In order to become ethically acceptable, surrogacy must change beyond recognition—but we need more surrogacy, not less!

What happens when a 12-18 month old is let loose in a soft, safe space with someone who follows and reflects their every sound, move and mood? The interaction between babies, performers and the audience of parents and carers is what makes this an utterly unpredictable event.

Includes a 10 minute edit and a video of the 45 minute performance a the 2005 Melbourne Festival.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Kids (P3091).

Witnessed by unwitting suburbanites, and documented on a phone camera, Maternity Leaves documents a series of short performative walks within a mile radius of the artist's home, exploring the time and space of motherhood.

Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).

This video for camera was made at home with the artist's one year old son: he is invited, or given reason, to interact with household, domestic, materials – in isolation and removed from some context.
12 minutes.

Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).

Documentation from the project by Zoë Gingell and Eve Dent; includes exhibition programme, blog posts, and The Guardian review.

Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).

The first work to critically examine the dilemmas and promises of representing feminist motherhood in contemporary art and visual culture.

Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).

Explores the experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer while pregnant. Performace text.

Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).

Contains performance programme, performance texts and 3 CDs/DVDs, which include still images, a 6 minute edit and video of the full performance.

Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).

Documentation from a performance project, which made visible issues around walking with a pram. Through a series of pram walking events around Huntly–town and country–Clare tried to make visible this, and other spaces, and their fitness for people with young children.

Includes the programme and blog posts.

Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).

Two recommended reading lists of titles, artists and groups related to Live Art and Motherhood.

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