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Website
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<a href="http://www.susanmerrick.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.susanmerrick.co.uk</a>
Medium
live art
installations
film
photography
Location
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London
United Kingdom
Topic
invisible
private labour
feminism
domestic violence
domestic abuse
women
women artists
time restraints
production
private sphere
language
power
communication
artist residency
support
friendship
aerobics
semaphore
sign language
activism
community
voices
politics
autonomy
empowerment
gender
social relations
power relations
artist voice
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A Series of Events Two, Princes Hall, Aldershot
A Series of Events One, Platform 1 Gallery, Wandsworth, London
Inside Out 2018 Leyden Gallery
DAW Public Takeover 2018, Bank, London
Kunstal 45 Summer Exhibition 2017, Den Helder, The Netherlands
DAW Public Takeover 2017, Outside Tate Modern, London
DAW Midsummer Madness, Leyden Gallery (June)
DAW Performance Takeover, Leyden Gallery (April)
MotherHouse 2016
FiLiArt Exhibition, Iklectik, 2014
Artist Statement
Susan Merrick is a multi-disciplinary Artist. She is interested in conversations, language and communication, in questioning whose voices are heard, and in the access and spaces that can challenge or facilitate this.
With a background in BSL/English Interpreting and Sociology she makes work, projects and collaborations exploring these themes, utilising a context-based mix of social engagement, live art, public installations, film making, collections and documentation.
With relation to the maternal, she is researching through practice language and social support/attitudes and the power this has on maternal mental states, bodily autonomy and status.
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Susan Merrick
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Website
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<a href="https://www.tracymarietaylor.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.tracymarietaylor.com</a>
Location
The location of the interview
Chicago
USA
Artist Statement
Cried Milk (2018 - present)
Cried Milk uses data collected from a smartphone app to visualize what it looks like to exclusively breast pump for twelve months. Each visualization represents one month of data. The blue rings represent one hour, the change in value tracks the hours of sunlight and darkness, while the change in saturation indicates broad weather patterns (sunny versus cloudy). The straight lines each represent one day and the yellow circular bursts represent each 30-minute pumping session. The size of each circle correlates to the quantity of milk collected. This project connect to broader cultural conversations about motherhood. As infertility rates continue to skyrocket, many women experience motherhood through a similar, clinical lens. My hope is that this project gives voice to the millions of women who have struggled to become mothers and honor the under-valued labor of motherhood.
The Shape of Your Sounds (2017 - present)
Using audio surveillance technologies provided by a commercial baby monitor, I capture my baby’s cries and translate that data into visual shapes. The sound waves loop back on themselves in a 360-degree rotation. The result is vaguely reminiscent of the shape of a flower; each burst of sound looks like a petal. The initial purpose for this project was to try to find visual patterns that could be more easily interpreted. However, I quickly realized this was a fool’s game; the visual patterns are as indiscernible as his sounds. Therefore, what remains is a visual record of a moment in time; a beautiful reminder of those sleepless nights when the world was comprised of just my son and myself.
Sleep Regression (2016 – 2017)
“Sleep Regression” is a series of intimate works that were painted in the space of nap times and record the moments I watched my son while working in my home studio. The paintings’ small size and blue palette reproduce the video format and color, mimicking the tension between the close, private space of sleep and the distance created by the act of surveillance. The effects are eerie and disturbing images of rest. Lingering in the unconscious state of sleep the baby’s body looks lifeless. Are these representations of a sleeping child or a fetus? These works are thus unusual documents of baby’s first year of life–odd surrogates for the family photo album.
The gray-scale paintings, on the other hand, reinforce the reference to the sonogram, creating layers of distance. The painting series thus portrays an interesting paradox: the increasing stylistic abstraction chronicles my catharsis after years of fertility struggles as I move further away from my past sorrows, yet the works also reflect a turn inward and becomes more specific to my body (womb) and more private. The delineated forms in black, white, and grey look like the thermal imaging of a birth–drapery resembles the uterine wall, a dark ground morphs into a vaginal opening.
