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Name
Leah DeVun
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://www.leahdevun.com/in-the-age-of-mechanical-reproduction#14" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.leahdevun.com/in-the-age-of-mechanical-reproduction#14</a>
Topic
breastfeeding
birth
designed maternity objects
breast pumping
Medium
film photography
Artist Statement
I'm an associate professor at Rutgers University, where I teach in the departments of History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. My scholarship, artwork, and curatorial practice reflect my interest in queer and trans history, science and technology, archives and collectives, and feminist activism. I'm the author of three books and edited volumes: The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance (Columbia University Press, 2021); "Trans*historicities" (with Zeb Tortorici), a special issue of the journal TSQ (Duke, 2018); and Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time (Columbia, 2009). My essays and reviews have appeared in Wired, Spot, Radical History Review, GLQ, WSQ (Women's Studies Quarterly), Osiris, ASAP/Journal, postmedieval, Journal of the History of Sexuality, and a number of books. I've lectured internationally and received grants and residential fellowships from the National Science Foundation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, UCLA, the Huntington Library, and the Stanford Humanities Center, among others.
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bex ya yolk
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Leah DeVun
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<a href="https://www.jessicamongeon.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.jessicamongeon.com/</a>
Topic
placenta prints
birth
footprint
child
son
Medium
acrylic gouache
silkscreen on watercolor paper
Artist Statement
My work examines the relationship between humans and nature by juxtaposing landscape elements and human biology. By acknowledging our embodiment of nature, perhaps we can care for the ecosystems that sustain us as much as we care for our own bodies. My series, "Origins"are imaginary landscapes with placenta imagery, lichen, and mushrooms. The backgrounds contain silkscreened or painted abstracted placentas inspired by my own placenta print that I made after my son’s birth. The placenta symbolizes new life and connection because it is how the mother nourishes her child while in the womb. "Upon the Earth" combines a rocky landscape with moss between the cracks, various types of lichen, and silkscreened placenta prints. The title upon the earth speaks to the first steps of a baby; there are footprints from my child hidden in the background. It also refers to the saying "earthside" which refers to a baby being born.
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Jessica Mongeon
Title
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Jessica Mongeon
acrylic gouache
birth
child
footprint
placenta prints
silkscreen on watercolor paper
son
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<a href="http://.www.idbohemia.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">idbohemia.com</a>
<a href="http://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/christina-ignacio-deines?general_filter=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.artworkarchive.com/profile/christina-ignacio-deines?general_filter=2</a>
Topic
sexuality
maternal mental health
postpartum despression and recovery
trauma
PTSD
birth
desire
sexual power dynamics
identity
motherhood
parenting
intimacy
family legacy
Medium
Site specific installation
sculpture and assemblage
painting
photography
drawing
music and sound
experience design
Artist Statement
Why do we connect? What are the foundations on which connection is built? How do we nurture deep connection?
I have been exploring the phenomena and ecology of connection and belonging for more than a decade. My work examines our needs and motivations, the formative effect of culture and life history on identity, and the powerful influence that objects, experiences, and environment have on our well-being and relationships. In practice, I weave connection into the artistic process by bridging ideas and disciplines— applying 2D visual principles in 3D space, for example, and applying fine art, decorative and craft techniques. Scratch-built components may be combined with current, mass-produced materials, particularly in the installations, to ground a work in the present even when its inspiration is found in the past.
In my body of work, I have looked at the ways connection and belonging are expressed in romantic relationships relative to a single identity (1), and in national identity relative to the life cycle of a species (2). I have recast creative partners as a sacred ideal (3), and recreated sites of profound physical and spiritual union (4). I have challenged sexual and political power dynamics among social groups (5), and depicted temptation and sisterhood in sapphic narrative poetry (6), I have crossed cultures to create a fresh aesthetic language for modern marital relationships, fusing French and Inuit fairy and folk tales with arch-rib barns and Gothic churches (7), and the decorative arts of nomadic peoples from Mongolia to the Mojave (8). I have related the emotional experience of love to physical and visual sensations (9). I have translated the process of rehabilitation into a journey of connections between individuals, systems and the broader community (10). I have presented shelter and security as the basis for healthy intimate and parental relationships (11). Recently, I remodelled a mass-produced dollhouse into a one-of-a-kind heirloom, to describe how legacy and maternal identity connects generations of family (12).
While rooted in an ongoing practice of communicating connection and belonging in art by building immersive, experiential installations, my recent work is a deeply engaging progression into more visceral and nuanced emotional territory, and more daring and experimental explorations of materials, scale and collaboration. My work often seeks to translate our darker human struggles into objects and environments of protection, joy, and beauty. Recent shifts in our cultural and political climate, coupled with research and conversations I’ve had with healthcare professionals, mental health professionals, academics, and my own peer group of women, mothers and families, has convinced me that motherhood and maternal identity are important artistic subjects worth exploring, and that my approach is unique and substantive. In an increasingly divided and isolating culture, it is not simply relevant to lay bare the struggle of connection and belonging. It is in fact vital.
1 An Open Love Letter: There is no Japanese word for Identity, 2005; 2 Salmon Run - Comox, 2007; 3 The Writer and His Muse, 2006; 4 Some Like It Hot Pink, 2009 and Love Without Borders, 2011; 5 Queens (After John Singer Sargent), 2009; 6 Forbidden Feast (After Christina Rossetti), 2015; 7 Beauty & The Beast, 2010; 8 East x Southwest, 2014; 9 Sea of Light, 2011; 10 Explore The Map of Courage - Sculpture Series, 2016; 11 Light The Way Home, 2017; 12 Riven’s Dream Lodge, 2018
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Christina Ignacio-Deines
birth
desire
drawing
experience design
family legacy
identity
intimacy
maternal mental health
motherhood
music and sound
painting
parenting
photography
postpartum depression and recovery
PTSD
sculpture and assemblage
sexual power dynamics
sexuality
Site specific installation
trauma
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<a href="http://monyarowegallery.com/artist.php?aID=259" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://monyarowegallery.com/artist.php?aID=259</a>
Medium
acrylic on panel
Location
The location of the interview
Brooklyn
New York
USA
Artist Statement
<div class="field two columns alpha">I make paintings centering around my daily life. I paint what I know or think I know about the everyday experience of being alive. The paintings tend to explore the intimacy of domestic space The quieter familiar and private moments at home or abroad. I paint self portraits and portraits of my husband and child. They reflect part of the ritual or routine of life. This is the world of my home, wherever that maybe. I work from photos but also from the memory of those moments. It is what is there and sometimes from what I want to be there. Like any work from life there are a lot of truths and untruths.</div>
Topic
birth
pregnancy
breastfeeding
domestic life
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Polina Barskaya
acrylic
birth
breastfeeding
domestic life
pregnancy
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<a href="http://www.gracecross.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.gracecross.net</a>
Location
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Cape Town
South Africa
Artist Statement
Grace Cross (b. Harare, Zimbabwe 1988) is a material painter who draws symbols about motherhood, home, belief structures, and land; making shipting recipe's rooted in feminism, history, performative archaeology and African cosmology, to reflect her experiences of cultural transmission. Her painting practice, since the birth of her daughter, focuses on female storytelling, spirituality, and mining symbols of motherhood in her lush and colourfilled canvases. Her paintings seek to represent a cosmological world, where paint weaves images together to work as spells or incantations. The painded symbols thread ideas together, daming and mending, compositionally sewing the symbolic into the real, tethering the objects to one another. She traces a history of laboring women, their bloodline, their red thread of fate, through her paintings - <em>placenta red, metnrual red, nipple-suked-raw red. </em>This is the tie that binds - an umbilical cord - the maternal line. The thread is fine buth strong; it will not come undone; even as it unspools, running from the distant past to the present, from one canvas to another. Cross lives and works as a mother and painter in Cape Town
Topic
motherhood
parenting
breastfeeding
gender-based violence
play
caretaking
symbolism
fertility
nutrition
latch
food
storytelling
matriessence
babies
pregnancy
archaeology
feminism
psychic trauma
womb
birth
awakening
child's play
language acquisition
poetry
burdens
reproduction
patterns
textiles
women's work
domesticity
labour
performative
painting
spirituality
bloodline
Exhibitions
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<em>Mother is a Drum, </em>2019, Smith Studio, Cape Town
<em>Atlas is a Woman, </em>2020, The Vault, Zeitz Silo Hotel, Cape Town
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Grace Cross
archaeology
awakening
babies
birth
bloodline
breastfeeding
burdens
caretaking
child's play
domesticity
feminism
fertility
food
gender-based violence
labour
language acquisition
latch
matriessence
motherhood
nutrition
painting
parenting
patterns
performative
play
poetry
pregnancy
psychic trauma
reproduction
spirituality
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Artist Parent Organization Database
