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<a href="http://www.wantuchart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.wantuchart.com</a>
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/anna.wantuch.performer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.instagram.com/anna.wantuch.performer/</a>
Topic
motherhood
mess
exhaustion
chaos
breastfeeding
social expectations
Medium
choreography
performance
video
photography
Artist Statement
In her works, she deals with the visibility of motherhood and parental themes. She is the author of a series of video performances MOT/HER KC in which she observed bodily changes during pregnancy. She presented the latter work at the Parallel Festival in Vienna, at the Cracow Art Week KRAKERS festival and many others. This work was shortlisted for the only international competition for caring artists, the Mother Art Prize, and was shown at a group exhibition in London in March 2023. Author of the performance Mothersuckers: A production about reproduction concerning the issue of motherhood, breastfeeding and being a mother artist.
Together with her husband, Filip Wańtuch, she explores the aspects of the interpenetration of what is private with what is public, as well as the threads of everyday life and home space with children. In the photo project Lovers they remix images of lovers from famous paintings, "putting" them into their bodies and the space of their own home. Since 2012, she has been experimenting with the movement of an adult with a child
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Anna Wańtuch
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Anna Wańtuch
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<a href="http://www.AnabellaLenzu.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.AnabellaLenzu.com</a>
Topic
Capture histories, testimonials and experiences of mothers that are also choreographers and artists living and working in NYC, in order to create dialogues, appreciation and social support.
- Potential language barriers, cultural discrimination, racism, and stereotyping.
- How do the cultural factors of an immigrant affect their parenting during day-to-day life in NYC?
- How do immigrant mothers describe their experience of immigrating to the United States?
- What happens to an individual's beliefs and parenting style when they are transplanted to another land?
- What makes a “good mother”?
- What makes a “good artist”?
Medium
performance
drawing
dance
video art
photography
Artist Statement
Art is a political act.
Dance is discipline and revolt.
My body is my country.
I react to my environment and use the body as a receptacle and messenger of the multiple realities that we are immersed in.
My work reflects my experience as a Latina/European artist living in New York and comes from a deep examination of my motivations as a woman, mother, and immigrant.
Performance is a conduit for examining cultural identity through form and content, as well as relationships between people and society.
Sharing my point of view of life with others is my duty and my pleasure.
I investigate the interior logic of performance and the role of a dancer in our culture today, redefining the parameters of dance and theater.
My works live inside and outside of the theatrical traditions and venues, as well as on the screen.
My art is about celebration and criticism of socio-political and cultural barriers. It is a ceremony of awareness.
I explore rituals to document intimacy and organize layers of character driven drama, and break apart quotidian social gestures.
I am creating a living vocabulary of meaningful movement that springs directly from emotions with visceral strength.
By using movement, spoken word, sounds, music, photographs, video projections, film, masks and props as tools, I create a dialogue to provoke a cathartic experience in the audience.
Location
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Brooklyn
New York
USA
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Anabella Lenzu
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Anabella Lenzu
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Website
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<a href="http://www.jamiegdiamond.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.jamiegdiamond.com</a>
Medium
photography
performance
Artist Statement
Jamie Diamond (b. 1983) is a performance artist, photographer and filmmaker living in Brooklyn, NY. Her work mostly focuses on the human figure, deconstructing images throughout an array of concepts such as motherhood, authenticity and memory. She uses personal narratives as a departure point to compose photographs that challenge the boundaries between reality and fiction.
365 Days: 1938/2017
In 2015, while visiting Berlin, I stumbled upon a discarded vernacular German family photo album. As I turned each page, I saw the life of a child unfold, 27 days old, 47 days old, 80 days old, ending at 365 days. I then looked at the date and it occurred to me that this was at the dawn of the Second World War. This body of work is a collaboration between me and my son and two strangers, a mother and a child and explores the interplay between shared global history and maternal identity. I have carefully re-enacted each picture with my son since his birth, set within the same time frame outlined in the album, from 27 days old to a year. My recreations are over-layed with the original source material from 1938, collapsing space, time and memory into one photograph. The pixels merge with the grain, in the way I merge with this stranger, our developmental milestones and fears become one. By collapsing the historical photograph with my staged re-enactment I create a new narrative in which our shared identity at a time of uncertainty become united.
Mother Love:
In this project I collaborated with an outsider art making community called the Reborners, a group of self-taught female artists who hand-make, collect and interact with hyper-realistic dolls. Working with the community allowed me to explore the grey area between reality and artifice where relationships are constructed with inanimate objects, between human and doll, artist and artwork, uncanny and real.
After spending a year investigating and recording their practice, I chose to become a Reborner to gain a better understanding of the community. Nine Months of Reborning documents my introduction to the community and the making of my first nine dolls, as well as the working nursery I established in my studio and on eBay, called the Bitten Apple Nursery. Before putting the finished dolls up for adoption on eBay, I took a portrait of each one. The final photograph is the remnant of this exchange. For the subsequent Amy Project, I invited celebrated Artists from the community to individually interpret and idealize the same doll. I then photograph each doll mimicking vernacular school portraits. Each of the dolls are unique to their maker’s hand, but share an uncanny similarity through their common origin. For the final act in the Reborn collaboration, I have identified and appropriated different canonical images of the Christ Child, and invited Reborn artists to create individual portrait babies. Depictions vary drastically from artist to artist, all ultimately presenting their personal, ideal representation of a singular figure. The photographs engage with the tradition of portraiture, evoking classical sculptural busts that are at once familiar and strange.
