Karen & Related Motherhood Projects
Installation/ Sculpture/ Video/ Photographs/ Book Chapter
University Park, PA 2008, Ashgate 2012
University Park, PA 2008, Ashgate 2012
Reconciling Art and Mothering![]() Still from making a baby, 2007.
I recently wrote a book chapter called, In Search of Mother, that is part of a larger anthology entitled Reconciling Art and Mothering edited by Rachel Epp Buller. The proposed year of publication is 2012. My essay, In Search of Mother, is about the work I began in 2007 centered around mothering a fictional box baby named Karen. Here is an excerpt: "...The day I found her, I came across a long shipping box teetering off the side of a recycling bin. Instinctively, I responded by hurrying to prevent this box from falling to the ground. I found humor in this gesture almost immediately. Personifying my interaction with this non-living object was immediately associated in my mind with the natural reaction one might have to save an actual living baby from falling. I was aware of my strange interpretation, and it took hold as I wondered how I could further manifest this personification. My own willingness to suspend disbelief and turn fantasy into reality, the same experience that I would later require of my audience, led me to begin at the beginning. I documented this birthing event in my video, making a baby...." |
Photos and Stills |
Screenings and Exhibitions:
* 2008 Dilated. Zoller Gallery. University Park, PA. (solo). The Golden Calf. Curated by Lonnie Graham. Catalogue. Crane Arts. Philadelphia, PA * 2007 Raw Summer Lovin'. Zoller Gallery. University Park, PA. NASAD Show. Screening at Pennsylvania State University. making a baby, 3 minutes 42 seconds looping, 2007.
MOTHER, 8 minutes 16 seconds looping, 2007.
1 + 1 = 3, 39 seconds looping, 2008.
After Mommie Dearest, 2 minutes 34 seconds looping, 2008.
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