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Location
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New York, NY
USA
Topic
birth justice
birth
racial justice
public health
birth stories
birth story
reproductive justice
midwifery
doula
doulas
history of American gynecology
history of medicine
community organizing
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Staten Island
Bronx
Queens
NYC
New York City
New York
home birth
hospital birth
advocacy
female genital mutilation and cutting
FGMC
child welfare
drug use
substance use
pregnancy
parenting
stigma
abortion
young parents
teen parents
teen parent
teen parenting
policy
advocacy
gender
non binary
gender queer
trans
harm reduction
birth control
sterilization
fake clinics
crisis pregnancy centers
About
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">WHAT: </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Birth Justice Podcast NYC takes a close, comprehensive and creative look at how folks in New York City experience and navigate reproductive oppression and create resilience strategies for their health and their families. Through storytelling and conversations, BJP NYC provides a space for dialogue and debate addressing one of New York City’s most pressing public health and racial justice issues: birth. Hosted by Taja Lindley, podcast episodes feature one-on-one long form interviews and conversations with advocates, organizers, historians, scholars, healers, birth workers, pregnant and parenting people, and folks of reproductive age.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The first episode dropped Wednesday July 8th and featureds an interview between the host, Taja Lindley, and her mother, Adrianne Robinson, where they discussed Robinson’s experience giving birth to Lindley in 1985. This was a special occasion because the release date is also Lindley’s birthday.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">WHY:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the United States, Black women are three to four times more likely to die due to pregnancy related causes than white women. But in New York City, Black women are eight times more likely to die than white women. This is twice the national average. And during this pandemic moment, matters of public health are brought into focus, including long standing health inequities like maternal health. For example,when COVID first hit, NYC hospitals barred visitors during childbirth, leaving many people to labor alone. In response, Governor Cuomo issued an executive order allowing laboring people to have one support person during their childbirth. A few weeks after it was issued, however, Amber Rose Isaac - a 26-year-old pregnant Black woman - died after giving birth in a Bronx hospital. </span></p>
Organization Website
<p><a href="https://www.birthjustice.nyc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>https://www.birthjustice.nyc/</b></a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.abladeofgrass.org/articles/black-maternal-mortality/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>https://www.abladeofgrass.org/articles/black-maternal-mortality/</b></a></p>
<a href="http://patreon.com/birthjusticenyc" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">patreon.com/birthjusticenyc</span></a>
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/birthjusticenyc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@birthjusticeNYC</span></a>
Organzation Director
Taja Lindley
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Birth Justice Podcast NYC
abortion
advocacy
birth
birth control
Birth justice
birth stories
birth story
Bronx
Brooklyn
child welfare
community organizing
crisi pregnancy centers
doula
doulas
drug use
fake clinics
female genital mutilation and cutting
FGMC
gender
gender queer
harm reduction
history of american gynecology
history of medicine
home birth
hospital birth
Manhattan
midwifery
New York
New York City
non binary
NYC
parenting
policy
pregnancy
public health
Queens
queer
racial justice
reproductive justice
Staten Island
sterilization
stigma
substance use
teen parent
teen parenting
teen parents
trans
young parents
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Exhibition Title
motHER/child
Exhibition Website
<a href="https://www.michaelinesander.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.michaelinesander.com</a>
Gallery
Sander Design and Art Consulting // SDAC
Location
The location of the interview
Richmond
Virginia
USA
Curator
Michaeline Sander
Curatorial Statement
SDAC is excited to share with you a group exhibition, celebrating the art of six local women and their works inspired by motherhood. motHER/child will be shown online from June 22, 2020- August 14, 2020, at www.michaelinesander.com. As we move this show online in what was previously planned as an in-person experience, we want to find ways in which the audience can connect to the imagery digitally. Feel the fabric of the soft sculptures by Sarah Dolan, see the details and layers in the collages by Shantell Lewis and be able to process the content of the works by all the artists in this show without being physically in front of the pieces in an alternative gallery setting where we normally would meet you.
motHER/child is a very important show that we have been putting together for over a year to bring to our audience. We want to share stories through the artwork about the journey to and through motherhood. Everyone has their own experiences and struggles some heartbreaking and some full of joy. All of these stories are important and should be heard. We are here creating a space for discussion and to share in the admiration of motherhood for all of those who are mothers, were mothers, or are still trying to become a mother.
Through experiencing these women’s artwork, we hope to open up the conversation about this experience in life - how it doesn’t all go according to plan, how it’s not all perfect social media approved photos. This is life, and this is the real documentation of that. Please share, please ask questions, please listen to your bodies - women are amazing and so strong- we created this show as a celebration of that.
Artists
<a href="https://artistparentindex.com/items/show/347" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sarah Dolan</a>
Paris Brower
Olivia Phare
Shana Blakely
Amanda Ryan Tucker
Shantell Lewis
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
June 22- August 14
Topic
TTC
loss
postpartum
change
joy
infertility
motherhood
breastfeeding
pregnancy
birth
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motHER/child
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Website
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<a href="http://www.carrascoart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">carrascoart.com</a>
Topic
birth
postpartum
newborn
breastfeeding
stretch marks
postpartum body
black mother
Mexican mother
breast milk
multipara
natural birth
Medium
oil on canvas
Artist Statement
I paint what I know. Sometimes it involves communicating perceptions, relationships, and feelings too difficult for me to put into words. I'm inspired by depth, continuity, love, faith, and multi-generational connections, the most meaningful things we have, and sometimes what we lose. There is a certain forgiveness of myself I must practice each time I paint. Raising a family with six children at home and caring for a mentally ill parent means that painting sessions are reduced to blocks of time lasting an hour or less. Painting in this manner reflects my current life circumstances in hurried brushstrokes and imperfections that reveal my most authentic voice.
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Lupita Carrasco
Title
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Lupita Carrasco
birth
black mother
breast milk
breastfeeding
Mexican mother
multipara
natural birth
newborn
oil on canvas
postpartum
postpartum body
stretch marks
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<a href="https://www.instagram.com/jendel16/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jendel16 on Instagram</a>
Topic
pregnancy
birth
growing up
emotion
miscarriage
Medium
pen on paper
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Jen Delgado
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<a href="https://www.stefaniekoseff.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.stefaniekoseff.com/</a>
Medium
video installation
Location
The location of the interview
Brooklyn
New York
Artist Statement
“I AM HERE YOU ARE SAFE” is an interactive video installation, an ongoing diary of motherhood, exploring the emotional and societal contradictions of becoming and finding one's place as a mother. Using footage of my own children and archival footage, each “video box” traces a theme and explores that theme through fragments of images, incomplete thoughts, constant interruptions: simulations of life with small children.
Topic
motherhood
pregnancy
birth
baby monitors
sleep
labor and delivery
food allergies
illness
hospital
children and safety
Exhibitions
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Unfinished Business Art Show May 2019<br /><a href="https://www.ubartshow.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.ubartshow.com/</a>
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Stefanie Koseff
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www.billieireland.co.uk
Topic
birth
breastfeeding
breastfeeding multiples
twins and motherhood
Medium
mixed media
Artist Statement
This recent body of work charts my experience of pregnancy and motherhood. As a recent mother to twin boys and a daughter I document this alien state, with all its mystery and ambivalence, both physical and emotional. I explore the meanings of two very different experiences of pregnancy, birth and nurturing. Pregnancy and birth stirred up the loss of my own mother, loss of myself and the stark reality of my own mortality.
I want my images to embody and echo the inherent contrasts of strength and beauty with loss and conflict. The cycle of birth and death, light and dark appear obliquely and more obviously, interwoven with intergenerational and universal experience. The works evoke deep dichotomies and the eternal cycle. Carrying and feeding identical twins meant naturally creating symmetry in images. It also calmed and created space to meditate on my acts of feeding and my physical positioning. In contrast the organic visceral nature of the more abstract paintings attempt to visualise the unseen workings of the birthing body and beyond.
It is always fundamental that I grapple with materials and processes, creating images that capture a spiritual dimension through the use of ancient and traditional techniques. The time intensive preparation of gesso grounds, carved and layered, permanently record these fleeting moments. I draw using hair fixed with wax and egg yolk. I burn into paper and use fluid paint and intense mark making.
The work includes humour, a necessary component to creating artwork against the background of the constant demands of three very young children. Their contribution is an exciting and essential part of the work, both materially and emotionally. Without them this work would not exist.
