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Woman Up!Woman Up! Series 3 Episode 9 - Leni Dothan 'Breaching the Contract'Leni Dothan is an Israeli-born artist, architect and researcher based in London, dealing with the overlooked representations of women – especially mothers – in art history and contemporary culture. Through the prism of a mother to a boy, a foreigner in the West, she creates sculptures, photographs, videos and installations that suggest new narratives other than the perfect and ideal mother-and-child relationship. Dothan completed her MFA and PhD at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Leni also works collaboratively with scientists to raise awareness on eco-political subjects and environmental issues. Dothan presents her work around the world in galleries and muse...
2021-11-0749 min
Woman Up!Woman Up! Series 3 Episode 6 TAKEOVER'Stopping the Fucking Wheel' - Desperate Artwives takeover The Missing Mother ConferenceDesperate Artwives Woman Up! podcast takeover Stopping the Fucking Wheel.Original broadcasted live at the Missing Mother conference (University of Bolton, UK) on Friday 23rd April 2021.Missing Mother conference in collaboration with Desperate Artwives present a special ‘takeover’ woman up! episode in the form of a semi structured panel talk discussion focused on the development and continued need for women led platforms and organizations supporting artists who are also mothers and carers over the past 10 years.Panellists: Martina Mullaney (Enemies of Good Art), Amy Dignam (Desperate Artwives), Paula McCloskey (A placeSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Serie...
2021-06-011h 14
Woman Up!Woman Up! Special Series 3 Episode 5 ‘An urgent response’ - Shira Richter: 'The conflict in the middle east, a Mothernist perspective'Woman Up! Special Episode ‘An Urgent Response’Shira Richter – ‘The Conflict in the Middle East, a Mothernist Perspective’Due to the current terrorising and violent situation in the middle east we have decided to make an urgent response woman up episode and offered Shira Richter, old time friend, colleague, supporter and also collaborator of our project, a safe space to talk openly about everyday life in Israel right now, as she experiences it. A life under both external and internal violence, a life of being hyper-vigilant and of being on edgeSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Series 3, Spec...
2021-05-1457 min
Woman Up!Woman Up! Series 3 Episode 4 Megan Wynne 'The Body as a Site for Mothering and Art'Woman Up! Series 3, episode 4. Megan Wynne – ‘The Body as a Site for Mothering and Art’Megan Wynne is a conceptual artist based in Chesapeake, Virginia who investigates of maternal mental health, ambivalence, the shifting power dynamic of the mother-child relationship, and prevailing notions of what embodies a “good” mother.Using her body as a site to explore the innate interdependence and vulnerability of mother and child, her process involves the act of relinquishing control in experimental collaborative per- formative scenarios with her three children. These ideas are expressed in often-convergingSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Series 3, episode 4 – M...
2021-05-0344 min
Woman Up!Woman Up! Series 3 Episode 3 Ruchika Wason Singh 'Mapping Mother Artists in Asia'Woman Up! Series 3, episode 3. Ruchika Wason Singh – ‘Mapping Mother Artists in Asia’ Ruchika Wason Singh is a visual artist, art educator and independent researcher based in Delhi. She has widely exhibited in South -East Asia and also participated in international artist residency programs. Ruchika has been a U.G.C doctoral research fellow at the University of Delhi. In 2016 she initiated A.M.M.A.A.- The Archive for Mapping Mother Artists in Asia. She is also involved in organising alternative art activities at Critical Dialogues Art Space, Delhi. Ruchika has been an AssociateSEE DETAILS The post Wom...
2021-04-0140 min
Woman Up!Woman Up! Series 3 Episode 2 Nicola Hunter 'Censorship, Bodies and Vulnerability'Woman Up! Series 3, episode 2. Nicola Hunter – CENSORSHIP, BODIES and VULNERABILITY Artist and activist, Nicola Hunter was born in north east England (UK), began their path in fine arts and has since been performing and showing work nationally and internationally for over a decade. Hunter has seen international success as founder of intersectional feminist project Raising the Skirt and continues to develop a queer feminist arts and photographic practice, which is rooted in action based performance and spans live work, documentations of its products & traces and the re-presentation ofSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Series 3, episode 2 – Nicola Hunte...
