2 300 324 https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/04610c481954fe0ab57e2bea5d3d3c66.jpg 290e2337d435e9dadee3f04f0729eb0c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://lisehallerbaggesen.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://lisehallerbaggesen.wordpress.com/</a> <a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780988418554/mothernism.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780988418554/mothernism.aspx</a> Medium installation writing audio Location The location of the interview Chicago Illinois Artist Statement Mothernism is a nomadic tent camp audio installation and a book, dedicated to staking out and making speakable the “mother-shaped hole in contemporary art discourse.” Since 2013, the installation has travelled to various venues in the United States (The Poor Farm in Manawa, Vox Populi in Philadelphia and Ordinary Projects and the Glass Curtain Gallery in Chicago) and has also spawned a series of panels and “story time” readings as well as the curatorial project 3am Maternal at Vox Populi in Philadelphia. The Mothernism installation will tour in spring 2016 to The Elisabeth Foundation and A.I.R. Gallery and to The Contemporary Austin. The book, with pictures of the installation, was published in 2014, by Poor Farm Press and Green Lantern Press. It is available in the US through SPD: <a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780988418554/mothernism.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780988418554/mothernism.aspx</a> Topic motherhood motherhood and art practice contemporary art discourse science fiction disco music biography Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/388">Mother Load</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lise Haller Baggesen audio biography Chicago contemporary art discourse disco Illinois installation motherhood motherhood and art practice Mothernism music science fiction writing https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/bef5137bb140a72dec22265a5d220a26.pdf 5341d6ceaaae5ae8174d8a51b1c58fe1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rainy Day Treasures Pamphlet Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://a-small-lab.com/projects/child-scale-city" target="_blank">http://a-small-lab.com/projects/child-scale-city</a> Location The location of the interview Tokoyo Japan Artist Statement "......These safe and slow pathways are perfect for tiny feet and their larger commute-weary companions. Dense greens and colourful scented collages reside at the height and scale of little eyes and noses. Irrepressible hands thrive on the mixture of gravel, sand, grass, rocks, sticks and fallen fruit that compose Tokyo carpets. In summer developing ears drink in crickets, cicadas and neighbourhood rustlings...." A small study on the child's perception of the street. This document traces the everyday treasures of a rainy day walk to the local sento in suburban Tokyo. It is part of a broader and slightly wonky research and practice agenda on the hand made, everyday creativity, play, and usable environments. Topic walking city children in cities research creativity play everyday treasures suburban life environment Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chris Berthelsen children in cities city environment everyday treasures Japan play suburban life Tokoyo walking https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/3f61edaef3afa8a13498d9359c1d0ed4.jpeg ca180c84e21a95b63475c380cc9e81b7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.rachelfallon.com/">http://www.rachelfallon.com/</a> <a href="http://www.procreateproject.com/portfolio/rachel-fallon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.procreateproject.com/portfolio/rachel-fallon/</a> Medium sculpture peformance photography metal textile paper Location The location of the interview Bray County Wicklow Ireland Artist Statement Fallon’s work explores themes of protection and defence in domestic and maternal realms. Her practice encompasses sculptural work in metal, textile and paper; drawing, performance and photography. Conflicts and ambivalences within familiar territories inform the initial choice of materials and technique for each work. The methods of making are crucial to revealing new ideas and resolving thought processes intrinsic to the original starting point of the piece. As well as an individual practice, Fallon also works in collaborative groups and collectives, both in Ireland and England. The two disparate ways of working feed into one another and are therefore equally important parts of her practice. Topic protection defense maternal protection maternal defense ambivalence Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Project AfterBirth</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rachel Fallon ambivalence Bray County Wicklow defense Ireland maternal ambivalence maternal defense maternal protection metal paper performance protection sculpture textile https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/af8e3ffcaa10fd98db5bc6e9f0cca8b1.jpg ed2db97f6f80ceb9408c22d8e03d1c11 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <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 Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a> Location The location of the interview Manchseter United Kingdom Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Magda Stawarska-Beavan audio audio technology audio waves data visualization identity language language development Manchester parental obsession printmaking screenprint silkscreen speech development United Kingdom https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/501ce44d45e776a05a6d932d4ab94e8c.jpg 