">The Maternal in Creative Work Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art, Contributor</a>
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Myrel Chernick
installation
New York
projections
single channel video
USA
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7dcc0c66220d42f21756c6dc7bf14814
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://www.verastankovic.com" target="_blank">https://www.verastankovic.com/</a>
Medium
sculpture
installation
photography
collage
urban intervention
performance art
object
sculpture
photography
writing
interdisciplinary
Location
The location of the interview
Ljubljana
Slovenia
Europe
Artist Statement
<p class="p1">I am fascinated by transformation processes.</p>
<p class="p1">I observe transforming spaces, economy, environment, cities, work, cells, bodies, knowledge, history, countries, roles, education, technology, relationships, selves, languages.</p>
<p class="p1">Becoming and being a mother is for me all about transformation. My first solo exhibition in the Zepter Gallery in Belgrade, Serbia was called Metamorphosis<span class="s1"> . </span>The objects I made used banal everyday objects (plastic bags) and transformed them into an immense vagina or into umbilical cords falling from the ceiling. This story from 1999 was a intimate story of separating oneself from the primary family and a story about the everyday and the environment.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="p1">From 2006 to 2012 my partner and I went through a series of unsuccessful IVFs and several miscarriages. I did several sculptural works that documented this part of our lives - like the Womb exhibited in 2010 in Museum de Ceramica de l’Alcora, Spain. It was just about the pain, I guess.</p>
<p class="p1">In 2012, I was invited to make an urban intervention inside the Vesel Garden in Ljubljana, Slovenia. I was three months pregnant with my son and did not know what to expect about the occurring pregnancy. So I did an urban intervention with a participative performance and called this work Embryo garden. It was all about the thin line between life and death of the child to be, but also of the artistic child within myself.</p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s2">My experience as a parent has been both challenging and inspiring for me as an artist. I explored the relationship between the roles of artist and parent in my 2016 exhibition in the Glass Atrium of the City Hall of Ljubljana, called A Thank You Note To the Cleaning Lady. The work that lent its name to the exhibition questions the relation between reproductive, maintenance work and having greater purpose in life. As a whole, </span>the exhibition was born as a product of broken antagonism between being a parent and an artist and of cooperation between the two roles. The installation To Include Everything, Everything, Everything, Absolutely, Absolutely, Everything especially focused on that. And the work The Map is about the child experiencing and learning by himself, and the artist-mother just observing and taking notes. In this process, I sometimes feel as if steeling from him.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
Topic
play
daily life
work/life balance
parenting
domestic
artist/mother
fertility
infertility
vagina
parent/child collaboration
World War II
exploring
anger
cleaning
maintenence
everyday
powerlessness
ritual
grandmother's motherhood
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Vera Stankovic
anger
archive
artist/mother
calendar
cleaning
collage
daily life
domestic
everyday
fertility
grandmother
infertility
installation
maintenance
Maps
motherhood
parent/child collaboration
parenting
plastic
play
Poljanska
powerlessness
Pozega-Slavonia
pregnancy
readymade
ritual
sculpture
Serbia
Slovenia
toys
vagina
womb
work/life balance
World War II
writing
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Location
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.laurenmclaughlin.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.laurenmclaughlin.co.uk/</a>
<a href="http://www.laurenmclaughlin.co.uk/artist-residency-in-motherhood/" target="_blank">http://www.laurenmclaughlin.co.uk/artist-residency-in-motherhood/</a>
Medium
collage
installation
photography
text installation
Artist Statement
My work explores the ever changing roles and identities we take on as artist-mothers and how these multi faceted identities can be both connected and conflicted. Motherhood; a concept both revered and ignored, informs the works I produce through a mixed media approach; collage, photography, text installation and sculpture all come together and allow me to investigate my own multi faceted identity through a process of visual experimentation and written investigations.
Topic
Artists Residency in Motherhood
identity
artist mother
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Lauren McLaughlin
artist residency in motherhood
collage
Edinburg
identity
installation
photography
Scotland
sculpture
text installation
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.pillarsofhome.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.pillarsofhome.com</a>
Medium
photography
installation
Artist Statement
‘Pillars of home’ are 30 minutes long, balancing sculptures by Csilla Klenyánszki The floor-to-ceiling constructions relay on their own inner stability while being framed only by the floor and the ceiling. The in situ installations are being made during my son’s naps, when our home becomes a studio for no more than a half an hour. The colorful hand-built pillars vary in size and complexity, depending on their territory. As the objects are being piled up, they become a coherent entity, but their delicate arrangement and balancing structure makes them vulnerable as they can be destroyed at any moment. Not only the existence of the images is in danger if the installation collapses, but the noise of the fallen objects might awaken the sleeping baby, which ends the studio session.