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/449">The hormone, the hermit, and the hairy moon</a>
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Billie Ireland
Title
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Billie Ireland
breastfeeding
breastfeeding multiples
mixed media
twins
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Artist Parent Organization Database
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Location
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Salem, Oregon
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Topic
reproduction
family
sex
gender
inclusive
zines
crowdsourcing
advocacy
paid family leave
care
caregiving
community
pregnancy
abortion
miscarriage
fetal loss
infertility
birth
gestation
identity
fashion
non-binary
LGBTQIA+
activism
performative action
library
collaboration
equity
policy
education
art
feminism
motherhood
fatherhood
parenthood
workshop
consent
About
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We (Cayla Skillin-Brauchle and Danielle C. Wyckoff) have come together to birth </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reproductive Media</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a project that focuses on all things family, gender, sex, and reproduction. Iterations of Reproductive Media have included a Mobile Zine Library and performative actions and workshops in which we facilitate discussions on these themes. The Reproductive Media Zine Library’s collection includes dozens of contributors who have produced zines related to these topics, ranging from personal experiences to statistics and facts. Our curatorial vision for this library is inclusive: we encourage individuals to share diverse information, experiences, and interpretations. This collection is an ongoing and ever-growing library.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Part of Reproductive Media’s larger mission is to provide educational and advocacy materials and support. Current resources we have produced as free booklets include ways to advocate for family-friendly* workplaces, suggestions for creating more inclusive educational settings, and other tools to advocate for legislative change such as ones that would support families for medical leave. (*We recognize an inclusive definition of family and remember that people receive love and support from partners, elders, children, siblings, lovers, pets, friends, and more.) </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reproductive Media stems from our shared investment in discussion and because our individual artistic practices utilize conversation and crowdsourcing as a tactic to research and create projects. Wyckoff’s project, “Please Tell Me a Story About Love,” has traveled around the world asking folks to do just that. The project’s open-ended structure situates the artist as listener, hearing and recording stories about all forms of love. Skillin-Brauchle’s “Data Collection” performances seek to create local data sets by interviewing community members in public places. While disparate in their approaches, these projects act as non-judgemental agents, recorders of contemporary experience. Our projects focus on the ‘local,’ whether that be a site or a community, and both projects collect responses that fuel our individual artwork in other material forms.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We believe that critical discussions require space. Reproductive Media creates such a space, one that is a public yet private forum, to talk about all things family, sex, gender, and reproduction: the choice to parent or not; the experiences of non-binary lives; governmental policy that is restrictive and policy that is protective; the challenges and rewards of parenting; experiences of becoming a parent through adoption, foster care, birth, or other paths; LBGQTIA+ rights; infertility and the emotional, physical and financial implications; miscarriage and fetal loss; birth control; abortion; models of prenatal care and giving birth (medical model and midwifery model); reproductive rights; reproductive privilege based on identity and socio-economics; sex; babies; gender; consent.</span></p>
Organization Website
reproductive.media@gmail.com
Organzation Director
Cayla Skillin-Brauchle
Danielle C. Wyckoff
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Reproductive Media
abortion
activism
advocacy
art
birth
Care
caregiving
collaboration
community
consent
crowdsourcing
education
equity
family
fashion
fatherhood
feminism
fetal loss
gender
gestation
identity
inclusive
infertitlity
LGBTQIA+
library
miscarriage
motherhood
non-binary
paid family leave
parenthood
performative action
policy
pregnancy
reproduction
sex
workshop
zines
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Topic
motherhood
birth
blood
womb
yoni
breastfeeding
children
sex
grandmothers
symbolism
myth
feminism
Medium
acrylic
ink
collage
watercolor
mixed media
fiber
wheatpaste
Artist Statement
Tiana Traffas is currently creating a series titled Arcana Ma. Arcana meaning secrets or mysteries, Ma as in mother or motherhood: mysteries of motherhood. This ever unfolding body of work explores the taboos and experiences of motherhood through archetype, personal experience, mythology and symbolism from the ancient goddess cultures to modern-day mamas. It also includes work that views the other phases of womanhood, maiden to crone, and the life-death-rebirth cycle through the len of motherhood. Arcana Ma only exists because of her daughter's birth. The artist's initiation into motherhood cracked her wide open into a psychedelic and potent transformation, leaving her reborn on an emotional and spiritual level. The act of birth and the continuous trip of motherhood is the inspiration for this series.
Location
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La Crosse
Wisconsin
USA
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/439">WHY MOM</a>
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://tianatraffasart.bigcartel.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://tianatraffasart.<wbr />bigcartel.com/</a>
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Tiana Traffas
Title
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Tiana Traffas
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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.kasiaozga.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.kasiaozga.com</a>
Topic
pregnancy
motherhood
birth
breastfeeding
Medium
works on paper
Artist Statement
My work begins and ends in the human body. Our remnants (what we cast off and leave behind in the form of waste, trash, memory etc.) ground and connect us to the earth. My work asks where the things in our lives come from and where they go once we’ve used them. By representing and re-animating remains, I explore the potential of materials to ask questions and to evoke larger environmental relationships. <br /><br />I treat the products of our culture as physical remains of our bodies and explore how we generate objects as physical extensions of ourselves. With man-made forms, materials, and processes, I extend, inhibit, and modify elements of the human body. I reuse, up-cycle, and revalue regular, standardized, and mass-produced materials into something one-of-a-kind and special to invert the associations we make with different types of detritus. My raw materials are manufactured products with a particular use history and product life cycle. Whether bastardized industrially produced goods in the white cube or surreal interventions in public spaces, my work explores the limits of functionality and worth.<br /><br />I give a human dimension to physical sites by foregrounding their historical/narrative aspects and input human features into sterile goods by cutting, breaking, gluing, and carving them into forms that evoke the human body. These artworks are at once physical things and conceptual spaces. Through the physical labor and limitations of my own body, I questions which bodies are present and missing in political and cultural discourses. I explore the anatomical potential of the female body as a material metaphor for our actions that ask viewers whether our current situation is fixed or not and how change can emerge.
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Kasia Ozga
Title
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Kasia Ozga
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://gaiafugazza.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://gaiafugazza.com/</a>
Medium
painting
performance
Location
The location of the interview
London
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
I consider myself as part of a deviated group of animals that has, for some unknown reasons, forgotten how to symbiotically relate to their environment.
The objects and performances that I produce refer to episodes and images that in my daily life are example of this paradox. I consider my point of observation and personal history -a urban, white western woman and mother- but I attempt to stretch these occurrences into archetypal patterns distancing from a discourse on identity.
I attempt to distance my self from an anthropocentric understanding of all relations. Plants, animals, natural elements often appear in my works portrayed as having sentience, equal to people and sharing emotions.
Experimentation on techniques and craft plays and important role in my practice: materials compete, carry special metaphorical meanings and mingle with the figurative part of the work. This makes for characters suspended in symbolic actions deprived of time and historical context.
The idea of presence vs. distraction is also addressed in my performances.
I choreograph unexpected situations that engage the public as collaborators of experiments or rituals, all aiming at stimulating a deeper sense of self-awareness and communal presence within an animist landscape.
Topic
education
caretaking
contraception
IVF
witchcraft
acquisition of language
activism
anthropocene
artist mother
biology
birth control
birth
botanical
capitalism
care
care labor
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
2019 Mother Art Prize, Mimosa House, London
2018 Super Nature in Two Parts, Lisson Gallery, London, curated by Daria Khan
2018 Last Dance: Re-Imagined Futures / Mimosa Pudica, Lighthouse, Brighton
2017 Star Messanger, LUX, London; curated by PS/Y
2016 Invites: Gaia Fugazza /Present and Distracted, Zabludowicz Collection, London; curated by Paul Luckraft
2016 Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge; curated by Ami Barak
2015 The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London; curated by Daniel Hermann and Poppy Bowers
2015 No Foods Land, Biennale Mediterranea 17, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano; curated by Andrea Bruciati
2015 Studio Voltaire Open 2015, Studio Voltaire, London; selected by Cory Arcangel & Hanne Mugaas
2014 MA FA Degree Show, Chelsea College of Art, London
2014 Frosted and Defrosted, 44 Albion, London; curated by Taylor Le Melle
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Gaia Fugazza
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://kiaelena.format.com">https://kiaelena.format.com</a>
Topic
early parenthood
identity
accidents
adulthood
anxiety
art making
artist mother
motherhood
baby
birth
breastfeeding
building
caregiving
domestic object
everyday
exhaustion
daily routine
guild
feeding the family
humor
loss of self
Medium
photography
Artist Statement
Nothing can prepare you for parenthood is a phrase often shared with a knowing half-smile that belies the over-exhaustion in the wake of superiority (or is it pride?) . Replying with hollow grins, I secretly wanted to smack every single person who uttered that phrase. And yet, they were right. For the record, also totally justified in their self-satisfaction. It turns out that something as ubiquitous and ‘natural’ as growing, giving birth to, and caring for your progeny has a long adjustment period. It’s not just the changing diapers, the schedules, the meal times, the money, the dressing, the undressing, the endless battle for sleep. It’s not just the negotiation of how your time is spent, and how to best care for your family, your home, and your future. A year in, and I still don’t feel like I’ve joined the ranks of those we call “parents” or “mothers.” This series, made from moments stolen during the odd nap or distraction, is a reckoning and a tool. It’s an attempt to connect who I was with who I have become, now that my life is filled with the incessant though profound mundanity of clearing scraps of food from a high chair, finding matching socks, nursing, teaching, exposing, loving–performing the theater of life to an awed audience of one.
Location
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Providence
Rhode Island
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Kia Elena Petrovic Davis
Title
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Kia Elena Petrovic Davis
early parenthood
identity
photography
Providence
Rhode Island
USA
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Exhibition Archive
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Curator
Michelle Hartney
Curatorial Statement
MOTHER LOAD is an interdisciplinary show featuring female identifying visual artists, musicians, dancers, writers, and performers making work about fertility, miscarriage, pregnancy, birth, postpartum depression and PTSD, postpartum sexuality, and motherhood.
