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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://www.christiancruzperformance.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.christiancruzperformance.com</a>
Topic
sex after children
birthing (labor)
breastmilk
postpartum
body positivity
sex after children
Medium
performance art
installation
painting
poetry
sculpture
Artist Statement
My work takes the form of performance, installation, video, and photo. Through the poetic exploration of the mundane, I dignify invisible labor. Invisible Labor includes the emotional, spiritual, and domestic labor that it takes for human reproduction. Invisible labor is undervalued within a capitalist society. I create environments and objects that reexamine what is valuable within our society today, heal the imagination, and ritualize this radical process into a future reality.
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Christian Cruz
Title
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Christian Cruz
birthing (labor)
body positivity
breastfeeding
breastmilk
installation
painting
performance art
poetry
postpartum
sculpture
sex after children
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<a href="http://Www.tonyameeks.com">Www.tonyameeks.com</a>
Topic
Soulship parenting / art
parenting
Medium
performance art
Artist Statement
Tonya Meeks is a performance artists creating show with her two year old son.
Location
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Marina del Ray
California
USA
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Tonya Meeks
California
Marina del Ray
performance
United States
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<a href="https://www.verastankovic.com" target="_blank">https://www.verastankovic.com/</a>
Medium
sculpture
installation
photography
collage
urban intervention
performance art
object
sculpture
photography
writing
interdisciplinary
Location
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Ljubljana
Slovenia
Europe
Artist Statement
<p class="p1">I am fascinated by transformation processes.</p>
<p class="p1">I observe transforming spaces, economy, environment, cities, work, cells, bodies, knowledge, history, countries, roles, education, technology, relationships, selves, languages.</p>
<p class="p1">Becoming and being a mother is for me all about transformation. My first solo exhibition in the Zepter Gallery in Belgrade, Serbia was called Metamorphosis<span class="s1"> . </span>The objects I made used banal everyday objects (plastic bags) and transformed them into an immense vagina or into umbilical cords falling from the ceiling. This story from 1999 was a intimate story of separating oneself from the primary family and a story about the everyday and the environment.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="p1">From 2006 to 2012 my partner and I went through a series of unsuccessful IVFs and several miscarriages. I did several sculptural works that documented this part of our lives - like the Womb exhibited in 2010 in Museum de Ceramica de l’Alcora, Spain. It was just about the pain, I guess.</p>
<p class="p1">In 2012, I was invited to make an urban intervention inside the Vesel Garden in Ljubljana, Slovenia. I was three months pregnant with my son and did not know what to expect about the occurring pregnancy. So I did an urban intervention with a participative performance and called this work Embryo garden. It was all about the thin line between life and death of the child to be, but also of the artistic child within myself.</p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s2">My experience as a parent has been both challenging and inspiring for me as an artist. I explored the relationship between the roles of artist and parent in my 2016 exhibition in the Glass Atrium of the City Hall of Ljubljana, called A Thank You Note To the Cleaning Lady. The work that lent its name to the exhibition questions the relation between reproductive, maintenance work and having greater purpose in life. As a whole, </span>the exhibition was born as a product of broken antagonism between being a parent and an artist and of cooperation between the two roles. The installation To Include Everything, Everything, Everything, Absolutely, Absolutely, Everything especially focused on that. And the work The Map is about the child experiencing and learning by himself, and the artist-mother just observing and taking notes. In this process, I sometimes feel as if steeling from him.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
Topic
play
daily life
work/life balance
parenting
domestic
artist/mother
fertility
infertility
vagina
parent/child collaboration
World War II
exploring
anger
cleaning
maintenence
everyday
powerlessness
ritual
grandmother's motherhood
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Title
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Vera Stankovic
anger
archive
artist/mother
calendar
cleaning
collage
daily life
domestic
everyday
fertility
grandmother
infertility
installation
maintenance
Maps
motherhood
parent/child collaboration
parenting
plastic
play
Poljanska
powerlessness
Pozega-Slavonia
pregnancy
readymade
ritual
sculpture
Serbia
Slovenia
toys
vagina
womb
work/life balance
World War II
writing
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<a href="http://www.sallylewry.com" target="_blank">http://www.sallylewry.com</a>
Topic
artistic practice
mother/artist identity
identity
shocks of motherhood
shifting identity
Artist Residency in Motherhood
Medium
performance art
visual art
mixed media
Artist Statement
Based in Melbourne Australia, I am an independent artist and writer working within various mediums including performance and visual arts. My work engages with a deep sense of socio-political content examining the human condition. I value long, intuitive processes in which I interrogate shifting identities and personal politic; the starting point of a work often arising from lived experience. My current enquiry investigates themes of motherhood and grief. Valuing highly-skilled craft, my practice engages in somatic research, movement, imagery, language, light, sound and a range of mixed media within solo and collaborative contexts, collaborating with a range of artists from various disciplines. My current enquiry explores forms and processes within a visual arts context while my lineage in performance making continues to inform the work I make. I seek to create moving and challenging relationships in which an audience can be active and present. I invest in on-going training and research, in various forms and value shared dialogue within a community of artists in order to facilitate a rigorous and pertinent practice. Engaged in exploring the possibilities of various forms I am invested in creating a body of work which speaks to the time in which it is created.
