maternal aesthetics

Thursday, 12 March 2020

[Well] Not Being - Collaboration between Anna Makrzanowska and Yonat Nitzan-Green

There was an opportunity to use a shipping container as a studio space as part of Landed project at Loughborough University March 2020.

I wanted to test a performative drawing, entitled 'Maternal Grid', in collaboration with Anka.

Specifically I am interested in the quality of elasticity in drawing.

The drawing is made of graphite powder, latex, threads, fabric and chalk powder. When dry, it is peeled off from the surface on which it is made - a foam sheet similar to a floor padding. Marks and drawings made on this surface with silver ink are transferred to the drawing.

https://youtu.be/qrh0dGP_sNU - Stretching

https://youtu.be/5SRMeMd3fX0 - Birthing

https://youtu.be/MF1NTM8-LDM - Rocking

Monday, 17 February 2020

Elastic drawing

Peeling off the drawing

Friday, 7 February 2020

Experiments with drawing February 2020

https://youtu.be/BpP2jzCrGHU

https://youtu.be/F5q9I_CEPWo

Sunday, 2 February 2020

Maternal Grid

Maternal grid 1 - work-in-progress February 2020

Maternal Grid 1 Shaking

Sunday, 5 January 2020

Sites of Conversation

Essay published in TRACEY

Very happy that PIRG's (phenomenology and Imagination research group) essay, entitled: Sites of Conversation, has been published. Here is a link https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/TRACEY/article/view/2546

Sunday, 11 August 2019

The Sabar-Tzabar Series 2019

1948 marks the Israeli War of Independence and the Palestinian Nakba - catastrophe.

418 Palestinian villages had been emptied and destroyed in 1948, according to the Palestinian historian, Walid Khalidi (Khalidi, 1992, All that remains, in Noga Kadman, 2008, Erased from Space and Consciousness).

The Sabar (Arabic صبار) Tzabar (Hebrew צבר) Opuntia or as it is known, Prickly pear had been used by Palestinians to mark the boundaries of their fields, among others usages. However, after 1948 it became a symbol for the Israeli men and women ("prickly on the outside, sweet on the inside") while ignoring the Palestinian context.

Echoes a Sabar-Tzabar leaf each drawing is dedicated to a Palestinian village that got destroyed as a kind of memorial monument.

1948 - מסמלת את מלחמת העמצאות של ישראל ובו-זמנית את הנכבה - הקטסטרופה של הפלסטינים.

418 - כפרים פלסטינים התרוקנו ונהרסו בשנת 1948, על-פי ההסטוריון הפלסטיני וליד ח'אלידי

(1992 ח'אלידי)

2008 ,מתוך ספרה של נגה קדמן, בצידי הדרך ובשולי התודעה

צמח הצבר - סאבאר שימש כגבול בין שדות בחברה הפלסטינית אולם עם קום המדינה הפך לסמל את הישראלי: "מחוספס

ועוקצני מבחוץ אך מתוק מבפנים", תוך התעלמות מהקשרו הפלסטיני

בהשראת צורת הצמח המיוחדת כל רישום מוקדש לאחד מ-418 הכפרים כמעין מצבת זכרון