Performance Research Volume 22 Issue 4
On the Maternal
Issue editors: Lena Šimić & Emily Underwood-Lee
ISSN: 1352-8165 (2017) 22:4
On the Maternal gathers new insights from maternal thinkers, researchers and artists. This issue addresses maternal aesthetics, ethics, politics, labour and care, as well as questions of national identity, queer mothering, reproductive rights, maternal activism, co-operation within the maternal, questions of national identity, colonialism and gender identity. Transnational in scope, with contributions covering work from Australia, Canada, China, Ireland, France, Germany, Puerto Rico, UK, USA, Russia and the former Yugoslav Republic this issue charts the multifaceted work of maternal performance as well as corresponding theoretical approaches across the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, maternal studies, feminist and political theory. On the Maternal offers a space for a different kind of (m)other relations where we reflect and enact our relationality with others. The issue opens up new ways of thinking, seeing and feeling the maternal in and through performance practices, exploring alliances between the maternal and (feminist) performance.
Editorial
Lena Šimić, Emily Underwood-Lee
pp. 1 - 4
REF: CN1183315 [artist's pages]
Madeleine Trigg
pp. 5 - 6
YouTube Birth and the Primal Scene
Lisa Baraitser
pp. 7 - 17
The Nightdress I Wore to Give Birth In : Performative materialities and maternal intersubjectivities
Paula Chambers
pp. 18 - 27
Borne from Difference – Carriance in Co-Respond-Dance : Blind walking, carrying-caring and the matrixial
Arne Vanraes
pp. 28 - 35
Maternal Ruptures/Raptures : Leakages of the Real
Ildikó Rippel, Rosie Garton
pp. 36 - 43
‘Making up mothers’ : Georgina Starr’s channelling of the maternal
Dominic Paterson
pp. 44 - 52
Disturbing Hospitality with The Young Family
Sophie Lally
pp. 53 - 56
Have You Photographed My Uterus?
Natasha Davis
pp. 57 - 60
Not Just ‘A Life Within the Home’ : Maternal labour, art work and performance action in the Irish intimate public sphere
EL Putnam
pp. 61 - 70
Performing Queer Mamí on Social Media : Gender-fluid parenting as a practice of decolonisation
Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón
pp. 71 - 74
Quotidian Chinese : A collaborative performance of labour and loss in the Canadian Chinese diaspora
Annie Wong
pp. 75 - 78
Care Outside the Comfort Zone : Maternal aesthetics, Katrin Nenasheva and the new politics of performance art in Russia
Angelina Lucento
pp. 79 - 88
Birthmark : Tattooing in the gallery [artist's pages]
Liberate Tate
pp. 89 - 97
No Keener Revelation [artist's pages]
Megan Marsh-McGlone
pp. 98 - 101
‘Poor Piper’ : Academic performances and maternal interruptions made public
Angela Sweigart-Gallagher
pp. 102 - 104
Maternal Environments
Ananda Breed
pp. 105 - 112
The Mother of All Wombs : Tracing the labour of maternal effacement in visual and theatrical cultures of motherhood
Bryoni Trezise
pp. 113 - 122
Care-Full Photography : ‘I am not an artist’ [artist's pages]
Rachel Cockburn
pp. 123 - 126
Lenka Clayton’s Maternal Economy : The performance of wonder and respect
pp. 127 - 130
Manifesto for Maternal Performance (Art) 2016!
Lena Šimić, Emily Underwood-Lee
pp. 127 - 130
Andrea Liss’s Feminist Art and the Maternal (review)
Lynn Deboeck
pp. 131 - 139
Notes on Contributors
pp. 141 - 142