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Sally Lewry
Title
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Sally Lewry
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<a href="http://www.carrying-stones.com/ties-that-bind/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://wwww.carrying-stones.com</a>
Medium
sculpture
performance art
data visualization
social practice
Location
The location of the interview
San Francisco
California
USA
Artist Statement
The Carrying Stones Project is an ongoing series of sculpture, data visualization, and<br />social practice works that explores women’s work inequity in its many forms.<br /><br />Cooking, cleaning, childcare and eldercare responsibilities often still default to women, keeping them from<br />advancing at work and in society. Even community volunteerism—care-taking of the larger<br />community—falls disproportionately on women. This project documents the physical, emotional, and<br />practical effects of these imbalanced burdens.<br /><br />The inequalities that working women face are both systemic and pervasive, and those biases affect<br />individual women differently. As such, the concepts for the Carrying Stones works are viewed through an<br />intersectional lens, and are distilled from the personal narratives of women of diverse ages, ethnicities,<br />orientations, working roles, and socio-economic statuses.
Topic
parenting
caretaking
non-binary parenting
women's work
women's labor
gender inequity
wage gap
unpaid labor
unpaid work
work life balance
feminism
intersectional feminism
domestic work
housework
elder care
data visualization
Exhibitions
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(Opening September 2019) “Counting the Hours: Art, Data, and the Untold Stories of Women’s Work,” Sculpture, photographic portraiture, social practice, from The Carrying Stones Project, Code and Canvas, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Art Market San Francisco, 2 main floor on-site installations from The Carrying Stones Project
Force of Nature: Women’s Work Visualized," sculpture, photographic portraiture, social practice, from The Carrying Stones Project, Classic Cars West Gallery, Oakland, CA. Curated by Dasha Matsuura, director, Spoke Art (solo)
"The Weight of Your World," social practice public interactive event, Classic Cars West Gallery, Oakland, CA
"Ties That Bind," public sculpture, social practice, and performance, from the Carrying Stones Project, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco, CA (solo)
"Ties That Bind," social practice public sculpture assembly event, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco, CA
"Ties That Bind," 10-minute performance with 13 actors, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco, CA
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Sawyer Rose
arenting
California
caretaking
childcare
data visualization
domestic labor
domestic work
elder care
feminism
gender equality
gender inequity
housework
intersectional feminism
non-binary parenting
performance art
sculpture
unpaid labor
unpaid work
wage gap
women’s labor
women’s work
work life balance
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Fontana di Trevi, 2016
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My point of departure is based on my physical awareness. The vanishing necessity to be physically present somewhere to act opens up a large window of questions, which I detect and elaborate in my work. The confrontation of the human body, its functions and its expressions in relation to society interests me the most. There is a displacement going on which I use for a redefinition of my own identity.
The female body, which undergoes complex transformations, is still under the public spotlight when it comes to a justification of professional interests. Why should it be intellectually less valuable to talk about pregnancy in a theoretical context when a woman is also pregnant at the same time? This doubt still unmasks the western belief in the dichotomy of mind and body and its gender classification. I am well aware of the risks of subjectivity, yet I think that personal drives can lead to splendid creations and discoveries. For me as an artist, life and art are closely related and they interchange their influences. The division between an in- and an out-side, a private and a public, is constantly going through an osmotic transition.
