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<a href="https://www.rachellebeaudoin.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.rachellebeaudoin.com/</a><br /><br />
<p><span><a href="https://cargocollective.com/arim21" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://cargocollective.com/arim21</a> </span></p>
Medium
video
performance
animation
Location
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Peterborough
New Hampshire
Artist Statement
<p>In performances, videos, I confront stereotypes and tropes of gender representation to create a space of uncertainty. I research and deconstruct the ways in which women are portrayed in popular culture and on the Internet. I contrast the natural world and the outdoors, to trends, themes and memes from the web, mashing up Kardashian culture with the rural, forested environment in New Hampshire where I live. Thighbrows, thigh gaps, and facial masks become fodder for my work. I use humor and sarcasm as an entry point into issues of gender, power and class in order to call out the invisible structures and sexism that pervades both the physical world and the online world. Masks, makeup and identity are also a fascination of mine.</p>
<p>Often employing physical comedy, my videos document performances in which I explore the pressures and contradictions I face on a daily basis. I push concepts from web videos and advertising to the absurd so that the content becomes humorous and sometimes alarming.</p>
<p>Since becoming a mother, this experience has become part of my work. I have created videos to address the infantilization of expectant mothers and reality of caring for children and parents. Personal, sometimes awkward, yet open and inviting, the work emphasizes the physicality of the body, showing both vulnerability and strength, following in the tradition of feminist performance art. This work comes from a place of experience and honesty.</p>
Topic
sandwich generation
biodata
infantilization of pregnant people
body changes
stretch marks
invisible labor
emotional labor
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<a href="https://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/606" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maternochronics</a>, curated by <a href="https://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/590" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Emily Zarse</a>, online.
<a href="https://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/575" target="_blank" rel="noopener">You Are Not Wonderful Just Because You Are a Mother</a>, <a href="https://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/454" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Artist/Mother Podcast</a>, online, juried by <a href="https://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/237" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Qiana Mestrich</a>
In Union, Remotely, Shaker Museum, Mount Lebanon, NY
Everything is Different Now, online and at Stay Home Gallery, Paris, TN
BIRTH_to_animate, online exhibition, vaginamuseum.at
Summa, curated by Roger Hankins, Canton Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
Hauling and the Art of Futility, performance, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
NeXus, Edge Zones Art Gallery, curated by Hector Canonge, Miami, FL
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Rachelle Beaudoin
animation
biodata
body changes
emotional labor
infantilization of pregnant people
invisible labor
performance
sandwich generation
stretch marks
video
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<a href="http://www.larysabauge.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.larysabauge.com</a>
Topic
female body
identity
belonging
connection
maternity
Medium
performance art
video
Artist Statement
My work challenges the very nature of the concept of belonging, roots, the necessity of being part of something bigger, a family, a tribe, a community, etc. I take this basic instinct as a main poetic driving force, I am on a quest of reestablishing (lost) connections between people. Strongly influenced by the socially engaged and feminist art practices, I usually work directly with the context and collaborate with concrete people in form of interview, collective music making, improvised theatre. Having gathered this material, I create embodied experiences (performance art pieces), often using sound and participative practices in public spaces. In the performance <span>CÁRITAS</span>, me (still childless, choosing then to be childfree) and my childless 70-yearold friend are in a barn with young cows raised for meat only. The piece is a reflection on what is female body if not used for reproduction, how does the maternity of our beings manifest itself.
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Larysa Bauge
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Larysa Bauge
belonging
connection
female body
identity
maternity
performance art
video
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<a href="http://claraalden.se" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://claraalden.se</a>
Topic
maintenance art
maternal art
reproduction/production
Medium
video
audio
text
sculpture
drawing
installation
Artist Statement
Clara Aldén (1988) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Gothenburg, Sweden. During the last few years, her practice has revolved mainly around topics of domesticity and the maternal. Within Aldéns artistic practice, motherhood is considered a practice and not a state of being. Likewise, this practice is not considered to be limited by biological bounds. This view is inspired by Donna Haraway’s thoughts on kin-making, and even if the interest for the maternal grew out of Aldéns own experiences of motherhood, her practice stretches away from direct biological connotations and explores the practice of maternity in the expanded notion. The notion of care, regarding interruption as a positive force, and trying to work in a relational and non-autonomous manner are important maternal aspects within her work. Collaboration is another important aspect, and within her latest projects, her children have been her most important collaborators.
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Clara Aldén
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Clara Aldén
audio
drawing
installation
maintenance art
maternal art
reproduction/production
sculpture
text
video
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<a href="http://www.RuthChase.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.RuthChase.com</a>
Topic
artist as mother
mothering
relationship with child
reflections of adolescence through motherhood
Medium
acrylic on canvas
public art
video
Artist Statement
I struggle with the notion of what a woman is. My work explores what it means to be a woman and the struggle to understand all that entails including motherhood. I create large intimate paintings inspired by images and content that women have submitted and from selfies that my daughter has taken. I also create public art installations and video from public engagement projects. Motherhood opened a world within me that is both painful and empowering. Causing me to reevaluate the roles I have resisted and submitted to, and how I see myself as a woman. Using my daughters’ selfies, I am able to capture the complexity of the mother/daughter relationship. Experiencing my daughter’s adolescence has awoken memories, causing a deep reflection on how our childhood shapes us as women, and the role vulnerability plays in our development. Working with content that people have submitted allows me to step back and see a broader view of the female experience. I use social media as a communal aspect of my process that takes me out of the isolation of my studio and expands my understanding of women outside of my own experiences.
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Ruth Chase
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Ruth Chase
acrylic on canvas
artist as mother
mothering
public art
reflections of adolescence through motherhood
relationship with child
video
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<a href="http://www.rcoutureart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.rcoutureart.com</a>
Topic
motherhood
postpartum depression
miscarriage
Medium
photography
sculpture
installation
video
Artist Statement
Influenced by the personal and the political, I explore a wide range of themes within my work. I have developed a diverse practice that allows my ideas to dictate media, form, and process. The project SUBROSA (Miscarriage) explores the confusion, sadness, conflicting emotions, and the process of moving forward after miscarriage. Sub rosa is the Latin term for "under the rose," which means "in secret.” For many, miscarriage is a secret and solitary experience. This may seem odd given one in four pregnancies result in miscarriage, approximately 750,000 to 1,000,000 every year in the United States. However, scores of women or families miscarry alone due to the “12-week rule.” Medically, miscarriage is treated as a “routine pregnancy complication.” Your doctor or midwife explain options. You receive a booklet with pictures and explanations designed to inform a woman/couple of the why’s and what-happens-next. People are uncomfortable talking about pregnancy loss, so they don’t. How do you mourn someone who never came into being? There are no rituals for miscarriage, thus no cultural steps or process designed to aid in mourning. You try to imagine a new future, a new what-happens-next. And in time, you do, though it is difficult.
