Erika Meitner Interval “I know backwards the grief of life like chance” – Bernadette Mayer o the music, we have to hurry and drive and sit and call and wait and once, we were silent we stood in a darkened hospital hallway mute on a sunday until someone said go home, so still we wait—and time, it ticks like a hammer driving nails into lumber. the frame is up on the house down the hill that blocks the view of (our) mountains that don’t belong to anyone, that no one can claim and all we can do is hang on,…
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Sarah Browning In Mind, Two Months “The most spectacular thing in the world is in my mind. That’s where everything is happening.”– Toni Morrison The runny sound of baby poop. The pull on my nipple, the yank. Washing my hands at the bathroom sink, breast milk dripping on my feet. The hickey my son gave himself sucking on his arm when I was too sick to get up and nurse. His drooping eyelids, the white of his eyes as he falls asleep. His scrotum. The way his fist hits at my breast while he’s sucking. Spit up like cottage…
Teri Cross Davis Two Glasses of Milk If I were to leave them two glasses of milk, don’t write about that, write about the napkin- the perfect triangle tucked around the circle of glass, the absorbed condensation. If I were to leave them two glasses of milk, it would be the tension of motherhood and career, poet and wife pulling like teeth at my extended nipples until I was greedily consumed in silence. If I were to leave them two glasses of milk, even across my tombstone would be the words: daughter, wife, mother. Identities like anchors, so heavy…
JP Howard Night stand Mama buried herself in liquor Love kept her locked in that room Secrets are like insides of coffins We hide everything in plain view Everybody knew Mama had a secret lover, Tucked under her night stand Mama kissed his framed photo each night Before she tucked me in sugar hill, a love note, in pieces sugar hill you still in my bloodline when the world gets too crazy, convent avenue call my name she say, Juliet come play hopscotch on the block baby girl sugar hill, i still love you, even though mama almost…
Emily Hall is a composer; much of her music is formed from close creative relationships with singers and writers, finding her own ways of using technology and live performance Commissioned by many ensembles and orchestras including the London Sinfonietta, LSO, BBCNOW, the Brodsky Quartet, Opera North, LCO, and Hungarian Radio Choir and broadcast frequently on BBC Radio. Much to her surprise, Emily has written four operas. Emily Hall is a member of Bedroom Community, the Icelandic record label. Emily Hall has won many awards for her music including the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists, the genesis Opera Prize and…
Uta Baldauf is a bilingual dyslexic, multi disciplinary artist, she performance poetry and sings in the band Square Bomb. She studied in Dartington Collage of Arts and used to have a late nigh radio show. Her work hovers between play, words, the unknown and vulnerability.
Sharon Bennett is a socially engaged artist. Working collaboratively with community groups, artists or family and friends she blurs the boundaries between the traditional positions of artist, artwork and audience. Bennett is co-founder of the participatory art project Croshare and a founding member of The Women’s Art Activation System (WAAS).
Katharina Child – My name is Kath Child. I’m a Danish maker in textiles. I run a event space called Atelier (atelier stroud.com) in Stroud. I’m part of a artist group WAAS (women’s art activation system) together with Sarah Dixon among others. I’m interested in working with arts and crafts that interact with community and political issues.
Helena Alipaz is a full time mother, full time day dreamer of missed artistic explorations/ realised, under-valued domestic beauties. A multi-instrumentalist, instrument maker, drawer, and advisor and manager of live acts. The piece produced, reflects the stream of consciousness inner dialogue and rushed sensations presented as result of time contraints demanded from the domestic mothering of four children whilst attempting to produce art. In this instance, noise is both the vocation and the prison.
Lynda Sterling is a visual artist who lives and works in Old Trafford, Manchester. She is a mother to four children and creates work inspired by her everyday life, tasks and responsibilities. Her #thingstodobirds Mother Bunting encapsulated the life of a mother artist where alongside the domestic are times of creativity, highlighting the importance and value of both.