I Promise to Be a Good Mother:
In this series, I assume the role of subject and photographer and put on the mask of motherhood, dressing up in my mother’s clothes and interacting with Annabelle, a reborn doll. The project was inspired by and named after a diary I kept as a girl that documented the relationship with my own mother, written as a kind of rule sheet for later life. I started staging specific memories from my childhood, acting out recalled events and behaviors. Eventually the performance evolved into an exploration of the complexities surrounding the paradox of the mother/child relationship, investigating both its vernacular and art historical depictions, while mimicking and ignoring the traditional visual signifiers of motherhood. I’m interested in the fantasy of motherhood, the social structure of the relationship between mother and child, and the performance of inherited social and gender roles. Working in a variety of locations, both interiors and landscapes, I play out these scenarios with Annabelle for the camera, isolating specific idyllic and contradictory moments.
Location
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Brooklyn
New York
Topic
motherhood
family
photographic veracity
performance
family history
memory
identity
role play
reborn
doll
surrogate
pregnancy
fiction
album
archive
reenactment
Exhibitions
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Surrogate: A Love Ideal, Milan Osservatorio, Fondazione Prada, Italy
Curated by Melissa Harris, 2019
Nine Months of Reborning, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2019
I Promise to be a Good Mother, AJL Art, Berlin, Germany, 2012
365 Days: 1938/2017, Kewenig, Berlin, Germany, 2021
A New Society, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada
Family Affairs, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, 2021
Walk in My Shoes, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA, United States, 2015
Please Touch: Body Boundaries, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ, United States
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Jamie Diamond
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Jamie Diamond
album
archive
doll
family
family history
fiction
identity
memory
motherhood
performance
photographic veracity
pregnancy
reborn
reenactment
role play
surrogate
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Website
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<a href="http://christineaholtz.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">christineAholtz.com</a>
Medium
fibers
performance
Location
The location of the interview
St. Louis
Missouri
United States
Artist Statement
<p>My artwork is a visual diary about my obsessive thoughts and humorous take on habit, identity and time. Juggling three part-time jobs in addition to being an artist, spouse and mother feels like I live six different lives simultaneously. I constantly try to make sense of the nonsensical through installations, sculptures and performances. As a pathway to self-inquiry, I meticulously craft ridiculous objects and performances to visually embody the absurdities of my daily experiences. The processes are both a struggle and cathartic — just like parenting.</p>
Topic
parenting
caretaking
habits
repetition
mundane
performance
process
Exhibitions
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<a href="https://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/606" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Maternochronics: Maternal Exhaustion in the Time of Pandemic</em></a>, online exhibition 2020
<a href="https://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/639" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2020 “It Hits Home,” (two person show with Jessica Witte) The Gallery at The Kranzberg, St. Louis, MO</a>
2018 "Artists and Children," Edwardsville Art Center, Edwardsville, IL
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Christine A. Holtz
caretaking
fibers
habits
Missouri
mundane
parenting
performance
process
repetition
St. Louis
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<a href="http://www.delphahudson.co.uk%20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.delphahudson.co.uk</a>
<a href="http://www.delphahudsonartist.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.delphahudsonartist.co.uk</a>
Medium
painting
film
sculpture
performance
installation
Location
The location of the interview
Cornwall
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<p>I paint chaotic and dystopian domestic scenes. In surreal and crowded spaces women and children gesture as if from a medieval illuminated manuscript, or an Old Master like Bosch or Michelangelo. I choreograph powerful female protagonists and situate them in new imaginary realms to challenge domestic legacies that make women and mothers invisible.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Richly textured compositions use the fluidity of dripped bitumen with oil colour to create dynamic networks or patterns of ambiguous realism. The painting process is textual and performative, bodily creating figures that are excessive yet relatable. Small, cherubic, troublesome children embroil us in a palimpsest of narratives that question historical hierarchies and power structures.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>My practice aims to excavate lived experience and initiate new conversations about value. Art is a space to open up cultural and social signification and ask for change.</p>
Topic
caring
mothering
Exhibitions
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<p><em>Distanced Domestic</em> exhibition by co.curation, London</p>
<a href="https://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/606" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Maternochronics: Maternal Exhausion in the Time of Pandemic</em></a>, online exhibition 2020
Publications
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Publication of performance <em>Theatre of the Self</em> project with maternal mental health diaries
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Delpha Hudson
caring
Cornwall
mothering
painting
United Kingdom
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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
The location of the interview
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
Exhibitions
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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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Title
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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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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.anadiaknox.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.anadiaknox.com</a>
Topic
breastfeeding
nurturing
postpartum body
sexuality
motherhood
parenthood
Medium
performance
sculpture
installation
video
photography
Artist Statement
My most recent body of work utilizes themes relating to body, identity and time, from the perspective of a mother, partner and individual. I am interested in the ways that nurturing and caring for a child translates as occupational labor, and how this makes common cause with the working class by exploring the laborious nature of parenthood. I approach these ideas through various methods, including casting, construction and performance. While the different series in this body of work investigate separate ideas relating to roles of the postpartum body, a shared use of material can be seen throughout. Construction materials such as wooden pallets, 2x4s and scaffolding reference blue collar workforce, while breast milk storage bags and nursing pads suggest the time-consuming and repetitive notions associated with motherhood. The series in this body of work evolves as my role as a caretaker evolves, and aims to question how modern society values parenthood.
