1st Edition
The Maternal in Creative Work Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art
List of figures and plates
List of contributors
Forward by Lisa Baraitser
Preamble by Valerie Walkerdine
Chapter 1: Maternal art practice: emerging field of artistic enquiry into motherhood, care and time, Elena Marchevska
Part I: Intergenerational maternal discussions
Chapter 2: Feminist intergenerational inheritance: a conversation, Natalie Loveless and Mary Kelly
Chapter 3: Maternal Metaphors I and II: a labour of motherlove, Myrel Chernick and Jennie Klein
Chapter 4: A cord that is never done away with: an aesthetic ontology of the pre-birth scene with Francesca Woodman and Bracha L. Ettinger, Tina Kinsella
Chapter 5: Prisms of mourning: gender, justice and hope: Carrie Mae Weems’ Colored People, 1989-1990, Andrea Liss
Chapter 6: The Mothernists, Deirdre M. Donoghue and Lise Haller Baggesen
Chapter 7: A.M.M.A.A. – The Archive for Mapping Mother Artists in Asia, Ruchika Wason Singh
Part II: Encountering the maternal in artistic practice
Chapter 8: Blueprint for a ghost, Eleanor Bowen and Laura González
Chapter 9: Maternal time travel: epistolary praxis as intergenerational care work, Rachel Epp Buller
Chapter 10: A mother’s work: a mother/daughter, seamstress/fibre artist’s merging practice and politics, Aram Han Sifuentes about Younghye Han
Chapter 11: The mother artist in the age of performance reproduction, Elizabeth Philps
Chapter 12: Returning to ourselves: Medea/Mothers’ Clothes and Patience one decade on, Lena Šimic and Emily Underwood-Lee
Chapter 13: Unravelling family fictions: Stories We Tell, Daughter Rite and My Life Without Me, Lizzie Thynne
Part III: Maternal future: Interrupting the field
Chapter 14: One for Sorrow: the collaborative work of mother and not-yet-mother, Alison O’Neill and Jo Paul
Chapter 15: Identity through injury: contemporary adoption and the unfit working class mother, Sally Sales
Chapter 16: The motherhood imperative: fertility, feminism, art, Miriam Schaer
Chapter 17: Drawing as a creative exploration of ‘circumstantial childlessness’, Lois Tonkin
Chapter 18: Becoming ordinary: making homosexuality more palatable on TV , Lulu Le Vay
Afterwords: mothering the future, Irina Aristarkhova
Biography
Elena Marchevska, PhD, is a practitioner, academic and researcher interested in new historical discontinuities that have emerged in post-capitalist and post-socialist transition. She is researching and writing extensively on the issues of belonging, displacement, the maternal and intergenerational trauma. Her artistic work explores the relationship between the maternal, borders and stories that emerge from living in transition. She is an Associate Professor in Performance Studies at London South Bank University.
Valerie Walkerdine, PhD, is an artist, academic and researcher bringing artistic and cultural practice together with cultural and social theory and research. Her work on the maternal focuses on issues of inter-generational transmission, expressing that work through installation, performance and practice-based work with de-industrialised communities. Her research and writing reflect these concerns and also focus on psychosocial aspects of intergenerational transmission in relation to class and gender. She is editor of the journal Subjectivity (Palgrave). She is Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Wales.