Topic
artist residency in motherhood
naptime
infants and sleep
motherhood
Publications
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/357">Pillars of Home</a>
Location
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Amsterdam
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Csilla Klenyanszki
artist residence in motherhood
infants and sleep
installation
motherhood
naptime
photography
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<a href="http://www.farheenhaq.com/#/drinking-from-my-mothers-saucer" target="_blank"><span>http://www.farheenhaq.com/#/drinking-from-my-mothers-saucer</span></a>
<a href="http://www.farheenhaq.com/#/new-gallery-38/" target="_blank"><span>http://www.farheenhaq.com/#/new-gallery-38/</span></a>
Medium
video
installation
fabric
textile
Location
The location of the interview
Victoria
British Columbia
Canada
Artist Statement
<p>My media based art practice explores the realm of the moving image as a place of re-examination and possibility. It is a way for me to pull apart and reconstruct the threads of my life. Working in video, installation, performance and photography, I investigate my body and my South Asian Muslim Canadian female identity as a social construction.</p>
<p>The impetus for my art-making has always been curiosity, questioning and investigating. I want to uncover the place of agency within the structures that are imposed upon me. Fabric is a recurring metaphor to represent the many layers of codes wrapped around women’s bodies. It is a structure for me to hang meaning on – fabric can flow, constrain, codify and signify. It represents culture.</p>
<p>Through observing the formal and aesthetic properties of cultural gestures such as prayer, wearing a hijab, dressing/undressing, I deconstruct and reimagine how social codes and rituals can occupy the body. I experiment by pushing gestures beyond where they normally rest.</p>
<p>My works begin from the personal place of my Islamic South Asian Canadian heritage and end as images that can be read by a wider audience. The 6 meter long sari is abstracted into a long swath of red silk. A hooded sweatshirt stands in for a hijab. I deliberately use the conventions of mass media such as cinematic projections and seductive imagery to invite viewers to enter my work and settle in. I slow down and repeat images to facilitate reflection and reconsideration. I magnify texture and body parts so as to connect the viewer to a physical sensation.</p>
<p>In the process of image-making I see myself and unveil meaning in my life. I invite viewers to inhabit this imaginative space and reconsider their own experience.</p>
Topic
mothers of color
South Asian
Muslim
gesture
motherhood
maternal care
domesticity
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Farheen Haq
British Columbia
Canada
fabric/textile
gesture
installation
maternal care
motherhood
mothers of color
mothers of colour
muslim
South Asian
Victoria
video
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7402760a904187d3d3929a47bede05e6
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Website
The Artist's website
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=people_details&id=309" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=people_details&id=309</a></span>
Medium
performance art
installation
Location
The location of the interview
Santiago
Chile
Artist Statement
<span>Alejandra Herrera is a visual artist and performer from Santiago (Chile), currently living in Los Angeles. She has been an active organizer, artist and teacher in the field of performance art for more than a decade and has exhibited her work extensively, both in her native Chile and internationally. She has produced and organized visual arts shows, such as the Annual Showcase of Students of the Arts Faculty of the University of Chile, exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Santiago, "Av-ant Perfo", the first international performance art show in Valparaíso, and "Perfo Puerto", the First Latin American festival of performance art in Chile. Her recent performances question bodily sensuality and materiality, with particular emphasis on gendered power relations. She is mother to three daughters, four-year old twins Evelyn and Trinidad, and two-year old Diamanda.</span>
Topic
sensuality
materiality
gendered power relations
motherhood
maternity
domestic life
body exploration
Exhibitions
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New Maternalisms
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Alejandra Herrera Silva
body exploration
Chile
domestic life
installation
materiality
maternity
motherhood
Santiago
sensuality
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596b0391ab442d4df7afcf07d37fdf6d
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://selinatrepp.info/section/384377-nap-animation.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://selinatrepp.info/section/384377-nap-animation.html</a>
Medium
mixed media
animation
installation
performance
Location
The location of the interview
Chicago
Illinois
Artist Statement
<span>Rather than documenting or representing the real world, I reflect on it by moving sideways from it, constructing a parallel reality, a reality that mixes the familiar with the uncanny, real and unreal at once. The making of my work is based on experimental situations. My process is chance based. I write instructions, which lead to scenarios, open-ended structures, for performances that result in artworks. While past works have featured others performing for me, my new work puts me into the frame. Pointing the lens on myself is decidedly uncomfortable for me; I feel safer behind the camera. The decision to cast myself both as subject and object comes out of the realization that I need to work with the discomfort and tension that this action creates in me. If I am embarrassed by my work, then it is worth pursuing.</span>
Topic
napping
motherhood
infants and sleep
sleep
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/452">http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/452</a>Extended Self: Transformations and Connections
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Selina Trepp
animation
Chicago
conceptual art
Illinois
infants and sleep
installation
mixed media
motherhood
napping
performance
sleep
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.zackbent.com" target="_blank">www.zackbent.com</a>
Topic
domestic life
fatherhood
rituals
family history
wilderness
Medium
photograpy
video
installation
Artist Statement
As an artist, I am drawn to incidences where the domestication and wilderness overlap and interact. The work I create takes various forms from sculptural installation, video and sound works as well as photographic studies and series. My current work draws from my experience visiting and photographing a parcel of forest fire land in Washington USA over the past year. The photographs include geometric sculptures and mythic performative acts by my sons that respond to the desolation of the forest while acknowledging the impending growth just beneath the surface of the land. The work is a study in the silence and death encapsulated in forest fires as an inside-out look at traditional views on the sublime and beauty in the wilderness.