Location
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Loris
South Carolina
USA
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Alexandra Knox
Title
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Alexandra Knox
breastfeeding
installation
motherhood
nurturing
parenthood
performance
photography
postpartum body
sculpture
sexuality
video
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<a href="http://www.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
Exhibitions
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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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Title
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Alison Chen
breastfeeding
loss
miscarriage
motherhood
performance
photography
postpartum body
video
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<a href="http://www.diabassett.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.diabassett.com</a>
Medium
fiber
found objects
performance
painting
Location
The location of the interview
San Diego
California
USA
Topic
parenting
caretaking
breastfeeding
dyad relationship
microbiomes
touch
nurturing
napping
sleep
babyhood
toddlerhood
pregnancy
postpartum
anxiety
hapiness
physiology
nature
biology
Artist Statement
<span> I use distorted and erratic renditions of drawing and fiber techniques such as crocheting, weaving, and wrapping to build sculptural installations varying in size. My process begins when I encounter fabrics that are sourced from family and friends. The tactile experience of touching the fabrics can lead to an intimate, thoughtful meditation when I ponder the history of a garment. Who wore or used this? Where were they going or what were they doing when they used it? I may cut the fabric into long continuous thread, draw onto it, or sew it into a wearable sculpture. Dense forms and linear elements take shape as I let the qualities of the materials guide me. The improvisational aspect of my practice allows unpredictability to prosper.</span><br /><br /><span>Inspired by my own experience of entering motherhood, I want to show the power of the mother’s body and how she influences the infant physically as well as emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually. Sometimes my work takes shape as figurative drawings of the nursing relationship I have with my daughter. I incorporate repetitive text into the drawings that speak to the ever-changing mental space of becoming a mother—the anxiety and worry, the joy and gratitude. Other times my work becomes sculptural, utilizing the curvealinear forms found in nature and women’s bodies. Looking at nature’s processes of decay, entropy, rupture, and unraveling, I find an ever-increasing affinity to my body. Becoming a mother has begun to transform the art I make as I see the kinship to nature more clearly. I want viewers to reconnect with their own vulnerability as well as their strength, as motherhood has required I do so in a more profound way. Within this state of vulnerability and power, I believe we can access the sensitivity that will facilitate our collective empathy.</span>
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Title
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Dia Bassett
anxiety
babyhood
biology
breastfeeding
caretaking
dyad relationship
fiber
found objects
happiness
microbiomes
napping
nature
nurturing
painting
parenting
performance
physiology
postpartum
pregnancy
sleep
toddlerhood
touch
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Website
The Artist's website
<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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Title
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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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Person
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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
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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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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.axisweb.org/P/TheresaBradbury" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.axisweb.org/P/TheresaBradbury</a>
Topic
femininity
gender roles
abjection
activism
adulthood
art
artist/mother
artists with children
,binary tensions
body
capitalism
censorship
mother/daughter collaboration
performativity
patriarchy
contemporary art practice
feminism
feminist theory
gender norms
Medium
performance
live art
photography
sculpture
Artist Statement
Artist Statement – Theresa Bradbury My current practice is an exploration of ideas about the feminine being a social construct – an artificial masquerade. The female as living as her own spectator, the female as always accompanied by her own image. My concerns surrounding the masquerade and performative nature of femininity and the display and objectification of the female body as commodity within Capitalist society. Utilising a live art, film, photographic, performance and sculptural practice to reinforce positive feminist perspectives on the female body. To subvert the prevailing tropes of femininity as prescribed through a patriarchal lens. Investigating questions relating to the body in site, alongside themes of representation and gender, exploring and interrogating social boundaries and acceptable codes of exposure. The appropriate/inappropriate dichotomy, particularly in relation to femininity. The idea that the female body can be acted upon and coerced by external forces must be disrupted to reframe the body as active and autonomous. If the body is a surface to be inscribed upon by cultural and societal forces, what is real? My body as alienated, as belonging to the other. Constant awareness of my body, not as it is for me, but for the other. Femininity formed through the constant surveillance of ourselves against others through the mirror image, a device used to measure yourself against. My work references an anti-aesthetic, a disruption of the social and symbolic ordering of the female body, exploring a rejection of woman as idealised surface and questioning and disrupting the idea of a proper social body. Confronting the viewer with the abjection of the body, refusing containment and allowing seepage and immersion with bodily fluids. My practice attempts to erode the fetishishtic dominant structures of patriarchal Capitalism. By presenting the abjectness of the body, the work both solicits and repels the viewer and refuses the link to commodity culture. The construction of femininity as temporal and manipulable, an artifice, what constitutes femininity and who draws the boundaries? My work subverts the socially dictated artificial femininity represented through media imagery. Femininity which is something that must be purchased and imposed artificially upon the surface of the female and a radical acceptance of mess, fluids and flesh are part of feminist resistance.