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<a href="http://www.barbaraphilipp.com" target="_blank">www.barbaraphilipp.com</a>
<a href="http://www.mbassyunlimited.org/008-barbara-philipp/" target="_blank">http://www.mbassyunlimited.org/008-barbara-philipp/</a>
Medium
performance art
video art
artists' books
drawing
painting
Location
The location of the interview
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Artist Statement
My point of departure is based on my physical awareness. The vanishing necessity to be physically present somewhere to act opens up a large window of questions, which I detect and elaborate in my work. The confrontation of the human body, its functions and its expressions in relation to society interests me the most. There is a displacement going on which I use for a redefinition of my own identity. The female body, which undergoes complex transformations, is still under the public spotlight when it comes to a justification of professional interests. Why should it be intellectually less valuable to talk about pregnancy in a theoretical context when a woman is also pregnant at the same time? This doubt still unmasks the western belief in the dichotomy of mind and body and its gender classification. I am well aware of the risks of subjectivity, yet I think that personal drives can lead to splendid creations and discoveries. For me as an artist, life and art are closely related and they interchange their influences. The division between an in- and an out-side, a private and a public, is constantly going through an osmotic transition.<br /><br /><br />
Topic
body
female body
identity
pregnancy
breastfeeding
motherhood
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Barbara Philipp
Amsterdam
artists books
body
breastfeeding
drawing
female body
identity
maternal body
Netherlands
painting
performance art
video art
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<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=people_details&id=309" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=people_details&id=309</a></span>
Medium
performance art
installation
Location
The location of the interview
Santiago
Chile
Artist Statement
<span>Alejandra Herrera is a visual artist and performer from Santiago (Chile), currently living in Los Angeles. She has been an active organizer, artist and teacher in the field of performance art for more than a decade and has exhibited her work extensively, both in her native Chile and internationally. She has produced and organized visual arts shows, such as the Annual Showcase of Students of the Arts Faculty of the University of Chile, exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Santiago, "Av-ant Perfo", the first international performance art show in Valparaíso, and "Perfo Puerto", the First Latin American festival of performance art in Chile. Her recent performances question bodily sensuality and materiality, with particular emphasis on gendered power relations. She is mother to three daughters, four-year old twins Evelyn and Trinidad, and two-year old Diamanda.</span>
Topic
sensuality
materiality
gendered power relations
motherhood
maternity
domestic life
body exploration
Exhibitions
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New Maternalisms
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Alejandra Herrera Silva
body exploration
Chile
domestic life
installation
materiality
maternity
motherhood
Santiago
sensuality
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<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://www.michellehartney.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.michellehartney.com/</a></span>
<div><a href="https://www.michellehartney.com/mothers-right" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.michellehartney.com/mothers-right</a></div>
<div></div>
<a href="http://www.michellehartney.com/moms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.michellehartney.com/moms</a>
<a href="https://www.michellehartney.com/kimberly-said-no" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.michellehartney.com/kimberly-said-no</a>
<a href="http://www.michellehartney.com/birthwords" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.michellehartney.com/birthwords</a>
<a href="https://www.michellehartney.com/correcting-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.michellehartney.com/correcting-history</a>
<a href="http://www.michellehartney.com/anarcha-lucy-betsey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.michellehartney.com/anarcha-lucy-betsey</a>
Medium
mixed media
performance art
Location
The location of the interview
Chicago
Illinois
United States
Artist Statement
<p>Michelle Hartney is a Chicago based artist whose work addresses a broad range of topics, from women’s health issues, to the concept of heroes, love, and the cosmos. She works in a variety of materials, including fiber, wood, found objects, and most recently, performance. Her interest in using art to address social issues began during her graduate studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she was an Albert Schweitzer Fellow.</p>
<p>In 2015 she became the <a href="http://www.michellehartney.com/improving-birth">Chicago rally coordinator </a>for<a href="http://improvingbirth.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I</a><a href="http://improvingbirth.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mproving Birth's</a> nationwide Labor Day rallies. Most recently, Hartney joined <a href="http://www.everymothercounts.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Every Mother Counts </a>as a<a href="http://www.michellehartney.com/every-mother-counts">running ambassador.</a> With twenty-six years of distance running to draw from, including several marathons, triathlons, and running cross country and track for Purdue University, she is forming a team of men and women to race with and raise awareness about maternal healthcare issues. <a href="http://www.michellehartney.com/every-mother-counts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here</a> for more information about joining her team.</p>