Location
The location of the interview
Seattle
Washington
USA
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Zack Bent
Title
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Zack Bent
domestic life
fatherhood
installation
photography
rituals
Seattle
video
Washington
wilderness
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68fe5e13859aaf4727d9453d015fce40
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<a href="http://www.leslirobertson.com" target="_blank">http://www.leslirobertson.com</a>
<a href="http://www.leslirobertson.com/the-mother-load/" target="_blank">http://www.leslirobertson.com/the-mother-load/</a>
Medium
mixed media
textiles
installation
Location
The location of the interview
Denton
Texas
Artist Statement
<p>In my artwork and creative projects, I use textile based media as a tool for communication; to record and speak about the individual, society, and the hand of the maker. I work with concepts of time, labor, and cloth as a tool for personal expression. My current body of work explores the value of cloth on both a personal and societal level.</p>
<p>I create visual recordings through the use of detritus from my life and studio. These elements and works from the past are employed into new forms that serve to document and comment on the material objects that tangibly define the work of my hands. These are woven pieces, broken forms, and cut offs of previous works. They track time and place, creating a sequence of objects that allude to written text and recording through the use of fiber, concrete, and metal. Through community based interactive weavings, I am able to create works in collaboration with diverse individuals, providing each person a platform to express their ideas. I value textile objects and processes and by bringing them out of my studio, and recreating the way they are being perceived, I work to give the viewer a new perspective on their value.</p>
Topic
individual
society
time
labor
cloth
The Motherload Project
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Lesli Robertson
cloth
Denton
individual
installation
labor
mixed media
motherload
society
Texas
textiles
time
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<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://natalie.macellaio.net/" target="_blank">http://natalie.macellaio.net/</a></span>
Medium
metal
Location
The location of the interview
Dallas
Texas
Artist Statement
<p class="dark">My work marries a functional, aesthetic, and conceptual approach to metal. She works with concepts of adornment to create works that use the body to engage in conversations that draw directly from her personal life.</p>
<p>“I was trained as a jeweler years ago, which brought me to understand the intricacies of creating work that is personal to each person wearing it and expresses parts of their life. The choice to work with precious metals has been because of their inherent strengths and weaknesses. I value silver, both for its culturally relevant quality and for its beauty. I employ copper for its strength and abundance. I am, after all, interested in creating something beautiful and desirable. As I continue to explore these personal narratives through these metals, themes that relate to my life as a mother begin to come through. My initial interest in small, intimate works, is finding a new source of expression that allows me to create intimate pieces that explore the relationships I have to my children.”</p>
Topic
parent/child relationship
motherhood
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Natalie Marcellaio
aesthetic
clay
Dallas
installation
jewelry
metal
mixed media
motherhood
parent/child relationship
parenthood
silver
Texas
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1ab8a940b8c125447c65c554523654a3
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The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.axisweb.org/p/alisononeill/#artwork" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.axisweb.org/p/alisononeill/#artwork</a>
Medium
drawing
film & video
installation
research
Location
The location of the interview
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<p>My practice based research uses autoethnographic and feminist methodologies to examine maternal subjectivities with a particular focus on the mother as a classed and gendered subject.</p>
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<p>I am also interested in the performativity of motherhood and in examining narratives of the good and bad mother and how these narratives are perpetuated in everyday encounters and experiences.</p>
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Topic
motherhood
feminist theory
the maternal
autoethnography
subjectivity
memory
remembering
performativity
class
Publications
A catalog or monograph published by the artist
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/463">The Maternal in Creative Work Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art, Contributor</a>
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Alison O’Neill
autoethnography
Cambridge
class
drawing
feminist theory
film
installation
memory
motherhood
performativity
remembering
subjectivity
the maternal
United Kingdom
video
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<a href="http://implausibot.com/" target="_blank">http://implausibot.com/</a>
Artist Statement
