https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/d181e83a9fec50d4b1919b83a293f633.jpg 5e0f509c843b462fca7f60eedfd69f7e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="http://www.sedimentarts.org/exhbitions/#/maternity-leave-paranatural-pregnancies-1/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://www.sedimentarts.org/exhbitions/#/maternity-leave-paranatural-pregnancies-1/</a> Gallery SEDIMENT Location The location of the interview Richmond Virginia United States Curatorial Statement <span>Maternity Leave: Para-Natural Pregnancies is a collection of six suits that invoke notions of “anti-fertility” and preternatural birth. Exploring various birthing phenomena through myth-making, the outfits work to disintegrate the stigmas, regulations, and narratives surrounding the relationship between having a uterus and giving birth. </span><br /><br /><span>With wearable suits as our medium, we give power to the performative identity. </span><br /><br /><span>We deconstruct conventional outfit making materials to imagine a fashion that can shift our reality of what giving birth means. Our labor is interested in appropriating “women’s work”, emphasizing its gendering and selling ready-to-wear accessories to subvert the unpaid status of domestic and reproductive labor. </span><br /><br /><span>The collection examines how pregnancy and birth distorts and redefines what is human and thus what is “femininity”. The aim is to shift the stigmas in the positive by investigating phenomena such as sci-fi human-alien hybrid birth, fetus mutation, Hippocrates’ treatises on infertile woman, female hominid ancestors, ancient birth control, and witchcraft. </span><br /><span>Ultimately, our suits embody characters that evoke the prehuman, the human, and the para-human - considering metaphorical fertility as something fluid and something to weaponize. </span><br /><br /><span>Come see Maternity Leave with cash in hand to buy the ready-to-wear accessories with your contributions going to the Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project (</span><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FRRFP.net%2F&amp;h=ATP3zIcgQws7dMMGKD1jVYRNgfjvXICZJ-MkTYCna45Q9nx1pihw4wfBSeSSEutZsJoPF4wEgvSRO-yhevQ6b3-a6NqtwrAYoWkRP6cYyaGVja0W0Ky-vEHYWQMGTx1w4djdQV5nADo&amp;enc=AZNHwsnCw3e2FumMf0ngInE4jlI6BHsAQjDdyfSZzrg4Kz_emV47ajZbve5feNvYdQQ&amp;s=1">RRFP.net</a><span>) to fund abortions for those that otherwise would not be able to afford them!</span> Artists Kristen Sanders Devin Harclerode Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) March 3rd - 26th, 2017 Topic reproduction anti-fertility preternatural birth birth "womens' work" femininity stigmas identity Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Maternity Leave: Para-Natural Pregnancies