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

在其医学和社会人类学的家庭中，女性不孕症的奖学金，以及艺术中的描绘，经常与生殖技术联系在一起（富兰克林，2006），作品集中于胚胎图像（Chadwick，1996;格洛弗，2020）和IVF旅程的描述（Furse，2003; Brotherus，2013; Moses，2014）。我的跨学科项目，通过女权主义文化理论和美术实践，将远离生殖发展和医疗化的遭遇，以研究当今不孕症女性的无形“病人”主导的实践，在数字和在线空间中成长。这将增加孕产妇艺术最近的重大复兴（自由之地基金会，2019），通过女权主义透镜，让人们了解不孕不育的广泛经验，消除不孕不育的污名，并将其重新定义为孕产妇轨迹的一部分。借鉴Sandelowski & de Lacey（2002）关于不孕症作为IVF发明引起的“疾病”的话语创造的工作，我的研究将批判性地分析在线环境如何在替代体现主体性的女权主义框架内创造非规范性（不）肥沃的叙事（Braidotti，2012）。这将质疑医学和孕产妇术语之间的滑动，以在“成为”孕产妇的（延迟）愿望中找到新的“子孕产妇”空间（Shildrick，2010），并通过这些自我护理劳动探索奇怪的规范生殖时间的潜力（Baraister，2014）。不孕症如何在当代在线空间中可视化和语言化，阐明新的体现不孕症的主体性？艺术实践如何通过重新想象（在）生育经验，重新呈现围绕患病女性身体的创造性关怀叙事？我将采用女权主义新唯物主义的方法来重视现象学的生活（d）经验（博尔特，2013年;科尔曼，2015年），通过定性访谈调查隐藏的情感反应，通过艺术实践动员，使女性的情感参与生殖医学在线社会环境的新的理解。这包括通过生育应用程序与个人可视化生物医学文化的互动;社交#TTC（试图怀孕）社区中的忏悔编码语言;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远程体验的物质性，通过表演性摄影，机械仿版画，参与性文本和生物艺术作品来突出感官。参观研究中心/档案馆也将有助于在艺术与孕产妇健康的参数范围内绘制我的调查。这个项目将为新冠肺炎疫情中增加的新兴护理政治（RCA）做出原创性贡献，质疑我们如何使用关系和社区话语来护理女性身体。在艺术实践中扩大医学化的身体是一个不断增长的关键医学人文领域（Viney，2015），如Confabulations（达勒姆大学2021-23）所表现的那样，母亲奖学金中的不孕症（MaMSIE，失踪母亲会议）。我的研究旨在将新的叙事插入到最近一波的孕产妇视觉艺术中，让不孕不育症获得可见性，以挑战污名化。第1年-文献综述-孕产妇/不孕症的体现，女权主义护理，生殖时间。伦理应用，呼叫，定性访谈。文本分析。实验-时间，具体的艺术实践。第2年-跟进/分析实证研究结果。施肥不孕不育的文化到关怀，体现通过女性身体生产性的遭遇实践.年3/3.5-理论/实践论文-不孕不育的新形象.-展览-潜在的在线空间-不断增长的国内（在）肥沃的档案。

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.