The Maternal in Creative Work examines the interrelation between art, creativity and maternal experience, inviting international artists, theorists and cultural workers to discuss their approaches to the central feminist question of the relation between maternity, generation and creativity.
Do you have to think that prostitution is good to support sex worker rights? How do sex worker rights fit with feminist and anti-capitalist politics? Is criminalising clients progressive – and can the police deliver justice?
Focusing on a variety of representations, the book stimulates discussions of s/m through the exploration of censorship in the arts, the fetishization of sexual paraphernalia, recombinations of class, race and sexuality, and the politics of psychoanalysis.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Combining the energy of the early seventies feminist movement with the perceptive analyses of the trained theorist, this is one of the most influential socialist feminist statements of its time.
Brings Lorde’s essential poetry, speeches and essays, including ‘The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House’, together in one volume for the first time.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Lil Binewski, born a Boston aristocrat, was in her time the most stylish of geeks. That is to say she made her living by biting the heads off live chickens in front of a carnival audience. This she gave up for doting motherhood, because she and her fairground-owning husband had a money spinning idea.
A provocationinterested in exploring the meeting points between the obliteration of the possibility of physical motherhood (rupture of the body), a country disappearing in war (rupture of the land) and the reconstruction of the bio-political-history. Together these assert a new no-motherhood and post-motherland identity away from the exilic ruptures that define the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries in Europe.
The essays explore the broad range of poetico-philosophical questions that have long been circulating in the Cixousian universe: the self and the other, autobiographies of writing, love's labors lost and found, sexual difference, feminism and feminine hours, the prehistory of the work of art and reading the visual arts, animal (w)rites and trans-species relations, literary theory, post-colonial theory, death and life.
Artist catalogue, documenting work made between 2004 and 2009.
Founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of women, tells her story.
Explores the processes through which specific populations are figured as ‘revolting’ as well as the practices through which these populations ‘revolt’ against their subjectification.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and class and cultural privilege. (P3152)
In this wide-ranging collection of essays and articles, Lerman reflects on her life-long exploration of dance as a vehicle for human insight and understanding of the world around us.
Part of the Know How: The Study Room Guide on Live Art Live Art and working with older individuals and communities. (P3140)
An in-depth research on the theme of borders and motherhood.
Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).
Explores the experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer while pregnant. Performace text.
Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).
Part monologue, part confessional, part crèche: Clarke invites the audience to consider the rights of the very young and the acceptable (or not) faces of motherhood. Includes performance text and DVD.
Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).
Exhibition catalogue: The Rochester Contemporary, 30/4-23/5 2004. Includes reproductions of artwork, critical essays and fiction.
Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).
An exploration of the artist's experience of giving birth under general anaesthetic.
AV documentation (no sound); 6 hours.
Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).
This video for camera was made at home with the artist's one year old son: he is invited, or given reason, to interact with household, domestic, materials – in isolation and removed from some context.
12 minutes.
Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).
In this interactive media performance Zoo Indigo take their babies on tour so they can perform while you babysit.
Includes the 2012 performance text and a DVD.
Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).
Documentation from the project by Zoë Gingell and Eve Dent; includes exhibition programme, blog posts, and The Guardian review.
Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).
The Mums and Babies Ensemble was a series of public workshops and events convened by three mums/theatre-makers and their babies. It was prompted by the desire to integrate the structure and chaos of performance-making and motherhood, to create a space that would meet the needs of the parents and babies equally, to capture some memories, to grow a community, and to pass something on eventually.
By institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home.
Artist catalogue produced for the solo performance “Masha Serghyeevna” (Bluecoat, Liverpool 2009), also gathering an overview of the artist's work between 2004-2009.
Catalogue of Alice Anderson's 'From Dance to Sculpture' exhibition.
Accompanies the 2014 retrospective of Vlasta Delimar's work at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb.
See D1492 for DVD compilation of Jess Dobkin’s work.
www.jessdobkin.comSee also P1525 for Jess Dobkin: This is my work.
Short summaries of projects
Documentation from the three-day digital and live art programme (7-9 December 2007, London) made to induce interaction and provoke debate, and enable the interrogation and creative exploration of formal, aesthetic and affective modes of performing intimacy.
This item is part of Brutal Silences: the Study Room Guide On Live Art In Ireland by Anna Maria Healy and Helena Walsh (P1661) and the Study Room Guide on One to One Performance by Rachel Zerihan (P1320)
A series of 73 photographs identifying the emotional context created in the home of the artist’s family.
*Currently unavailable*
Includes contributions by editors as well as Dinah Birch, Alicia Ostriker, Wendy Webster, Michelle Cliff, Alice Walker. This item is part of the Study Room Guide on Performance, Politics, Ethics and Human Rights by Adrien Sina (P0661)
Artist collection. NB We Can Work It Out is not complete.