Location
The location of the interview
Shrewsbury
England
United Kingdom
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Theresa Bradbury
Title
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Theresa Bradbury
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Location
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Berlin
Germany
About
MATERNAL FANTASIES is an evolving and interdisciplinary group of international artists and cultural producers based in Berlin, Germany. We (re)connected in 2018 to share experiences and insights into the most marginalised topic within both the art world and feminist discourse: Motherhood.
We join forces to embrace, discuss, elaborate and express contrasting experiences and family stories, memories, fantasies, desires and horror scenarios related to ‘Maternal Fantasies’.
Currently we meet every three-weeks to examine through artistic research, collaborative artworks and lived experience the dynamics between artistic creation and motherhood seeking to shape the discourse of motherhood through our artistic working process.
We are an organic group that produces works in different constellations between the individual group members.
Current group members are: Aino El Solh, Hanne Klaas, Isabell Spengler, Lena Chen, Magdalena Kallenberger, Maicyra Leão, Melanie Schlachter, Mikala Hyldig Dal, Olga Sonja Thorarensen, Sandra Moskova.
Organization Website
<a href="https://www.maternalfantasies.net/">https://www.maternalfantasies.net/</a>
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://www.maternalfantasies.net/">https://www.maternalfantasies.net/</a>
Medium
photography
video
performance
collective
creative writing
Artist Statement
MATERNAL FANTASIES is an evolving and interdisciplinary group of international artists and cultural producers based in Berlin, Germany. We (re)connected in 2018 to share experiences and insights into the most marginalised topic within both the art world and feminist discourse: Motherhood.
We join forces to embrace, discuss, elaborate and express contrasting experiences and family stories, memories, fantasies, desires and horror scenarios related to ‘Maternal Fantasies’.
Currently we meet every three-weeks to examine through artistic research, collaborative artworks and lived experience the dynamics between artistic creation and motherhood seeking to shape the discourse of motherhood through our artistic working process.
We are an organic group that produces works in different constellations between the individual group members.
Current group members are: Aino El Solh, Hanne Klaas, Isabell Spengler, Lena Chen, Magdalena Kallenberger, Maicyra Leão, Melanie Schlachter, Mikala Hyldig Dal, Olga Sonja Thorarensen, Sandra Moskova.
Topic
academic writing
ambivalence
anger
art
art and research
art history
art making
artist collective
artist mother
artist network
artist residency
artist/mother
artistic labor
artists with children
artists with children
binary tensions
body
capitalism
care
care labor
care work
caretaking
choreography
collaboration
collaborative project
community
discourse
contemporary art practice
costume
creative strategies
curatorial practice
daily practice
daily routine
daily tasks
domestic objects
domestic scene
domestic space
economy and caregiving
empathy
ethics
everyday activities
fair wages
relationship
feminism
feminist art
feminist art theory
feminist theory
feminist theory
gesture
identity
ideological motherhood
immigration
instinct
intuition of motherhood
interdependence
interdisciplinary
intergenerational
intersectionality
labor
maintenance
maternal
maternal affect
maternal ambivilance
maternal anxiety
maternal body
maternal bodies
maternal care
maternal collaboration
maternal defense
maternal desire
maternal experience
maternal fear
maternal guilt
maternal healthcare
maternal identity
maternal labor
maternal lineage
maternal mental health
maternal practice
maternal protection
maternal relationships
maternal subjectivity
maternal theory
maternal thinking
maternal time
maternal voice
maternal work
practice-led research
race
representation
representations of motherhood
reproductive labor
resistance
single mother
skillshare
social practice
story telling
studio practice
subjectivity
text
theory
time
women representation
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
M1, Arthur Boskamp Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt, April 2019 The photo-text installation "Like so many..." was exhibited at "Colleagues Wanted I - Superheroines and visionary associates for everyday challenges", at alpha nova galerie Berlin in September 2018.
upcoming: Soloexhibition, M1 Arthur Boskamp Foundation, Hohenlockstedt, March 2020 catalogue, Maternal Fantasies, to be published March 2020
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maternal fantasies
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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://emiliawhite.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://emiliawhite.com/</a>
Medium
performance
video
animation
Location
The location of the interview
Ann Arbor
Michigan
Artist Statement
Mother Skins is an interactive photo performance series about motherhood,
self-identity and postpartum depression. Wearing colorful full-body suits with neutral faces sewn
into them, participants photographed themselves doing various domestic tasks in relation to
their roles as mothers. The photographs reveal moments of tenderness and mundanity while
playfully addressing the alienation that many mothers feel after having a child. The images
included in this selection were taken by Emilia White.
