m_othering the perceptual ars poetica
Curated by Abbra Kotlarczyk and Antonia Sellbach
Counihan Gallery, Brunswick.
August 30 - September 29, 2019
Below images courtesy of Christo Crocker.
Curated by Abbra Kotlarczyk and Antonia Sellbach
Counihan Gallery, Brunswick.
August 30 - September 29, 2019
Below images courtesy of Christo Crocker.
PARTICIPANTS
Olga Bennett, Simona Castricum, Bonita Ely, Abbra Kotlarczyk, Alice McIntosh, Josephine Mead, Ruth O’Leary, Lucreccia Quintanilla,
r e a, Katie Ryan, Antonia Sellbach and Amber Wallis. Text contributions by Jazz Money and Guest, Riggs.
OVERVIEW
m_othering the perceptual ars poetica is a group exhibition that gathers around expanded and intersectional approaches to mothering and parentage, to include not only the care of children but of the environment and cultural spaces—their histories, forms and legacies. The exhibition seeks to articulate how maternal roles—including support, custodianship and forms of return—are being approached within and at the sidelines of creative practice. As well as work made about motherhood, this exhibition will reflect on some of the perceptual displacements and continuities that occur within creative practice, in light of expectations and realities of care-taking and custodianship more broadly. In this way, how might ‘m_othering’ function as a framework able to speak to a wide range of other care-taking practices? Further, how might we consider diverse forms of m_othering as creative praxis; as an embodied ars poetica—a term that articulates a state of being, rather than meaning.
Olga Bennett, Simona Castricum, Bonita Ely, Abbra Kotlarczyk, Alice McIntosh, Josephine Mead, Ruth O’Leary, Lucreccia Quintanilla,
r e a, Katie Ryan, Antonia Sellbach and Amber Wallis. Text contributions by Jazz Money and Guest, Riggs.
OVERVIEW
m_othering the perceptual ars poetica is a group exhibition that gathers around expanded and intersectional approaches to mothering and parentage, to include not only the care of children but of the environment and cultural spaces—their histories, forms and legacies. The exhibition seeks to articulate how maternal roles—including support, custodianship and forms of return—are being approached within and at the sidelines of creative practice. As well as work made about motherhood, this exhibition will reflect on some of the perceptual displacements and continuities that occur within creative practice, in light of expectations and realities of care-taking and custodianship more broadly. In this way, how might ‘m_othering’ function as a framework able to speak to a wide range of other care-taking practices? Further, how might we consider diverse forms of m_othering as creative praxis; as an embodied ars poetica—a term that articulates a state of being, rather than meaning.
