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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 to the Middle East (2012) and the novel Albertine (2001). Women in Dark Times has just been published by Bloomsbury. Conversations with Jacqueline Rose came out in 2010, and The Jacqueline Rose Reader in 2011. States of Fantasy and The Last Resistance have formed the basis of musical compositions by the acclaimed young American composer, Mohammed Fairouz. A regular writer for The London Review of Books, she wrote and presented the 2002 Channel 4 TV Documentary, Dangerous Liaison – Israel and the United States. She is a Professorial Fellow at the Institute for Social Justice, ACU, Sydney, a co-founder of Independent Jewish Voices in the UK, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Before arriving at Birkbeck, she taught at Queen Mary University of London as Professor of English, and in Autumn 2014, as Diane Middlebrook/Carl Djerassi Professor of Gender Studies in Cambridge.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mothers-Essay-Cruelty-Jacqueline-Rose/dp/0571331432

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Helen Sargeant is an artist and mother of two sons, she lives and works from home and her studio in West Yorkshire. Helen’s practice includes autobiographical writing, drawings, painting, performance and time based media. Her work has been published in books and journals and she has presented her work at international conferences. She makes work about the maternal body and her experiences of mothering. Her work aims to challenge idealised representations of the mother and make visible their caring work. Through her arts practice she also aims to communicate with honesty the complexities of emotions felt by women who mother.

Helen has a special interest in maternal mental health which has led her to collaborating with midwives, health workers, and academics to deliver talks and participatory workshops with the aim of improving health and wellbeing in mothers through creative practice. Helen has produced collaborative work with her youngest son such as M(other) and Son (2016) an international residency to Tampere Finland and has initiated cross-disciplinary projects such as The Egg The Womb The Head & The Moon (2014). Her most recent work has seen her contributing to Laura Godfrey Isaacs Maternal Journal project (2019) and she is currently working with Paula Chambers to produce a series of exhibitions and a symposium called Mothers Ruin.

http://helensargeant.co.uk/motherandson/

https://www.eggwombheadmoon.com/

https://www.maternaljournal.org/

www.helensargeant.co.uk

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In the 11th episode of Woman up! we speak to Eti Wade who speaks candidly about the depression behind her work, her time out of practice and feelings of confidence as an artist and mother.

Eti Wade is an artist and academic specialising in photography.

She was the programme leader for the MA Photography at the University of West London and her photographic practice is a personal investigation of the limits of maternal subjectivity expressed through photography and video and she has also written on the subject of the maternal gaze in contemporary photographic art.


CC Available in English in below video. For Deaf/Hard of Hearing watchers: the captions start after about 20 seconds -during which there is a short instrumental intro.

Making things (doing the splits), 2013

Jocasta, 2011

Goodnight boys, 2006

Kisses, 2001

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This months episode is available only as a video (with captions) due to some technical difficulties in sound quality at certain points during the podcast (something that many of you will know can occasionally happen when you are Artists working within limited budgets!). We do hope this doesn’t effect your enjoyment of what we feel is an incredibly interesting interview!

Katy Deepwell is an art critic and Professor of Contemporary Art, Theory and Criticism at Middlesex University (since 2013). She is author/editor of 10 books 1995-present, many on feminism and art: e.g. (ed) Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms (Valiz, 2020); All-Women Art Spaces in Europe in the Long 1970s (co-edited with Agata Jakubowska, Liverpool University Press, 2018) and (ed) Feminist Art Manifestos: an anthology (KT press, 2014). She founded KT press and The Feminist Art Observatory in 1998, as well as editing n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal (1998-2017).
In 2017, she published n.paradoxa’s MOOC (mass open online course on art and feminisms) at https://nparadoxa.com .

https://www.ktpress.co.uk

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Lena Simic is a performance practitioner, scholar and pedagogue, born in Dubrovnik, Croatia, living in Liverpool. A co-organizer of The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home and Reader in Drama at Edge Hill University, UK.

Lena is an artist/scholar who is engaged in researching maternal performance, children in performance, critical arts practice and art activism.

Lena’s recent ‘Arts Projects and Performances’ include Manifesto for Maternal Performance (Art) 2016! (with Emily Underwood-Lee, SC Gallery, Zagreb; Royal College of Art, London, Astrid Noack’s Atelier, Copenhagen, 2017); Who wants another baby? video film (Centre for Culture in Novi Zagreb, 2017) and 42 Among the Gormleys (2016) maternal performance for her 42nd birthday at Crosby beach.

https://lenasimic.art/

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Amanthi Harris was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in London. She studied Fine Art at Central St Martins and has degrees in Law and Chemistry from Bristol University. Her novel BEAUTIFUL PLACE is published by Salt (September 2019). LANTERN EVENING, a novella, won the Gatehouse Press New Fictions Prize 2016 and is published by Gatehouse Press (2017). Her short stories have been published by Serpent’s Tail and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as Afternoon Readings. She also runs STORYHUG an ACE-funded storytelling, art and writing project.

Website: www.amanthiharris.com

https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/beautiful-place-9781784631932

http://www.gatehousepress.com/shop/new-fictions/lantern-evening/

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In this 7th episode we talk to a pioneer of feminist art in 1970 - Su Richardson. Known for her involvement in the Postal Art Event (which went by several names) and her soft sculptural work Burnt Breakfast (1975.) Su chats to us about her home-made objects, domesticity, femininity and about her decision to leave the art business to be involved with a punk rock band( http://www.gigslutz.co.uk/interview-terry-gerry/).

For subtitled version please follow this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVi2rv1GbW4

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The month on Woman up! we talk to Rose Gibbs. Rose is a feminist artist and writer who regularly initiates and contributes to talks, symposiums and discussions, including Who’s Holding the Baby? at Tate Britain. She is co-founder of a number of collectives and collaborative projects and has worked with The East London Fawcett Group and Hackney’s SERA group. She has curated exhibitions and shown work at the ICA, The Showroom amongst others art spaces. She is particularly interested in the gender implications of care work, she runs a small community organisation in the estate where she lives and is the arts correspondent for the Women’s Budget Group.

”Taking Up Space: Women Only Shows – A Discussion (full length)”

https://vimeo.com/118243881
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