Performing Everyday Maternal Practice: Activist Structures in Creative Work
There is a gradual, yet sustained increase in creative practices, which explore maternal everyday experience in various mediums and formats. In this article, I am focusing on a contemporary trend of innovative performative strategies explored by creative practitioners in order to stage the spheres o...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Studies in the Maternal |
| Online Access: | https://www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/4261/ |
| Summary: | There is a gradual, yet sustained increase in creative practices, which explore maternal everyday experience in various mediums and formats. In this article, I am focusing on a contemporary trend of innovative performative strategies explored by creative practitioners in order to stage the spheres of maternal invisibility. This trend is in a intergenerational dialogue with artwork created almost four decades ago, as an early response to female objectification by art institutions. Current artistic consciousness-raising maternal projects similarly share personal experiences within a more public space, to provide focus on personal and social injustice. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-0434 |