Artists
Seeley Cardone
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/100">Christa Donnor</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/298">Aimee Gilmore</a>
Katrina Majkut
Michelle Hartney
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/42">Lise Haller Baggesen</a>
Lea Tschilds
Angela James
She Speaks In Tongues
Becky Levi
Mary Sue Reese
Michi Jigarjian
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/237">Qiana Mestrich</a>
Christen Clifford
Exhibition Website
<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mother-load-tickets-61180257798" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mother-load-tickets-61180257798</a>
Gallery
Collaboraction Theatre Company
Location
The location of the interview
Chicago
Illinois
USA
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
May 25, 2019
Topic
fertility
miscarriage
pregnancy
birth
postpartum depression
PTSD
postpartum sexuality
motherhood
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Mother Load
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://laurenfrancesevans.com/">http://laurenfrancesevans.com/</a>
Medium
sculpture
collage
video
installation
Location
The location of the interview
Birmingham
Alabama
USA
Artist Statement
As an artist, I am intrigued by the materiality of the flesh and believe it to function as a microcosm that points to various aspects of the immaterial human experience. Years before ever becoming a parent, I was already fascinated by the spiritual and cosmic significance of the human belly button and its relationship to the creative act. As a child I pulled at mine, trying to flip it inside out. Years later, as a graduate student, I poured plaster into it regularly, making castings of its negative space. The belly button is the first mark that life leaves on the body; it is a scar that points to our origins.
Many creation myths describe our world as originating from a central point. The Greek term omphalos (navel) can refer to various symbolic centers that are believed to connect the earthly and divine. Just as the human belly button marks our connection to (and inevitable separation from) our mothers, these so-called navels of the world are often associated with myths of cosmic origin, functioning as physical markers of the very sites at which our earth was supposedly born into existence. This symbolism can be found across cultures and religions: ziggurats, temples, holy mountains, the tree of life, and more.
I’m excited and inspired by the navel, umbilical cord, and placenta as both site and symbol of the simultaneity that is embedded in the human experience. Questions of origin and existence are constantly shaping how I think about my creative work, and my belief is that the work of the artist, and perhaps especially the mother artist, is primarily ontological. Just as the human belly button marks both a connection to and a separation from our physical origins, the work that I make points to a similar simultaneity of opposites, referencing the body’s attraction and repulsion but also the immaterial void of human longing in us all.
Before becoming a mother, I thought of attachment and separation as psychologies experienced by the child. I didn’t realize until experiencing it firsthand that, not unlike the blood circulating through the placenta, these psychologies very much go both ways. I’ve been thinking a lot about this entanglement and have been working it out in a recent body of work. At times I imagine vividly that my daughter and I are still connected by this cord. It’s a tug of war. Often, I tug at the cord, longing for my independence from her, and more often than not, she tugs to bring me closer, unwilling to let me exist apart from her.
Topic
pregnancy
breastfeeding
let down reflex
placenta
umbilical cord
belly button
knots
faith
religion
christianity
attachment
extended breastfeeding
creative act
origins
symbolic centers
Virgin Mary
Christ
breastmilk
breast milk miscarriage
birth and death
birth
artist mother
artist parents
art
artist network
artist/mother
artist/parent/academic
bedsharing
cosleeping
body
bodies
boundaries
devine feminine
early motherhood
early parenthood
education
embodied motherhood
embroidery
family and career
female body
feminist
gestation
lactation
Madonna
maternal
materiality
milk
nursing
pieta
subjectivity
teaching
ritual
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
Wrapped Up, Tied Up, Tangled Up – solo – 2019 – Samford Art Gallery – Samford University – Birmingham, AL
ArtFields – 2019 - The ROB – Lake City, SC
Art|Mother – Unfinished Business Art Show – 2019 – Los Angeles, CA
Are We There Yet? – CIVA Juried Exhibition (forthcoming - June) – 2019 – Johnson Gallery– Bethel University – St. Paul, MN
Simultaneous Letdown – solo – 2019 (forthcoming - October) – Gatewood Gallery – University of North Carolina, at Greensboro – Greensboro, NC
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Title
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Lauren Frances Evans
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Website
The Artist's website
<p class="p1"><a href="http://www.jessdobkin.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jessdobkin.com</a></p>
Medium
performance
social practice
Location
The location of the interview
Toronto
Canada
Artist Statement
<p class="p1">I’ve been a working artist, curator, community activist and teacher for more than 25 years, creating and producing intimate solo performances, large-scale public happenings, socially engaged interventions and performance art workshops and lectures. My practice extends across black boxes and white cubes, art fairs and subway stations, international festivals, and single bathroom stalls. I’ve operated an artist-run newsstand in a vacant subway station kiosk, a soup kitchen for artists, a breast milk tasting bar, and a performance festival hub for kids. I’m forever inspired by the rebel queers, renegade witches, and other dyke moms I run with, and bound to many brilliant artists, activists, spell-casters and healers. <span class="s1">For many years I made performances that drew from my own experiences of trauma and transformation, intimacy and motherhood. More recently, I’ve experienced a shift in my practice, where my attention has turned to wider theoretical questions about the nature of performance itself to </span>ask questions about when, where, how we perform - in theatres and galleries, on social media, and in our everyday lives.</p>
Topic
abjection
activism
adulthood
aging
archive
art
art and research
artist mother
art making
artist parent
artist/mother
artistic labor
artists with children
autobiography
binary tensions
bioethics
biology
birth
birth and death
birth trauma
bleeding
body
body exploration
body transformation
breast milk
breast pump
breastfeeding
breastmilk
care
censorship
childhood
creative practice
creative strategies
cultural reproducers
culture
curating
curation
curator
curatorial practice
documentation
domestic labor
domestic life
domestic space
domesticity
early motherhood
early parenthood
empathy
ethics
exhaustion
family
family accessible event
family portrait
feminism
feminist
feminist art
feminist art theory
gender
gender roles
gender stereotypes
human body
humor
identity
interdisciplinary
intimacy
invisible labor
lactation
love
materiality
maternal
maternal body
maternal bodies
maternal care
maternal desire
maternal experience
memory
menstruation
mess
milk
mother
mother artist identity
mother as artist
mother body
mother/artist identity
mother/child relationship
motherhood and political context
motherhood
motherhood and art
motherhood and art practice
motherhood and creative practice
motherhood and social context
motherhood and studio practice
motherhood as art practice
mothering
mothers
nursing
nursing mothers
objectification
parent
parent artists
parent/child relationship
parenthood
parenting
parents
patriarchy
performativity
personal experience
play
subjectivity
power
public breastfeeding
public space
pumping
queer
queer identity
queer parenting
representation
representations of motherhood
research and art
resistance
ritual
rituals
sexuality
single mothers
single mother
social justice
social practice
stories
storytelling
theory
time
transformation
trauma
vagina
visual culture
woman
women
women and gender studies
women artists
women representation
women's health
women's identity
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
The Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar 2006, 2012, 2016
Imagined Family Portraits 2007 - ongoing
Free Childcare Provided 2013
Fee for Service 2006
Being Green 2009
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Title
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Jess Dobkin
abjection
activism
adulthood
ageing
archive
art
art and research
art making
artist mother
artist parent
artist-parents
artist/mother
artistic labor
artists with children
autobiography
binary tensions
bioethics
biology
birth
birth and death
birth trauma
bleeding
body
body exploration
body transformation
breast milk
breast pump
breastfeeding
breastmilk
Care
censorship
childhood
creative practice
creative strategies
cultural reproducers
culture
curating
curation
curator
curatorial practice
documentation
domestic labor
domestic life
domestic space
domesticity
early motherhood
early parenthood
empathy
ethics
exhaustion
family
family accessible event
family portrait
feminism
feminist
feminist art
feminist art theory
gender
gender roles
gender stereotypes
human body
humor
identity
interdisciplinary
intimacy
invisible labor
lactation
love
materiality
maternal
maternal bodies
maternal body
maternal care
maternal desire
maternal experience
memory
menstruation
mess
milk
mother
mother artist
mother artist identity
mother artists
mother as artist
mother body
mother/artist identity
mother/child relationship
motherhood
motherhood and art
motherhood and art practice
motherhood and creative practice
motherhood and political context
motherhood and social context
motherhood and studio practice
motherhood as art practice
mothering
mothers
nursing
nursing mothers
objectification
parent
parent artists
parent/child relationship
parenthood
parenting
parents
patriarchy
performativity
personal experience
play
power
public breastfeeding
public space
pumping
queer
queer identity
queer parenting
representation
representations of motherhood
research and art
resistance
ritual
rituals
sexuality
single mother
single mothers
social justice
social practice
Stories
storytelling
subjectivity
theory
time
transformation
trauma
vagina
visual culture
woman
women
women and gender studies
women artists
women representation
women’s health
women’s identity
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Artist Parent Index
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Website
The Artist's website
<p class="p1"><a href="jesstaylorartist.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jesstaylorartist.com</a></p>
Medium
sculpture
new media
Location
The location of the interview
Adelaide
Australia
Artist Statement
<p class="p1">I am an early career artist whose practice explores my fascination with fictional horror through primarily digital methods of making. Within the broader realm of horror, I have a particular interest in monsters, voyeurism, and depictions of female brutality, sadism, and masochism. Using my own image and body exclusively, my work presents versions of womanhood that transgress the bounds of what we are taught is acceptable, uncanny spectres of female experience that society is keen to repress. Here, monstrosity is configured as a source of damnation and agency, reflecting womanhood as complex and contradictory.</p>