Topic
maternity
feminism
mother/daughter relationship
pregnancy
newborn
healthcare
mothers
women
women's health
maternal healthcare
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Michelle Hartney
Chicago
feminist
healthcare
Illinois
maternal
maternal healthcare
mixed media
mother/daughter relationship
mothers
newborn
performance art
pregnancy
United States
women
women's health
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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.nicolacanavan.com" target="_blank">http://www.nicolacanavan.com</a>
<a href="http://www.raisingtheskirt.com" target="_blank">http://www.raisingtheskirt.com</a>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/nicolahuntercanavan/?fref=ts" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/nicolahuntercanavan/?fref=ts</a>
Medium
painting
performance art
Location
The location of the interview
Jarrow
South Tyneside
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span>Over the last 10 years I have been developing an artistic practice which is rooted in image making and spans live work, documentations of its products & traces and the re-presentation of these in other forms. With performance at its core, I investigate themes around feminism, abjection and ritual with a focus on interpreting or creating experiences in my own body. I have an active interest in the anthropological body, exploring the ways that social, cultural and political dynamics shape the perception and understanding of the human body and how these interactions are interpreted through social engagement how they are controlled through mass media and the arts.
</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">In 2014 I created '<a href="http://www.raisingtheskirt.com" target="_blank">Raising the Skirt</a><a href="http://www.raisingtheskirt.com" target="_blank">'</a> in collaboration with Dawn Felicia Knox, which has since had international success being named one of Dazed and Confused's photo series of the year 2015. RTS is a multi-layered arts project which calls for the (re)claiming of the cunt, we are working on representing a diverse and fierce femininity through re-appropriating the defiant act of <em>raising the skirt </em>which is buried deep into many of our cultures.
'Landing in Her Skin' began in the spring of 2015 and aims to document the transition of woman to mother and back again, being a mother comes with its own otherness, this project will follow the lives of women and their ever changing body.<br /><br /></p>
<p><strong>Biography</strong></p>
<p>Born in North East England (UK), Nicola Hunter (formerly Canavan) has been performing and showing work nationally and internationally since 2007 within programmes such as Momentum Festival (Brussels), ]performance s p a c e[ (London), Inbetween Time Festival (Bristol), City of Women (Ljubljana) and SPILL National Platform (Ipswitch). She has collaborated with Predrag Pajdic, Manuel Vason (Double Exposures) and Ernst Fischer and has been awarded the Artsadmin Bursary, the Artists International Development Fund and has been financially supported and mentored by Unlimited, Live Art Development Agency and Pacitti Company.</p>
Topic
feminism
abjection
ritual
aesthetics
motherhood
motherness
human body
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Title
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Nicola Hunter
abjection
aesthetics
feminism
human body
motherhood
motherless
painting
performance art
ritual
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.artlist.cz/katerina-olivova-108635/" target="_blank">http://www.artlist.cz/katerina-olivova-108635/</a>
<a href="https://vimeo.com/user2505168" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/user2505168</a>
Topic
motherhood
breastfeeding
activism
family
child as artist
Medium
performance art
video art
activism
texts
Location
The location of the interview
Brno
Czech Republic
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Kateřina Olivová
Title
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Kateřina Olivová
activism
breastfeeding
child as artist
family
motherhood
performance art
text
video art
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Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.emmafinucane.com/" target="_blank">http://www.emmafinucane.com/</a>
Medium
screenprint
photography
video art
performance art
printmaking
installation
Location
The location of the interview
Bray
County Wicklow
Ireland
Artist Statement
I develop artwork through dialogue, process based, participatory and collaborative practice. I investigate the way we connect and communicate with others and ultimately how it contributes to the quality of our lives. I am looking at the role of the artist in society and questioning how “useful” the role of art can be when entering into different areas. My work has frequently combined education, research and artistic practice. My visual research consists of screen print, digital images and photography, slides and video experiments. I have been using video in both documentary and performance based formats, combining live action with static projections, improvisation and language. <br /><br />I am currently Artist in Residence in UCD College of Health Sciences where I am the principle investigator on a research team with a midwifery lecturer Dr. Maria Healy (UCD) and midwife, Teresa McCreery based at the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street. Together we are working on the research initiative: An interpretive phenomenological study: Illuminating childbirth experiences of women attending a midwife-led service via visual art works. Insights from this research will highlight women’s lived experiences of childbirth vis visual artworks and academic publications. The final artworks will be included in the UCD Health Sciences Library in book format as an educational tool alongside academic books.