70ca6e9067ba0c3a4e4f04d8cbc2b5f1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.kasalova.eu/fabrica.html" target="_blank">http://www.kasalova.eu/fabrica.html</a> <a href="http://www.kasalova.eu/state.html" target="_blank">http://www.kasalova.eu/state.html</a> <a href="http://www.kasalova.eu/jamy-video.html" target="_blank">http://www.kasalova.eu/jamy-video.html</a> Medium drawing photography painting video art Location The location of the interview Prague Czech Republic Topic pregnancy pregnant body transformation silhouette Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jana Kasalová Czech Republic drawing painting photography Prague pregnancy pregnant body silhouette transformation video art https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/dbeece619409f77454fab35c6a046ccd.jpg c26ad6a5a90f885711c6e4cb7eba4ebf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.pieshake.com/#!experimental-shorts/cx06" target="_blank">http://www.pieshake.com/#!experimental-shorts/cx06</a> Medium film video art Location The location of the interview Richmond Virginia Artist Statement Since the mid-1990s, I have been making films about outsiders, misfits and everyday radicals, telling stories that occupy the intersection of intimate experience and public discourse. Several of these works are lyrical explorations of motherhood made with a hand-cranked 16mm film camera. These experimental shorts and looping projections mine the tension between the subjective, lived experience of women and mothers; our interior lives of fantasy and projection, and reality as refracted through our media-dense world. Topic motherhood 16mm film camera maternal ambivalence sex education conception gestation pregnancy families homes domestic life Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sasha Waters Freyer 16mm film camera conception domestic life families film gestation homes maternal ambivalence pregnancy Richmond sex education video art Virginia https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/41e8a620cd250d3b1b6e2ed288081faf.jpg 98c8a5b1fbafa02096dfb4c89432c39d https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/6e5e41aa6a088830f2130a54fb180576.jpg 6fd3685d7612b1665e139c335f3d4c1c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://albertoaguilar.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://albertoaguilar.org/</a> Medium interdisciplinary Location The location of the interview Chicago Illinios Artist Statement I, I am, I am here. Now I am here. Where are you? I make work where I am. I have allowed for questions. I look for the simplest solution. I have allowed for contradiction. I have allowed for open-endedness. I want my work to clearly communicate. I allow my hand to show to disrupt any illusion. I use language, text, and my voice as pliable forms. I build bridges of communication through various forms. I let the form of the work reflect the actions of its making. I arrange ordinary materials for people to rethink perception. I organize things through value, size or other default methods. I establish a framework to stay focused and reach an end point. I use the materials that are at hand to capture fugitive moments. I look for underlying patterns within existing structures and systems. I measure, demarcate, and play with existing structures and systems. I use repetition and the mirror image as a way to multiply visual potency. I use repetition and the mirror image as a way to multiply visual potency. I construct situations and spaces for people to interact and share a moment. I rearrange ordinary objects for people to see their surroundings in new light. I recognize what is already there allowing it to bring deeper implication to my work. I make, repeat, and persevere allowing meaning to emerge through the act of doing. I allow the path I take to show in the work so that others can enter and exit as I have. When I arrive at the end there is always surprise. Topic fatherhood family portrait parent/child collaboration museums domestic objects Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/384">moves on a human scale</a> <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> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alberto Aguilar Chicago domestic objects family portrait fatherhood furniture Illinois interdisciplinary museums parent/child relationships weddings https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/244feb6e84db2f5f39bdb7ca9e2b9225.jpg 98ec535e131fb2cdda8c19a466a64f8c https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/1b891af0a6a976fa3bd7982e9b4c5af6.jpg 5107111b15115bff6bdcac1774cafb22 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <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 Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Helen Sargeant birth bread baking England motherhood pregnancy Todmorden https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ff2f419ea5a6f842e5109e47fd1d99e2.jpg e9f366ee7cca645afad4d19a170e0a2d https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ba442baba0fa8b6896d5d37510cb91c9.jpg 813408112d5f462f19660863c9f8cfb2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.etiwade.com/" target="_blank">http://www.etiwade.com/</a> Medium photography video art Artist Statement Motherhood is often precieved as uncomplicated, joyous and fulfilling. Albeit, some sacrifices have to be made, career aspirations restricted but on the whole motherhood is thought of as a welcome transition in every woman’s life. Popular and traditional representations of motherhood, young, attractive smiling women holding beautiful, healthy babies in nappy adverts or highly publicised and Photoshopped images of WAGs and other celebrity mums in the popular media, which resonate with the archetypal ‘Madonna and Child’ religious iconographic paintings confirming fulfilment and comfort women supposedly derive from the maternal role. What is omitted and obscured in these dominant forms are the realities of motherhood as experienced by most women, especially, and most intensely, with the first child. Becoming a mother affects an extreme and abrupt change in a woman’s life, constituted of loss of identity, loss of financial independence, loss of personal space and time, loss of status and extreme restrictions of freedom in addition to the changes in the body; often irreparable scars and physical trauma. Going through these changes, learning to accept what is lost and discovering the joys of the maternal role is a gradual process. When my eldest was born I found the transition to motherhood almost unbearable and the invisibility of similar experiences, the lack of realistic role models only increased my own feelings of isolation and insecurity. Only with the birth of my second child I began to question and articulate my initial trauma. My work hence had been concerned with articulating honestly what I perceive to be my maternal subjectivity. Topic maternal subjectivity bath time family portrait motherhood Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eti Wade bath time family portrait maternal subjectivity photography video art https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ac93e27aeec9e4b1b720b6a22a96579d.pdf ec906508e312246ca9ad1b79f4b29d84 https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/c887af14d625256afe06b71b5ebe3de8.jpg 437dd955466c9416066f5a2504367291 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.belindakochanowska.com/" target="_blank">http://www.belindakochanowska.com/</a> Medium photo-montage photo-collage Location The location of the interview Brisbane Australia Artist Statement Kochanowska uses an intuitive and self-reflexive process of photo-montage to express her psychological, spiritual and physical experience of pregnancy, motherhood and the natural world. Kochanowska draws from 16th, 17th and 18th century anatomical, botanical and natural history illustration to construct works teaming with fleshy distortions, flora, fauna and fantastical locations. Alternative mythologies are presented that are at once joyous, surreal, organic and deformed, blossoming with life, yet also brimming with a haunting disquiet. Biography Belinda Kochanowska is an artist based in Brisbane, Australia. Her practice frequently explores issues of memory, environment, women’s identity and physicality. She has exhibited in various group and solo exhibitions in Australia, UK and USA, including international publications. Kochanowska has also worked as the Executive Officer for the Queensland Centre for Photography. Her work has been shortlisted for an international art prize and recently chosen for a 3 year International Exhibition touring the UK, Europe and USA: “Project Afterbirth”. Her work is held in “The Birth Rites Collection”, University of Salford (UK) and the collection of the Royal College Of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (UK). Topic women's identity memory environment pregnancy postpartum depression anxiety birth pregnancy and fear Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Belinda Kochanowska anxiety Australia Brisbane fear photo-collage photo-montage postpartum depression pregnancy and fear women's identity https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/b8d64cc83dbdb28853fc0c20f728110a.jpg 804fc477e525d362a9aee471a0e3199c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.bethgoobic.com/#!metamorphose/cghg" target="_blank">http://www.bethgoobic.com/#!metamorphose/cghg</a> Medium ceramics Location The location of the interview Pompton Lakes New Jersey Artist Statement Metamorphose is an ongoing conversation in clay about the journey of becoming a mother and being a mother. It takes place in this study of a common utilitarian household item, the mug. These mug forms are endowed with the presence of both vulnerability and strength. They celebrate the glorified transformation of the pregnant body, but they bring visibility and conversation to the continuing transformation of the body and person after birth. That they are mugs points to the commonness of everyday lived experiences by wo/men in motherhood and motherwork. Each mug is entirely different reflecting the fact that the experience of mothering is unique to each individual person, even though motherwork is quite often mistaken as a universal concept. These kinds of assumptions about the universality of mothering actually makes the personal experiences of each person doing it invisible. Metamorphose is meant to resist that kind of assumption. The mugs are a reflection of the pregnant body, the very beginning of the anatomical journey of the female body as it enters motherhood but the mugs also celebrate and acknowledge the transformation of the female body after pregnancy, post birth, which in our society, is a less celebrated transformation, and a less visible journey. Post birth bodies deserve the patience, celebration and glorification that childbearing bodies receive. Post-birth bodies are spacious, healing and rehabilitating, while still maintaining a new additional life. The mugs acknowledge, give presence, and beautify the body post birth. These mug forms acknowledge the more subtle but continual anatomical journey our bodies endure during motherwork and also a person’s transformative and altering personal journey throughout motherwork. Pertaining to motherwork this conversation in clay is not exclusive to birth mothers, but opens up this conversation to all caregivers that take on motherwork. A man, or a non-biological