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<p class="p3">My own experience as a mother has been one of profound contradiction, of exhilarating highs and profound lows, of love and fury, comfort and trauma. I struggle to reconcile the fact that the greatest time in my life is also the one when it was the darkest, and that my body birthed a miracle but feels like a ruin. I am not as I was, but not quite sure what I am now; I’ve yet to turn into anything resembling the gargantuan mother archetype we’re fed, and too much of the old Jess remains for me to consider myself someone new. I have been transformed, reborn, reconfigured using the old parts. Some days those new parts feel like they were made of steel, making me infinitely stronger than I was, and other days that steel bites into my flesh, broken limbs fused back together suddenly failing to bear my weight.</p>
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<p class="p3">Motherhood is a monstrous condition; it is incredible and disturbing, beautiful and completely fucked up. Like monstrosity, it is transformative, and for the woman-monster, this transformation is a source of both agency and damnation, strength and weakness. My work since my son is in part an attempt to reconcile the contradiction inherent in my own experience of motherhood, and to bridge the divide between what I am and what we are told a mother should be.</p>
<p class="p3">Experiencing pregnancy for the second time has greatly influenced my work, causing me to reflect much more closely on the process of bearing a child. There is the strange bodily awareness and attempts to reconcile this cavernous space that exists within me, and evocations of my own paranoias as I imagine this space as a place of both hope and doom. I like to think there is also some absurdity when one looks at a ridiculous, bulbous woman, or my lady-giants, but there is also the tenderness of the nets that keep the babies close to her body, or the way a stomach is opened up to sate the curiosity of the smaller figures who peer inside. There is the sorrow of the figure on the bridge as she surveys the fallen before her (a mediation on periods in history where the practice of fallen-mothers ending their lives and the lives of their offspring was not only a grim expectation, but an act of redemption), and my attempt to see a ruin as a place of beauty and life.</p>
Topic
abjection
ambivalence
anger
anxiety
artist mother
attachment
autonomy
bad mother
birth
birth trauma
body transformation
boundaries
childbirth
contemporary
contemporary art practice
contradictions
domestic
family ties
female experience
female sexuality
feminine
femininity
feminism
feminist
feminist art
feminist art theory
fertility
grotesque
growth
guilt
identity
loneliness
longing
loss
loss of identity
maternal ambivalence
maternal anxiety
maternal body
maternal desire
maternal experience
maternal fear
maternal guilt
mother
mother artist
motherhood
postpartum body
pregnancy
pregnant body
psychoanalysis
representation
science fiction
self portrait
technology
trauma
voyeurism
womb
women
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Jess Taylor
abjection
ambivalence
anger
anxiety
artist mother
attachment
Australia
autonomy
bad mother
birth
birth trauma
body transformation
boundaries
childbirth
contemporary art
contemporary art practice
contradictions
domestic
family ties
female experience
female sexuality
feminine
femininity
feminism
feminist
feminist art
feminist art theory
feminist theory
fertility
grotesque
growth
guilt
identity
loneliness
longing
loss
loss of identity
maternal
maternal ambivalence
maternal anxiety
maternal bodies
maternal body
maternal desire
maternal experience
maternal fear
maternal guilt
mother
mother artist
motherhood
new media
postpartum body
pregnancy
pregnant body
psychoanalysis
representation
science fiction
sculpture
self portrait
technology
trauma
voyeurism
womb
women
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Exhibition Archive
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Exhibition Website
<a href="https://www.whakatanemuseum.org.nz/exhibitions-and-events/mother" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.whakatanemuseum.org.nz/exhibitions-and-events/mother</a>
Curator
Sarah Hudson
Gallery
Te Kōputu - Whakatāne Library and Exhibition Centre
Curatorial Statement
M/other is an exhibition on contemporary artists from around New Zealand creating work about motherhood, mothering and maternal roles. Artist contributions from: Erena Baker, Leala Faleseuga, Rhonda Halliday, Turumeke Harrington, Claire Harris, Tash Helasdottir-Cole, Zoe Thompson-Moore, Jasmine Togo-Brisby, Kararaina Toi, Justine Walker
Location
The location of the interview
Whakatāne
New Zealand
Artists
Erena Baker
Leala Faleseuga
Rhonda Halliday
Turumeke Harrington
Claire Harris
Tash Helasdottir-Cole
Zoe Thompson-Moore
Jasmine Togo-Brisby
Kararaina Toi
Justine Walker
Topic
motherhood
mothering
maternal roles
artist mother
artist/mother,
artistic labor
artists with children
autonomy
binary tensions
birthday parties
bleeding
breast milk
breast pump
care labor
body
birth
contemporary art
conceptual art
IVF, mental health, miscarriage, maternal, needlework, postpartum, personal, women artists, women representation,
domestic families
feminism
handwork traditions
indigenous motherhood
infertility
intergenerational
IVF
mental health
miscarriage
maternal
needlework
postpartum
personal
women artists
women representation
Duration
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April 20 - August 17, 2019
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M/other
Contributor
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Sarah Hudson
artist mother
artist/mother
artistic labor
artists with children
autonomy
binary tensions
birth
birthday parties
bleeding
body
breast milk
breast pump
care labor
conceptual art
contemporary art
domestic
families
feminism
handwork traditions
Indigenous motherhood
infertility
intergenerational
IVF
maternal
maternal roles
mental health
miscarriage
motherhood
mothering
needlework
New Zealand
personal
postpartum
Whakatāne
women artists
women representation
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://paulflippen.com/section/206602_The_Birds_and_The_Bees.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://paulflippen.com/section/206602_The_Birds_and_The_Bees.html</a>
Topic
birth
family planning
gestation
Medium
painting
Artist Statement
This body of work, inspired by the birth of my son, explores the complications of love, pleasure, and the act of creation – literal and metaphorical, biological and artistic. Pollinating birds and bees suggestively interact with abstractions derived from decorative patterns of antique marriage certificates – a union of instinctive desire with cultural expectations of formalized relationships. These crisply painted elements are layered over digital transfers of the chemical synthesis of progesterone (the “pregnancy hormone” necessary for healthy fetal development, and a major ingredient in many forms of birth control). These images are further layered over manipulated lace patterns found on internet photographs of lingerie and wedding dresses – mechanized patterns that, like lace itself, exist simultaneously to display and obscure.
Location
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Colorado
USA
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Paul Flippen
Title
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Paul Flippen
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.whatfandoes.com">www.whatfandoes.com</a>
Topic
birth
labour
post-partum
data visualization
Medium
Soundscape and hand knitted blanket
Artist Statement
“Labour” is a hand knitted data visualisation that tells the story of my daughter’s birth. Each square represents one of the 15 hours between my waters breaking and my daughter being born. Different colours, patterns and textures indicate where I was, what emotions I went through, the intensity of the contractions and other sensations, the support I received, and what hormone likely dominated the situation. The blanket is accompanied by a 5mn audio soundscape. The act of knitting evokes waiting, expectation and hours of hard work. Thus, it becomes an accurate reflection of pre-birth and labour. During the few days preceding and following her birth, all I wanted was to crawl into bed and hide from the outside world. It is likely that my body was craving melatonin, a hormone released in dark, calm and safe situations. Melatonin boosts the production of the birth hormone, oxytocin, which in turns helps to release endorphins, our bodies’ natural pain relief. The blanket represents the place of safety I was craving during that time.
Location
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London
United Kingdom
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Fan Sissoko
birth
data visualization
labor
labour
Post-partum.
sound scape
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caac88c32aa24476b2ed20c6302b694f
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Resource Library
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Author
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/328">Nanna Lysholt Hansen</a>
Year of Publication
2017
City of Publication
Berlin/Copenhagen
State of Publication
Danmark
ISBN 13
978-87-999834-2-1
Topic
birth
pregnancy
techonology
language
cyborg
Donna Haraway
Cyborg Manifesto
Publisher
<a href="http://www.labae.org/publications/dear-daughter">Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology / Nanna Lysholt Hansen</a>
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Dear Daughter
birth
cyborg
Cyborg Manifesto
daughter
Donna Haraway
language
pregnancy
technology
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0dc8329efd505b32db620df021c46147
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Echoes of Silence
Description
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film still
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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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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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://vimeo.com/168804441" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://vimeo.com/168804441</a>
Medium
film
video
Location
The location of the interview
London
United Kingdom
Sofia
Bulgaria
Artist Statement
Ever since Stiliyana fell pregnant in 2015, she has been exclusively interested in the maternal-female body as a ‘subject-in-process’. The methods used for the examination is taking the woman as both the surveyor and the surveyed within her entity as two constituent, yet always distinct elements within her identity as a woman. ‘Women watch themselves being looked at’. <br /><br />During the birth of her daughter Stelena, her artistic focus took more institutional direction and started questioning the definition of labour during the negotiations between the woman and institution. A question which arose during the birth was whether the woman’s labour begins when she is officially admitted to the hospital and agreed by the personnel and whether the maternal experience is filtered through a screen of social influences. <br /><br />Her film ‘Parturition’, shot whilst giving birth at St Thomas’s hospital used the personal processes of both labour and birth as instruments to trace their appearances as a journey outside memory and rational thought, to a place that supplies material for the production of meaning that remains forever out of reach, but turning it into a live project by directing and acting in a diversification of roles. The artist believes that the processes of both birth and labour are the transformative events through which the birthing mother would be able to recognise, consequently materialise her subjectivity. The conceptual division which the woman experiences during birth giving creates a space of progression. Progression from the internal feminine environment of the womb to the external space of life itself. The consciousness becomes the expanding womb as the woman turns into an extension.
