the sense archive collective

Artist

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?

the sense archive is/are Ruth Douthwright, Sally Morgan, and Jessica Winton in collaboration with David Bobier, Lois Brown, Rebecca Picherack, Andrea Ritchie, Joshua Van Tassel, and Becka Viau.