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Renee Couture
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Renee Couture
installation
miscarriage
motherhood
photography
postpartum depression
sculpture
video
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<a href="http://www.staceystormes.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.staceystormes.com</a>www.staceystormes.com
Topic
motherhood
familial bonds
Medium
interdisciplinary
video
new media
photography
Artist Statement
I’m captivated by solid visual metaphor, drawn to those images that waver between pulling the viewer close and pushing them away, entranced by what happens to a performance grounded in the body once translated to the virtual, beguiled by precise mistakes. These are the contradictions that frame my work. In my early videos, I played with ways to muck up the footage: exporting at low frame rates and splicing back into higher quality footage, dropping frames, scan rescan techniques time displacement... Inspired by Jonas and Paik, I was interested in taking pristine footage, really trashing in precisely controlled ways, exploring how mediation through video and web translate presence, struggling with embodiment in the digital trace, finding intersections between performance to the camera and performance in the edit. As a natural progression, my current work delves into glitch processes.
Recalling Vertical Roll and Man with a Movie Camera, my recent Performance with Cameras turns camera lenses on each. A revisitation of my earlier work, Mediated Confines, I perform for the camera and perhaps random passersby outside. Reflecting what I see outside through my movement, the performance is presented mostly as a reflection as well, captured on the surface of the camera lens, which is then recorded by a facing camera. The footage gets analogue layered and distorted through a wobulator, then layered further through frame buffering. This feedback loop explores relationships of media, (female) body, environment, and process.
In Chou Chou I explore intersections between motherhood and working artist. A French term of endearment that translates to “cabbage cabbage,” “chou chou,” also sounds pleasingly similar to soothing shooshes. Cabbage leaves are an anti-lactant, a home remedy for swelling and pain of achy lactating breasts, one I have employed on numerous occasions to allay the physical pain of separation known by breastfeeding mothers who must travel without their child. These multiple contexts for cabbage intersect to create an apt metaphor for the sometimes-challenging balance of caring for both child and self. I appear with a constructed head of cabbage as my own, slowly rocking an absent baby, poorly singing softly a half remembered lullaby in a round mirrored by a heavy build of layers of video.
This obfuscation of the head is something that repeats in my work, a motif reminiscent of Magritte’s The Lovers and the Surrealist’s exploration of the subconscious. For me, it’s psyche overwhelming physical, embodiment of desires and anxieties.
In Plastic Ok? I adopt the plastic bag as a metaphor for consumption’s effects on the environment. A direct response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and it’s lasting impact, the video documents my struggle to breath and escape from a barrage of at least 100 plastic bags covering my head. The viewers are denied total release as the video employs jump-cuts and variations of loop: a repeating sort of da capo al coda. It’s an endurance test of the viewer similar to that of my own in performance. The work is open-ended in hopes to outlast the viewer by employing a disguised loop-point and continuous loop.
Often I edit frame-by-frame painstakingly advancing with the keyboard arrows to root out any errant less than perfect frame thereby creating imperfections: heavily employing jump-cuts and frame displacement. The performance for the camera is only the raw material for the final product, little different than inks in the serigraph process. The editing process extends the performance as I create Fluxus-like structures and formal frameworks for the edit that I perform as process scores. These oddly satisfying elements of play (like inserting quick edits solely in increments of prime numbers) are integral to the editing process and final result even if imperceptible.
While making work I’m always thinking of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s assertion, “God is in the details.” To me this is not only a reminder that nothing that does not belong goes in the frame and everything in the frame has meaning. It also means even the smallest decision from initial spark through exhibition has value, and that every step of process and layer of concept shapes form.
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Stacey Stormes
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Stacey Stormes
familial bonds
interdisciplinary
motherhood
new media
photography
video
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<a href="http://www.jesslevey.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.jesslevey.com</a>
Topic
child rearing, motherhood, emotional toll of mothering
motherhood
emotional toll of mothering
Medium
video
photography
Artist Statement
My two most recent video projects are directly related to motherhood, and I am currently working on a new video piece for which I am interviewing mothers about their experiences during the pandemic:
Bathtime:
A sound and video piece reflecting on the overwhelming day to day life as a mother and teacher in NYC in 2020.
In March, when we began our lockdown in NYC I was constantly struggling to both find solitude and to warm my chilled bones. It was still winter, and I was persistently cold and exhausted. My mother in law was staying with us and our daughter was sleeping in our bedroom with my husband and I, while her grandmother used her room. Our small apartment became even tighter. Our neighborhood of Jackson Heights, Queens quickly became the epicenter of the epicenter. We couldn’t go outside except for the quick grocery store run on the deserted streets with storefront after storefront shuttered with grey metal gates. I began taking scalding hot baths at night to both be alone and to be immersed in quiet. Yet, it was never truly quiet since the sound of the drain was obnoxiously aggressive. The only way to experience complete silence was to tightly grasp the drain with my feet. Like most parents during quarantine, my small attempts for any semblance of solitude and quiet were futile. I craved for these moments, yet even when I could find them, it was impossible to quiet the sounds of the many stresses within my own mind. The image and gesture of my attempt to quiet the drain sparked the inspiration for this piece. The layering of various sounds becomes heightened throughout the piece in much the same way that our anxieties increasingly heighten throughout our days in quarantine during this pandemic.
Mama’s ABCs:
Mama’s ABCs explores the often complicated and dramatic emotions that come with motherhood. In this multi-media collage various female voices express words from both sides of the parenting spectrum as a child’s puzzle is put into place. The inspiration for this work came to me while laying in bed with a fever while the repetitive, grating sounds from a broken alphabet puzzle served as the background to my already unpleasant mental and physical state. This piece utilizes my photo/video collage process for which aspects of a photograph are removed and then replaced with video projection. For the sound collage, I invited various mothers to sit in silence and record themselves as they spontaneously recalled words that came to mind when they thought about their child.