Topic
parenting
motherhood
caretaking
postpartum depression
humor
identity
performance
photography
costume
mask
bodymask
alienation
solo parenting
loneliness
mundanity
toys
messy house
laundry
domestic chores
vacuuming
young children
breastfeeding
Exhibitions
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Something Growing Inside, TrustArt Gallery, Ann Arbor MI, May 2018
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Emilia White
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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
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.juliabarbee.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">juliabarbee.com</a>
Topic
motherhood
pregnancy
breastfeeding
motherhood as art practice
play
postpartum
family collaboration
breastfeeding advocacy
food
early motherhood
social media moms group
kids and nature
naptime haiku
Medium
photography
performance
social media
Location
The location of the interview
Oregon
USA
Artist Statement
<span class="ydpfd2cabdayiv1751045275s2">The constraints of her</span><span class="ydpfd2cabdayiv1751045275s2"> autobio</span><span class="ydpfd2cabdayiv1751045275s2">graphical journey</span><span class="ydpfd2cabdayiv1751045275s2"> inform </span><span class="ydpfd2cabdayiv1751045275s2">artist Julia Barbee's subjects and material choices. She has worked in </span><span class="ydpfd2cabdayiv1751045275s2">wearable sculpture, performance, film, food, social media, photography and writing. Currently, she is exploring play with her children, providing space for them to create, and she is making vanitas photos of the aftermath of meals they make and share with friends, family, and strangers.<span> </span></span><span class="ydpfd2cabdayiv1751045275s2">She </span><span class="ydpfd2cabdayiv1751045275s2">co-founded and curated a five-year running art event called Spaceness, which was awarded grant funding from the the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visu</span><span class="ydpfd2cabdayiv1751045275s2">al Arts. She<span> </span></span><span>has an MFA in fiber, and has been working in Portland, Oregon for</span><span> almost two decades where she lives with her husband and two children.</span>
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Julia barbee
Title
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Julia Barbee
breastfeeding
motherhood
performance
photography
pregnancy
social media
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Person
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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
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
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="https://www.metrasaberova.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://www.metrasaberova.com/</span></a>
Medium
video art
animation
performance
painting
installation
Location
The location of the interview
London
United Kingdom
Riga
Latvia
Artist Statement
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Taking the bodily, medical and performative contents that make up my artistic practice, I use my own orchestrated experiences of medical tourism procedures as a public platform to encourage discussion about the cultural, political and social meanings assigned to the female body and its capabilities. The bodily interventions include tubal ligation in Thailand, hymenoplasty in Poland, IVF consultations in Bulgaria and full breast tattoos in Latvia. I believe that upholding the high status of motherhood and treating childfree people as deviations from the standard of motherhood is clearly limiting to childfree women in terms of their acceptance as valuable contributors to the society and as people free of biological determinism. The aim of my artistic research is to contribute to the growing field of investigation in the childfree lifestyle and to question the standard of the normativity of motherhood for women in the Western society and to link the social </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">stigmatization of childfree people with investigations in sociology, performativity, bioethics, body art, feminism and queer theory</span><b>.</b></p>
<p></p>
Topic
childfree
motherhood
pregnancy
IVF
sterilization
gender
queer
body
feminism
bioethics
performance
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
<p><a href="http://kunstimaja.ee/2017/11/metra-saberova-pimpin-yo-mama-crib-avamine-17-11-kl-18-00"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Solo show Pimpin' Yo Mama Crib, curator Šelda Puķīte, Tartu Kunstimaja, Tartu, Estonia</span></a></p>
<a href="https://www.biennalejce.com/en/home/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jeune Creation Europeenne touring group exhibition in France, Italy, Denmark, Romania, Spain, Portugal and Latvia in 2018/2019</span></a>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Next Thing, Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre, Moving Image Gallery, Bury, UK</span></p>
MOTHER, CINEMQ, Elevator, Shanghai, China
Queer Art(ists) Now, And What? Queer Arts Festival, The Mill Co. Project, London, UK
International Videoart Week of Lanzarote, CIC El Almacen, Lanzarote, Canary island
Hiding in plain sight, The Flying Dutchman, London, UK
is this (not) a woman, tAD gallery, Texas, USA
Visions, Nunnery gallery, Bow arts, London, UK
RETHink Art Digital Festival, Crete, Greece
Amy Johnson Festival, The 75 Seconds Film Challenge, Hull, UK
Big Screen, Latitude festival, UK
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Mētra Saberova
animation
bioethics
body
childfree
feminism
gender
installation
IVF
Latvia
London
motherhood
painting
performance
pregnancy
queer
Riga
sterilization
United Kingdom
video art
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<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.
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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
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Jessica Mueller
and sculpture
Care
domesticity
embroidery
intersectionality
labor
painting
performance
printmaking
video
weight
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<a href="http://www.ArtistRaulGonzalez.com">www.ArtistRaulGonzalez.com</a>
Topic
stay-at-home parent
fatherhood
gender roles
primary caregiver
domestic labor
identity
labor
Medium
drawing
painting
performance
Artist Statement
My work explores topics such as work, fatherhood, identity, gender roles, construction, labor, the working class, identity, and abstraction. I use versatile methods of painting, drawing, printmaking, performance, and dance. I believe in demystifying the canvas, redefining social stereotypes, and working towards evolving as an individual, father, and artist. I use my artwork to share my personal experience and to educate. I also use it as a place to share energy, joy, and love. What we create is both a reflection of the internal self and the world we absorb. I am constantly exploring new cultures through music, dance, and art. Through my experiences, the artwork I create evolves just as well. My motto is Werk. Hustle. Sleep Repeat.