Topic
childbirth
motherhood
maternal
education
parenting
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Title
A name given to the resource
Emma Finucane
Bray
childbirth
County Wicklow
education
installation
Ireland
maternal
motherhood
parenting
performance art
photography
printmaking
screenprint
video art
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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://madisonomahne.com/" target="_blank">http://madisonomahne.com/</a>
Medium
performance art
sculpture
drawing
fiber
Location
The location of the interview
Cleveland
Ohio
Artist Statement
WOMB PROJECT STATEMENT: This 9 month long documentation explores the physical changes artist, Madison Omahne experienced throughout her first pregnancy. By crocheting around herself during this period, she creates a "womb-like" soft sculpture, which protects and comforts her, just as her womb protects and comforts her growing baby. Omahne utilizes the repetitive process of crocheting, a traditional craft, to reflect on her pregnancy, her body, and her baby growing inside. As her baby continues to grow and begins to manipulate her body, it is apparent that the sculpture is doing the same. The more the baby grows, the more difficult it becomes for the artist to continue creating her work. However, it is inevitable that she continues. This is catharsis. At last, when the sculpture is complete it is then deconstructed by the artist to reveal the greatest work of art, her baby. <br /><br />BIO<br /><br /> Madison Omahne received her MFA in Sculpture at Brooklyn College in 2011, where she studied under renowned artists such as Vito Acconci and Patricia Cronin. She currently lives and works in her home studio with her husband, son, and two dogs in Cleveland, OH.
Topic
pregnancy
domestic objects
interior/exterior
womb
maternal body
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/290" target="_blank">Of Women</a>
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Title
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Madison Omahne
drawing
fiber
interior/exterior
maternal body
performance
performance art
pregnancy
sculpture
womb
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.lenkaclayton.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.lenkaclayton.com/</a>
<a href="http://www.lenkaclayton.com/#/artist-residency-in-motherhood/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Artist Residency in Motherhood</a>
Medium
conceptual art
video art
drawing
sculpture
performance art
Location
The location of the interview
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Artist Statement
<p>In 2012 I founded <a href="http://www.residencyinmotherhood.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">An Artist Residency in Motherhood</a> — a structured, fully-funded artist residency that takes place inside my own home and life as a mother of two young children.</p>
<p>Artist residencies are usually designed as a way to allow artists to escape from the routines and responsibilities of their everyday lives. An Artist Residency in Motherhood is different. Set firmly inside the traditionally “inhospitable” environment of a family home, it subverts the art-world’s romanticization of the unattached artist, and frames motherhood as a valuable site, rather than an invisible labour for exploration and artistic production.</p>
<p>As the first artist-in-resident-in-motherhood I aim to embrace the fragmented mental focus, exhaustion, nap-length studio time and countless distractions of parenthood as well as the absurd poetry of time spent with young children as my working materials and situation, rather than obstacles to be overcome.</p>
<p>The following works are amongst those made during my tenure as Artist-in-Residence-in-Motherhood;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lenkaclayton.com/the-distance-i-can-be-from-my-son">The Distance I Can Be From My Son</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.lenkaclayton.com/all-the-scissors-in-the-house-made-safer">All Scissors in the House Made Safer</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.lenkaclayton.com/objects-from-my-sons-mouth">63 Objects from My Son's Mouth</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.lenkaclayton.com/womens-intuition-hats">Women's Intuition (hats)</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.lenkaclayton.com/moons-from-next-door">Moons From Next Door</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.lenkaclayton.com/one-brown-shoe">One Brown Shoe</a></p>
<p>The project is archived in full at <a href="http://www.residencyinmotherhood.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.residencyinmotherhood.com.</a> On conclusion of my tenure in May, 2014 the project will be passed along to two new residents.</p>
<p>An Artist Residency in Motherhood was funded by the Robert C. Smith Fund and the Betsy R. Clark Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation and a Sustainable Art Foundation Award, and supported in kind by Pittsburgh Filmmakers and Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse.An Artist Residency in Motherhood was exhibited at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts in 2012, and documents and works from the project are currently being exhibited in Complicated Labors at University of California Santa Cruz, curated by Irene Lusztig & Natalie Loveless until March 15th 2014.</p>