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Jess Levey
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Jess Levey
child rearing
emotional toll of mothering
motherhood
photography
video
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<a href="http://www.anadiaknox.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.anadiaknox.com</a>
Topic
breastfeeding
nurturing
postpartum body
sexuality
motherhood
parenthood
Medium
performance
sculpture
installation
video
photography
Artist Statement
My most recent body of work utilizes themes relating to body, identity and time, from the perspective of a mother, partner and individual. I am interested in the ways that nurturing and caring for a child translates as occupational labor, and how this makes common cause with the working class by exploring the laborious nature of parenthood. I approach these ideas through various methods, including casting, construction and performance. While the different series in this body of work investigate separate ideas relating to roles of the postpartum body, a shared use of material can be seen throughout. Construction materials such as wooden pallets, 2x4s and scaffolding reference blue collar workforce, while breast milk storage bags and nursing pads suggest the time-consuming and repetitive notions associated with motherhood. The series in this body of work evolves as my role as a caretaker evolves, and aims to question how modern society values parenthood.
Location
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Loris
South Carolina
USA
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Alexandra Knox
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Alexandra Knox
breastfeeding
installation
motherhood
nurturing
parenthood
performance
photography
postpartum body
sculpture
sexuality
video
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<a href="http://www.alisonchen.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.alisonchen.com</a>
Medium
video
photography
performance
Location
The location of the interview
Los Angeles
California
USA
Artist Statement
Through video, performance, photography, and text, I explore the complexities and confusions<br />that surround the act of love and the dynamics of vulnerability. What are the areas where our<br />preconceived notions fall short. How do we hold on to beauty amidst fear and failure? My work<br />approaches motherhood from within this framework as I process the ramifications of the<br />transformation into “mother” and the simultaneous shift in her relationship to time and mortality.<br />Ultimately, the work explores the concurrent existence of bliss and fear, birth/life and death,<br />resistance and acquiescence.
Topic
motherhood
loss
miscarriage
breastfeeding
postpartum body
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Color: Coded, New Art Center, Newton, MA
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/495">Painting at Night, Fort Houston Gallery, Nashville, TN</a>
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Alison Chen
breastfeeding
loss
miscarriage
motherhood
performance
photography
postpartum body
video
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<a href="http://www.ahreelee.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.ahreelee.com</a>
Medium
video
new media
textiles
Location
The location of the interview
Los Angeles
California
USA
Artist Statement
In the fall of 2018, I kept track of what I was doing all day long in a spreadsheet. Each activity I<br />assigned to one of half a dozen different categories, including child care, housework, art<br />practice, and sleep. I picked one week of that time period and during the course of my artist<br />residency at the Women’s Center for Creative Work in Los Angeles, turned it into Timesheet:<br />November 4–10, 2018, a work comprising seven weavings, one representing each day of that<br />week. I wove it during weekly studio hours, on my floor loom that I moved into the space for the<br />exhibition. By giving these ephemeral activities form through my weaving, I have created an<br />analog data visualization of invisible and undervalued domestic labor and transformed it into an<br />artwork with monetary and cultural value.
Topic
parenting
caretaking
caregiving
quantified self
weaving
textiles
fiber
labor
domestic labor
domestic
time
data visualization
tracking
visualization
capitalism
technology
industrialization
value
repetition
Exhibitions
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Pattern : Code, Women’s Center for Creative Work, Los Angeles, California. 2019
We Are Here, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California. 2020
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Ahree Lee
California
capitalism
caregiving
caretaking
data visualization
domestic labor
domestic time
fiber
industrialization
labor
Los Angeles
new media
parenting
quantified self
repetition
technology
textiles
tracking
USA
value
video
visualization
weaving textiles
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<a href="http://www.babsiloisch.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.babsiloisch.com</a>
<a href="http://www.instagram.com/babsiactually/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">instagram.com/babsiactually/</a>
Medium
installation
video
photography
performance
public programming
sculpture
textile
drawing
reseach
writing
conceptual art
walking art
curation
Location
The location of the interview
Los Angeles
California
USA
Artist Statement
As an artist, conversationalist, mover, and archivist, I use video, sound as well as<br />unconventional and overlooked materials like words, time, relationships and movement as<br />components to create. My work revolves around acknowledging the body as simultaneous site<br />of production, care and labor.<br /><br /><br />While the body of the mother is still only barely tolerated within the contemporary art world, I<br />want to replace this isolation with the idea of sharing community in times of personal struggle.<br />By using "physicality as production" as a methodological principle my work provides glimpses<br />into the maze of enigmas - time precarity, gender roles within the arts, labor relations and the<br />body as a multifaceted vehicle - that I am trying to find a way through and that allows others to<br />share my questions and ask questions with me.<br /><br />Laying bare my experience in the strange, cozy, blurred zone of not being just one, but also not<br />being two the work aims to mirror and encourage an intimate approach to the interdependence<br />of minds and bodies. Embedded in curiosity, open-endedness and exposedness, I very much<br />believe in vulnerability and in art as a means of assemblage and survival in precarious times.<br />Seeing myself and my work as spinning a subtle thread of positive contamination, I want to think<br />of my practice as fostering a constellation in which art is a direct tribute to the spirit of sharing<br />and connection between communities.