<span>Dillon de Give is an artist and educator acting in a spirit of humane experimentalism. He stages subtle alterations to everyday performances that aim to distribute art in public experience. He is a co-founder of the </span><a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwalkexchange.org&t=ZWY1MzU2ZTUwYjMzM2UwNTBhYzAxMGEzZTgyMDhlYzNjMzY4ZjE4NCxUbU4zdWpESg%3D%3D" target="_blank">Walk Exchange</a><span>, a cooperative walking group. He organizes the annual </span><a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fcoyotewalks.wordpress.com&t=ZTJmN2MzY2RhMjA3MjFiODliNGQzZDk5ZmMwNjA5YjljYjA3Nzk5ZCxUbU4zdWpESg%3D%3D" target="_blank">Coyote Itinerancy</a><span>, a retreat that traces a footpath between New York City and the wild. He holds a BS in Radio/Television/Film from Northwestern University and an MFA in Art and Social Practice from Portland State University. He lives, works and helps to raise a child in Brooklyn NY. For more information you can see a </span><a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fdl.dropboxusercontent.com%2Fu%2F19628738%2FdeGive_cv.pdf&t=NjE2YTE4NTRkYTI2MTA2ODU4ZTg2ZDEwMTg1NjkzNWM3YzliOGRhZixUbU4zdWpESg%3D%3D">CV here</a><span>, write an email to implausibot (at) yahoo (dot) com or call the project phone at (917)-300-9521.</span>
Medium
installation
performance
Location
The location of the interview
Brooklyn
New York
Topic
parenthood
adulthood
father/son relationship
bedtime routine
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<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/3" target="_blank">The Letdown Reflex</a>
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Dillon de Give
adulthood
bedtime routine
father/son relationship
installation
parenthood
performance
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<a href="http://elizabethclaffey.com/" target="_blank">http://elizabethclaffey.com/</a>
Medium
photography
installation
Location
The location of the interview
Bloomington
Indiana
Artist Statement
<span>Elizabeth M. Claffey is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Indiana University in Bloomington. She is an honors graduate of Earlham College and has an MFA in photography from Texas Woman's University, where she also earned a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies. She received a 2012-13 William J. Fulbright Fellowship, which she used to support her documentary and creative research in Eastern Europe. Elizabeth's work focuses on the way personal and familial narratives are shaped by interactions with both domestic and institutional structures and spaces. Her work has been recognized by PDN Magazine, Project Basho Gallery, Abecedarian Gallery, The Eddie Adams Workshop, and various other galleries and publications including The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Dallas Morning News, and The Kinsey Institute.</span>
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Topic
personal
familial narratives
domesticity
maternity
isolation
aging
illness
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Elizabeth Claffey
aging
Bloomington
domestic
familial narratives
illness
Indiana
installation
isolation
maternity
personal
photography
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<a href="http://www.helenknowles.com/index.php" target="_blank">http://www.helenknowles.com/index.php</a>
Medium
installation
mixed media
screen print
Location
The location of the interview
Manchester
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<span>HELEN KNOWLES (b.1975) is an artist and curator of Birth Rites Collection. She studied at Glasgow School of Art and Goldsmiths University on the MFA and lives and works in Manchester and London. Recent exhibitions include; Goldsmiths University Interim show, (2015), COLLABORATE! Oriel Sycarth Galley Wrexham, (2015), The Withdrawing Room, Folkstone, (2014), Mokuhanga, Tokyo (2014), ‘Private View : Public Birth’, GV Art London (2013), Women’s Art Library, Kingsway Corridor Programme, Goldsmiths University, London (2013); Life is Beautiful’, Galerie Deadfly, Berlin (2012); Digital Romantics, Dean Clough Gallery (2012) and Walls are Talking, Whitworth Art Gallery (2010). She recently carried out a residency in Moscow/Vishny Volochok with the Moscow Institute of Contemporary Art. Knowles has carried out other residencies at Santa Fe Arts Institute (2013), Gatley Primary (2010), UCLAN (2002) and Jodrell Bank Science Centre and Arboretum (1999-2001). A recipient of awards from Arts Council England, The Amateurs Trust and winner of The Great Art Prize, Neo Art Prize (2012). Her work is held in public and private collections including, The Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection, Winchester Special Collections, The National Art Library, RCA and GSA Special Collections, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Tate Library and Archive, Museum of Motherhood, New York and Birth Rites Collection.</span>
Topic
birth
homebirth
childbirth
pregnancy
women
motherhood
social media
censorship
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Helen Knowles
birth
censorship
childbirth
homebirth
installation
Manchester
mixed media
motherhood
pregnancy
screen print
social media
United Kingdom
women
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<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://jessicapaigegreig.blogspot.com/p/contact.html" target="_blank">http://jessicapaigegreig.blogspot.com/</a></span>
Medium
mixed media
sculpture
video art
installation
photography
collage
Location
The location of the interview
Nottingham
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<p>I am a mixed media artist, exploring themes of the Maternal, Relationships, Sexual Politics and the Cycle of Life.</p>
<p>I am particularly attracted to Flora's life cycle; I link these to human experience using Anthropomorphism and Pareidolia, these are documented via Photographs & Sculptures, where inspiration from the natural world has become fundamental to my practice.</p>
<p>My sculptures are made from non-traditional materials, based on seeds, their shape & form are often reminiscent of human body parts</p>