<br /><br />Stiliyana continues to be interested in the theme of deinstitutionalisation. She would like the birthing mother to be turned from a medical object into a celebratory matriarchal reproductive economy. Birth is neither a disease, nor an illness. In fact, it is the most beautiful battle which leads to even more beautiful experience, the one of motherhood.
Topic
reproduction
birth
womb
medicalization of birth
labor and delivery
subjectivity
maternal body
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/299" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Left Overs</a>
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Title
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Stiliyana Minkovska
birth
Bulgaria
childbirth
England
film
labor and delivery
London
medicalization of birth
reproduction
Sofia
subjectivity
video
womb
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Resource Library
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Author
Adrienne Rich
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Date of Publication
October 1, 1976
ISBN 13
9780393312843
ISBN 10
0393312844
Topic
feminism
gender
birth
feminist theory
embodied motherhood
patriarchy
institution of motherhood
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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
birth
embodied motherhood
feminism
feminist theory
gender
institution of motherhood
patriarchy
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0eea4b659b44db97d608db45ab70e74d
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Author
Luce Irigaray
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13
978-3319392219
ISBN 10
3319392212
Topic
philosophy
feminism
birth
phenomenology
social philosophy
psychoanalysis
Date of Publication
February 19, 2017
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To Be Born: Genesis of a New Human Being
birth
feminism
Irigaray
Luce Irigaray
phenomenology
philosophy
psychoanalysis
social philosophy
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Exhibition Archive
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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&h=ATP3zIcgQws7dMMGKD1jVYRNgfjvXICZJ-MkTYCna45Q9nx1pihw4wfBSeSSEutZsJoPF4wEgvSRO-yhevQ6b3-a6NqtwrAYoWkRP6cYyaGVja0W0Ky-vEHYWQMGTx1w4djdQV5nADo&enc=AZNHwsnCw3e2FumMf0ngInE4jlI6BHsAQjDdyfSZzrg4Kz_emV47ajZbve5feNvYdQQ&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
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Maternity Leave: Para-Natural Pregnancies
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://courtneyjohnson.net/afterlife.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://courtneyjohnson.net/afterlife.html</a>
Medium
pigment print from cliche-verre
cliche-verre
pigment print
Artist Statement
In 2014, I was pregnant with my first child and working on Afterlife, the second part, of Cycle of Cities, a nine part series chronicling the rise and fall of cities through a universal myth cycle. I was working in cliché-verre, an obscure historic photographic process first practiced shortly after the invention of photography in the 1800s. French for glass negative, cliché-verre is a photo-painting hybrid process. The work begins as a painting on glass in negative and is then enlarged and printed photographically.
I 're-invented again' cliché-verre in the late 1990s while living in an all-girls dormitory. With limited off campus access, my opportunities to take images with a camera were somewhat uninspiring, so I made my own negatives by painting on glass. I used available materials—nail polish, paint, Vaseline, white-out, wax pencil, &c. In hindsight, this is an exceptionally feminine approach to photography. Whereas a man might go 'hunting' for the perfect materials at an art supply store, or 'hunting' for a photograph with a camera, I worked with available materials, including beauty supplies. I have continued using nail polish as my primary medium for cliché-verre, along with ink and white-out, for the past two decades.
Since pregnancy prevented me from working with chemicals, including nail polish, I had to change materials for this series. After testing inks and dyes, I used natural food coloring made from turmeric, beets, and spinach to depict dead stars at the far reaches of space. Dead stars are very womblike, both coincidentally and intentionally.
Cycle of Cities is a uniquely feminine project, as much about motherhood as about the galaxy. Cycles—life, moon, menstrual—as well as mythology, storytelling, and interpreting cities and new technologies' impacts are all feminine, maternal approaches to photography and the world. Experiencing pregnancy and the birth of my daughter while depicting a lifecycle can only be done by a woman. By integrating content, form, and experience this work expresses the feminine without making the feminine the subject.
Topic
pregnancy
menstrual cycle
birth
daughter
lifecycle
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Courtney Johnson
birth
daughter
lifecycles
menstruation
pregnancy
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://ireneperez.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://ireneperez.net</a>
Topic
motherhood
learning
education
feminism
ecology
body
care labor
autonomy
mother
daughter
mothering
conversation
sexuality
teaching
birth
empowerment
politics
economics
racism
migration
fanzines
music
death
language
comic books
feminist science fiction
Medium
textile based works
works on paper
sound
Artist Statement
I use textile materials and techniques, and most recently also sound, to explore experiences, as well as to make artworks that aim to become the vehicle to create new ones. My most recent project, New Universe: Discovering Other Possibilities, was born from my interest to explore the learning processes that occur between a mother and her child. What and how we learn, when do we learn, where do we learn, and from whom do we learn are some of the ideas that I have been investigating through and for this project. New Universe presents a group of works that take as their starting point moments and experiences within the family and in particular through the child-mother relationship. From these experiences, my creations explore ideas related to discovery, invention and the unknown. Thus, there are pieces born from daily activities such as playing, time spent with family and care labor, as well as those born from conversations with other parents and research. In its entirety the project included and exhibition, a workshop and several activities during a three month period at the Textile Museum and Documentation Centre in Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain. This project is still growing.
From Between My Legs, 2019, Textile based art piece.
STATEMENT:
From Between My Legs is a work born from the experience and exploration of motherhood through the interactions of the bodies of mother and daughter. Thus, this work, framed in relation to the natural world, refers to the acquired independence of the daughter's body, to the consciously feminist mothering practice and to the sexual pleasure of the body of the mother, events all of them that have the literal or metaphorically starting point in the place between the legs of the mother.
From between my legs
a new combative and vindicating being is born
that has made me rethink my limits
and the limits of what surrounds me.
From between my legs
is born the strength to understand
the world beyond binary conceptions.
From between my legs
an invigorating pleasure is born
and it makes me feel powerful.
Seeds For Resistance, 2017- ongoing, multidisciplinary (actions, works on paper, textile works)
STATEMENT:
Multidisciplinary project that stems from the conversations I have been having with my daughter. They are conversations about favorite colors, our bodies, super-(s)heros, comic books, feminism(s), illness, politics, sexuality, clothing, economics, racism, migration, fanzines, ecology, music, death, language and many other things. In progress.
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/452">Extended Self: Transformations and Connections</a>
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Irene Pérez
Title
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Irene Pérez
care labor
ecology
feminism
learning
teaching
textile
the body
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Artist Parent Index
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Website
The Artist's website
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://www.mhurstfrye.com/origin.html" target="_blank">http://www.mhurstfrye.com/origin.html</a></span>
Medium
still life
photography
Location
The location of the interview
Seattle
Washington
Artist Statement
<span>Melinda Hurst Frye</span><span> is a photographic artist working in themes of implied environments and shared experiences. She exhibits at CORE gallery in Seattle, Washington. Melinda holds an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design and is a dedicated member of </span><span>Society for Photographic Education.</span><span> Melinda Hurst Frye teaches photography at the Art Institute of Seattle as well as occasional workshops in the northwest region.</span>
Topic
motherhood
birth
family
childhood
domestic life
environment
passage of time
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Melinda Hurst Frye
birth
botanical
childhood
domestic life
environment
family
passage of time
photography motherhood
Seattle
still life
Washington
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Exhibition Archive
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Location
The location of the interview
Manchester
United Kingdom
Curator
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/131" target="_blank">Helen Knowles</a>
Curatorial Statement
<p>An exhibition exploring the politics and practice of childbirth through contemporary artwork, uniting artists and childbirth professionals to consider the social, cultural and political implications of the way we give birth.<br /><br />Advances in biomedical technology and the shift towards medical intervention in birth have coincided with a focus on ensuring women have an equal footing with men in the workplace, which, potentially, has reduced their importance as mothers. In this context, how free are women to give birth how they want and where they want?</p>
<p><br />Birth rites was initiated by Helen Knowles, an artist and curator, whose contrasting experiences of hospital caesarean and home birth spurred her to question society’s approach to birth. She has been working alongside Phoebe Mortimer, Head of Public Programmes, to bring Birth Rites to the attention of the general public.</p>
Artists
Jaygo Bloom
Juan delGado
Suzanne Holtom
Andy Lawrence
Ping Qiu
Hermione Wiltshire
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
20 September to 30 November 2008
Event Type
Exhibit
Exhibition Website
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://birthrites.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://birthrites.org.uk/</a></span>
Museum
Manchester Museum
Topic
childbirth
birth
society
mothers
motherhood
equality
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Birth Rites
birth
childbirth
contemporary art
equality
Manchester
motherhood
mothers
society
United Kingdom
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Artist Parent Organization Database
Service
An organization supporting artist parents.
Location
The location of the interview
Manchester
United Kingdom
Topic
contemporary art
childbirth
birth
mothers
motherhood
equality
About
The Birth Rites Collection is the first and only collection of contemporary artwork dedicated to the subject of childbirth. The collection currently comprises of photography, sculpture, painting, wallpaper, drawing, new media, documentary and experimental film. It is housed between the Royal College of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians in London and Salford University Midwifery Department.