Topic
care
labor
body
work
homework
gender roles
lactation
motherhood
parenthood
community
time
movement
parenting
caretaking
invisibility
production
Exhibitions
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2020 Homework, ArtCenter DTLA, Los Angeles
2020 Suffra-Jetting, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago
2019 CURRENT LA 2019- food, Palms Park, Los Angeles
2019 I’m here, Art in the Park, Los Angeles
2019 Female Gaze, Art Share LA, Los Angeles
2019 shifting staying changing dissolving, The Reef, Los Angeles
2018 Reading catalog launch Rattlesnake Bells in the Desert, LACE, Los Angeles
2018 Mileage Allowance, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena
2018 Mileage Allowance, 48 hours of Socially Engaged Art, RedLine, Denver
2018 Festival Screening MôTif Film Festival, Fairbanks, Alaska
2018 Mileage Allowance, HFA, Woodstock Artist Association & Museum, NY
2018 Rattlesnake Bells in the Desert, The Box, Los Angeles
2018 lactation room, CalArts, Los Angeles (solo)
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Babsi Loisch
body
Care
caretaking
community
conceptual art
curation
drawing
gender roles
homework
installation
invisibility
labor
lactation
motherhood
movement
parenthood
parenting
performance
photography
production
public programming
research
sculpture
textile
time
video
walking art
work
writing
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Artist Parent Index
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://lowresgradstudios.ecuad.ca/hyip/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://lowresgradstudios.ecuad.ca/hyip/</a>
Topic
the impact of technology on human development
my role as a parent /mediator/ moderator of my children's use of screen based technology
parent-child connection
environments where parent and child interact
emotional labor
technology
Medium
video
mixed media
mixed media on paper and other surfaces
assemblage
intallation
Artist Statement
In my practice I am focused on investigating the impact of technology on human development. Specifically, my inquiry occurs within my own home and the context of my children’s ongoing obsession with smartphones and other related media. In the research that fuels my art practice I have launched a vigorous examination of my role as a parent whose responsibility it is to both mediate and moderate my family’s use of screen based technologies. In this relentless pursuit I have made many attempts to set up boundaries for my children’s use of their devices, which has inspired me to explore these concepts through the lens of my performing other motherly tasks such as doing laundry, vacuuming and cooking. It is through the use of some of the machines and objects that I use to perform these tasks that has afforded me the agency to create work in a more enjoyable and perhaps playful manner. My art practice also allows me the chance to be in my studio (an oasis) to escape if only temporarily from the frustration of the constant household and emotional labour that I must perform. It is the irony that as a parent I have introduced my children to technology and its accompanying objects and now because of this I have to restrict my children’s use of it. Because I suffer from guilt associated with this fact I have made it a part of my parental practice (which in turn enters into my art practice) my job to play more with my kids, this includes making blanket forts, playing tag and all kinds of board games to name a few things. It has also inspired me to investigate Nicholson’s theory of loose parts and to make sure my kids’ have more opportunities to play with all kinds of things ‘off-line’. As modalities in my practice I have employed video, installation as well as two dimensional mixed media art making in an attempt to try and understand my kids’ love of technology.
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Heather Yip
Title
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Heather Yip
assemblage
emotional labor
installation
mixed media on paper and other surfaces
video
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.catherinereinhart.com/#/topography-of-dwelling/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.catherinereinhart.com/#/topography-of-dwelling/</a>
Topic
care economy
artist/mother studio
breastfeeding
Topography of Dwelling
socially engaged art
drawing
hair
braiding
acts of care
fiber art
Medium
fiber art
video
sculpture
drawing
found textiles
socially engaged art
Artist Statement
Topography of Dwelling seeks to make visible the invisible labor of caregiving through intentional record keeping and the collection of domestic detritus. This body of work includes drawings, rubbings, sculpture, fiber works, and video. Tending to one’s home and family takes copious amounts of time dealt out across tedious and repetitive efforts. This work, often done by women, is incalculable and undervalued. Tasks such as laundry, braiding, and lawncare serve as fodder for works exploring the themes of tending, labor, and time. The use of hair is central. The ritual of braiding is a powerful act of care enacted daily on a disinterested beneficiary, my daughter. Using recorded data from these sessions and topographic maps from the Midwest, I make drawings that map both my home and natural landscapes. For Maternal Studies |Material Studies, I collect hair from my children and ancestors in glassine envelopes. Stratums of dyed fiber and rubbings taken from discarded textiles reference sedimentary layers and the state of my laundry pile. Taking an anthropologist’s gaze, I attempt to illustrate my experience as a home[maker]. This is a gaze which includes objects and artworks, similar to exhibitions found in a natural history museum. This body of work is a study in the accretion of the domestic life and a catalogue of its labors. As an artist/mother, my role is that of archivist and field hand. My aim is to show the value of such labors and the futility inherent in pursuing them.
Location
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Iowa
USA
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Catherine Reinhart
Title
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Catherine Reinhart
acts of care
artist/mother studio
braiding
breastfeeding
care economy
drawing
fiber art
found textiles
hair
sculpture
socially engaged art
Topography of Dwelling
video
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Exhibition Archive
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Exhibition Website
<a href="http://www.noeljoyash.com/exhibitions.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.noeljoyash.com/exhibitions.html</a>
Curator
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/443">Noël Ash</a>
Gallery
<a href="http://www.cwd.org/gallery/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Commonwealth Gallery</a>
Curatorial Statement
Why Mom is a local and International Group Show on Mothering, Mothers and Motherhood with 18 local and international artists working across a spectrum of disciplines to talk about this important and often overlooked subject. These artists draw on a wide range of material disciplines, from video installation and felted textile to abstract sculpture. The show’s three curators chose from an international selection of artists to put together a show that will tell a widely ranging story of the subject of mothers, from the experience of being shaped and formed to the act of forming another being. Noël Ash Bridgette Bogle Molly Brennan Crystal Brown Conley Clark Abigail Engstrand Rebecca Kautz Justyna Kosińska Helen Lee Craig Li Victoria Maidhof Kel Mur Fikriye Oz Emily Popp Douglas Rosenberg Bird Ross Kayla Story Tiana Traffas
Location
The location of the interview
100 S Baldwin St, Madison, WI 53703
Artists
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/443">Noël Ash</a>
Bridgette Bogle
Molly Brennan
Crystal Brown
Conley Clark
Abigail Engstrand
Rebecca Kautz
Justyna Kosińska
Helen Lee
Craig Li
Victoria Maidhof
Kel Mur
Fikriye Oz
Emily Popp
Douglas Rosenberg
Bird Ross
Kayla Story
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/427">Tiana Traffas</a>
Duration
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October 1-7, 2019
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WHY MOM
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Tiana Traffas
installation
motherhood
mothering
mothers
textile
video
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://laurayuile.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://laurayuile.com</a>
Medium
installation
sculpture
video
performance
Location
The location of the interview
London
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<p style="font-weight: 400;">My work is multidisciplinary, installation-based, and performative, exploring notions of the domestic and the urban through the intimate (or public) matters of living together; personal care and household maintenance; wellness and well-being; and the effects of globalization and technological development upon living space. Propelled by narrative, installations probe issues of social discomfort and our cultural obsession with cleanliness; the methods through which society sanitizes women; our desire for quick-fix methods of self-help and self-care; and the increasing invisibility of technological infrastructure in the urban and domestic landscape.<br /><br />I have recently been the societal tendency to position the figure of the Child as representative of “the future” – a reliance on reproductive futurism - and the problems of this representation for those who choose not to reproduce or cannot reproduce. I’m interested in positioning issues of social reproduction alongside those of biological reproduction and exploring the notion of reproductive futurity alongside the neoliberal characteristic of cleanliness as generating a forward-facing pathway. I’m interested in deconstructing notions of “the future” and asking questions about ideas of care in relation to reproductive futurity and the drive for technological “innovation”.</p>
Topic
reproduction
reproductive futurity
family
care
feminism
queer
non-binary
the body
domesticity
labor
home
future
technology
childfree
childlessness by choice
childlessness by chance
Exhibitions
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nGbK (Berlin); Galerie Kunstbuero (Vienna); Apexart (New York); The Blackwood Gallery (Toronto); Recent Activity (Birmingham); Tate Britain (London); Mauve (Vienna); t-space (Milan) and Collective (Edinburgh).
