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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.axisweb.org/p/alisononeill/#artwork" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.axisweb.org/p/alisononeill/#artwork</a>
Medium
drawing
film & video
installation
research
Location
The location of the interview
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<p>My practice based research uses autoethnographic and feminist methodologies to examine maternal subjectivities with a particular focus on the mother as a classed and gendered subject.</p>
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<p>I am also interested in the performativity of motherhood and in examining narratives of the good and bad mother and how these narratives are perpetuated in everyday encounters and experiences.</p>
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Topic
motherhood
feminist theory
the maternal
autoethnography
subjectivity
memory
remembering
performativity
class
Publications
A catalog or monograph published by the artist
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/463">The Maternal in Creative Work Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art, Contributor</a>
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Title
A name given to the resource
Alison O’Neill
autoethnography
Cambridge
class
drawing
feminist theory
film
installation
memory
motherhood
performativity
remembering
subjectivity
the maternal
United Kingdom
video
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Resource Library
Book
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Author
Adrienne Rich
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Date of Publication
October 1, 1976
ISBN 13
9780393312843
ISBN 10
0393312844
Topic
feminism
gender
birth
feminist theory
embodied motherhood
patriarchy
institution of motherhood
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Title
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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
birth
embodied motherhood
feminism
feminist theory
gender
institution of motherhood
patriarchy
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Resource Library
Book
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Editor
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/47">Rachel Epp Buller</a>
Contributor
The author of an article within an anthology
Heather Belknap Jensen
Marguerite Gerard
Deborah J Wilk
Paula J Birnbaum
Jessica Dallow
Andrea Liss
Erin Barnett
Cecily Cheo
Elzbieta Korolczuk
Charles Reeve
Mariangeles Soto-Diaz
Diana Quinby
Sandra Matthews
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/114">Gail Rebhan</a>
Jessica D Clements
Jackie Skrzynski
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/196" target="_self">Denise Ferris</a>
Maru Ituarte
Erika Swinson
Joan Linder
Nane Ariadne Jordan
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/204">Elizabeth MacKenzie</a>
Natasha Christopher
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/199" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Myrel Chernick</a>
Publisher
Ashgate
City of Publication
Farnham
Province of Publication
Surrey
Country of Publication
England
Date of Publication
2012
ISBN 13
9781409426134
Topic
feminist art theory
feminist theory
The Feminist Art Project
art history
maternal body
mother as artist
curating
breastfeeding
motherhood
childbirth
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Reconciling Art and Mothering
art history
breastfeeding
childbirth
curating
feminist art theory
feminist theory
maternal body
mother as artist
motherhood
The Feminist Art Project
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<p class="p1"><a href="jesstaylorartist.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jesstaylorartist.com</a></p>
Medium
sculpture
new media
Location
The location of the interview
Adelaide
Australia
Artist Statement
<p class="p1">I am an early career artist whose practice explores my fascination with fictional horror through primarily digital methods of making. Within the broader realm of horror, I have a particular interest in monsters, voyeurism, and depictions of female brutality, sadism, and masochism. Using my own image and body exclusively, my work presents versions of womanhood that transgress the bounds of what we are taught is acceptable, uncanny spectres of female experience that society is keen to repress. Here, monstrosity is configured as a source of damnation and agency, reflecting womanhood as complex and contradictory.</p>
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<p class="p3">My own experience as a mother has been one of profound contradiction, of exhilarating highs and profound lows, of love and fury, comfort and trauma. I struggle to reconcile the fact that the greatest time in my life is also the one when it was the darkest, and that my body birthed a miracle but feels like a ruin. I am not as I was, but not quite sure what I am now; I’ve yet to turn into anything resembling the gargantuan mother archetype we’re fed, and too much of the old Jess remains for me to consider myself someone new. I have been transformed, reborn, reconfigured using the old parts. Some days those new parts feel like they were made of steel, making me infinitely stronger than I was, and other days that steel bites into my flesh, broken limbs fused back together suddenly failing to bear my weight.</p>
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<p class="p3">Motherhood is a monstrous condition; it is incredible and disturbing, beautiful and completely fucked up. Like monstrosity, it is transformative, and for the woman-monster, this transformation is a source of both agency and damnation, strength and weakness. My work since my son is in part an attempt to reconcile the contradiction inherent in my own experience of motherhood, and to bridge the divide between what I am and what we are told a mother should be.</p>
<p class="p3">Experiencing pregnancy for the second time has greatly influenced my work, causing me to reflect much more closely on the process of bearing a child. There is the strange bodily awareness and attempts to reconcile this cavernous space that exists within me, and evocations of my own paranoias as I imagine this space as a place of both hope and doom. I like to think there is also some absurdity when one looks at a ridiculous, bulbous woman, or my lady-giants, but there is also the tenderness of the nets that keep the babies close to her body, or the way a stomach is opened up to sate the curiosity of the smaller figures who peer inside. There is the sorrow of the figure on the bridge as she surveys the fallen before her (a mediation on periods in history where the practice of fallen-mothers ending their lives and the lives of their offspring was not only a grim expectation, but an act of redemption), and my attempt to see a ruin as a place of beauty and life.</p>
Topic
abjection
ambivalence
anger
anxiety
artist mother
attachment
autonomy
bad mother
birth
birth trauma
body transformation
boundaries
childbirth
contemporary
contemporary art practice
contradictions
domestic
family ties
female experience
female sexuality
feminine
femininity
feminism
feminist
feminist art
feminist art theory
fertility
grotesque
growth
guilt
identity
loneliness
longing
loss
loss of identity
maternal ambivalence
maternal anxiety
maternal body
maternal desire
maternal experience
maternal fear
maternal guilt
mother
mother artist
motherhood
postpartum body
pregnancy
pregnant body
psychoanalysis
representation
science fiction
self portrait
technology
trauma
voyeurism
womb
women
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Title
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Jess Taylor
abjection
ambivalence
anger
anxiety
artist mother
attachment
Australia
autonomy
bad mother
birth
birth trauma
body transformation
boundaries
childbirth
contemporary art
contemporary art practice
contradictions
domestic
family ties
female experience
female sexuality
feminine
femininity
feminism
feminist
feminist art
feminist art theory
feminist theory
fertility
grotesque
growth
guilt
identity
loneliness
longing
loss
loss of identity
maternal
maternal ambivalence
maternal anxiety
maternal bodies
maternal body
maternal desire
maternal experience
maternal fear
maternal guilt
mother
mother artist
motherhood
new media
postpartum body
pregnancy
pregnant body
psychoanalysis
representation
science fiction
sculpture
self portrait
technology
trauma
voyeurism
womb
women