2021-03-0146 min
Woman Up!Woman Up! Series 3 Episode 1 Jodie Hawkes, 'Mother Trouble Makers'Woman Up! Series 3, episode 1. Jodie Hawkes – MOTHER TROUBLE MAKERS Jodie is one half of performance duo Search Party. Formed in 2005 Search Party’s work has encompassed theatre, live art, durational performance, participatory art, home video and performative writing. Search Party have made performances for theatres, galleries, public squares, 24-hour parties, high streets, village fetes, parks, shopping centres, across rivers, between bridges and along seafronts. Jodie is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre at the University of Chichester. Her research Playing Kate focuses on maternal performance and class.http://searchpartyperformance.org.uk/ https://www.playingkate.coFor subtitled version The post Wo...
2021-02-0132 min
Woman Up!Woman Up! Series 2 Episode 14 - Rachel Epp BullerThe post Woman UP! Podcast Series 2, Episode 14 – Rachel Epp Buller appeared first on Desperate Artwives.
2020-12-3142 min
Woman Up!Woman Up! Series 2 Episode 13, Christmas Special - Guerrilla GirlsThe Guerrilla Girls are anonymous artist activists who use disruptive headlines, outrageous visuals and killer statistics to expose gender and ethnic bias and corruption in art, film, politics and pop culture. They believe in an intersectional feminism that fights for human rights for all people and all genders. They undermine the idea if a mainstream narrative by revealing the understory, the subtext, the overlooked, and the downright unfair. Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly is the first book to document their hundreds of street projects all over the world asSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast S...
2020-12-1531 min
Woman Up!Woman Up! Series 2 Episode 12, Part 2 - Jennie KleinPART 2Jennie Klein is a professor of art history at Ohio University. She is the co-editor, along with Myrel Chernick, of The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art, published in 2011. In 2014 she and Chernick chaired TFAP@CAA Day of Panels, which was also themed around maternity and motherhood. She has recently published several essay on art and the maternal, including “Feminist Art and Motherhood: An Overview,” in The Routledge Companion to Motherhood, “Maternal Metaphors I and II: a labor of motherlove” in The Maternal in Creative Work, bothSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Series 2, Episode 12, Part 2 –...
2020-11-3031 min
Woman Up!Woman Up! Series 2 Episode 12, Part 1 - Jennie KleinJennie Klein is a professor of art history at Ohio University. She is the co-editor, along with Myrel Chernick, of The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art, published in 2011. In 2014 she and Chernick chaired TFAP@CAA Day of Panels, which was also themed around maternity and motherhood. She has recently published several essay on art and the maternal, including “Feminist Art and Motherhood: An Overview,” in The Routledge Companion to Motherhood, “Maternal Metaphors I and II: a labor of motherlove” in The Maternal in Creative Work, both co-authoredSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Series 2, Episode 12, Part 1 –...
2020-11-3024 min
Woman Up!Woman Up! Series 2 Episode 11 - Emma FranklandEmma’s work often focusses on honesty, action and a playfully destructive DIY aesthetic using materials with different transformative properties – such as water, clay, earth, salt and ink – to create strong visual imagery which is often messy, intense and celebratory. In recent years, her work has been focussed on the None of Us is Yet a Robot project, a series of performance pieces recently published by Oberon Books as “None of Us is Yet a Robot – Five Performances on Gender Identity and the Politics of Transition”.In 2013 EmmaSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Series 2, Episode 11 – Emma Frankland appea...
