Performing Everyday Maternal Practice: Activist Structures in Creative Work

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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Main Author: Elena Marchevska
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2016-12-01
Series:Studies in the Maternal
Online Access:https://www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/4261/
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spelling doaj-2446cc515626417f947d1843703afedf2021-08-18T09:55:46ZengOpen Library of HumanitiesStudies in the Maternal1759-04342016-12-018210.16995/sim.235Performing Everyday Maternal Practice: Activist Structures in Creative WorkElena Marchevska0 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.https://www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/4261/
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