Topic
motherhood
motherhood and studio practice
studio time
mental focus
household safety
children and safety
care taking
choking hazards
children and independence
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Complicated Labors</a>
New Maternalisms
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/391" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Care and Feeding: The Art of Parenthood, Palo Alto Art Center, 2018</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/417" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bodies of Work, Baxter ST Camera Club of New York</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/462">Labor: Motherhood & Art in 2020</a>
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Title
A name given to the resource
Lenka Clayton
care taking
children and independence
choking hazards
conceptual art
dogs
drawing
household safety
mental focus
motherhood
motherhood and art practice
Pennsylvania
performance art
Pittsburg
sculpture
studio practice
studio time
video art
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://courtneykessel.com/home.html" target="_blank">http://courtneykessel.com/home.html</a>
Medium
performance art
sculpture
installation
video art
sound
Location
The location of the interview
Ohio
Artist Statement
My current work and research is focused on the possibility of what a feminist form may consist of beyond current feminist content, imagery, and histories. Through sculpture, performance, video, and sound, I perform a visibility that, in normative patriarchal society, is preferred to remain invisible. The question of feminist form transcends the product and is inclusive of my practice and methodology. In doing this, a slippage occurs where the separation of studio activity and domestic responsibility is blurred.
In the performance In Balance With, my six-year-old daughter, Chloe, and I sit at opposite ends of an empty sixteen-foot seesaw. During the thirty-minute performance, I add items that represent our lives such as toys, her books and sketchbook, my research books, food, laundry, tools, and pots and pans to her side of the seesaw. Constantly checking in with her well being, I continue until both sides have reached equilibrium. While hovering in a balanced state, I am continually counteracting her every move. Here we remain until she is ready to come down. In communication the entire time, the words we share are available to the audience but are not for the audience.
This piece is the confluence of many of my ideas. It relays and relies upon the non-privileged, unspoken language of the maternal, the process as opposed to the product, and the repositioned domestic dialog. When the performance ends, what remains is a laden seesaw complete with identifiable objects representing one’s life: a sculpture that tells a tale.
The non-hierarchical triad of feminism, language, and maternity forms the unique basis for my work. The French feminist Luce Irigaray describes woman “as waste, or excess, what is left of a mirror invested by the (masculine) ‘subject’ to reflect himself, to copy himself”1. I use language as a medium in my work to represent the gap in both “meaning” and “intention,” as well as the notion of “excess” as Irigaray connotes. How does the methodology I will use be sympathetic to feminist form? How will my decisions be based on this? Feminist form is non-hierarchical. It has options and choices; it is excess and multiplicitous, not singular. It will not be categorized, but create it’s own category. It is a process that is not based on product. It accumulates and is messy, but is not interested in making messes. It is an invitation, not a statement.
Topic
motherhood
daughter
feminism
language
domestic life
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/4" target="_blank">Complicated Labors</a>
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/274" target="_blank">Labors</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/64" target="_blank">New Maternalisms - Chile</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/161" target="_blank">New Maternalisms - Redux</a>
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Title
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Courtney Kessel
daughter
domestic life
feminism
language
motherhood
Ohio
performance art
sculpture
sound
video art
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://nataliemball.com/section/33295.html">http://nataliemball.com/section/33295.html</a>
Medium
performance art
installation
Artist Statement
"To Be Continued" is a claim for visual sovereignty. It is about taking back power through the relationship of a mother and her daughter in relation to historical genocide and disenfranchisement of the Modoc and Klamath people. I enlist auto-ethnography as an apparatus to offer you a visual articulation of a mother’s conscious actions to connect her daughter to her complex history, her water, her land, and her cultures for survival.
For me, for my family, for many native people, and for my daughter the “Indian Wars” are not over. “To Be Continued” acknowledges my daughter’s Indigenous womanhood within a reality where the wars have not subsided. There are other kinds of war, with legislation, not howitzers; water rights, land acquisition, dam removal, salmon restoration, self determination and blood quantum. There is always a fight.