Organization Website
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://birthritescollection.org.uk/home/4541196091" target="_blank">http://birthritescollection.org.uk/home/4541196091</a></span>
Organzation Director
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/131" target="_blank">Helen Knowles</a>
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Birth Rites Collection
birth
childbirth
contemporary art
equality
Manchester
motherhood
mothers
society
United Kingdom
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<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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Exhibition Archive
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Exhibition Website
<a href="http://www.lentos.at/html/en/3312.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.lentos.at/html/en/3312.aspx</a>
Curator
Sabine Fellner
Elisabeth Nowak-Thaller
Stella Rollig
Gallery
Lentos Art Museum
Curatorial Statement
Super mom or childless? It almost looks as if there were no such thing any longer as motherhood pure and simple, as if all that is left is the choice between perfectionism and resignation. Nevertheless, motherhood has many aspects: joy, an intense experience of life, love relationship, learning, exultation, on one hand, and, on the other, frustration, being weighed down by expectations and the fear of being inadequate to the task. Until the 19th century motherhood was never called into question even if in actual reality the rewards often fell woefully short of projected ideals. It was only the advent of career openings for women that created alternatives to motherhood as a fulfilled life. Pregnancy, birth, abortion, life with children, the decision against children, the struggle of children with their mothers – all these themes have their place in art. Nor did we have to wait for 1960s feminist art to produce realistic portrayals of the mother’s role but fi nd renderings of social reality and individual conflicts already as early as the beginning of the 20th century. The exhibition showcases not only shifts in the stereotypes of motherhood from 1900 to today but also the changes in the perspective from which children see their mothers. It calls into question the optimisation logic of today’s life designs and nurtures the hope of change: an ever greater number of women with children opt out of the complex, often stressful regime of everyday life, refusing to accept their life world between career, children and consumption as preordained or God-given.
Location
The location of the interview
Linz, Austria
Event Type
Exhibition
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
23 October 2015 to 21 February 2016
Topic
pregnancy
birth
abortion
life with children
motherhood
parenting
Artists
Uli Aigner
Ed Alcock
Iris Andraschek
Robert Angerhofer
Siegfried Anzinger
Tina Barney
Max Beckmann
Charlotte Berend-Corinth
Werner Berg
Renate Bertlmann
Margret Bilger
Herbert Boeckl
Louise Bourgeois
Candice Breitz
Arthur Brusenbauch
Heinrich Campendonk
Hans Canon
Elinor Carucci
Sevda Chkoutova
Larry Clark
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/44" target="_blank">Lenka Clayton</a>
Lovis Corinth
Wilhelm Dachauer
Carola Dertnig
Rineke Dijkstra
Otto Dix
Nathalie Djurberg
Béatrice Dreux
Diane Ducruet
Miriam Elia
Anton Faistauer
Lucian Freud
Fritz Fröhlich
Aldo Giannotti
Burt Glinn
Lea Grundig
Johannes Grützke
Ernst Haas
Conny Habbel
Maria Hahnenkamp
Keith Haring
Karl Hartung
Karl Hauk
Carry Hauser
Gottfried Helnwein
Hannah Höch
Axel Johannessen
Birgit Jürgenssen
Mary Kelly
Josef Kern
Franz Kimm
Gustav Klimt
Max Klinger
Kiki Kogelnik
Oskar Kokoschka
Silvia Koller
Broncia Koller-Pinell
Käthe Kollwitz
Julia Krahn
Johannes Krejci
Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller
Alfred Kubin
Maria Lassnig
Leigh Ledare
Erich Lessing
Switbert Lobisser
Baltasar Lobo
Lea Lublin
Elena Luksch-Makowsky
Karin Mack
Christian Macketanz
Hans Makart
Jeanne Mammen
Matthias May
Jonathan Meese
Georg Merkel
Larry Miller
Gabi Mitterer
Paula Modersohn-Becker
Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
Ron Mueck
Otto Mueller
Alice Neel
Shirin Neshat
Max Oppenheimer
Florentina Pakosta
Rebecca Paterno
Pablo Picasso
Margot Pilz
Hanna Putz
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/114" target="_blank">Gail Rebhan</a>
Paula Rego
Rudolf Ribarz
Annerose Riedl
Frenzi Rigling
Franz Ringel
Ulrike Rosenbach
Judith Samen
Hansel Sato
Egon Schiele
Zineb Sedira
Ulrika Segerberg
Kiki Smith
Annegret Soltau
Viktoria Sorochinski
Daniel Spoerri
Sarah Sudhoff
Viktor Tischler
Paloma Varga Weisz
Borjana Ventzislavova mit Mirsolav Nicic und Mladen Penev
Nurith Wagner-Strauss
Andy Walde
Alfons Warhol
Gillian Wearing
Helene Winger-Stein
Anna Witt
Judith Zillich
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MOTHER OF THE YEAR
Between Empowerment and Crisis: Images of Motherhood from 1900 to Today
abortion
birth
life with children
motherhood
parenting
pregnancy
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Artist Parent Index
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://milaoshin1.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://milaoshin1.wordpress.com/</a>
Medium
writing
curating
poetry
video art
Topic
pregnancy
birth
home birth
childbirth trauma
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project Afterbirth - Curator</a>
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Mila Oshin
birth
childbirth trauma
curating
home birth
labor
poetry
pregnancy
writing
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.helensargeant.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.helensargeant.co.uk/</a>
Medium
drawing
painting
installation
video art
sound
performance
photography
Location
The location of the interview
Todmorden
England
Artist Statement
Sargeant makes artwork about the female body, identity and mental fragility. She works across drawing, painting, photography, sound, video, performance and installation to explore her ideas.
Sargeant's arts practice is communicated through the visceral physical reality of the female body and psychological contexts. The work combines fiction and autobiography. Central to this practice is the utilisation of lived experience as a way to communicate emotions directly to an audience by making the personal public.
"We are born and we make marks through the vapour of our first breath, through our first excrement and from the saliva of our mouths enclosing around our mothers breasts."
– Helen Sargeant
Recent drawings represent the vulnerability and power of the biological body through pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding. The pregnant body is schematised and seen as, a vessel or a holding place. Dr Jacques Rangasamy writes:
"In her drawings, the space of pregnancy overflows the confines of the body; expectations are transmuted into feelings, and are located in parts of the body that are connected by tubular structures, the curved flights of single arrows and what appears as knotted ropes or rosary beads. It is perhaps an echo of the intelligence of life as it is instinctually felt rather than reasoned and rationalised. And therefore more authentic.In the way Chinese artists use ink as a symbol of the creative potential of the Tao, or primordial essence, Helen Sargeant uses ink to represent the bodily fluids essential to the alchemy of life. The ink and the forms it engenders form part of the same organic nature."
Drawings representing birth were recently published in Studies in the Maternal visual editor Rebecca Baillie writes:
"In her series’ of birth drawings Sargeant unites the public practice of watching YouTube birth videos with the more personal experience of giving birth oneself. The drawings aim to expose both the physical and emotional experience of birth, paying attention to feelings of emotional detachment during the delivery of her sons The birthing body is explored as an indicator of cultural and social anxiety, giving voice to pain and trauma beyond that of the actual birth."
Images documenting breastfeeding through drawings and photography look to show maternal jouissance and the sensual pleasures of the mother baby relationship. Maternal subjectivity is further explored within recent photographs documenting a performance where Sargeant bakes at home with her children to make loaves of bread formed into birthing figures that are subsequently eaten by her family at breakfast. Another performance documents her baking bread from the dust in her vacuum cleaner. Throughout this practice Sargeant seeks to explore, challenge and critique normative discourses and idealised representations of motherhood.
Topic
pregnancy
birth
motherhood
breastfeeding
bread baking
fertility
pain
identity
vulnerability
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a>
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Helen Sargeant
birth
bread baking
England
motherhood
pregnancy
Todmorden
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Artist Parent Index
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.belindakochanowska.com/" target="_blank">http://www.belindakochanowska.com/</a>
Medium
photo-montage
photo-collage
Location
The location of the interview
Brisbane
Australia
Artist Statement
Kochanowska uses an intuitive and self-reflexive process of photo-montage to express her psychological, spiritual and physical experience of pregnancy, motherhood and the natural world. Kochanowska draws from 16th, 17th and 18th century anatomical, botanical and natural history illustration to construct works teaming with fleshy distortions, flora, fauna and fantastical locations. Alternative mythologies are presented that are at once joyous, surreal, organic and deformed, blossoming with life, yet also brimming with a haunting disquiet.
Biography
Belinda Kochanowska is an artist based in Brisbane, Australia. Her practice frequently explores issues of memory, environment, women’s identity and physicality. She has exhibited in various group and solo exhibitions in Australia, UK and USA, including international publications. Kochanowska has also worked as the Executive Officer for the Queensland Centre for Photography. Her work has been shortlisted for an international art prize and recently chosen for a 3 year International Exhibition touring the UK, Europe and USA: “Project Afterbirth”. Her work is held in “The Birth Rites Collection”, University of Salford (UK) and the collection of the Royal College Of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (UK).
