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Exhibition Archive
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Event Type
Exhibition
Exhibition Website
<a href="https://www.kranzbergartsfoundation.org/visual-art/gallery-exhibitions/it-hits-home/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.kranzbergartsfoundation.org/visual-art/gallery-exhibitions/it-hits-home/</a>
Gallery
Kranzberg Gallery, St Louis Missouri
Location
The location of the interview
St. Louis
Missouri
Curatorial Statement
<span>The current Covid-19 pandemic reveals the difficulty, labor dynamics, and joys of family life. As the national health crisis redefines our homes and what we value, many parents struggling to hold jobs have been forced to become full-time caregivers, teachers, tech support, and emotional support to their children. Artists Jessica Witte and Christine A. Holtz highlight the chaos and catharsis of parenthood amplified by the current situation. Both use their children as subject matter and inspiration; often using repetition to speak to the mundane. The investment of time in the hand-embroidered cloth and floor quilt drawings spotlight the work of caregiving. Both artists are teaching online, homeschooling their children, and making art in response to this new normal.</span>
Artists
<a href="https://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/622" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jessica Witte</a>
<a href="https://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/617" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christine A. Holtz</a>
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
June 8 – Aug. 2, 2020
Topic
Covid-19
caretaking
parenthood
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It Hits Home: Parenting Amid A Pandemic
caretaking
Covid-19
parenting
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.elizabethpress.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.elizabethpress.net</a>
Medium
HD video
Location
The location of the interview
Troy
New York
Artist Statement
<p>Pandemic Letter #1 May 28, 2020</p>
<p>This video was created at what we considered to be the beginning of the pandemic as we were trying to figure out how to cope with our new existence under lockdown and how to communicate this new reality to our child. My partner and collaborator Angela Beallor helped record the video, shooting on a DSLR with a macro lens. Our kid turned three right before I wrote this. Now, they are four. So far, we have survived this pandemic with little personal loss but not without the stresses that come along with constantly being on for work, for our family, and for our community. We continue to struggle as a queer family in a predominately heteronormative parent community and we continue to work, as a white family, for racial justice in our town.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Elizabeth Press (EP/They/Them) is a media-maker and educator based in Troy, NY. Press is interested in socially engaged practices and experimental documentary which sometimes crosses over with topics of caregiving.</p>
<p>Press is a lecturer in the Arts Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute teaching classes in digital filmmaking and studio production. Press has also taught classes at New York University, The New School and several after-school and community media centers.</p>
<p>Press cut their teeth in journalism as a producer for the independent TV/Radio program, Democracy Now!. As a videographer, producer and editor, Press worked with BRIC Arts Media, The International Institute for Sustainable Development covering the UN climate negotiations, StreetFilms, GritTV with Laura Flanders and PBS.</p>
<p>Press’ work has been screened in international festivals across Europe and featured here in the New York Times, Democracy Now!, Rooftop Films, Exit Art, and EMPAC.<br /><br /></p>
<p>EP is on the board for the Sanctuary for Independent Media and helped bottom-line the launch of the low power FM station and the daily local news show, The Hudson Mohawk Magazine in 2017 that still runs today. </p>
<p>Press is a Fulbright Scholar, has an MFA in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a BA in Anthropology from Ithaca College. </p>
Topic
parenting
caretaking
covid-19
Exhibitions
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Femeeting 2020
<a href="https://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/606" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maternochronics</a> online exhibition 2021
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Elizabeth Press (EP)
caretaking
Covid-19
New York
parenting
photography
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.kasiecampbell.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.kasiecampbell.com</a>
Medium
photography
Location
The location of the interview
Edmonton
Alberta
Canada
Topic
breastfeeding
nursing
care taking
motherhood
parenting
breastmilk
pumping milk
newborn
newborn care
postpartum
postpartum anxieties
grief
mourning
Covid-19
pandemic
Exhibitions
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<a href="https://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/606" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maternochronics</a>
Artist Statement
<p>It almost feels like I have spent the past two years in isolation. I’ve been consistently trying to navigate my <span>artistic</span> practice through intense waves of grief over the loss of my mum, infertility/miscarriage, and a fear of dying. Things have shifted in the last 4 months, with added postpartum anxieties, healing associated with childbirth, obsessive tracking of my baby’s feeds, breastfeeding struggles and COVID 19. With the COVID pandemic, there were increased anxieties surrounding my newborns health. Will my baby be okay? What if my baby gets sick? What about check-ups? Am I feeding my baby enough? what if my milk dries up and I can’t feed my baby? What if I get sick and can't feed my baby? Am I spending adequate time with my oldest child?</p>
<p>As a way to ease my anxieties, I started pumping breast milk. I would pump at 5:00 every morning after our first feed. I began writing thoughts or worries along with the date on each bag of breastmilk. I would then photograph the bags of breastmilk as a way to document life postpartum, anxieties about mumhood and life in COVID19. The act of pumping breastmilk and freezing was a ritualistic and meditative way for me to cope and eased anxieties around getting sick and not being able to feed my baby.</p>
<p>Postpartum anxieties are exacerbated by the times we are living in.</p>
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Kasie Campbell
breastfeeding
breastmilk
Canada
care taking
Covid-19
grief
motherhood
mourning
newborn
newborn care
nursing
pandemic
parenting
photography
postpartum
postpartum anxieties
pumping milk
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Exhibition Archive
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Exhibition Website
<a href="https://www.maternochronics.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.maternochronics.com/</a>
Curator
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/590">http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/590</a><a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/589">Emily Zarse</a>
Curatorial Statement
Maternochronics: noun 1. genre defined by the chronic, durational fatigue of mothering/caregiving
2. framework that explores an alternate way of experiencing time through the lens of mothering
This Exhibition asks the question: What does maternal exhaustion look/feel like?as experienced during the ongoing pandemic march 2020-2021. The above term— maternochronics —is offered in an attempt to create space for a conversation about maternal time and the accumulation of stress. Through submissions to this exhibition, artists are welcomed to participate in an active dialogue, encouraged to redefine and contribute to the thinking and naming. Submission is open to all self identifying women and non-binary artists who are mothers/lifelong carers based anywhere in the world.
The language of maternal time during the pandemic has been noticeably defined in one context— daily news feeds are filled with headlines about maternal burnout and the untenable amount of stress placed on mothers during the pandemic. What would a creative/artistic response to these headlines look like? What do artist mothers and caregivers have to say about their own embodied experience of burnout in this time of pandemic? What weight would a collection of creative responses add to the conversation of “how can we better support caregivers?” A Note on Exhibition Layout: The works in this exhibition are presented in the chronological order in which they were submitted to the call. Artists retain all rights to works. Submission Prompts: What does maternal exhaustion look/feel like? as experienced during the ongoing pandemic march 2020-2021. What is depletion, burnout, being on the brink, untenable time, fatigue threshold? Do mothers/caregivers experience time in a new way because of the pandemic? How have mothers/caregivers marked time in the pandemic? What does this new experience of time look like, feel like in the body? Does it highlight/amplify previously existing structures of oppression and inequality? What does the accumulation of stresses (systemic racism, heteronormativity, ableism, poverty) look like? Does it provide an opening to shift/tear down/ re-envision something different? What is the antidote to burnout? What does nourishment/care look like?
Location
The location of the interview
Bloomington
Indiana
Gallery
online
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
May 2021 - December 2021
Topic
Covid-19
time
exhaustion
pandemic
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Maternochronics: Maternal Exhaustion in the Time of Pandemic
Contributor
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Emily Zarse
Covid-19
exhaustion
pandemic
time