International Call For Artists: Project After Birth

Source: www.vasw.org.uk

Image: Hilary Paynter 'Another Life' 1977

Deadline Friday 15 May 2015
Deadline Time: 5pm

Fee £15 submission fee

On Monday 6 April 2015, Project AfterBirth launches an international open call inviting professional contemporary artists of any gender working in any visual, performing, text, film or digital art discipline to submit work they created in response to their own pregnancy, birth and/or early parenthood experiences.

By the end of June 2015, a dedicated panel of international arts professionals will announce a selection from submissions which will feature in an exhibition about the impact of early parenthood on the artist. This exhibition will launch at White Moose gallery in the South West of the UK on 2 October 2015 with the aim to tour to a number of UK, European and USA art spaces in 2016-18.

 

The Project AfterBirth selection panel comprises founding artists/curators Kris Jager & Mila Oshin (Joy Experiment, Exeter, UK), Stella Levy and Julie Gavin (White Moose, Devon, UK), Joy Rose (Museum of Motherhood, New York, USA), Helen Knowles (The Birth Rites Collection, Manchester, UK) and Francesca Pinto (The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK).

 

The panel will be looking for high quality and engaging work, reflecting a variety of personal perspectives on 21st century pregnancy, birth and early parenthood experiences by a mix of emerging and established contemporary artists working in traditional and new media.

 

All submitted work may contribute to an interdisciplinary research initiative led by Project AfterBirth and a team of UK academics from the fields of obstetrics, mental health, midwifery, media studies, social justice, and women and gender studies. This initiative will be aimed at shedding light on current Western pregnancy & birth practices, investigating their impact on early parenthood experiences, and informing their future.

 

A further aim is to present submitted work on a new online archive dedicated to contemporary art and social activism on the subject of new parenthood.

 

For more information, to join the mailing list or to register your interest please visit: http://www.projectafterbirth.com