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- Title
"Sending baby dust to you all...".
- Authors
Butcher, Sally
- Abstract
My ongoing interdisciplinary practice-based PhD considers ways in which understandings of (In)fertility are manifested within the texts of women in personally led online fertility forum spaces and the bigger hidden narratives around these fragments. Building on a historical feminist focus on lived experience, my interest is in archive, narrative, meaning in language and bodily "data" through a conceptual artistic practice. This research considers alternative linguistic interpretations of the dis-ease of infertility, within and against authoritative medicalised rhetoric and asks what other semantics can emerge in dialogue between women. It seeks to reimagine (In)fertile Embodiment through creative feminist praxis, within non-normative "sub-maternal" subjectivities and temporalities, traversing infertility's intersections of invisibility and silence through formulations of absence and its (im)material presence. Experimentation embraces an embodied methodology of hope and failure, interspersing words and images, text and matter, through durational practices using textual metaphor and data visualisation techniques. The research seeks to engage audiences around this stigmatised reproductive discourse and assert its re-presentation within a new "maternal spectrum", expanding the parameters of maternal art and beyond.
- Subjects
INTERNET forums; PRAXIS (Process); HISTORIC buildings; INFERTILITY; HUMAN fertility
- Publication
Studies in the Maternal (Mamsie), 2024, Vol 14, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1759-0434
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.16995/sim.11189