<p>Currently my work focuses on pregnancy, motherhood and in particular the dynamics of Mother-Daughter Relationships, Since becoming a Mother myself, I have become obsessed with trying to document 'Moments' & 'Memories', and the 'Essence of my mother', in an attempt to understand the complex relationship that I have with my own mother.</p>
Topic
maternal relationships
sexual politics
life cycle
human body
motherhood
mother/daughter relationship
pregnancy
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Jessica Greig
collage
human body
installation
life cycle
maternal relationships
mixed media
mother/daughter relationship
motherhood
Nottingham
photography
pregnancy
relationships
sculpture
sexual politics
United Kingdom
video art
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<a href="http://www.jacklynbrickman.com" target="_blank">http://www.jacklynbrickman.com</a>
Medium
photography
installation
sculpture
drawing
video
Artist Statement
<p class="font_7"><span><strong>Domestic Landscapes</strong> are oneiric installations made with light, kitchen utensils and shadows.</span></p>
<p class="font_8"><br /><span>The complexities of how we inhabit and engage with our surroundings and the entities we share them with are at the core of my work. Informed by the photographic process, larger works and installations tend to incorporate light and projection as well as sound or video while smaller scale works often consist of everyday objects and multiples. Simulating nature with man-made items and transforming life’s daily chaos into delicacy, my work edges between childlike playfulness and a longing for the seemingly out of reach. Grounded in the home and activated by life with young children, necessary and repetitive daily tasks are absorbed into my work and reappear to expose beauty through reflections on domestic life.<br /><br /></span></p>
<p class="font_7"><strong>Homage to Heqet </strong></p>
<p class="font_7"><span>2012</span></p>
<p class="font_7"><span>Mott Community College Art Gallery, Flint, MI</span></p>
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<p class="font_7"><span>The complexities of how we inhabit and engage with the earth and the entities we share it with are at the core of my work – systems within systems.</span></p>
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<p class="font_7"><span>Over the past two years, frogs and toads have been a vessel for my perpetual interest in the simulation of nature. This exploration has manifested through drawing, installation, video and sound. My materials and habits tend toward everyday objects, multiples, and layers. Homage to Heqet is an extension of this work; An offering to frog-headed Heqet: Goddess of fertility, midwives, and newborns.</span></p>
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<p class="font_7"><span>In the spring, amidst frog calls and blooming earth and henna on my belly.13 days later, a daughter was born into water, a force of nature.</span></p>
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<p class="font_7"><span>Ritual is intention & process. I’m focused on honoring repetitive, menial daily tasks in mothering an infant, while embedding and reflecting on elements of our wetland counterparts.</span></p>
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Topic
nature
cultural ecosystems
interrelationship
domestic life
repetitive tasks
daily tasks
living with children
Location
The location of the interview
Pleasant Ridge
Michigan
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Title
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Jacklyn Brickman
cultural ecosystems
daily tasks
domestic life
drawing
installation
interrelationship
living with children
nature
photography
repetitive tasks
sculpture
video
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<a href="https://amyfdignam.weebly.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://amyfdignam.weebly.com/&source=gmail&ust=1559842557155000&usg=AFQjCNEwH_uX-DziNyIOKQNSd8dl7CtuTA">https://amyfdignam.<wbr />weebly.com/</a>
Medium
drawings
photography
video
performance
installation
Artist Statement
<p class="paragraph_style_1"><span>Italian born, Amy moved to London in 1998 and graduated from Central Saint Martins College in 2005. Her work is mainly autobiographical but also holds a socio-political dynamic. Making the personal public her work originates from the female body, concepts of everyday life, loss of identity, the importance of memories and the abstraction of longing are central to her practice. Domesticity as a ‘visual language’ where maternal subjectivity is explored via different media such us drawings, photography, video installation and performance. </span></p>
Topic
motherhood
maternity
domestic
women artists
feminism
feminist mother
activism
Location
The location of the interview
London
United Kingdom
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Amy Dignam
domestic
drawings
installation
London
maternity
motherhood
performance
photography
UK
United Kingdom
video
women artists
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<a href="http://www.roxanaalgergeffen.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.roxanaalgergeffen.com</a>
Medium
mixed media
painting
collage
installation
photography
Location
The location of the interview
Washington, DC
Artist Statement
<p> I’ve spent the last decade exploring the world of domestic life and family systems. Although I started as a painter, describing the chaotic and contradictory world of parenting seemed to require a multi-layered, eclectic approach, and I have expanded my practice to include collage, installation and photography. Recently, I’ve been drawn into the digital worlds my children inhabit so readily (in part because the subject of ‘screen’ causes so much debate and anxiety in the cultural discourse) and the imagery I’ve found there has been surprisingly inspiring and oddly familiar. One game had a pixelated, modular landscape—touched with moments of surprising, naturalistic beauty—that became an excellent metaphor for my domestic world. I use this imagery layered with realism, as well as a layering of techniques, to develop the idea of parenting and domestic life as a many-layered experience: funny, moving, and labor-intensive.</p>
