Artist, Mother, Female (In no particular order)
I am a wife, mother and MA Performance student at York St John's University. For me performance as an art form is perfect. It is cheap and can be made at home and performed any where which is ideal when you are stuck in the home looking after children, performing menial task after menial task. Performance art stands outside of the male dominated traditions of theatre by being accessible and enabling me to find my own female voice; I am subject of my own art without the aesthetic difference of playing a part, of acting. Therefore I am able to be more intimate, confrontational and direct. I am subject therefore not object.
There are certain types of knowledge like self knowledge that I think I will only experience through practice. Performance has become my way of making sense of the world and my place in it, often 'my world'. Not only this but I am asserting my right to self-expression and coming to terms with my past. In my work I am aiming to subvert domesticity, deconstruct male representations of women and use language in a way that undermines patriarchal values and structures.
Performance enables me to explore and question my own identity, to self-represent and articulate the complexed thoughts and emotions that are difficult to communicate through language. It enables me to have an identity other than mother, wife, daughter and the space to explore what it means to be all of these things.
Through my practice I wish to interrogate the questions:
What does it mean to be an artist and a woman?
What does it mean to be an artist and a mother?
How does a female artist articulate herself whilst existing inside a patriarchal value/language system?
How does being a mother impact on creativity?
What new insights does being a mother bring to the creative process?
What happens when the constraints of domesticity stifle a woman's freedom of expression through creativity?
and what are the implications of this?
I believe the personal IS political.
I would very much like to here from Female artist of all disciplines especially mothers, who can share their stories and insights into the world of Artist, Mother Female (In no particular order).
There are certain types of knowledge like self knowledge that I think I will only experience through practice. Performance has become my way of making sense of the world and my place in it, often 'my world'. Not only this but I am asserting my right to self-expression and coming to terms with my past. In my work I am aiming to subvert domesticity, deconstruct male representations of women and use language in a way that undermines patriarchal values and structures.
Performance enables me to explore and question my own identity, to self-represent and articulate the complexed thoughts and emotions that are difficult to communicate through language. It enables me to have an identity other than mother, wife, daughter and the space to explore what it means to be all of these things.
Through my practice I wish to interrogate the questions:
What does it mean to be an artist and a woman?
What does it mean to be an artist and a mother?
How does a female artist articulate herself whilst existing inside a patriarchal value/language system?
How does being a mother impact on creativity?
What new insights does being a mother bring to the creative process?
What happens when the constraints of domesticity stifle a woman's freedom of expression through creativity?
and what are the implications of this?
I believe the personal IS political.
I would very much like to here from Female artist of all disciplines especially mothers, who can share their stories and insights into the world of Artist, Mother Female (In no particular order).