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Raul Gonzalez
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Raul Gonzalez
abstraction
domestic labor
drawing
fatherhood
gender roles
identity
painting
performance
primary caretaker
stay-at-home parent
working class
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<a href="http://www.julialandois.com">www.julialandois.com</a>
Topic
motherhood
feminism
language
religion
divine feminine
abortion
mother body
text based
Medium
performance
video
works on paper
Artist Statement
My work uses pop cultural tropes and dark humor to address thorny subjects like gender roles, religion, sexuality, and borders. Explorations of language, from documentary narratives to sacred texts to remixed song lyrics, run throughout my work in performance, video, installation, and print. I play with the disjunctions that occur in language translation and use the conventions of onscreen and printed text to engage charged content. Code-switching and voice-switching then complicate the relationships between Spanish and English, masculine and feminine, victim and victimizer, abject and exalted. My projects cross a variety of media to examine the relationship between the intimate and the public, double meanings, mistranslations, and the ironic and unintended experiences of the written, sung, and spoken word. I have a number of works that address motherhood. The print series M*dres takes inspiration from use of the words mother/mom/madre in slang phrases from American English and Mexican Spanish. Serious Work is a performance that satirically contrasts the banalities of parental life with the performance artist persona, using a smartphone as mediator. The video works Don’t Explain and Star-Crossed II recontextualize popular music to look at motherhood, mothers’ bodies, and abortion through the lens of patriarchal religious traditions and the divine feminine. Julia Barbosa Landois is a performance, installation, and video artist who lives in Houston, TX with her partner and two children. Her work has been featured in galleries, museums and performance festivals in the USA, Latin America, and Europe. Awards include grants from Artpace and the Artist Foundation of San Antonio, and residencies at the Santa Fe Art Institute (USA), Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (Norway), and Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Germany). Barbosa Landois holds a BFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio and MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. She currently teaches at the University of Houston.
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Houston
Texas
USA
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Julia Barbosa Landois
Title
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Julia Barbosa Landois
abortion
divine feminine
feminism
language
mother body
motherhood
Religion
text based
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<a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://www.alanatyson.com/">www.alanatyson.com</a>
Medium
sculpture
textiles
performance
Location
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Wales
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<p class="p0"><span class="c0">Alana Tyson’s work attempts to make sense of the world she inhabits. As an immigrant to the UK and a natural observer, she feels highly responsive to the contradictions of everyday life.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="c0"> </span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="c0">Her uncertain questioning of diverse thematic concepts is a tactic for working through the problems she encounters, incorporating performance, sculpture and installation utilising found, altered and constructed elements.</span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="c0"> </span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="c0">Tyson is drawn to dualities and incongruities. A commonality between her chosen materials is their link to domesticity. Everyday items, such as suit lining or crochet cotton, become carriers of meaning and reflections upon Tyson’s deep-rooted responses. The material contrasts and tension within Tyson’s work transforms the mundane into the visceral.</span></p>
<p class="p5"><span class="c0"> </span></p>
<p class="p6"><span class="c0"> </span></p>
Topic
feminism
crochet
breastfeeding
motherhood
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Alana Tyson
breastfeeding
crochet
feminism
motherhood
performance
sculpture
textiles
United Kingdom
Wales
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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
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Madrid
Spain
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Sofía Roncero
Title
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Sofia Roncero
artist residency in motherhood
maternity objects
objects
photocopies
photography
video
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Interlochen
Michigan
Medium
ink
graphite
acrylic paint
oil paint
animation
performance
Artist Statement
I am a young adult cancer survivor and recently had my first child. These life events have greatly impacted my creative practice. Confronting my own mortality at age 25 and then experiencing the fragility and strength of birth, I have become obsessed with tracking time- documenting the small, routine moments of my life and my child's life. I am interested in content and parts of life that loop and repeat. I find that abstracted, repeated marks communicate the passage of time and memory best in my work. I want to give the viewer intimate, personal moments that capture the both fleeting and endless seconds of being alive.
Topic
documentation
passage of time
mortality
tracking
repetition
play
alter egos
ritual
autobiography
Website
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<a href="http://www.meganlynnhildebrandt.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.meganlynnhildebrandt.com/</a>
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/452">Extended Self: Transformations and Connections</a>
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Megan Hildebrandt
acrylic paint
alter egos
animation
autobiography
graphite
ink
Interlochen
Michigan
mortality
oil paint
passage of time
performance
play
repetition
ritual
tracking
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dda10ce5d1d0c9ba19ac9d9ac680acb9
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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
Title
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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://lauraendacott.com/home.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://lauraendacott.com/home.html</a>
Medium
sculpture
installation
performance
Location
The location of the interview
Montreal
Quebec
Canada
Artist Statement
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Laura Endacott is a practicing artist whose research speaks to the contemporary mother and how it is linked to social movements, cultural activism and intellectual histories that challenge, yet enable the category of maternal art histories, as a site for knowledge production today. Her MA SIP degree (Specialized Individual Programs) combined Studio Art Production and Art History, and she is one of a few artist scholars in Canada, that explores and teaches the critical work that deals with the complex representations of the mother image. Her activities include her practice, her teaching, conference presentations and writing. Her recent work considers the body as an archive. As such she is interested in social life and articulations of agency using performance. She considers her work to be in the tradition of storytelling.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Her large-scale sculptures, performances and installations are part of an interdisciplinary practice. Her work has been included in a new anthology entitled Performing Motherhood (2014) and she has exhibited in museums such as The Orillia Museum of Art & History (2014), Le Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec (2009) and The Textile Museum of Canada (2000). Her work has been included in artist-run galleries as well as non-traditional spaces such as the<span> </span><a href="http://bankonart.net/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://bankonart.net&source=gmail&ust=1558813210697000&usg=AFQjCNGI43acyTgOwD_uxFs0ROjjLp5PEQ">bankonart.net</a><span> </span>(2010), The Gladstone Hotel (2008) along with online exhibitions such as ArtWiki: Open Data for the Arts (2012). In 2014, the textiles objects she produced and that were used in a series of performances she staged in public space, were collected into the permanent collection of the Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec. It was the first time any craft object linked to contemporary performative work was included in their collection, which represents the largest craft collection in Quebec.</p>
Topic
motherhood
identity
biological mothers
symbolic mothers
domestic space
public space
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Laura Endacott
biological mothers
Canada
domestic space
identity
installtion
Montreal
motherhood
performance
public space
Quebec
sculpture
symbolic mothers
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://raisecain.net" target="_blank">http://raisecain.net</a>
Topic
self-imaging
identity
mothering
authotheory
personal boundaries
Medium
performance
photography
film
writing
Artist Statement
My current work focuses on the prurient maternal. How is being a mother not a sexual act/event/activity? I explore the boundaries of motherhood using performance, writing, photography and film.