Topic
abstraction
aesthetics
art
artist mother
baby
baby food
bodily transformation
breast milk
breast pump
breastfeeding
breastfeeding advocacy
breastmilk
care
care taking
care work
caregiving
caretaking
communication
conceptual art
contemporary art
creative practice
creative practice and family life
cyborg
daily life
daily routine
daily tasks
data
data tracking
data visualization
documentation
domestic life
domesticity
early motherhood
everyday activities
exhaustion
family and career
feeding
female body
female experience
feminism
feminist
feminist art
food
food systems
gender equality
gender roles
good mother
grief
growth
guilt
healthcare
human body
infant care
invisible labor
isolation
lactation
let down reflex
loss
maternal experience
maternal healthcare
maternal time
medical care
milk
milk jug
money
mother and child
mother artist
mother guilt
mother work
mother/child relationship
motherhood
motherhood and economic context
motherhood as art practice
mothering
motherwork
mundane details
nature vs. technology
nursing
nursing mothers
parental leave
personal
personal boundaries
personal experience
personal space
pumping
record keeping
remembering
repetition
repetitive tasks
representations of motherhood
research and art
sleep deprivation
social norms
son
technology
time
unpaid labor
visualizations
women's health
women's identity
audio waves
archive
care labor
crying
data visualization
documentation
emotional space
infants and sleep
language
language development
sleep training
Exhibitions
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2018- “Fits and Starts,” Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018- “The Shape of Your Sounds” (solo), Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/471">2019 - "While I Was Away" (solo), Roman Susan Gallery, 1224 W. Loyola Ave. Chicago, IL</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/495">Painting at Night, Fort Houston Gallery, Nashville, TN</a>
Medium
acylic
flashe
sculpture
digital
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Tracy Marie Taylor
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Author
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/328">Nanna Lysholt Hansen</a>
Year of Publication
2017
City of Publication
Berlin/Copenhagen
State of Publication
Danmark
ISBN 13
978-87-999834-2-1
Topic
birth
pregnancy
techonology
language
cyborg
Donna Haraway
Cyborg Manifesto
Publisher
<a href="http://www.labae.org/publications/dear-daughter">Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology / Nanna Lysholt Hansen</a>
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Dear Daughter
birth
cyborg
Cyborg Manifesto
daughter
Donna Haraway
language
pregnancy
technology
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Website
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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.
Location
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Houston
Texas
USA
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Julia Barbosa Landois
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Julia Barbosa Landois
abortion
divine feminine
feminism
language
mother body
motherhood
Religion
text based
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<a href="http://www.nannalysholt.dk">www.nannalysholt.dk</a>
<a href="http://www.nannalysholthansen.com">www.nannalysholthansen.com</a>
Topic
pregnancy
motherhood
motherartist
mothervoice
technolgy
cyborg
feminism
language
posthumanism
meditation
memory
theory
intergenerational
Medium
live performance
video
installation
sculpture
photography
poetry
sound
Artist Statement
MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Art. BFA Faculty of Art, Design & Music, Kingston University London. In her artistic practice Nanna Lysholt Hansen is investigating relationships between the body, language, voice, gender and technology. By using her own personal experiences of the female body, sexuality, pregnancy, birth and motherhood she draws attention to the body as a technological and biological intergenerational mediator of knowledge, voice and memory.
Location
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Copenhagen
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Nanna Lysholt Hansen
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Nanna Lysholt Hansen
biology
copenhagen
cyborg
feminism
installation
intergenerational
language
live performance
mediation
memory
motherartist
motherhood
mothervoice
photography
poetry
posthumanism
pregnancy
sculpture
sound
sound art
technology
theory
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<a href="http://carolinekelley.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://carolinekelley.com</a>
Topic
Artist Residency in Motherhood
autobiography
motherhood
home
building
making
nature
language
Medium
conceptual art
photography
drawing
installation
video
book art
research
writing
Artist Statement
Working across disciplines, I conduct research-based projects that take assorted forms, including installations, drawings, writing- and photography-based series. My academic work has been concerned with women's life-writing, literary theory and postcolonial literature. Since 2009, I've focused on projects that investigate the nature-culture dichotomy as well as stories of tourism, travel and exploration. I started an Artist Residency in Motherhood (ARiM) in October 2016, to document my experience of motherhood and explore the research process in this new (for me) context.