Topic
women's identity
memory
environment
pregnancy
postpartum depression
anxiety
birth
pregnancy and fear
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a>
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Belinda Kochanowska
anxiety
Australia
Brisbane
fear
photo-collage
photo-montage
postpartum depression
pregnancy and fear
women's identity
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://alvarezerrecalde.com/" target="_blank">http://alvarezerrecalde.com/</a>
Medium
photography
Location
The location of the interview
Barcelona
Spain
Artist Statement
"Themes inspired by my personal experiences such as vital cycles, birth, motherhood, illness, immigration, ageing and death are found throughout my body of work. I create images that become a document of our love, our fears and our conquests.
My artwork is a contemporary social commentary through which I like to challenge the singular story that has been told and reinforced as a way of normalizing roles and attitudes. I cherish plurality and my way of doing so is to contribute images and testimonies that expands perspective and the constricted existing imagery.
Within a common experience like expecting a child or the passing away of a parent, we find transcendental truth. Art has the potential of transmitting that emotion to confront our daily numbness with something that is authentically substantial and profound.
I believe that there is a manipulative and deliberate lack of information that hinders the understanding of just how empowering and transformative motherhood can be. I cherish plurality and my way of contributing is to share my experiences in order to expand the constrained social imagery.
In "Birth of My Daughter", a self-portrait while giving birth, I take off my "cultural" veil. My maternity is not virginal or aseptic. I am the archetype of the primal woman, the woman beast that has nothing prohibited. I show a maternity not seen through the eyes of Eve (the divine punishment "you will give birth with the pain of your body"), but seen through the eyes of Lucy (the earliest hominid found to date). These photographs can help others rethink the idea of the fragile, painful, out of control and overly medicated birth that is considered the norm in many countries.
How I relate to nudity and blood is a mirror of my fascination with life. I am accepting of my changing body, amazed with how my children grow, and intrigued by the aging process. The blood and nudity seen within the context of my artwork is linked to authenticity and undiluted sensuality. I create images that become a document of our love, our fears and our conquests."
<a href="http://imowblog.blogspot.com.es/2014/01/in-conversation-with-ana-alvarez.html" target="_blank">Interview with Her Blue Print</a>
<a href="http://flicmagazine.com/mag/en/2014/07/ana-alvarez-errecalde/" target="_blank">Interview with Flic Magazine</a>
Topic
motherhood
birth
postpartum body
aging
daughter
breastfeeding
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Ana Álvarez-Errecalde
aging
Barcelona
birth
breastfeeding
daughter
motherhood
postpartum body
pregnancy
Spain
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="Website%20www.kristinemoran.com" target="_blank">www.kristinemoran.com</a>
Medium
painting
Location
The location of the interview
Brooklyn
New York
Artist Statement
Through formal and abstract gestures, Kristine Moran presents a new series of paintings that consider the complexities of relationships and the charged psychological spaces that emotional exchanges can perpetuate. This is visualized by Moran's concern with bodily actions and the moment when an emotion or vision becomes articulated through the body and directed towards a familial or intimately related figure. In Moran's coherent yet clouded scenes, these actions are transformed by the artist into something more symbolic, possibly reminding the viewer of their own ties to other people or moments of intense outpour.
In many ways, Moran's paintings are a reflection of the physical and metaphysical spaces she has occupied or continues to occupy. The artist's studio, her home, and her art practice coalesce in unexpected ways. During countless hours spent observing and interacting with friends and family, issues of gender politics, domestic labor, relationship failures and personal moralities are laid bare to dissect. Various series of paintings have come to echo Moran's transition into motherhood and at the same time, becoming motherless. Whether through observation or lived experience, these moments make their way into loose narratives that form the basis for her paintings. These are often filled with absurdity, dark humor, and euphoria, mirroring the qualities of life.
Moran's interchange of the personal and professional is deeply connected to a lineage of female artists who have utilized their lived experience as a means of speaking to what it means to be alive. The artist sees her work closely aligned with the practices of Alice Neel, Louise Bourgeois, Elizabeth Murray and Frances Stark.
Topic
birth
domestic labor
motherhood
children and restaurants
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Kristine Moran
birth
Brooklyn
domestic labor
motherhood
New York
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Exhibition Archive
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Location
The location of the interview
Barnstaple
Devon
United Kingdom
Topic
birth
pregnancy
research
interdisciplinary
midwifery
women and gender studies
social justice
early parenthood
research institute
About
Project AfterBirth began an exhibition intended to contribute to an interdisciplinary research initiative led by Project AfterBirth and a team of academics from the fields of obstetrics, mental health, midwifery, media studies, social justice, and women and gender studies, which is aimed at shedding light on modern pregnancy and birth practices and their impact on 21st century early parenthood experiences.
Organization Website
<a href="https://projectafterbirth.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://projectafterbirth.wordpress.com/</a>
Organzation Director
<a href="https://milaoshin1.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Mila Oshin</a>
Kris Jager
Gallery
<a href="http://www.whitemoose.co.uk/site/" target="_blank">White Moose</a>
Curator
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Mila Oshin</a>
<a href="https://drunkwithjoy.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Kris Jager</a>
Artists
Alison O’Neill
Amanda West
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/30" target="_blank">Belinda Kochanowska</a>
Carole Evans
Chris Anthem
Clare Archibald
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/27" target="_blank">Courtney Kessel</a>
Csilla Nagy
Danielle Hobbs
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/135" target="_blank">Debbie Lee</a>
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/31" target="_blank">Eti Wade</a>
Geoffrey Harrison
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/32" target="_blank">Helen Sargeant</a>
Hester Berry
Ione Rucquoi
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/36" target="_blank">Jana Kasalova</a>
Jenny Lewis
Josie Beszant
Laura James Wray
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/111" target="_blank">Lu Heintz</a>
Madison Omahne
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/37" target="_blank">Magda Stawarska Beavan</a>
Marilyn Kyle
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/38" target="_blank">Rachel Fallon</a>
Rocio Saenz
Ruth Gray
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/35" target="_blank">Sasha Waters Freyer</a>
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/11" target="_blank">Sarah Sudhoff</a>
Tareg Morris
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/62" target="_blank">Trish Morrissey</a>
Event Type
Exhibition
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Sat 3 Oct 2015 – Fri 13 Nov 2015
Curatorial Statement
The triumph of new motherhood. Stillbirth. Full-time fatherhood. Single parenthood. Miscarriage. Bringing up a child near a warzone. Bilingual speech development. Postnatal depression. Infertility. Adoption. These are just some of the themes dealt with in the 39 works of art showcased as part of Project AfterBirth; the first ever international exhibition on the subject of early parenthood, launching at White Moose gallery, UK, this October. Each of the 39 works in the exhibition – which spans the visual, performance, literary, film and digital arts – were made in the 21st century and represent the personal pregnancy, birth or new parenthood experiences of 30 international contemporary male and female artists. Due to the lingering taboo status of parenthood in the contemporary art world and its perceived inferiority as a subject, most of the works have never been shown publicly before. At times hilarious and at times deeply moving, the exhibition stands to leave a lasting impression on parents, but will also resonate with anyone in terms of their own individual birth and childhood journeys. The exhibition is also a first in demonstrating the profound influence pregnancy, birth and new parenthood experiences can have on the practice of 21st century female and male artists.
Exhibition Website
<a href="https://projectafterbirth.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://projectafterbirth.wordpress.com/</a>
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Project AfterBirth
birth
early parenthood
England
London
midwifery
pregnancy
research
research institute
social justice
United Kingdom
women and gender studies
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://meganwynne.net/work/motherhood/photography" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://meganwynne.net/work/motherhood/photography</a>
Medium
photography
Topics
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bed sharing
breastfeeding
motherhood
parenthood
domestic space
personal boundaries
Location
The location of the interview
Norfolk
Virginia
Artist Statement
My recent work focuses on the subject of myself and my daughters to speak about the intensity, intimacy, and interdependence of motherhood. Playing with the persona of the mother and the mother-as-artist, the work brings up uncomfortable questions about identity, autonomy, and childrearing.
The images are at once familiar and unfamiliar, inviting and repelling. The work often straddles the line between referencing the family snapshot and cold clinical documentation. There is also ambiguity in how the individuals in the scene are emotionally and physically relating to each other. This uncertainty helps to create a sense of surreality in the work, and dark humor and melodrama within the narrative further push this aspect of the imagery. I use these devices to reflect on the deeply mysterious, contradictory, and often unknowable psychological undercurrent beneath everyday experiences of interconnection.
The mother-child relationship is the most primary and foundational relationship in one's life. In addition, there is a deep transgenerational legacy of the mother-child dynamic, in which beliefs, behaviors, and past traumas haunt one generation to the next. In my work I explore my maternal inheritance, as I address the intensity and profound complexity of the bond I have with my children. These depictions of the maternal experience challenge dominant reductive and over-sentimentalized representations of motherhood, as well as idealized and over-simplified perspectives on childhood.
Topic
motherhood
bedsharing
domestic space
breastfeeding
personal boundaries
Artist Residency in Motherhood
birth
childbirth
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/404" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The M Word, One Paved Court Gallery, 1 – 12 May 2019</a>
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Megan Wynne
bedsharing
birth
breastfeeding
childbirth
domestic space
lactation
motherhood
photograph
photography and motherhood
pregnancy
United States
Virginia