Topic
domestic life
family systems
parenting
parenthood
realism
abstraction
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Roxana Alger Geffen
abstraction
collage
domestic
domestic life
family systems
installation
mess
mixed media
painting
parenthood
parenting
photography
realism
toys
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<div style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.luheintz.com/" target="_blank">http://www.luheintz.com/</a></div>
Medium
conceptual art
textiles
metalsmithing
video
sound
sculpture
installation
performance
paper works
writing
Location
The location of the interview
Providence
Rhode Island
Artist Statement
My work is engaged in discourses around feminism, labor and technological change. Embedded in the works are confluences of technique and meaning, craft and digital media, and everyday materials with fine art forms. The work is situated at the nexus of life and art, and walks a boundary between work and love. Labor and love act broadly as dual domains which sustain my interest in the ways a subject acts and is acted upon by intersecting social, economic, intimate, emotional and political forces. While some works describe the ways in which labor and love converge in personal and economic experience, others begin to search for meanings of love that may deviate from material, economic conditions to transform the terms of our intimate and collective relationships.
Topic
labor
love
power
gender
consumerism
intimacy
communication
silence
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Lu Heintz
communication
conceptual art
consumerism
gender
installation
intimacy
labor
love
metalsmithing
paper works
performance
power
sculpture
silence
sound
textiles
video
writing
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<a href="http://chloe-irla.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://chloe-irla.com/</a>
Medium
painting
fiber
textile
mixed media
installation
Location
The location of the interview
Baltimore
Maryland
Artist Statement
<span>I maintain an interdisciplinary studio practice grounded in both traditional and alternative approaches to painting and drawing. My recent work investigates the data visualization of increments over specific time periods. I collect information within an established time constraint and then analyze the data set. Based on the conceptual direction of the project, I incorporate the use of textiles and digital media to visualize the research.<br /><br /> The <em>Year One</em> series is based on one year’s worth of data collected about my daughter’s first year of life. From January 18, 2015 to January 18, 2016, I tracked the times of each nursing session, pumping session, nightly sleep and morning wake-up, daytime nap, diaper, bath, bottle, and solid food acceptance. My initial goal was to create wool blankets based on the graph-like data visualizations, but as a new parent, I simply do not have the time to dedicate to hand-felting and sewing large-scale quilts at this point in my practice. I decided to utilize digital media to create the compositions, so my process began with hand-dyeing samples of wool, scanning the samples and adjusting them into digital files, and then arranging the “tiles” into blanket-like digital compositions. <br /><br /><em>Year One</em> allows me to compare data about my daughter’s growth and development, and also visualizes the absolute time commitment that goes into being a primary caregiver. Every hour of the day with an infant is busy, and with this project, each hour is also accounted for. I can compare my daughter’s first month of life to the last month of her first year, which shows a drastic difference in feeding and sleeping routines. The overall appearance of the compositions is similar to my initial goal of creating handmade wool blankets, but the process is much better suited to my busy, primary caregiving lifestyle.</span>
Topic
daughter
life
motherhood
parenthood
data
tracking
visualization
repetitive tasks
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Chloe Irla
data
daughter
fiber
installation
life
mixed media
motherhood
painting
parenthood
repetitive tasks
textile
tracking
visualization
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.lynnlu.info" target="_blank">www.lynnlu.info</a>
Topic
milk
lactation
tending
empathy
reality
Medium
performance
installation
kinetic sculpture
Artist Statement
In my practice, the sentient body is seen as the main medium for perceiving and presenting (versus representing) meaning (versus message) through direct personal experience. Engaging vigorously with the present reality of all that is here-and-now, the meaning of my context-specific works often manifest in the resonant relationships created between myself and my audience, and between the audience themselves. My current research looks at the connection between experiential knowledge and the innate human capacity for empathy, in relation to a genre performance art I call “gutty”. This gutty form of performance art which uses the body just as it is – as vulnerable/resilient/sensitive as it is in everyday life – relies heavily on empathy to create meaning that is not merely conceptual but also affective and visceral. In other words, I look at why some performances not only tickle our brains but also quite literally leave us feeling like we’ve been punched in the gut.
