Have You Photographed My Uterus?
Notes
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.
Artist / Author | Natasha Davis |
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Editor | Lena Šimić & Emily Underwood-Lee |
Publisher | Routledge |
Reference | A0764 |
Date | 2017 |
Journal | Performance Research |
Journal date | June 2017 |
Journal page | 57-60 |
Type | Article |
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