When Ojibwe scholar Scott Lyons writes about native identity, "When the Indian speaks, it always speaks as an Indian," he is stating that it is not possible to ignore the complex narratives that create the idea of the Indian. I address this through traditional native markers, quilt pieces, a pony, but just in case you missed that the Indian is speaking as an Indian, I put the name Modoc in lights at the center of the piece. The door and floor put the installation in space and time, adding another layer of information. The space is being occupied, at least for the time being. What always was Indian land is back to being Indigenous space. The installation leaves no doubt, occupied or not, the space is Indian, Modoc in lights, telegraphing presence and native survivance.
Topic
motherhood
mother/daughter relationship
daughter
native american
genocide
heritage
Klamath Tribe
Modoc Tribe
auto-ethnography
Indigenous womanhood
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Title
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Natalie M. Ball
auto-ethnography
daughter
genocide
heritage
Indigenous motherhood
installation
Klamath Tribe
Modoc Tribe
motherhood
Native American
performance art
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<a href="http://denisewhitebreadfanning.com/homeland-security.html" target="_blank">http://denisewhitebreadfanning.com/homeland-security.html</a>
Medium
sculpture
performance art
installation
Location
The location of the interview
Michigan
Artist Statement
Created from the perspective of mother, Homeland Security is an ongoing body of work comprised of (often futile or absurd) survival and escape gear made by a mother to protect her family and loved ones from a threatening array of inevitable tragedies or disasters, from simple domestic accidents to acts of terrorism and environmental catastrophes. Fusing the artist's converging interest in survival preparedness and mundane domestic survival, this body of work continues to manifest as a response to the ever present fears of the mother/caregiver, who, influenced by media and the societal commodification of fear, desires to protect that which she most fears losing. Using language culled from Survival Preparedness Handbooks which often doubles as domestic survival mantras, the work explores the line between utmost gravity and the absurd, between our real and daily dangers, and the sense of humor necessary for our survival. All of the work in this series speaks to human fears of loss and mortality, as well as the ego attached to the implied ability to prevent such mortal guarantees.
Topic
motherhood
protection
survival
disasters
accidents
survival planning handbook
survival preparedness
fear
maternal fear
mortality
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Denise Whitebread Fanning
accidents
installation
lifeboat
maternal fear
Michigan
mortality
motherhood
performance art
sculpture
survival
survival gear
survival handbook
survival preparedness
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/14" target="_blank">www.hillerbrandmagsamen.com</a>
Medium
photography
video art
performance art
Location
The location of the interview
Houston
Texas
Artist Statement
“I HOPE YOU’RE NOT PLANNING TO SELL YOUR HOUSE ANYTIME SOON”
— someone attending one of our art openings —
This is what people often say when they first see our work at art openings, exhibition talks, or film festivals. While they could be commenting on our nominal status as not-so-starving artists, it is more likely that they’re referring to the nature of our work itself. Home, family, belongings—nothing in our life is left un- deconstructed in our art—often quite literally, as sofas, bedroom walls, and dinnerware come under physical attack. We draw no line between our lives and our art.
We are the photographers and the photographed; our home is our canvas, our family is our subject, and our actions are our content.
As the collaborative artistic team of Hillerbrand+Magsamen, we draw upon the rich Fluxus practice of incorporating humor, performance, video and everyday objects and we expand our personal family life into a contemporary art conversation about family dynamics, suburban life and American consumer excess. This new kind of “suburban fluxus” generates work that documents and re-contextualizes our objects and possessions of self, family and culture, the role of the camera in contemporary art and challenges presumptions of the everyday.
We have presented our videos in prestigious international film and media festivals including SCOPE Basel, WAND V Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, New York Underground Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Boston Underground Film Festival, LA Freewaves New Media Art Festival. Our cinematic based installations have been seen in Hong Gah Museum in Taiwan, the Hudson River Museum, Woodstock Center for Photography, Museum of Fine Art Houston, Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film, and Houston Center for Photography. We have been awarded grants from Austin Film Society’s Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund, Ohio Arts Council, Houston Arts Alliance and a Carol Crow Fellowship from the Houston Center for Photography.
We live and work in Houston, TX with our two children Madeleine and Emmett."
-From the Artists' website
Topic
family life
suburban life
Fluxus
home
belongings
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Hillerbrand+Magsamen
belongings
family life
Fluxus
home
Houston
performance art
photography
Suburban Fluxus
suburban life
Texas
video art