Location
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London
United Kingdom
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Title
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Lynn Charlotte Lu
empathy
installation
kinetic sculpture
lactation
milk
performance
reality
spillage
tending
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Website
The Artist's website
http://www.christadonner.com
Topic
community
motherhood
collaboration
childcare
Medium
drawing
painting
printmaking
installation
social practice
Artist Statement
Artmaking is my microscope and my scalpel: the tool I use to investigate the human organism through sensation and imagination. My recent studio practice looks to early feminist sci-fi while drawing from the matriarchal colony structures of social insects and the internal ecosystems of the microbiome to propose speculative models for human communities of the future, and to reimagine the architecture of our own bodies. Such inquiry must incorporate the experiences of others if it is to evolve. Embedded in my artistic practice is an exchange between individuals and communities that extends from the fictional to lived experiences and experiments. In 2012 I initiated the creative platform <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cultural ReProducers</a>, which incorporates artist interviews and skillsharing, small-press zines, collaborative events, institutional interventions, and an active online forum to explore the intersection of parenthood and creative practice. My speculative work in the studio is amplified by the community of creative thinkers and cultural workers raising children who I collaborate with and advocate for. This community will continue to evolve as its participants grow and change.
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/388">Mother Load</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/452">Extended Self: Transformations and Connections</a>
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Christa Donner
Chicago
childcare
collaboration
community
drawing
Illinois
installation
motherhood
painting
printmaking
social practice
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<a href="http://www.emmafinucane.com/" target="_blank">http://www.emmafinucane.com/</a>
Medium
screenprint
photography
video art
performance art
printmaking
installation
Location
The location of the interview
Bray
County Wicklow
Ireland
Artist Statement
I develop artwork through dialogue, process based, participatory and collaborative practice. I investigate the way we connect and communicate with others and ultimately how it contributes to the quality of our lives. I am looking at the role of the artist in society and questioning how “useful” the role of art can be when entering into different areas. My work has frequently combined education, research and artistic practice. My visual research consists of screen print, digital images and photography, slides and video experiments. I have been using video in both documentary and performance based formats, combining live action with static projections, improvisation and language. <br /><br />I am currently Artist in Residence in UCD College of Health Sciences where I am the principle investigator on a research team with a midwifery lecturer Dr. Maria Healy (UCD) and midwife, Teresa McCreery based at the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street. Together we are working on the research initiative: An interpretive phenomenological study: Illuminating childbirth experiences of women attending a midwife-led service via visual art works. Insights from this research will highlight women’s lived experiences of childbirth vis visual artworks and academic publications. The final artworks will be included in the UCD Health Sciences Library in book format as an educational tool alongside academic books.
Topic
childbirth
motherhood
maternal
education
parenting
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Title
A name given to the resource
Emma Finucane
Bray
childbirth
County Wicklow
education
installation
Ireland
maternal
motherhood
parenting
performance art
photography
printmaking
screenprint
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.trishmorrissey.com/" target="_blank">http://www.trishmorrissey.com/</a>
Medium
photography
installation
video art
spoken word
Topic
motherhood
parenthood
parent/child collaboration
face painting
pregnancy
karaoke
family dynamics
family vacation
parenting
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a>
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Title
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Trish Morrissey
face painting
family dynamics
family vacation
installation
karaoke
motherhood
parent/child collaboration
parenthood
parenting
photography
pregnancy
spoken word
video art
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://lizziephilps.com/" target="_blank">http://lizziephilps.com/</a>
Medium
walking
installation
theatre
mother/daughter relationship
Location
The location of the interview
Bristol
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
I make participatory performance projects, including theatre, installations, site-based and walking events. The work is playful and irreverent, and explores the sensory, the landscape, and the ways audiences can create and negotiate meaning. I make performance to address the limitations of language, my fascination with identity politics, and my desire to illuminate and document the performative in daily life. I am currently developing Live Art walking practices around the personal geographies and the intimate (and simultaneously very public) performances associated with parenting.
