the sense archive - this body of work
This Body of Work is a multi-year project by the sense archive that includes an interdisciplinary gallery exhibition, a live performance, and a publication. The project explores critical feminist performance(s) of motherhood and maternal agency through lived bodily/cellular experiences. The work locates the body as the initial source and archive for the labour/work of the m/other and explores the themes of care, identity, trauma/loss, transformation, and lineage. We ask the questions: How do we/you experience motherhood? What is the work of motherhood? Who mothers? What are the practices that continue to sustain patriarchal ideations of motherhood in a liberal, capitalist, and settler colonial society?
This Body of Work is a multi-year project that explores critical feminist performance(s) of motherhood and maternal agency through lived bodily/cellular experiences. the sense archive is a collective of three mid-career Canadian artists/mothers: Ruth Douthwright, Sally Morgan, and Jessica Winton.
This Body of Work is a multi-year project that explores critical feminist performance(s) of motherhood and maternal agency through lived bodily/cellular experiences. the sense archive is a collective of three mid-career Canadian artists/mothers: Ruth Douthwright, Sally Morgan, and Jessica Winton.
In collaborating with the sense archive in this body of work VibraFusionLab is providing 10 vibrotactile pillow systems for the live performance. Each of the ten participants in each performance will have the opportunity to place the pillow on their body in various ways and places in order to feel the accompanying sound production.
A number of individual Woojer belts will be available for audience members to also receive the vibrational elements of the music production.
A number of individual Woojer belts will be available for audience members to also receive the vibrational elements of the music production.