2020-11-0138 min
Woman Up!Woman Up! Series 2 Episode 10 - Shirley CameronShirley Cameron is an artist whose work covers 6 decades.Shirley studied sculpture at Central Saint Martins College with Anthony Caro as her tutor’ Whilst studying there Shirley met Roland Miller, who at that time was travelling with The People Show theatre company.For almost 20 years they travelled together becoming principal figures in the development of Performance Art in British alternative theatre between 1968 and 1988. Cameron was one of the first artists to include her children in her work. in 1977, she performed ‘Washing the Twins’ at the IV InternationalSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Series 2, Episode 10 – Shirley Cameron appeared f...
2020-10-1500 min
Woman Up!Woman Up! Series 2 Episode 9 - Hermione WithshireHermione Wiltshire studied Sculpture at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, at BA level followed by an MA at Chelsea School of Art. In 1993, Hermione Wiltshire was a Momart Fellow at the Tate Gallery Liverpool, where she spent six months carrying out a residency followed by an exhibition at the Tate gallery Liverpool called Elective Affinities. She was also a scholar at the British School of Rome and returned often to Rome and Naples to complete several major series of works. Hermione is a Senior Lecturer in theSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast S...
2020-09-3047 min
Woman Up!Woman Up! Series 2 Episode 8 - Women Picturing RevolutionThrough leading seminars, curating panels, and consulting services, Women Picturing Revolution (WPR) co-creators Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago are reclaiming and retelling history in a manner that is both radical and necessary. By highlighting the work of female photographers who have documented conflicts, crises, and revolution in private realms and public spaces, WPR sheds light on personal and political experiences that are often overlooked or underrepresented. From fine art photography made as a response to forced silence, oppression, and the inability to act, to well-known visual journalists documenting upheaval, Lesly and Zoraida, along withSEE DETAILS The p...
2020-09-0145 min
Woman Up!Woman Up! Series 2 Episode 7 - Rachel FallonThe post Woman UP! Podcast Series 2, Episode 7 – Rachel Fallon appeared first on Desperate Artwives.
2020-07-3139 min
Woman Up!Woman Up! Series 2 Episode 6 - Melissa Mostyn[md_text md_text_title1=”pixflow_base64IA==” md_text_title_separator=”no”]In Episode 6 we have invited artist Melissa Mostyn to join our monthly chat.Melissa has enjoyed a portfolio career as an artist, writer and film-maker for over twenty years, adopting a variety of roles for Shape, Maverick Television, Disability Arts Online, Deafnitely Theatre, Architecture Week South- East, Tate and V&A. Before having children, for five years Melissa led a groundbreaking Deaf visual art project, Salon, funded by Arts Council England and the Esme Fairbairn Foundation, and had journalism published in The Independent, Esquire and Vogue. Since bec...
2020-06-3000 min
Woman Up!Woman Up! Series 2 Episode 5 - Bobby Baker For subtitled version please see belowImage Credits:1. Great & Tiny War, Bobby Baker, 2018. Image © Daily Life Ltd. 2. Ordinary Heaven, Bobby Baker, 2018, part of Great & Tiny War (Room 2, 1915 / 2015). Photo by Andrew Whittuck, 2018 3. Britannia, Bobby Baker, 2018, part of Great & Tiny War (Room 1, 1914 / 2014). Photo by Andrew Whittuck, 20184. An Edible Family in a Mobile Home, Bobby Baker, Stepney, London, 1976. Photo by Andrew Whittuck, 19765. Displaying the Sunday Dinner, Bobby Baker, 1998. Photo by Andrew Whittuck.6. Photographic documentationSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Series 2, Episode 5 – Bobby Baker appeared first on Desperate Artwives.
2020-05-3159 min
Woman Up!Woman Up! Series 2 Episode 4 - Nydia Blas On this month Woman Up! Podcast we talk to Nydia Blas/Nydia Boyd. Nydia is a visual artist who grew up in Ithaca, New York and currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia. She lives with her husband and two children. Nydia uses photography, collage, video, and books to address matters of sexuality, intimacy, and her lived experience as a girl, woman, and mother. She delicately weaves stories concerning circumstance, value, and power and uses her work to create a physical and allegorical space presented through a Black feminine lens. Nydia’s use of what sheSEE DETAILS The post Woman...