parent may not physically go through the birthing journey but that person can experience the altering and changing of their own bodies and spirits throughout the journey of motherwork. The common daily motions endured during motherwork, and the effects and marks that motherwork experiences leave on our bodies are also portrayed here in these mugs. With the unknown journey and struggles that each child brings, caregivers are altered in person as they journey with that child through the highs and lows of each experience. This altering of person throughout the lifelong journey of motherhood, so private and personal, joyful and painful, messy and beautiful is celebrated and acknowledged in these basic everyday utilitarian objects. Like motherwork, the mugs are individual, unique and beautifully imperfect. The forms are altered, and asymmetrical, with undulating rims and drippy glazes. I choose to alter the form as a way to represent and interpret how we are altered in person and body in motherwork. The mugs are fired in a salt and soda kiln resulting in much surface variation among the cups. Each of these mugs are a functional sculpture and an experience, inviting the viewer to apply their own experiences in motherhood and motherwork to the conversation. The vulnerable yet commanding forms salute the invisible labor of caregiving and everyday experiences of motherwork, which involves a metamorphosis of person and body. Metamorphose is an artistic attempt to make the invisibility of motherhood and motherwork visible in households and workspaces via an everyday utilitarian object. Topic motherhood becoming a mother transformation postpartum body pregnancy mugs Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Beth Goobic ceramics motherhood mugs New Jersey Popton Lakes postpartum body pregnancy transformation https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/b8ef86770d42346767f6fb4569bc46e7.jpg 476102094e0f24d890710f6d7e149606 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. 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 Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <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> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Courtney Kessel daughter domestic life feminism language motherhood Ohio performance art sculpture sound video art https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/4996ea76f895bc842db66bfbf00b4ad9.jpg 608bef1ce965d9e29729ab139126cccf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://alvarezerrecalde.com/" target="_blank">http://alvarezerrecalde.com/</a> Medium photography Location The location of the interview Barcelona Spain Artist Statement "Themes inspired by my personal experiences such as vital cycles, birth, motherhood, illness, immigration, ageing and death are found throughout my body of work. I create images that become a document of our love, our fears and our conquests. My artwork is a contemporary social commentary through which I like to challenge the singular story that has been told and reinforced as a way of normalizing roles and attitudes. I cherish plurality and my way of doing so is to contribute images and testimonies that expands perspective and the constricted existing imagery. Within a common experience like expecting a child or the passing away of a parent, we find transcendental truth. Art has the potential of transmitting that emotion to confront our daily numbness with something that is authentically substantial and profound. I believe that there is a manipulative and deliberate lack of information that hinders the understanding of just how empowering and transformative motherhood can be. I cherish plurality and my way of contributing is to share my experiences in order to expand the constrained social imagery. In "Birth of My Daughter", a self-portrait while giving birth, I take off my "cultural" veil. My maternity is not virginal or aseptic. I am the archetype of the primal woman, the woman beast that has nothing prohibited. I show a maternity not seen through the eyes of Eve (the divine punishment "you will give birth with the pain of your body"), but seen through the eyes of Lucy (the earliest hominid found to date). These photographs can help others rethink the idea of the fragile, painful, out of control and overly medicated birth that is considered the norm in many countries. How I relate to nudity and blood is a mirror of my fascination with life. I am accepting of my changing body, amazed with how my children grow, and intrigued by the aging process. The blood and nudity seen within the context of my artwork is linked to authenticity and undiluted sensuality. I create images that become a document of our love, our fears and our conquests." <a href="http://imowblog.blogspot.com.es/2014/01/in-conversation-with-ana-alvarez.html" target="_blank">Interview with Her Blue Print</a> <a href="http://flicmagazine.com/mag/en/2014/07/ana-alvarez-errecalde/" target="_blank">Interview with Flic Magazine</a> Topic motherhood birth postpartum body aging daughter breastfeeding Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ana Álvarez-Errecalde aging Barcelona birth breastfeeding daughter motherhood postpartum body pregnancy Spain https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/f5d1bf5a15d5d3ca3e864d19499ac03b.jpg 43ce4793979fb3136049eead8116247a https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/212d1270372f9001ab68928f2ca7e349.jpg d309803587a997c973465c914df3d5f5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://danilarumold.com/gestationpaintings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://danilarumold.com/gestationpaintings/</a>  <a