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Magda
Title
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Magdalena Olszanowski
autotheory
film
identity
mothering
performance
personal boundaries
photography
writing
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d574e7a19f9cdac587e8bc5dae58d844
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.emiliajavanica.com" target="_blank">www.emiliajavanica.com</a>
<a href="http://parentskins.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">http://parentskins.tumblr.com/</a>
Topic
loss of self identity
everyday activities
household tasks
Medium
performance
photography
participatory
Artist Statement
I write plays, perform characters, design puppets and costumes, and direct live performance and video productions. Through my work I aim to amplify the complex and often contrasting emotions that permeate everyday human life, taking inspiration from my own experiences. I approach the human struggle from a standpoint of humor and empathy, and intend to blur social and personal boundaries through my work. Recent themes have included body image, international relationships, parenting, and the search for meaning (and meaninglessness) in life. I see my audience as collaborators, and often incorporate participatory elements into my performances. For example, my audience participants have worn ugly teeth while playing limbo under a giant mouth to disco music, photographed themselves washing the dishes and pumping breastmilk in full body suits, drawn sketches of me in a naked old man costume in front of others, thrown fish at a couple having (pretend) sex on a boat, and been showered in endless amounts of tomato juice. The productions I direct have featured 7-person bands, flying contraptions, red blob puppets, life-size rocket ships, fake blood, little devils, and dismembered body parts. My work is darkly humorous and celebrates the ridiculous side of life.
Location
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Ann Arbor
Michigan
USA
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Emilia Javanica
Title
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Emilia Javanica
domestic life
domestic space
everyday activities
household tasks
identity
loss of identity
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<a href="http://selinatrepp.info/section/384377-nap-animation.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://selinatrepp.info/section/384377-nap-animation.html</a>
Medium
mixed media
animation
installation
performance
Location
The location of the interview
Chicago
Illinois
Artist Statement
<span>Rather than documenting or representing the real world, I reflect on it by moving sideways from it, constructing a parallel reality, a reality that mixes the familiar with the uncanny, real and unreal at once. The making of my work is based on experimental situations. My process is chance based. I write instructions, which lead to scenarios, open-ended structures, for performances that result in artworks. While past works have featured others performing for me, my new work puts me into the frame. Pointing the lens on myself is decidedly uncomfortable for me; I feel safer behind the camera. The decision to cast myself both as subject and object comes out of the realization that I need to work with the discomfort and tension that this action creates in me. If I am embarrassed by my work, then it is worth pursuing.</span>
Topic
napping
motherhood
infants and sleep
sleep
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/452">http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/452</a>Extended Self: Transformations and Connections
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Selina Trepp
animation
Chicago
conceptual art
Illinois
infants and sleep
installation
mixed media
motherhood
napping
performance
sleep
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://implausibot.com/" target="_blank">http://implausibot.com/</a>
Artist Statement
<span>Dillon de Give is an artist and educator acting in a spirit of humane experimentalism. He stages subtle alterations to everyday performances that aim to distribute art in public experience. He is a co-founder of the </span><a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwalkexchange.org&t=ZWY1MzU2ZTUwYjMzM2UwNTBhYzAxMGEzZTgyMDhlYzNjMzY4ZjE4NCxUbU4zdWpESg%3D%3D" target="_blank">Walk Exchange</a><span>, a cooperative walking group. He organizes the annual </span><a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fcoyotewalks.wordpress.com&t=ZTJmN2MzY2RhMjA3MjFiODliNGQzZDk5ZmMwNjA5YjljYjA3Nzk5ZCxUbU4zdWpESg%3D%3D" target="_blank">Coyote Itinerancy</a><span>, a retreat that traces a footpath between New York City and the wild. He holds a BS in Radio/Television/Film from Northwestern University and an MFA in Art and Social Practice from Portland State University. He lives, works and helps to raise a child in Brooklyn NY. For more information you can see a </span><a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fdl.dropboxusercontent.com%2Fu%2F19628738%2FdeGive_cv.pdf&t=NjE2YTE4NTRkYTI2MTA2ODU4ZTg2ZDEwMTg1NjkzNWM3YzliOGRhZixUbU4zdWpESg%3D%3D">CV here</a><span>, write an email to implausibot (at) yahoo (dot) com or call the project phone at (917)-300-9521.</span>
Medium
installation
performance
Location
The location of the interview
Brooklyn
New York
Topic
parenthood
adulthood
father/son relationship
bedtime routine
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/3" target="_blank">The Letdown Reflex</a>
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Dillon de Give
adulthood
bedtime routine
father/son relationship
installation
parenthood
performance
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Name
Rosie Garton
Ildiko Rippel
Website
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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="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
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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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<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
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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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The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.lynnlu.info" target="_blank">www.lynnlu.info</a>
Topic
milk
lactation
tending
empathy
reality
Medium
performance
installation
kinetic sculpture
Artist Statement
In my practice, the sentient body is seen as the main medium for perceiving and presenting (versus representing) meaning (versus message) through direct personal experience. Engaging vigorously with the present reality of all that is here-and-now, the meaning of my context-specific works often manifest in the resonant relationships created between myself and my audience, and between the audience themselves. My current research looks at the connection between experiential knowledge and the innate human capacity for empathy, in relation to a genre performance art I call “gutty”. This gutty form of performance art which uses the body just as it is – as vulnerable/resilient/sensitive as it is in everyday life – relies heavily on empathy to create meaning that is not merely conceptual but also affective and visceral. In other words, I look at why some performances not only tickle our brains but also quite literally leave us feeling like we’ve been punched in the gut.