Topic
maternity
motherhood
parenting
childcare
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Title
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Lizzie Philps
bristol
childcare
installation
maternity
motherhood
parenthood
theatre
United Kingdom
walking
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://lisehallerbaggesen.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://lisehallerbaggesen.wordpress.com/</a>
<a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780988418554/mothernism.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780988418554/mothernism.aspx</a>
Medium
installation
writing
audio
Location
The location of the interview
Chicago
Illinois
Artist Statement
Mothernism is a nomadic tent camp audio installation and a book, dedicated to staking out and making speakable the “mother-shaped hole in contemporary art discourse.” <br /><br />Since 2013, the installation has travelled to various venues in the United States (The Poor Farm in Manawa, Vox Populi in Philadelphia and Ordinary Projects and the Glass Curtain Gallery in Chicago) and has also spawned a series of panels and “story time” readings as well as the curatorial project 3am Maternal at Vox Populi in Philadelphia. T<span>he Mothernism installation will tour in spring 2016 to The Elisabeth Foundation and A.I.R. Gallery and to The Contemporary Austin.</span><br /><br />The book, with pictures of the installation, was published in 2014, by Poor Farm Press and Green Lantern Press. It is available in the US through SPD: <a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780988418554/mothernism.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780988418554/mothernism.aspx</a>
Topic
motherhood
motherhood and art practice
contemporary art discourse
science fiction
disco
music
biography
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/388">Mother Load</a>
Publications
A catalog or monograph published by the artist
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/463">The Maternal in Creative Work Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art, Contributor</a>
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Title
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Lise Haller Baggesen
audio
biography
Chicago
contemporary art discourse
disco
Illinois
installation
motherhood
motherhood and art practice
Mothernism
music
science fiction
writing
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://nataliemball.com/section/33295.html">http://nataliemball.com/section/33295.html</a>
Medium
performance art
installation
Artist Statement
"To Be Continued" is a claim for visual sovereignty. It is about taking back power through the relationship of a mother and her daughter in relation to historical genocide and disenfranchisement of the Modoc and Klamath people. I enlist auto-ethnography as an apparatus to offer you a visual articulation of a mother’s conscious actions to connect her daughter to her complex history, her water, her land, and her cultures for survival.
For me, for my family, for many native people, and for my daughter the “Indian Wars” are not over. “To Be Continued” acknowledges my daughter’s Indigenous womanhood within a reality where the wars have not subsided. There are other kinds of war, with legislation, not howitzers; water rights, land acquisition, dam removal, salmon restoration, self determination and blood quantum. There is always a fight.
When Ojibwe scholar Scott Lyons writes about native identity, "When the Indian speaks, it always speaks as an Indian," he is stating that it is not possible to ignore the complex narratives that create the idea of the Indian. I address this through traditional native markers, quilt pieces, a pony, but just in case you missed that the Indian is speaking as an Indian, I put the name Modoc in lights at the center of the piece. The door and floor put the installation in space and time, adding another layer of information. The space is being occupied, at least for the time being. What always was Indian land is back to being Indigenous space. The installation leaves no doubt, occupied or not, the space is Indian, Modoc in lights, telegraphing presence and native survivance.
Topic
motherhood
mother/daughter relationship
daughter
native american
genocide
heritage
Klamath Tribe
Modoc Tribe
auto-ethnography
Indigenous womanhood
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Title
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Natalie M. Ball
auto-ethnography
daughter
genocide
heritage
Indigenous motherhood
installation
Klamath Tribe
Modoc Tribe
motherhood
Native American
performance art
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Website
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<a href="http://denisewhitebreadfanning.com/homeland-security.html" target="_blank">http://denisewhitebreadfanning.com/homeland-security.html</a>
Medium
sculpture
performance art
installation
Location
The location of the interview
Michigan
Artist Statement
Created from the perspective of mother, Homeland Security is an ongoing body of work comprised of (often futile or absurd) survival and escape gear made by a mother to protect her family and loved ones from a threatening array of inevitable tragedies or disasters, from simple domestic accidents to acts of terrorism and environmental catastrophes. Fusing the artist's converging interest in survival preparedness and mundane domestic survival, this body of work continues to manifest as a response to the ever present fears of the mother/caregiver, who, influenced by media and the societal commodification of fear, desires to protect that which she most fears losing. Using language culled from Survival Preparedness Handbooks which often doubles as domestic survival mantras, the work explores the line between utmost gravity and the absurd, between our real and daily dangers, and the sense of humor necessary for our survival. All of the work in this series speaks to human fears of loss and mortality, as well as the ego attached to the implied ability to prevent such mortal guarantees.
Topic
motherhood
protection
survival
disasters
accidents
survival planning handbook
survival preparedness
fear
maternal fear
mortality
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Title
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Denise Whitebread Fanning
accidents
installation
lifeboat
maternal fear
Michigan
mortality
motherhood
performance art
sculpture
survival
survival gear
survival handbook
survival preparedness