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(M)OTHER WORK:
FEMINIST MATERNAL PERFORMANCE ART
by
Ashley Weeks Cart
______________________________________________________________________________
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC ROSKI SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF PUBLIC ART STUDIES
May 2010
Copyright 2010 Ashley Weeks Cart
Object Description
| Title | (M)other work: feminist maternal performance art |
| Author | Cart, Ashley Weeks |
| Author email | ashley.w.cart@gmail.com; ashley.w.cart@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Public Art Studies |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Public Art Studies |
| School | School of Fine Arts |
| Date defended/completed | 2010-04-01 |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2010-05-06 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Stakenas, Carol |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Liss, Andrea Decter, Joshua |
| Abstract | Feminist maternal public performance art connects maternal labor to other forms of invisible maintenance and domestic work in the public domain. Through performance-based practices, the artists discussed in this thesis reveal the crucial, albeit undervalued, labor that maintains and upholds society and the public domain, and the critical role that mothers can play in framing and giving value and voice to this work. Through intergenerational, comparative analysis of 1960s/70s and contemporary feminist maternal performance art, this thesis considers the works of Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Léa Lublin, Mako Idemitsu Mother Art, Lena Simic, Elzbieta Jablonska and Maria Adela Diaz. Their practices serve as a tool through which to challenge the institutionally, culturally and socially prescribed role of motherhood to create a valuable, theoretical maternal voice. |
| Keyword | performance art; feminist art; motherhood; work; labor; maternal; video art; intergenerational comparative analysis; public domain; public sphere; public practice; maintenance art; 1960s and 70s art; contemporary |
| Coverage date | 1960/1979; 1990/2010 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2975 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Cart, Ashley Weeks |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Cart-3510 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume40/etd-Cart-3510.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | (M)OTHER WORK: FEMINIST MATERNAL PERFORMANCE ART by Ashley Weeks Cart ______________________________________________________________________________ A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC ROSKI SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF PUBLIC ART STUDIES May 2010 Copyright 2010 Ashley Weeks Cart |