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Laura Yuile
Care
domesticity
family
feminism
home
installation
labour
non-binary
performance.
queer
reproduction
reproductive futurity
sculpture
technology
the body
the future
video
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.jessicamuellerart.com">www.jessicamuellerart.com</a>
Topic
domesticity
labor
weight
care
intersectionality
Medium
interdisciplinary
embroidery
video
printmaking
painting
performance
sculpture
Artist Statement
Jessica Mueller is an artist, writer, and educator who explores domesticity, labor and translation. She examines motherhood through ideas of care, service, weight and absurdity. Mueller engages multiple modes of making including embroidery, video, printmaking, painting, performance, and sculpture. She is interested in relationships to process, multiples, connectivity and site. Mueller is a Chicago-based teaching artist that has been partnering with Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE) and Chicago Public Schools since 2004. Formerly a Program Manager at CAPE, she developed and supported partnerships for over forty artists, art teachers, and academic teachers, while working with principles and district officials. She holds a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She exhibits locally and nationally, and her work is part of the permanent collections at SAIC’s Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Columbia College’s Center for Book and Paper Arts, and the Library of Congress. Mueller is a member of the Chicago ACT Collective and Mother Art: Revisited.
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/452">Extended Self: Transformations and Connections</a>
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Jessica Mueller
Title
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Jessica Mueller
and sculpture
Care
domesticity
embroidery
intersectionality
labor
painting
performance
printmaking
video
weight
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://carolinekelley.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://carolinekelley.com</a>
Topic
Artist Residency in Motherhood
autobiography
motherhood
home
building
making
nature
language
Medium
conceptual art
photography
drawing
installation
video
book art
research
writing
Artist Statement
Working across disciplines, I conduct research-based projects that take assorted forms, including installations, drawings, writing- and photography-based series. My academic work has been concerned with women's life-writing, literary theory and postcolonial literature. Since 2009, I've focused on projects that investigate the nature-culture dichotomy as well as stories of tourism, travel and exploration. I started an Artist Residency in Motherhood (ARiM) in October 2016, to document my experience of motherhood and explore the research process in this new (for me) context.
Location
The location of the interview
Paris
France
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Caroline Kelley
Title
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Caroline Kelley
artist residency in motherhood
autobiography
book art
building
conceptual art
drawing
France
home
installation
language
making
motherhood
nature
Paris
photography
research
video
writing
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Website
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<a href="http://www.sofiaroncero.com">www.sofiaroncero.com</a>
<a href="http://www.sofiaroncerostudio.tumblr.com">www.sofiaroncerostudio.tumblr.com</a>
Topic
intervention on maternity objects
Artist Residency in Motherhood
Medium
video
photography
photocopies
performance
Artist Statement
Multidisciplinary artist, focused on the search for the limits of identity.
Location
The location of the interview
Madrid
Spain
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Sofía Roncero
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Sofia Roncero
artist residency in motherhood
maternity objects
objects
photocopies
photography
video
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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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Stiliyana Minkovska
birth
Bulgaria
childbirth
England
film
labor and delivery
London
medicalization of birth
reproduction
Sofia
subjectivity
video
womb
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://komsomolfilms.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://komsomolfilms.com/</a>
Topic
childbirth
pregnancy
labor
care labor
maternal anxiety
feminism
Medium
film
video
Artist Statement
IRENE LUSZTIG is a filmmaker, visual artist, archival researcher, and amateur seamstress. Her film and video work mines old images and technologies for new meanings in order to reframe, recuperate, and reanimate forgotten and neglected histories. Often beginning with rigorous research in archives, her work brings historical materials into conversation with the present day, inviting viewers to explore historical spaces as a way to contemplate larger questions of politics, ideology, and the production of personal, collective, and national memories. Much of her work is centered on public feminism, language, and histories of women and women’s bodies, including her debut feature Reconstruction (2001), the feature length archival film essay The Motherhood Archives (2013), the ongoing web-based Worry Box Project (2011), and her newest performative documentary feature Yours in Sisterhood (2018).
Location
The location of the interview
Santa Cruz
California
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Complicated Labors</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/64" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Marternalisms - Chile</a>
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Irene Lusztig
Title
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Irene Lusztig
California
care labor
childbirth
feminism
film
labor
maternal anxiety
pregnancy
Santa Cruz
video
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9ee048aecf8f766579e5d97f130986e3
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.luisacallegari.com">www.luisacallegari.com</a>
Topic
girls
raising girls
sexism
baby
fetus
dolls
pink
clichés
beauty
grotesque
gender
sexuality
contradictions
dollhouse
Medium
painting
video
collage
installation
mixed media
objects
photography
Artist Statement
I am a South American women artist and mother. I believe that one of the most important art roles is to make people think and reflect about unpleasant subjects and situations that would otherwise be forgotten or passed by. In my artwork I attempt to address those delicate subjects bringing up themes such as clichés and motherhood, contradictions of the feminine universe, constructions of gender and sexuality. I make my artwork with a variety of media that goes all the way from traditional painting and photography to perishable elements and installations. Currently I am privileging the use of pink as the beginning and end of my creative process, subverting the notions of beauty and grotesque.