2020-04-3030 min
Woman Up!Woman Up! Series 2 Episode 3 - Amanda HolidayAmanda Bintu Holiday considers herself an accidental poet having been an artist and then filmmaker for much of her life. Born in Sierra Leone, shge moved to the UK at the age of five. After studying Fine Arts at Wimbledon she exhibited in landmark black art shows across the UK in the 1980s before moving into film – directing experimental shorts for the Arts Council, BFI and Channel 4. Between 2001 and 2010 she lived in Cape Town where she worked in educational TV.For subtitles see below.Virginia Chihota – TestimonySEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Series 2, Episode 3 – Amanda Holiday appeare...
2020-03-3130 min
Woman Up!Woman Up! Series 2 Episode 2 - Dyana GravinaThe post Woman UP! Podcast Series 2, Episode 2 – Dyana Gravina appeared first on Desperate Artwives.
2020-02-2931 min
Woman Up!Woman UP! Podcast Series 2, Episode 1 – Martina MullaneyThe post Woman UP! Podcast Series 2, Episode 1 – Martina Mullaney appeared first on Desperate Artwives.
2020-01-3125 min
Woman Up!Woman UP! Podcast Episode 13 – Jaqueline RoseIt is with immense pleasure that we present you with this year 13th and last Woman Up! podcast introducing Professor Jaqueline Rose. Jaqueline Rose is a Co-Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and Director of the London Critical Theory Summer School.She is internationally known for her writing on feminism, psychoanalysis, literature and the politics and ideology of Israel-Palestine. Her books include Sexuality in the Field of Vision (1986, Verso Radical Thinkers, 2006), The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (1991), States of Fantasy (1996), The Question of Zion (2005), The Last Resistance (2007), Proust Among the Nations – from Dreyfus toSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! P...
2019-12-1936 min
Woman Up!Woman UP! Podcast Episode 12 – Helen Sargeant Helen Sargeant is an artist and mother of two sons, she lives and works from home and her studio in West Yorkshire. Helen’s practice includes autobiographical writing, drawings, painting, performance and time based media. Her work has been published in books and journals and she has presented her work at international conferences. She makes work about the maternal body and her experiences of mothering. Her work aims to challenge idealised representations of the mother and make visible their caring work. Through her arts practice she also aims to communicate with honesty the complexitiesSEE DETAILS The post Woman...
2019-11-3035 min
Woman Up!Woman UP! Podcast Episode 11 – Eti Wade In the 11th episode of Woman up! we speak to Eti Wade who speaks candidly about the depression behind her work, her time out of practice and feelings of confidence as an artist and mother.Eti Wade is an artist and academic specialising in photography.She was the programme leader for the MA Photography at the University of West London and her photographic practice is a personal investigation of the limits of maternal subjectivity expressed through photography and video and she has also written on the subject of the maternal gaze inSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! P...
2019-10-3126 min
Woman Up!Woman UP! Podcast Episode 9 – Dr.Lena SimicLena Simic is a performance practitioner, scholar and pedagogue, born in Dubrovnik, Croatia, living in Liverpool. A co-organizer of The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home and Reader in Drama at Edge Hill University, UK.Lena is an artist/scholar who is engaged in researching maternal performance, children in performance, critical arts practice and art activism. Lena’s recent ‘Arts Projects and Performances’ include Manifesto for Maternal Performance (Art) 2016! (with Emily Underwood-Lee, SC Gallery, Zagreb; Royal College of Art, London, Astrid Noack’s Atelier, Copenhagen, 2017); Who wants another baby? video film (Centre for Culture in NoviSEE DETAILS...