href="http://danilarumold.com/#/abstractnarratives/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://danilarumold.com/%23/abstractnarratives/&source=gmail&ust=1558475421198000&usg=AFQjCNFLJoC7uNy6CiP5m-9eRloxpt7mNw" rel="noopener">http://danilarumold.com/#/abstractnarratives/</a> Medium painting drawing mixed media Location The location of the interview Albuquerque New Mexico USA Artist Statement Gestation: As the name suggests it was inspired by my pregnancies. Responding to my experience of motherhood, my work is involved with the repetitive nature of parenting and how that can been reflected in art and the practice of mindfulness. Other concerns within the work are family, the process of birthing and its counterpart, loss. Although these issues have been personal concerns, they are ones which have been shared by woman throughout history. Danila Rumold’s current series dissolves things seemingly in opposition. Deconstructing conventional notions of painting in her work, Rumold crosses over from painting into large-scale collage and installation. Employing household tools, such as stove-top burners and washing machines in the materials’ preparation, she blurs the commonly separated roles of care-taking and art-making. Sleeping, cooking and eating on top of paper results in spontaneous mark-making, which Rumold explores as formal abstractions while referencing the body. Using semi-translucent Mulberry paper stained with earthy colors made from regional plant and food dyes, Danila brings the components together with readymade art materials. Inviting everyday experiences and chance to catalyze the work, Rumold integrates the unconscious and conscious; art and life. Topic gestation pregnancy repetition loss mindfulness family dynamics Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Danila Rumold California family dynamics family life gestation mindfulness motherhood pregnancy repetition San Francisco https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/6794a54d47b40f9564dbb0587ef406f9.jpg 96fd74ca1010683c04717109bdab20dd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.jillmiller.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.jillmiller.net/</a> Medium social practice Location The location of the interview California Artist Statement I have initiated a collection of new works enabled by the constraints and commitment of motherhood. More specifically, I am exploring the practice of homeschooling as a lens for this work. To more authentically experience and create these works I have undertaken a six month study into my own own “homeschooling” with my seven-year-old son. Using our domestic quarters as a backdrop, and my son as a instigator and collaborator, I’ve created an ongoing body of work that examines family constructs, the maternal-child relationship, and the ways that an artist can consider parenthood as a locus for creativity rather than a distraction or an obstacle in the career path. Topic homeschooling breastfeeding public breastfeeding lactation nursing mothers motherhood Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <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> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jill Miller breastfeeding California homeschooling lactation milk truck motherhood nursing mothers social practice https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/1d4ac9171cbd93d4dc71ebaa9e728a8c.jpg 9e2d3bd89e8953a6f05b51a70fc2146e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="Website%20www.kristinemoran.com" target="_blank">www.kristinemoran.com</a> Medium painting Location The location of the interview Brooklyn New York Artist Statement Through formal and abstract gestures, Kristine Moran presents a new series of paintings that consider the complexities of relationships and the charged psychological spaces that emotional exchanges can perpetuate. This is visualized by Moran's concern with bodily actions and the moment when an emotion or vision becomes articulated through the body and directed towards a familial or intimately related figure. In Moran's coherent yet clouded scenes, these actions are transformed by the artist into something more symbolic, possibly reminding the viewer of their own ties to other people or moments of intense outpour. In many ways, Moran's paintings are a reflection of the physical and metaphysical spaces she has occupied or continues to occupy. The artist's studio, her home, and her art practice coalesce in unexpected ways. During countless hours spent observing and interacting with friends and family, issues of gender politics, domestic labor, relationship failures and personal moralities are laid bare to dissect. Various series of paintings have come to echo Moran's transition into motherhood and at the same time, becoming motherless. Whether through observation or lived experience, these moments make their way into loose narratives that form the basis for her paintings. These are often filled with absurdity, dark humor, and euphoria, mirroring the qualities of life. Moran's interchange of the personal and professional is deeply connected to a lineage of female artists who have utilized their lived experience as a means of speaking to what it means to be alive. The artist sees her work closely aligned with the practices of Alice Neel, Louise Bourgeois, Elizabeth Murray and Frances Stark. Topic birth domestic labor motherhood children and restaurants Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kristine Moran birth Brooklyn domestic labor motherhood New York https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/6beec4585e5d3615050f31fa38c55983.jpg fffa59f735a7950c8d603c52256a6f6f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. 