Location
The location of the interview
Sao Paulo
Brazil
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Luisa Callegari
Title
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Luisa Callegari
baby
beauty
Brazil
collage
contradictions
dollhouse
dolls
fetus
grotesque
installation
mixed media
objects
painting
photography
Sao Paulo
sexuality
video
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.robynleroyevans.com" target="_blank">www.robynleroyevans.com</a>
Topic
mother-artist
body
motherhood
pregnancy
childbirth
ambivalence
Medium
photography
video
installation
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Robyn LeRoy-Evans
Title
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Robyn LeRoy-Evans
ambivalence
body
childbirth
installation
mother as artist
motherhood
photography
pregnancy
video
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The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.chuparosafilms.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">www.chuparosafilms.com</a>
Topic
video diary
early motherhood
Medium
video
Artist Statement
Kristy Guevara-Flanagan’s first feature-length film was an acclaimed documentary covering four years in the lives of four adolescent girls. GOING ON 13 was an official selection of Tribeca, Silverdocs, and many other film festivals worldwide. It received funding from ITVS and was broadcast on public television in 2009. Kristy has also produced and directed several short films, including EL CORRIDO DE CECILIA RIOS, winner of the Golden Gate Award for Best Bay Area Short Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival, a chronicle of the violent death of 15-year-old Cecilia Rios. It was an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival and subsequently broadcast on the Sundance Channel. Her most recent feature, WONDER WOMEN! THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICAN SUPERHEROINES, traces the evolution and legacy of the comic book hero Wonder Woman as a way to reflect on society’s anxieties about women’s liberation. The film garnered numerous awards, premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in 2012 and was broadcast on PBS's Independent Lens series in 2013. Now an Assistant Professor at UCLA, Kristy holds a MFA in Cinema from San Francisco State University. Her recent short, WHAT HAPPENED TO HER premiered at the Hot Docs Canadian Film Festival wherein it received an Honorable Mention for best short.
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Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
Title
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Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
early motherhood
motherhood
video
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http://www.katrinwoelger.com
Topic
song of myself or (m)other
mother/daughter performance
mother/daughter
(m)other
Medium
performance
Artist Statement
Felicitas wish and talent to perform was the first reason to present this sequel. "song of myself or (m)other" is about a mother and her daughter. It revolves around being different as a distinction or devaluation, about otherness and holding your own at the start of adulthood and in the working world. It raises questions about the individual’s need for protection in the collective, about equal rights for people with disabilities and about the care expected from the state and one’s family. As a sequel it is intented to show once a year a "status quo", a performative description of the present situation, always in different surroundungs and different formats.
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Katrin Wölger
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Katrinamuri Wölger
video
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<a href="https://aprildauscha.com/section/454967-Bond.html">https://aprildauscha.com/section/454967-Bond.html</a>
Medium
fiber
sculpture
performance
video
Location
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Greenville
South Carolina
USA
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April Dauscha
fiber
Greenville
South Carolina
video
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<a href="http://www.farheenhaq.com/#/drinking-from-my-mothers-saucer" target="_blank"><span>http://www.farheenhaq.com/#/drinking-from-my-mothers-saucer</span></a>
<a href="http://www.farheenhaq.com/#/new-gallery-38/" target="_blank"><span>http://www.farheenhaq.com/#/new-gallery-38/</span></a>
Medium
video
installation
fabric
textile
Location
The location of the interview
Victoria
British Columbia
Canada
Artist Statement
<p>My media based art practice explores the realm of the moving image as a place of re-examination and possibility. It is a way for me to pull apart and reconstruct the threads of my life. Working in video, installation, performance and photography, I investigate my body and my South Asian Muslim Canadian female identity as a social construction.</p>
<p>The impetus for my art-making has always been curiosity, questioning and investigating. I want to uncover the place of agency within the structures that are imposed upon me. Fabric is a recurring metaphor to represent the many layers of codes wrapped around women’s bodies. It is a structure for me to hang meaning on – fabric can flow, constrain, codify and signify. It represents culture.</p>
<p>Through observing the formal and aesthetic properties of cultural gestures such as prayer, wearing a hijab, dressing/undressing, I deconstruct and reimagine how social codes and rituals can occupy the body. I experiment by pushing gestures beyond where they normally rest.</p>
<p>My works begin from the personal place of my Islamic South Asian Canadian heritage and end as images that can be read by a wider audience. The 6 meter long sari is abstracted into a long swath of red silk. A hooded sweatshirt stands in for a hijab. I deliberately use the conventions of mass media such as cinematic projections and seductive imagery to invite viewers to enter my work and settle in. I slow down and repeat images to facilitate reflection and reconsideration. I magnify texture and body parts so as to connect the viewer to a physical sensation.</p>
<p>In the process of image-making I see myself and unveil meaning in my life. I invite viewers to inhabit this imaginative space and reconsider their own experience.</p>
Topic
mothers of color
South Asian
Muslim
gesture
motherhood
maternal care
domesticity
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Farheen Haq
British Columbia
Canada
fabric/textile
gesture
installation
maternal care
motherhood
mothers of color
mothers of colour
muslim
South Asian
Victoria
video
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<a href="http://www.zackbent.com" target="_blank">www.zackbent.com</a>
Topic
domestic life
fatherhood
rituals
family history
wilderness
Medium
photograpy
video
installation
Artist Statement
As an artist, I am drawn to incidences where the domestication and wilderness overlap and interact. The work I create takes various forms from sculptural installation, video and sound works as well as photographic studies and series. My current work draws from my experience visiting and photographing a parcel of forest fire land in Washington USA over the past year. The photographs include geometric sculptures and mythic performative acts by my sons that respond to the desolation of the forest while acknowledging the impending growth just beneath the surface of the land. The work is a study in the silence and death encapsulated in forest fires as an inside-out look at traditional views on the sublime and beauty in the wilderness.