2019-09-1519 min
Woman Up!Woman UP! Podcast Episode 8 – Amanthi Harris Amanthi Harris was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in London. She studied Fine Art at Central St Martins and has degrees in Law and Chemistry from Bristol University. Her novel BEAUTIFUL PLACE is published by Salt (September 2019). LANTERN EVENING, a novella, won the Gatehouse Press New Fictions Prize 2016 and is published by Gatehouse Press (2017). Her short stories have been published by Serpent’s Tail and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as Afternoon Readings. She also runs STORYHUG an ACE-funded storytelling, art and writing project.Website: www.amanthiharris.com https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/beautiful-place-9781784631932 http://www.gatehousepress.com/shop...
2019-08-3124 min
Woman Up!Woman UP! Podcast Episode 7 – Su RichardsonIn this 7th episode we talk to a pioneer of feminist art in 1970 – Su Richardson. Known for her involvement in the Postal Art Event (which went by several names) and her soft sculptural work Burnt Breakfast (1975.) Su chats to us about her home-made objects, domesticity, femininity and about her decision to leave the art business to be involved with a punk rock band( http://www.gigslutz.co.uk/interview-terry-gerry/).For subtitled version please follow this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVi2rv1GbW4The post Woman UP! Podcast Episode 7 – Su Richardson appeared first on Desperate Artwives.
2019-07-3124 min
Woman Up!Woman UP! Podcast Episode 6 – Rose GibbsThis month on Woman up! we talk to Rose Gibbs. Rose is a feminist artist and writer who regularly initiates and contributes to talks, symposiums and discussions, including Who’s Holding the Baby? at Tate Britain. She is co-founder of a number of collectives and collaborative projects and has worked with The East London Fawcett Group and Hackney’s SERA group. She has curated exhibitions and shown work at the ICA, The Showroom amongst others art spaces. She is particularly interested in the gender implications of care work, she runs a smallSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podc...
2019-06-3027 min
Woman Up!Woman UP! Podcast Episode 5 – Iyato Dun[md_text md_text_title1=”pixflow_base64IA==” md_text_title_separator=”no”]This week on Woman up! we talk to Iyato Dun. Iyato describes herself as a mum, a citizen scientist, a philosopher, an activist and a writer.With her we are discussing topics such as racialized motherhood and diasporic motherhood.Iyato will be launching her blog in August.To view a subtitled version please follow this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRhq1jcovPsThe post Woman UP! Podcast Episode 5 – Iyato Dun appeared first on Desperate Artwives.
2019-05-3120 min
Woman Up!Woman UP! Podcast Episode 4 – Laura Godfrey-IsaacsThis instalment features Laura Godfrey-Isaacs Artist, Midwife and creator of the Maternal Journal, an award winning project exploring the benefits of creative journalling within the realm of maternity care.‘Many times, I’d sit in a lecture and I’d think there were so many amazing artists making work about this. Why aren’t we looking at this? Why aren’t we referencing this? And realising that I had these things in my head and many others didn’t obviously because I’d had an arts background!’Laura Godfrey-Isaacs 2019Laura Godfrey-Isaacs is an artist, midwife and birth activist.SEE DETAILS Th...
2019-04-3025 min
Woman Up!Woman UP! Podcast Episode 3 – Althea GreenanIn the third episode of the Woman Up! Podcast we talk to Dr. Althea Greenan.The post Woman UP! Podcast Episode 3 – Althea Greenan appeared first on Desperate Artwives.
2019-03-3128 min
Woman Up!Woman UP! Podcast Episode 2 - Hibo WardereWoman Up! Episode 2 – Hibo Wardere The post Woman UP! Podcast Episode 2 – Hibo Wardere appeared first on Desperate Artwives.
2019-02-2823 min
Woman Up!WOMAN UP! Podcast Episode 1 – Shira RichterThe post WOMAN UP! Podcast Episode 1 – Shira Richter appeared first on Desperate Artwives.
2019-01-1524 min