Location
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Paris
France
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Caroline Kelley
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Caroline Kelley
artist residency in motherhood
autobiography
book art
building
conceptual art
drawing
France
home
installation
language
making
motherhood
nature
Paris
photography
research
video
writing
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Author
Mary Kelly
Publisher
Routledge & Kegan Paul
Date of Publication
1983
ISBN 13
9780710094957
ISBN 10
0710094957
Topic
art and motherhood
feminist art
mother-child relationship
maternal desire
maternal identity
Lacan
formation of a mother
embodied motherhood
motherhood as social construct
language
acquisition of language
psychoanalysis
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Post-partum Document
acquisition of language
embodied motherhood
formation of a mother
Lacan
language
Mary Kelly
maternal identity
mother/child relationship
postpartum
postpartum document
psychoanalysis
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://ireneperez.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://ireneperez.net</a>
Topic
motherhood
learning
education
feminism
ecology
body
care labor
autonomy
mother
daughter
mothering
conversation
sexuality
teaching
birth
empowerment
politics
economics
racism
migration
fanzines
music
death
language
comic books
feminist science fiction
Medium
textile based works
works on paper
sound
Artist Statement
I use textile materials and techniques, and most recently also sound, to explore experiences, as well as to make artworks that aim to become the vehicle to create new ones. My most recent project, New Universe: Discovering Other Possibilities, was born from my interest to explore the learning processes that occur between a mother and her child. What and how we learn, when do we learn, where do we learn, and from whom do we learn are some of the ideas that I have been investigating through and for this project. New Universe presents a group of works that take as their starting point moments and experiences within the family and in particular through the child-mother relationship. From these experiences, my creations explore ideas related to discovery, invention and the unknown. Thus, there are pieces born from daily activities such as playing, time spent with family and care labor, as well as those born from conversations with other parents and research. In its entirety the project included and exhibition, a workshop and several activities during a three month period at the Textile Museum and Documentation Centre in Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain. This project is still growing.
From Between My Legs, 2019, Textile based art piece.
STATEMENT:
From Between My Legs is a work born from the experience and exploration of motherhood through the interactions of the bodies of mother and daughter. Thus, this work, framed in relation to the natural world, refers to the acquired independence of the daughter's body, to the consciously feminist mothering practice and to the sexual pleasure of the body of the mother, events all of them that have the literal or metaphorically starting point in the place between the legs of the mother.
From between my legs
a new combative and vindicating being is born
that has made me rethink my limits
and the limits of what surrounds me.
From between my legs
is born the strength to understand
the world beyond binary conceptions.
From between my legs
an invigorating pleasure is born
and it makes me feel powerful.
Seeds For Resistance, 2017- ongoing, multidisciplinary (actions, works on paper, textile works)
STATEMENT:
Multidisciplinary project that stems from the conversations I have been having with my daughter. They are conversations about favorite colors, our bodies, super-(s)heros, comic books, feminism(s), illness, politics, sexuality, clothing, economics, racism, migration, fanzines, ecology, music, death, language and many other things. In progress.
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/452">Extended Self: Transformations and Connections</a>
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Irene Pérez
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Irene Pérez
care labor
ecology
feminism
learning
teaching
textile
the body
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Website
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<a href="http://www.magda-stawarska-beavan.com/mother.php" target="_blank">http://www.magda-stawarska-beavan.com/mother.php</a>
Medium
printmaking
screenprint
digital audio technology
Artist Statement
In Mother Tongue (2009) traditional printmaking methods (screenprint on paper) connect with new (digital audio) technologies.
I use the recorded sounds of my child’s speech development, from his first noises when he was born, to the words and sentences which he has spoken since; from birth to three years old in three minutes.
My aim is to engage the viewer first with the work visually, by drawing them to the delicate marks on the paper, then to persuade them to try to decipher phonetic bilingual text or to interpret the waveforms. They can then activate the sound connected to the visual. Each sound pieces for each print is three minutes long and not repeated, this allows for a chronological audio experience.
The three prints depict recognizable visual representations of sound such as wave forms and phonetic symbols. These marks are visual artefacts of temporal sounds. Although these particular marks are associated wit the objectivity of technology and linguistics, the refined use of aesthetics; colour tone and scale bring to the work a level of personal account.
I am trying to represent a passage of time and preserve the ephemeral moments in the development of a child’s relationship with language.
This is also essentially an investigation into the parental obsession with passing on our identity through and to our children.
Topic
speech development
data visualization
phonetic symbols
audio waves
language
parental obsession
identity
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a>
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Manchseter
United Kingdom
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Magda Stawarska-Beavan
audio
audio technology
audio waves
data visualization
identity
language
language development
Manchester
parental obsession
printmaking
screenprint
silkscreen
speech development
United Kingdom
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<a href="http://courtneykessel.com/home.html" target="_blank">http://courtneykessel.com/home.html</a>
Medium
performance art
sculpture
installation
video art
sound
Location
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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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Courtney Kessel
daughter
domestic life
feminism
language
motherhood
Ohio
performance art
sculpture
sound
video art