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 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Natalie M. Ball auto-ethnography daughter genocide heritage Indigenous motherhood installation Klamath Tribe Modoc Tribe motherhood Native American performance art https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/6d7417262bb95944a536c9f0af34d0bf.jpg e790bfa18f91cde575220c268093852c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <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 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Denise Whitebread Fanning accidents installation lifeboat maternal fear Michigan mortality motherhood performance art sculpture survival survival gear survival handbook survival preparedness https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/b56c2fc3aacdeff990b0b6ba133a60d2.jpg 7209bd4de6eacb5ddfd5ae6b3e5882c3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. 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 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hillerbrand+Magsamen belongings family life Fluxus home Houston performance art photography Suburban Fluxus suburban life Texas video art https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/c8985d8733ed1785134802987e034672.jpg 3e87e4559930086e8c61f3f9fd23b54a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://annakell.com/section/396317_DRAWING.html" target="_blank">http://annakell.com/section/396317_DRAWING.html</a> Medium Graphite on paper Location The location of the interview New York City New York Topic breastfeeding motherhood portrait newborn son nursing mother Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Anna Kell breastfeeding New York newborn nursing mothers portrait son https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/607ebf6e27fdc9711bbb2e7b366a97f2.jpg ded7ea99b9b7f4b5827176e97e88cb55 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://www.rebecca-silberman.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.rebecca-silberman.com/&source=gmail&ust=1558475421184000&usg=AFQjCNFwi0u_fzEKNRjDRoUA_ZXf33cEwg">https://www.rebecca-silberman.com/</a> <a href="https://procreateanthology.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/rebecca-silberman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://procreateanthology.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/rebecca-silberman/</a> Medium tintype Location The location of the interview Virginia Artist Statement "On roughly the same day each month for nearly 14 years, I have made a full body portrait of my daughter, Rosalee, on a black backdrop, spanning from newborn to, now, a young woman. The project, which was first exhibited in early 2014, a month after my daughter Rosalee turned 12, consisted of 144 8” x 10” tintype plates. While this started out as something I intended to pursue only during my daughter’s first year of life, it quickly developed into a compulsion of record-keeping, which also includes notebooks full of writing and drawings." -Rebecca Silberman, from the <a href="https://procreateanthology.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/rebecca-silberman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">(Pro)Create Anthology</a> Topic portrait newborn record keeping daughter Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <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> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rebecca Silberman daughter motherhood newborn portrait record keeping tintype Virginia https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/2be907ab5fd400f44f557811e36f570a.png d141e17537285e4f0ef5f62883922748 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.sarahsudhoff.com/home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.sarahsudhoff.com/home</a> Medium peformance art photography video Topic breastfeeding motherhood postpartum body Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/398" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Unveiled, CPAC, Denver, Colorado</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sarah Sudhoff breastfeeding motherhood performance art photography postpartum body video art https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/e575810d53cff883fcfc893f9f4a28fa.jpg 727957a8a37e50bb7e9552c2990475b1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://meganwynne.net/work/motherhood/photography" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://meganwynne.net/work/motherhood/photography</a> Medium photography Topics The topics addressed within the Artist's work. bed sharing breastfeeding motherhood parenthood domestic space personal boundaries Location The location of the interview Norfolk Virginia Artist Statement My recent work focuses on the subject of myself and my daughters to speak about the intensity, intimacy, and interdependence of motherhood. Playing with the persona of the mother and the mother-as-artist, the work brings up uncomfortable questions about identity, autonomy, and childrearing. The images are at once familiar and unfamiliar, inviting and repelling. The work often straddles the line between referencing the family snapshot and cold clinical documentation. There is also ambiguity in how the individuals in the scene are emotionally and physically relating to each other. This uncertainty helps to create a sense of surreality in the work, and dark humor and melodrama within the narrative further push this aspect of the imagery. I use these devices to reflect on the deeply mysterious, contradictory, and often unknowable psychological undercurrent beneath everyday experiences of interconnection. The mother-child relationship is the most primary and foundational relationship in one's life. In addition, there is a deep