Location
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Seattle
Washington
USA
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Zack Bent
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Zack Bent
domestic life
fatherhood
installation
photography
rituals
Seattle
video
Washington
wilderness
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<a href="http://www.axisweb.org/p/alisononeill/#artwork" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.axisweb.org/p/alisononeill/#artwork</a>
Medium
drawing
film & video
installation
research
Location
The location of the interview
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<p>My practice based research uses autoethnographic and feminist methodologies to examine maternal subjectivities with a particular focus on the mother as a classed and gendered subject.</p>
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<p>I am also interested in the performativity of motherhood and in examining narratives of the good and bad mother and how these narratives are perpetuated in everyday encounters and experiences.</p>
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Topic
motherhood
feminist theory
the maternal
autoethnography
subjectivity
memory
remembering
performativity
class
Publications
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/463">The Maternal in Creative Work Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art, Contributor</a>
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Alison O’Neill
autoethnography
Cambridge
class
drawing
feminist theory
film
installation
memory
motherhood
performativity
remembering
subjectivity
the maternal
United Kingdom
video
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Rosie Garton
Ildiko Rippel
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<a href="http://www.zooindigo.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.zooindigo.co.uk/</a>
Medium
video
photography
performance
Location
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Nottingham
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<p>Zoo Indigo is an Anglo-German contemporary performance company based in Nottingham, founded by Rosie Garton and Ildiko Rippel. They have created performance work since 2002, touring regionally, nationally and internationally. The Company have devised many multidisciplinary performance works in collaboration with artists from a variety of disciplines, and produced a range of forms of work, including theatre-based performances, street interventions and interactive site-specific projects.</p>
<p>The performance work tends to stem from exploration with autobiography from performers and audience, with a focus on the innovative integration of digital technologies. With the use of humour, popular music and the reprocessing of cultural texts, (often iconic film images), the company juxtaposes the banalities of the everyday with the extraordinary.</p>
Topic
autobiography
humor
popular music
cultural texts
children
migration
home
displacement
motherhood
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Zoo Indigo
autobiography
children
cultural texts
displacement
home
humor
migration
motherhood
Nottingham
performance
photography
popular music
United Kingdom
video
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<a href="http://www.jacklynbrickman.com" target="_blank">http://www.jacklynbrickman.com</a>
Medium
photography
installation
sculpture
drawing
video
Artist Statement
<p class="font_7"><span><strong>Domestic Landscapes</strong> are oneiric installations made with light, kitchen utensils and shadows.</span></p>
<p class="font_8"><br /><span>The complexities of how we inhabit and engage with our surroundings and the entities we share them with are at the core of my work. Informed by the photographic process, larger works and installations tend to incorporate light and projection as well as sound or video while smaller scale works often consist of everyday objects and multiples. Simulating nature with man-made items and transforming life’s daily chaos into delicacy, my work edges between childlike playfulness and a longing for the seemingly out of reach. Grounded in the home and activated by life with young children, necessary and repetitive daily tasks are absorbed into my work and reappear to expose beauty through reflections on domestic life.<br /><br /></span></p>
<p class="font_7"><strong>Homage to Heqet </strong></p>
<p class="font_7"><span>2012</span></p>
<p class="font_7"><span>Mott Community College Art Gallery, Flint, MI</span></p>
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<p class="font_7"><span>The complexities of how we inhabit and engage with the earth and the entities we share it with are at the core of my work – systems within systems.</span></p>
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<p class="font_7"><span>Over the past two years, frogs and toads have been a vessel for my perpetual interest in the simulation of nature. This exploration has manifested through drawing, installation, video and sound. My materials and habits tend toward everyday objects, multiples, and layers. Homage to Heqet is an extension of this work; An offering to frog-headed Heqet: Goddess of fertility, midwives, and newborns.</span></p>
<p class="font_7"> </p>
<p class="font_7"><span>In the spring, amidst frog calls and blooming earth and henna on my belly.13 days later, a daughter was born into water, a force of nature.</span></p>
<p class="font_7"><span> </span></p>
<p class="font_7"><span>Ritual is intention & process. I’m focused on honoring repetitive, menial daily tasks in mothering an infant, while embedding and reflecting on elements of our wetland counterparts.</span></p>
<p class="font_8"><span> </span></p>
Topic
nature
cultural ecosystems
interrelationship
domestic life
repetitive tasks
daily tasks
living with children
Location
The location of the interview
Pleasant Ridge
Michigan
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Jacklyn Brickman
cultural ecosystems
daily tasks
domestic life
drawing
installation
interrelationship
living with children
nature
photography
repetitive tasks
sculpture
video
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<a href="https://amyfdignam.weebly.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://amyfdignam.weebly.com/&source=gmail&ust=1559842557155000&usg=AFQjCNEwH_uX-DziNyIOKQNSd8dl7CtuTA">https://amyfdignam.<wbr />weebly.com/</a>
Medium
drawings
photography
video
performance
installation
Artist Statement
<p class="paragraph_style_1"><span>Italian born, Amy moved to London in 1998 and graduated from Central Saint Martins College in 2005. Her work is mainly autobiographical but also holds a socio-political dynamic. Making the personal public her work originates from the female body, concepts of everyday life, loss of identity, the importance of memories and the abstraction of longing are central to her practice. Domesticity as a ‘visual language’ where maternal subjectivity is explored via different media such us drawings, photography, video installation and performance. </span></p>
Topic
motherhood
maternity
domestic
women artists
feminism
feminist mother
activism
Location
The location of the interview
London
United Kingdom
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Amy Dignam
domestic
drawings
installation
London
maternity
motherhood
performance
photography
UK
United Kingdom
video
women artists
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.gailrebhan.com" target="_blank">gailrebhan.com</a>
Topic
gender
parenting
feminism
mothering
family
male clutter
race
religion
Medium
photography
artists' books
video
Artist Statement
I have created artwork for over thirty years that explores mothering from a social, cultural, and emotional point-of-view. I use my family (and myself) as typical representatives of quotidian, middle-class, American family life. I draw on my experiences to create art that puts this into a social, cultural, and emotional context. In my early artwork, the act of mothering is overt, as I try to instill my values in my sons. As they grow older, that becomes harder as they engage in typical challenging behavior. The artwork reflects changing family dynamics. Through gentle humor and without didacticism, I examine inconsistencies, faults, and problematic behavior as reflected in family life.
Location
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Washington DC
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Gail Rebhan
artists books
family
feminist
gender
Male Clutter
mothering
parenting
photography
Race
Religion
video
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Name
Jesse Burke
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.wildandprecious.co" target="_blank">www.wildandprecious.co</a>
Topic
father/daughter relationship
fatherhood
parenting
nature
Medium
photography
video
Artist Statement
The Wild & Precious works bring together treasures from a series of road trips traveled over 5 years by photographer Jesse Burke and his daughter Clover to explore the natural world. To encourage a connection between his child and nature, Burke used these adventures to give her an education that he considers essential—one that develops appreciation, respect, conservation, and self-confidence. Together this father-and-daughter team studied beaches, land, sky, and animals. While on the road, they documented the routes they drove, the landscapes they discovered, the creatures they encountered, even the roadside motels where they slept. This book is as much about love and parenting as it is a hands-on training manual of new age environmentalism. Wild & Precious reveals the fragile, complicated relationship that humans share with nature and serves as a call to arms for parents and children everywhere: Get outside! Bookended by poetic letters the two wrote to one another, Wild & Precious is a modern-day love story between parent and child, natural world and society. Burke writes, “I want my children to genuinely understand how magical the world we inhabit is and how we, as humans, are an integral part of the system. I want them to feel a deep connection to every aspect of their surroundings."
