Woman Up!

Desperate Artwives Woman Up! podcast takeover Stopping the Fucking Wheel.Original broadcasted live at the Missing Mother conference (University of Bolton, UK) on Friday 23rd April 2021.Missing Mother conference in collaboration with Desperate Artwives present a special ‘takeover’ woman up! episode in the form of a semi structured panel talk discussion focused on the development and continued need for women led platforms and organizations supporting artists who are also mothers and carers over the past 10 years.Panellists: Martina Mullaney (Enemies of Good Art), Amy Dignam (Desperate Artwives), Paula McCloskey (A placeSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Series 3, takeover episode. ‘Stopping the Fucking Wheel’ – Desperate Artwives takeover The Missing Mother Conference appeared first on Desperate Artwives.

Woman Up! Special Episode ‘An Urgent Response’Shira Richter  –  ‘The Conflict in the Middle East, a Mothernist Perspective’Due to the current terrorising and violent  situation in the middle east we have decided to make an urgent response woman up episode and offered Shira Richter, old time friend, colleague, supporter and also collaborator of our project, a safe space to talk openly about everyday life in Israel right now, as she experiences it. A life under both external and internal violence, a life of being hyper-vigilant and of being on edgeSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Series 3, Special Episode ‘An Urgent Response’ – Shira Richter ‘The conflict in the Middle East, a Mothernist perspective’ appeared first on Desperate Artwives.

Woman Up! Series 3, episode 4. Megan Wynne  –  ‘The Body as a Site for Mothering and Art’Megan Wynne is a conceptual artist based in Chesapeake, Virginia who investigates of maternal mental health, ambivalence, the shifting power dynamic of the mother-child relationship, and prevailing notions of what embodies a “good” mother.Using her body as a site to explore the innate interdependence and vulnerability of mother and child, her process involves the act of relinquishing control in experimental collaborative per- formative scenarios with her three children. These ideas are expressed in often-convergingSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Series 3, episode 4 – Megan Wynne ‘The Body as a Site for Mothering and Art’ appeared first on Desperate Artwives.

Woman Up! Series 3, episode 3. Ruchika Wason Singh  – ‘Mapping Mother Artists in Asia’ Ruchika Wason Singh is a visual artist, art educator and independent researcher based in Delhi. She has widely exhibited in South -East Asia and also participated in international artist residency programs. Ruchika has been a U.G.C doctoral research fellow at the University of Delhi. In 2016 she initiated A.M.M.A.A.- The Archive for Mapping Mother Artists in Asia. She is also involved in organising alternative art activities at Critical Dialogues Art Space, Delhi. Ruchika has been an AssociateSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Series 3, episode 3 – Ruchika Wason Singh appeared first on Desperate Artwives.

Woman Up! Series 3, episode 2. Nicola Hunter – CENSORSHIP, BODIES and VULNERABILITY Artist and activist, Nicola Hunter was born in north east England (UK), began their path in fine arts and has since been performing and showing work nationally and internationally for over a decade. Hunter has seen international success as founder of intersectional feminist project Raising the Skirt and continues to develop a queer feminist arts and photographic practice, which is rooted in action based performance and spans live work, documentations of its products & traces and the re-presentation ofSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Series 3, episode 2 – Nicola Hunter appeared first on Desperate Artwives.

Woman Up! Series 3, episode 1. Jodie Hawkes – MOTHER TROUBLE MAKERS Jodie is one half of performance duo Search Party. Formed in 2005 Search Party’s work has encompassed theatre, live art, durational performance, participatory art, home video and performative writing.  Search Party have made performances for theatres, galleries, public squares, 24-hour parties, high streets, village fetes, parks, shopping centres, across rivers, between bridges and along seafronts. Jodie is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre at the University of Chichester. Her research Playing Kate focuses on maternal performance and class.http://searchpartyperformance.org.uk/  https://www.playingkate.coFor subtitled version   The post Woman UP! Podcast Series 3, episode 1 – Jodie Hawkes ‘Mother Trouble Makers’ appeared first on Desperate Artwives.

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The Guerrilla Girls are anonymous artist activists who use disruptive headlines, outrageous visuals and killer statistics to expose gender and ethnic bias and corruption in art, film, politics and pop culture. They believe in an intersectional feminism that fights for human rights for all people and all genders. They undermine the idea if a mainstream narrative by revealing the understory, the subtext, the overlooked, and the downright unfair. Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly is the first book to document their hundreds of street projects all over the world asSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Series 2, Episode 13 Christmas Special – Guerrilla Girls appeared first on Desperate Artwives.

PART 2Jennie Klein is a professor of art history at Ohio University. She is the co-editor, along with Myrel Chernick, of The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art, published in 2011. In 2014 she and Chernick chaired TFAP@CAA Day of Panels, which was also themed around maternity and motherhood. She has recently published several essay on art and the maternal, including “Feminist Art and Motherhood: An Overview,” in The Routledge Companion to Motherhood, “Maternal Metaphors I and II: a labor of motherlove” in The Maternal in Creative Work, bothSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Series 2, Episode 12, Part 2 – Jennie Klein appeared first on Desperate Artwives.