transgenerational legacy of the mother-child dynamic, in which beliefs, behaviors, and past traumas haunt one generation to the next. In my work I explore my maternal inheritance, as I address the intensity and profound complexity of the bond I have with my children. These depictions of the maternal experience challenge dominant reductive and over-sentimentalized representations of motherhood, as well as idealized and over-simplified perspectives on childhood. Topic motherhood bedsharing domestic space breastfeeding personal boundaries Artist Residency in Motherhood birth childbirth Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/404" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The M Word, One Paved Court Gallery, 1 – 12 May 2019</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Megan Wynne bedsharing birth breastfeeding childbirth domestic space lactation motherhood photograph photography and motherhood pregnancy United States Virginia https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/49ed2d09c8f7d03c18a5a48f4845163d.jpg 455a2d6a5c744c18099bc4e5f0bcac11 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.sarahirvinart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.sarahirvinart.com</a> Biographical Text When I started my graduate program in 2013, I was confident that becoming a mother was not compatible with my studio practice. In the middle of my first semester, I began to question this assumption. As an experiment, I assumed the opposite was true, that there was work that I could only make if I was a mother. I was suddenly able to envision not only the work, but also myself in the role of “mother” for the first time. Three months later I was pregnant and I got to work. Creating in this way allows me to form myself in a role of “mother” and in turn motherhood continually redefines my practice. The work opens up dialogues about circumstances that are publicly debated, but only privately experienced. I measured my stomach with a piece of yarn at navel height the day I found out I was pregnant. I tied the yarn off in a loop. I repeated this every day until the day I went into labor. Every week of the second trimester, I lifted 26 pounds, one pound over the recommended amount a pregnant woman should lift, using a block and tackle pulley system and created a transfer drawing with the impact when it was dropped from nine feet. I established mechanisms to capture the physical actions of parenting as a mark on a page, beginning while I was in labor. For instance, the area rug in the nursery created transfer drawings as we walked across the room, the glider rocker created drawings as we rocked, and the stroller created drawings as we strolled. These works were enabled by the activities of our daily lives and captured the kinetic energy and labor involved in the care and nurturing of an infant. During the second and third months of my daughter’s life, I created a series of watercolors exclusively while she slept, with each set considered complete when she awoke, allowing my circumstances to dictate aspects of my creative output. While breastfeeding, I made drawings on paper I created from my bed sheets with looping marks corresponding to individual suck and swallow motions of nursing providing a real-time read out of this experience. I commissioned a reproduction of the plastic measuring scoop that comes in a container of Similac infant formula to be cast from silver baby spoons. Other iterations of this series include my daughter’s nursery as camera obscura; cyanotypes created with her blankets, toys and clothing; early stages of her own mark-making captured through fingerprint dust; silverpoint drawings tracing her early movements made with jewelry from my grandmother; and paintings made with a baby bottle and formula. As a whole, this project-based work is a personal narrative taking form as poetic visual data. The works are exhibited as sets and series. An entire year’s action of rocking a baby is a set of 59 drawings made with our rocking chair. One year of walking across a nursery rug is a row of 12 large transfer drawings. Fifty feet of watercolors represent a tiny sampling of the available time during early parenthood when the baby slept. The work visualizes how care taking has shaped me as an individual and how it has transformed my mark making. I view everything related to the experience of parenthood as a valid subject matter and/or mark making tool and this has opened up new methods of creating. The pieces are derived from the everyday. The interface of specific materials and processes with the everyday provides an entry point into broader topics of gender, production, reproduction, care, biological processes and cultural systems. Medium painting drawing papermaking video art photography installation Topics The topics addressed within the Artist's work. motherhood parenthood breastfeeding infants and sleep pregnancy Location The location of the interview Richmond Virginia Topic breastfeeding motherhood infants and sleep pregnancy baby formula caretaking gender and caretaking domestic labor maternal ambivalence Artist Residency in Motherhood gender equality home domestic space care work Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/274" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Labors</a> <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/392">The End & The Beginning</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sarah Irvin ambivalence body breastfeeding care work domestic labor domestic space drawing gender gender equality home infant care labor maternal abivalence maternal body maternal time motherhood mothering painting paper papermaking repetition repetitive tasks ritual tracking video