Location
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London
United Kingdom
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Lynn Charlotte Lu
empathy
installation
kinetic sculpture
lactation
milk
performance
reality
spillage
tending
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<a href="https://julielebeldanceprojects.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://julielebeldanceprojects.wordpress.com/</a>
Topic
embodied parenting
co-creation of dance with 0-4yrs olds
choreography
parenting
dance and children
Medium
dance
performance
Artist Statement
I engage the public in their discovery of the experience of dancing. This practice has led me to develop tools for hospitality in performance and in the performing body. I seek to install dance ideas in theatres or public spaces in such a way that both public and performers will be invited in. Play is central to my practice in its power to re-shape reality. In my work, professionals and non-professional, young and old alike are capable, make choices and solve problems, lead and follow, create and collaborate. I make dances with and for parents/caregivers and babies/toddlers/children. I facilitate groups of youth, adults and elders to find their unknown dances as collectives and as individuals. My creative processes are sometimes held in theatres and often in public spaces because they hold our collective experiences/stories and affect how we move, behave and think. My goal is to create and produce contemporary choreographic works. To collaborate, exchange creative tools and to articulate new ideas between peers and mentors is integral to my creative process. I choose an esthetic of encounter and dialogue between dance and music over the practice juxtaposition of the two art forms. Video, photo and writing documentation are present throughout the creative process and inform its development or exist as a stand alone artistic output. Movement making is the result of problem solving with the collaboration of dancers. I seek learning opportunities with local mentors such as Karen Jamieson for deeper embodiment in the facilitation of my work in professional or nonprofessional contexts. I travel to the United States to study Ensemble Thinking with Nina Martin, a set of dynamic composition tools. As I become more aware, I stand against artistic and cultural appropriation and carry the knowledge and ideas with respect for peers, artistic mentors and ancestors.
Location
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Canada
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Julie Lebel
Title
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Julie Lebel
choreography
co-creation of dance with 0-4yrs olds
dance
embodied parenting
parenting
performance
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<a href="http://maternalecologies.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">maternalecologies.ca</a>
Medium
performance
video art
Location
The location of the interview
Edmonton
Alberta
Canada
Artist Statement
Maternal Ecologies uses the frame of performance to recast the daily practices of early motherhood. For 3 years I reflected on, inhabited, and researched my experience of early maternal life through the FLUXUS-inspired format of the instruction piece. Year 1, Action A Day (Maternal Prescriptions) was performed for 84 consecutive days. Year 2, Action A Day (Inhabiting Firsts) was performed for 210 consecutive days. Year 3, Action A Day (Gone/There) was performed for 84 consecutive days. The project ended when my son turned 3.
Topic
daily practice
motherhood
Fluxus
documentation
art and research
infants
infant care
breastfeeding
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/64" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Maternalisms - Chile</a>
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/65" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Maternalisms - Toronto</a>
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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Natalie Loveless
Alberta
breastfeeding
Canada
curator
daily practice
documentation
Edmonton
infant care
motherhood
research
research and art
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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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Name
Paula McCloskey
Sam Vardy
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="aplaceoftheirown.org" target="_blank">aplaceoftheirown.org</a>
Topic
maternal subjectivity
maternal trauma
maternal affect
family art activism
matrixial
social practice
research
art and research
family collaboration
Medium
writing
drawing
film
photography
performance
Artist Statement
A self-organised practice, a place of their own, is an open experiment, that we resist categorising as either art, research, everyday activism, spatial practice or film-making (and yet which engages with all of these things). Our practice engages the family in an exploration of the production of subjectivity. A place of their own is comprised of us two (Paula McCloskey and Sam Vardy) and our four children.
Location
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Sheffield
United Kingdom
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a place of their own
art and research
collaboration
drawing
family art activism
family collaboration
film
maternal affect
maternal subjectivity
performance art
photography
research
Sheffield
social practice
United Kingdom
writing
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<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