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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
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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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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.karolinalavergne.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.karolinalavergne.com</a>
Topic
motherhood
reproductive labor
emotional labor
care work
daughters
domesticity
desire
struggle
animals
children
Medium
video art
photography
writing
Artist Statement
Karolina Lavergne is a video artist and writer based in Los Angeles. She has an MFA in Graduate Fine Art from ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA. Karolina’s work explores the domestic as a sphere that is both a refuge and a trap, and in which desire is inseparable from struggle. She also uses gender as a lens through which to think through the hidden, reproductive labor of caring for oneself and others, house work, and the maternal. As a way of working, she sources her life as material, blurring the line between fiction and autobiography, construction, persona, exaggeration, truth, and lie.
Location
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Los Angeles
California
USA
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Karolina Lavergne
Title
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Karolina Lavergne
animals
care work
children
daughters
desire
domesticity
emotional labor
motherhood
photography
reproductive labor
struggle
video art
writing
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://lowresgradstudios.ecuad.ca/hyip/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://lowresgradstudios.ecuad.ca/hyip/</a>
Topic
the impact of technology on human development
my role as a parent /mediator/ moderator of my children's use of screen based technology
parent-child connection
environments where parent and child interact
emotional labor
technology
Medium
video
mixed media
mixed media on paper and other surfaces
assemblage
intallation
Artist Statement
In my practice I am focused on investigating the impact of technology on human development. Specifically, my inquiry occurs within my own home and the context of my children’s ongoing obsession with smartphones and other related media. In the research that fuels my art practice I have launched a vigorous examination of my role as a parent whose responsibility it is to both mediate and moderate my family’s use of screen based technologies. In this relentless pursuit I have made many attempts to set up boundaries for my children’s use of their devices, which has inspired me to explore these concepts through the lens of my performing other motherly tasks such as doing laundry, vacuuming and cooking. It is through the use of some of the machines and objects that I use to perform these tasks that has afforded me the agency to create work in a more enjoyable and perhaps playful manner. My art practice also allows me the chance to be in my studio (an oasis) to escape if only temporarily from the frustration of the constant household and emotional labour that I must perform. It is the irony that as a parent I have introduced my children to technology and its accompanying objects and now because of this I have to restrict my children’s use of it. Because I suffer from guilt associated with this fact I have made it a part of my parental practice (which in turn enters into my art practice) my job to play more with my kids, this includes making blanket forts, playing tag and all kinds of board games to name a few things. It has also inspired me to investigate Nicholson’s theory of loose parts and to make sure my kids’ have more opportunities to play with all kinds of things ‘off-line’. As modalities in my practice I have employed video, installation as well as two dimensional mixed media art making in an attempt to try and understand my kids’ love of technology.
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Heather Yip
Title
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Heather Yip
assemblage
emotional labor
installation
mixed media on paper and other surfaces
video