(In) Fertile Embodiment: revealing the invisibility of infertility between the medical and maternal through feminist art practice

（中）生育的体现：通过女权主义艺术实践揭示医学和孕产妇之间不孕不育的隐形性

• 批准号: 2748429
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Birmingham City University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2748429
• 关键词: Fertile; Embodiment; revealing; invisibility; infertility

Scholarship on female infertility in its Medical and Socio-Anthropological home, and portrayal within Art, is frequently bound to reproductive technologies (Franklin, 2006), with pieces focusing on embryonic imagery (Chadwick, 1996; Glover, 2020) and depictions of IVF journeys (Furse, 2003; Brotherus, 2013; Moses, 2014). My interdisciplinary project, through feminist cultural theory and fine art practice, will move away from reproductive development and medicalised encounters to examine invisible "patient"-led practices of women with infertility today, growing within digital and online spaces. This will add to recent significant resurgences in maternal art (Freelands Foundation, 2019), giving visibility to the breadth of the infertile experience through a feminist lens, to destigmatise infertility and reframe it as part of the maternal trajectory. Drawing on Sandelowski & de Lacey's (2002) work on the discursive creation of infertility as a 'disease' caused by the invention of IVF, my research will critically analyse how online environments create nonnormative (in)fertile narratives within feminist frameworks of alternative embodied subjectivities (Braidotti, 2012). This will question slippages between medical and maternal terminologies to considernew "sub-maternal" spaces within (deferred) desires of 'becoming' maternal (Shildrick, 2010) and explore potential for queering normative reproductive time (Baraister, 2014) through these self-care labours.- How is infertility visualised and verbalised within contemporary online spaces, articulating new embodied infertile subjectivities?- How can art practice re-present narratives of creative care around the dis-eased female body through reimagining (in)fertile experience?I will employ Feminist New Materialist methods to place value on phenomenological live(d) experience (Bolt, 2013; Coleman, 2015), enabling new understandings of women's affective engagement with online social settings in reproductive medicine by investigating hidden emotional responses through qualitative interviews, mobilised through artistic practice. This includes interactions with personal visualised biomedical culture through fertility apps; confessional coded languages in social #TTC (trying to conceive) communities; and hope rhetoric (visual/verbal) on commercialised infertility support websites. My practice will address (im)materiality of these remote experiences, foregrounding the sensory through making with performative photography, machinic para-printmaking, participatory text and bio-art pieces. Visits to research centres/archives will also help map my investigation within the parameters of Art & Maternal Health. This project will make an original contribution to emerging politics of Care (RCA), increased in Covid, questioning how we care for female bodies using relational and communal discourses. Broadening medicalised bodies in art practice is a growing field of Critical Medical Humanities (Viney, 2015) as manifested in Confabulations (Durham University 2021-23), as is infertility within maternal scholarship (MaMSIE, Missing Mother Conference). My research aims to insert new narratives into the recent wave of maternal visual arts, giving infertility accessible visibility to challenge stigmatisation.Year 1- Literature review - maternal/infertile embodiment, feminist care, reproductive time.- Ethical application, call-out, qualitative interviews. Textual analysis.- Experimentation - temporal, embodied artistic practices.Year 2- Follow up / analysis empirical research findings.- Fertilising infertile cultures into caring, embodied practice of productive encounters through female body.Year 3/3.5- Theory/practice thesis - new figurations of the infertile.- Exhibition - potential online space - growing domestic (in)fertile archive.

关于女性不孕症的医学和社会人类学之家的学术，以及艺术中的肖像，往往与生殖技术有关(富兰克林，2006年)，作品侧重于胚胎图像(查德威克，1996年；格洛弗，2020年)和对试管受精过程的描绘(弗斯，2003年；兄弟会，2013年；摩西，2014年)。我的跨学科项目，通过女权主义文化理论和美术实践，将不再局限于生殖发展和医学接触，而是研究当今在数字和在线空间中成长起来的、看不见的、由病人主导的不孕不育女性的做法。这将增加最近在母性艺术(Freelands Foundation，2019年)中的重大复兴，通过女权主义的镜头让人们看到不孕经历的广度，使不孕不育失去尊严，并将其重新构建为母性轨迹的一部分。根据Sandelowski和De Lacey(2002)关于不孕症作为一种由试管受精发明引起的‘疾病’的论述，我的研究将批判性地分析在线环境如何在另一种具体主观性的女权主义框架内创造非规范性(In)可生育的叙事(Braidotti，2012)。这将质疑医学术语和母性术语之间的差距，以考虑在(延迟的)成为母性的欲望(Shildrick，2010)内的新的“亚母性”空间，并探索通过这些自我护理工作来创造奇怪的规范生殖时间(Baraister，2014)的可能性。-不孕不育是如何在当代网络空间中可视化和口头表达的，表达新的具体化的不育主体性？-艺术实践如何通过重新想象(在)生育体验中再现围绕患病女性身体的创造性护理的叙事？我将使用女权主义新唯物主义方法来重视现象学的生活(D)经验(博尔特，2013；Coleman，2015)，通过通过定性访谈调查隐藏的情感反应，并通过艺术实践动员起来，使人们能够对生殖医学中女性与在线社交环境的情感参与有新的理解。这包括通过生育应用程序与个人可视化生物医学文化进行互动；在社会#TTC(试图怀孕)社区中使用忏悔编码语言；以及商业化不孕不育支持网站上的希望修辞(视觉/口头)。我的实践将解决这些遥远体验的重要性，通过表演摄影、机械辅助版画、参与性文本和生物艺术作品来突出感官。访问研究中心/档案馆也将有助于在艺术与母亲健康的参数范围内绘制我的调查地图。这个项目将对Covid中增加的新兴关怀政治(RCA)做出原创性的贡献，质疑我们如何使用关系和社区话语来照顾女性身体。在艺术实践中拓宽医疗机构是一个不断增长的关键医学人文学科领域(Viney，2015)，正如虚构(Durham University，2021-23)所表明的那样，母亲学术中的不孕不育(MaMSIE，失踪母亲会议)也是如此。我的研究旨在将新的叙事加入到最近的母性视觉艺术浪潮中，为不孕不育提供可接近的可见性，以挑战污名。1-文献综述-母性/不孕不育的化身，女权主义关怀，生育时间。-伦理应用，呼唤，定性采访。文本分析。-实验-时间的、具体的艺术实践。第二年-跟踪/分析实证研究结果。-通过女性身体将不育文化培养成关怀的、具体的生产实践。3.5年3月-理论/实践论文-不孕不育者的新形象。-展览-潜在的在线空间增长的国内(在)生育档案。