Location
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Rhode Island, USA
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Jesse Burke
father/daughter relationship
fatherhood
nature
parenting
photography
video
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<div style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.luheintz.com/" target="_blank">http://www.luheintz.com/</a></div>
Medium
conceptual art
textiles
metalsmithing
video
sound
sculpture
installation
performance
paper works
writing
Location
The location of the interview
Providence
Rhode Island
Artist Statement
My work is engaged in discourses around feminism, labor and technological change. Embedded in the works are confluences of technique and meaning, craft and digital media, and everyday materials with fine art forms. The work is situated at the nexus of life and art, and walks a boundary between work and love. Labor and love act broadly as dual domains which sustain my interest in the ways a subject acts and is acted upon by intersecting social, economic, intimate, emotional and political forces. While some works describe the ways in which labor and love converge in personal and economic experience, others begin to search for meanings of love that may deviate from material, economic conditions to transform the terms of our intimate and collective relationships.
Topic
labor
love
power
gender
consumerism
intimacy
communication
silence
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Lu Heintz
communication
conceptual art
consumerism
gender
installation
intimacy
labor
love
metalsmithing
paper works
performance
power
sculpture
silence
sound
textiles
video
writing
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<a href="http://www.ellinakevorkian.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.ellinakevorkian.com</a>
<a href="http://www.ellinakevorkian.com/#!raising-children/c20q" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.ellinakevorkian.com/#!raising-children/c20q</a>
Medium
painting
photography
video
performance
Artist Statement
Ellina Kevorkian is an interdisciplinary artist who creates hybridized relationships between painting, photography, video, and performance. Using tropes, humor, and the visual languages of art and popular culture, Kevorkian suggests other possibilities in the ways women are represented. Kevorkian has shown in Los Angeles and beyond; among the many, Western Project, a showing of selected videos at MOCA, Los Angeles, and inclusion in the Southern California Council of the National Museum of Women in the Arts sponsored retrospective Multiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Artists, 1980-2006.<br /><br />As a commissioned artist for Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions she presented Recollecting Performance, an exhibition of 1970s and e.1980s garments worn by Southern Californian performance artists for Los Angeles Goes Live: Performance Art in Southern California 1970-1983, as part of The Getty funded initiative Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945-1980. Kevorkian’s year-long, site-specific installation for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, violetagainstwomen.tumblr.com, can be viewed online. An AVK Arts Foundation grant supported her recent artist-in-residency at The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA. The resultant piece Some Dreams Contain Dead Time was performed on the Royce Hall Stage.<br /><br />Her work has been written about in The LA Times, The LA Weekly, ArtForum, ArtPulse and Artnet. She received her MFA from Claremont Graduate University and graduated from the inaugural year at the Institute of Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University. She's a recent participant in Portland Emerging Arts Leaders (PEAL) which is affiliated with the Emerging Leaders Network, a program of Americans for the Arts. She is currently is an Artistic Director for Residency Programs at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.
Topic
feminism
children
motherhood
Location
The location of the interview
Minneapolis
Minnesota
USA
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Ellina Kevorkian
children
contemporary art
feminism
humor
motherhood
painting
performance
photography
video
women representation
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<a href="http://www.sarahirvinart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.sarahirvinart.com</a>
Biographical Text
When I started my graduate program in 2013, I was confident that becoming a mother was not compatible with my studio practice. In the middle of my first semester, I began to question this assumption. As an experiment, I assumed the opposite was true, that there was work that I could only make if I was a mother. I was suddenly able to envision not only the work, but also myself in the role of “mother” for the first time. Three months later I was pregnant and I got to work. Creating in this way allows me to form myself in a role of “mother” and in turn motherhood continually redefines my practice. The work opens up dialogues about circumstances that are publicly debated, but only privately experienced.
I measured my stomach with a piece of yarn at navel height the day I found out I was pregnant. I tied the yarn off in a loop. I repeated this every day until the day I went into labor. Every week of the second trimester, I lifted 26 pounds, one pound over the recommended amount a pregnant woman should lift, using a block and tackle pulley system and created a transfer drawing with the impact when it was dropped from nine feet.
I established mechanisms to capture the physical actions of parenting as a mark on a page, beginning while I was in labor. For instance, the area rug in the nursery created transfer drawings as we walked across the room, the glider rocker created drawings as we rocked, and the stroller created drawings as we strolled. These works were enabled by the activities of our daily lives and captured the kinetic energy and labor involved in the care and nurturing of an infant.
During the second and third months of my daughter’s life, I created a series of watercolors exclusively while she slept, with each set considered complete when she awoke, allowing my circumstances to dictate aspects of my creative output. While breastfeeding, I made drawings on paper I created from my bed sheets with looping marks corresponding to individual suck and swallow motions of nursing providing a real-time read out of this experience. I commissioned a reproduction of the plastic measuring scoop that comes in a container of Similac infant formula to be cast from silver baby spoons.
Other iterations of this series include my daughter’s nursery as camera obscura; cyanotypes created with her blankets, toys and clothing; early stages of her own mark-making captured through fingerprint dust; silverpoint drawings tracing her early movements made with jewelry from my grandmother; and paintings made with a baby bottle and formula. As a whole, this project-based work is a personal narrative taking form as poetic visual data.
The works are exhibited as sets and series. An entire year’s action of rocking a baby is a set of 59 drawings made with our rocking chair. One year of walking across a nursery rug is a row of 12 large transfer drawings. Fifty feet of watercolors represent a tiny sampling of the available time during early parenthood when the baby slept. The work visualizes how care taking has shaped me as an individual and how it has transformed my mark making.
I view everything related to the experience of parenthood as a valid subject matter and/or mark making tool and this has opened up new methods of creating. The pieces are derived from the everyday. The interface of specific materials and processes with the everyday provides an entry point into broader topics of gender, production, reproduction, care, biological processes and cultural systems.
Medium
painting
drawing
papermaking
video art
photography
installation
Topics
The topics addressed within the Artist's work.
motherhood
parenthood
breastfeeding
infants and sleep
pregnancy
Location
The location of the interview
Richmond
Virginia
Topic
breastfeeding
motherhood
infants and sleep
pregnancy
baby formula
caretaking
gender and caretaking
domestic labor
maternal ambivalence
Artist Residency in Motherhood
gender equality
home
domestic space
care work
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/274" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Labors</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/392">The End & The Beginning</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/452">Extended Self: Transformations and Connections</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/495">Painting at Night, Fort Houston Gallery, Nashville, TN</a>
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Sarah Irvin
ambivalence
body
breastfeeding
care work
domestic labor
domestic space
drawing
gender
gender equality
home
infant care
labor
maternal abivalence
maternal body
maternal time
motherhood
mothering
painting
paper
papermaking
repetition
repetitive tasks
ritual
tracking
video