Jennie Klein is a professor of art history at Ohio University. She is the co-editor, along with Myrel Chernick, of The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art, published in 2011. In 2014 she and Chernick chaired TFAP@CAA Day of Panels, which was also themed around maternity and motherhood. She has recently published several essay on art and the maternal, including “Feminist Art and Motherhood: An Overview,” in The Routledge Companion to Motherhood, “Maternal Metaphors I and II: a labor of motherlove” in The Maternal in Creative Work, both co-authoredSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Series 2, Episode 12, Part 1 – Jennie Klein appeared first on Desperate Artwives.

Emma’s work often focusses on honesty, action and a playfully destructive DIY aesthetic using materials with different transformative properties – such as water, clay, earth, salt and ink – to create strong visual imagery which is often messy, intense and celebratory. In recent years, her work has been focussed on the None of Us is Yet a Robot project, a series of performance pieces recently published by Oberon Books as “None of Us is Yet a Robot – Five Performances on Gender Identity and the Politics of Transition”.In 2013 EmmaSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Series 2, Episode 11 – Emma Frankland appeared first on Desperate Artwives.

Hermione Wiltshire studied Sculpture at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, at BA level followed by an MA at Chelsea School of Art. In 1993, Hermione Wiltshire was a Momart Fellow at the Tate Gallery Liverpool, where she spent six months carrying out a residency followed by an exhibition at the Tate gallery Liverpool called Elective Affinities. She was also a scholar at the British School of Rome and returned often to Rome and Naples to complete several major series of works. Hermione is a Senior Lecturer in theSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Series 2, Episode 9 – Hermione Wiltshire appeared first on Desperate Artwives.

Through leading seminars, curating panels, and consulting services, Women Picturing Revolution (WPR) co-creators Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago are reclaiming and retelling history in a manner that is both radical and necessary. By highlighting the work of female photographers who have documented conflicts, crises, and revolution in private realms and public spaces, WPR sheds light on personal and political experiences that are often overlooked or underrepresented. From fine art photography made as a response to forced silence, oppression, and the inability to act, to well-known visual journalists documenting upheaval, Lesly and Zoraida, along withSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Series 2, Episode 8 – Women Picturing Revolution appeared first on Desperate Artwives.

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 For subtitled version please see belowImage Credits:1. Great & Tiny War, Bobby Baker, 2018. Image © Daily Life Ltd.  2. Ordinary Heaven, Bobby Baker, 2018, part of Great & Tiny War (Room 2, 1915 / 2015). Photo by Andrew Whittuck, 2018  3. Britannia, Bobby Baker, 2018, part of Great & Tiny War (Room 1, 1914 / 2014). Photo by Andrew Whittuck, 20184. An Edible Family in a Mobile Home, Bobby Baker, Stepney, London, 1976. Photo by Andrew Whittuck, 19765. Displaying the Sunday Dinner, Bobby Baker, 1998. Photo by Andrew Whittuck.6. Photographic documentationSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Series 2, Episode 5 – Bobby Baker appeared first on Desperate Artwives.

  On this month Woman Up! Podcast we talk to Nydia Blas/Nydia Boyd. Nydia is a visual artist who grew up in Ithaca, New York and currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia. She lives with her husband and two children.  Nydia uses photography, collage, video, and books to address matters of sexuality, intimacy, and her lived experience as a girl, woman, and mother. She delicately weaves stories concerning circumstance, value, and power and uses her work to create a physical and allegorical space presented through a Black feminine lens. Nydia’s use of what sheSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Series 2, Episode 4 – Nydia Blas appeared first on Desperate Artwives.

Amanda Bintu Holiday considers herself an accidental poet having been an artist and then filmmaker for much of her life. Born in Sierra Leone, shge moved to the UK at the age of five. After studying Fine Arts at Wimbledon she exhibited in landmark black art shows across the UK in the 1980s before moving into film – directing experimental shorts for the Arts Council, BFI and Channel 4. Between 2001 and 2010 she lived in Cape Town where she worked in educational TV.For subtitles see below.Virginia Chihota – TestimonySEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Series 2, Episode 3 – Amanda Holiday appeared first on Desperate Artwives.

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It is with immense pleasure that  we present you with this year 13th and last Woman Up! podcast  introducing Professor Jaqueline Rose. Jaqueline Rose is a Co-Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and Director of the London Critical Theory Summer School.She is internationally known for her writing on feminism, psychoanalysis, literature and the politics and ideology of Israel-Palestine.  Her books include Sexuality in the Field of Vision (1986, Verso Radical Thinkers, 2006), The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (1991), States of Fantasy (1996), The Question of Zion (2005), The Last Resistance (2007), Proust Among the Nations – from Dreyfus toSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Episode 13 – Jaqueline Rose appeared first on Desperate Artwives.