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Politics, Poetics & Ethics
UCL, London, December 2010')
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This Is For You Katie Lloyd Thomas
This Is For You explores the vast network of objects and practices which stand in for the mother’s body when a baby is born very prematurely and cared for in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The artworks celebrate the collective work of caring for a neonate and draw out the humanity of both handmade and mass-produced objects and the wish they contain to ‘be well’.
The project draws on Katie’s own experience when her son was born at 26 weeks and cared for at Homerton. Looking back at her diary and the things she had collected during his stay, she noticed the extent to which her relationship involved the objects used in his care, and began to document the histories, practices and uses of objects in the neonatal unit. A small group of mothers of preterm babies are also contributing their stories and experiences which will generate texts, images and artefacts to be collated in a specially designed cabinet located outside the milk expressing room in the newly expanded and refurbished neonatal unit at Homerton.
The cabinet is being crafted and co-designed by Will Brook, an experienced cabinetmaker and local Hackney GP. It is made from timber from The Homerton Tree, an old plane tree felled to make way for the new delivery suite. The cabinet and contents are being closely developed with unit staff, and will provide an intimate experience for staff and visitors, and a space in the unit to house precious thank you cards from parents and other mementoes from mothers and carers. It is hoped they will encourage other mums in the unit to contribute their own material and seed an ongoing process of exchange about the unique and little known experience of having a baby in the NICU that will continue after the project’s installation in December 2009.
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Funding for This Is For You has come from the Arts Council England, UCL Beacon Bursaries for Public Engagement and the Bartlett Architecture Research Fund. Further funding is being sought for the publication of an artist’s book about the project and its dissemination to other London NICU’s. This Is For You will be the subject of an article by Katie, ‘Incuabators, Pumps and Other Hard-breasted Bodies’ in a forthcoming anthology New Feminisms and was presented at a MaMSIE conference on Maternal Aesthetics in Cambridge 2008. Any mothers interested in contributing to the project can contact Katie at: Katie@takingplace.org.uk.
This Is For You Katie Lloyd Thomas
This Is For You explores the vast network of objects and practices which stand in for the mother’s body when a baby is born very prematurely and cared for in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The artworks celebrate the collective work of caring for a neonate and draw out the humanity of both handmade and mass-produced objects and the wish they contain to ‘be well’.
The project draws on Katie’s own experience when her son was born at 26 weeks and cared for at Homerton. Looking back at her diary and the things she had collected during his stay, she noticed the extent to which her relationship involved the objects used in his care, and began to document the histories, practices and uses of objects in the neonatal unit. A small group of mothers of preterm babies are also contributing their stories and experiences which will generate texts, images and artefacts to be collated in a specially designed cabinet located outside the milk expressing room in the newly expanded and refurbished neonatal unit at Homerton.
The cabinet is being crafted and co-designed by Will Brook, an experienced cabinetmaker and local Hackney GP. It is made from timber from The Homerton Tree, an old plane tree felled to make way for the new delivery suite. The cabinet and contents are being closely developed with unit staff, and will provide an intimate experience for staff and visitors, and a space in the unit to house precious thank you cards from parents and other mementoes from mothers and carers. It is hoped they will encourage other mums in the unit to contribute their own material and seed an ongoing process of exchange about the unique and little known experience of having a baby in the NICU that will continue after the project’s installation in December 2009.
Funding for This Is For You has come from the Arts Council England, UCL Beacon Bursaries for Public Engagement and the Bartlett Architecture Research Fund. Further funding is being sought for the publication of an artist’s book about the project and its dissemination to other London NICU’s. This Is For You will be the subject of an article by Katie, ‘Incuabators, Pumps and Other Hard-breasted Bodies’ in a forthcoming anthology New Feminisms and was presented at a MaMSIE conference on Maternal Aesthetics in Cambridge 2008. Any mothers interested in contributing to the project can contact Katie at: Katie@takingplace.org.uk.
This Is For You Katie Lloyd Thomas
This Is For You explores the vast network of objects and practices which stand in for the mother’s body when a baby is born very prematurely and cared for in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The artworks celebrate the collective work of caring for a neonate and draw out the humanity of both handmade and mass-produced objects and the wish they contain to ‘be well’.
The project draws on Katie’s own experience when her son was born at 26 weeks and cared for at Homerton. Looking back at her diary and the things she had collected during his stay, she noticed the extent to which her relationship involved the objects used in his care, and began to document the histories, practices and uses of objects in the neonatal unit. A small group of mothers of preterm babies are also contributing their stories and experiences which will generate texts, images and artefacts to be collated in a specially designed cabinet located outside the milk expressing room in the newly expanded and refurbished neonatal unit at Homerton.
The cabinet is being crafted and co-designed by Will Brook, an experienced cabinetmaker and local Hackney GP. It is made from timber from The Homerton Tree, an old plane tree felled to make way for the new delivery suite. The cabinet and contents are being closely developed with unit staff, and will provide an intimate experience for staff and visitors, and a space in the unit to house precious thank you cards from parents and other mementoes from mothers and carers. It is hoped they will encourage other mums in the unit to contribute their own material and seed an ongoing process of exchange about the unique and little known experience of having a baby in the NICU that will continue after the project’s installation in December 2009.
Funding for This Is For You has come from the Arts Council England, UCL Beacon Bursaries for Public Engagement and the Bartlett Architecture Research Fund. Further funding is being sought for the publication of an artist’s book about the project and its dissemination to other London NICU’s. This Is For You will be the subject of an article by Katie, ‘Incuabators, Pumps and Other Hard-breasted Bodies’ in a forthcoming anthology New Feminisms and was presented at a MaMSIE conference on Maternal Aesthetics in Cambridge 2008. Any mothers interested in contributing to the project can contact Katie at: Katie@takingplace.org.uk.
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'First Moments is a participatory project involving birth partners, midwives and fathers groups and explores the role of partners in childbirth. The project started following discussions with fathers’ groups who felt that their role was undervalued by the hospital and aims to represent partners through capturing the excitement and emotion of birth. The work centres on handwritten texts, written in the partners first language, recording the first feelings directly following birth and then becomes a series of abstractions of the text.
The first abstraction is into a set of postcards which emerges involving a group of people involved in the project, hospital staff, artists and partners, where key words are pulled out to make a set of postcards. The postcard project gives visibility to first moments outside the ward sending messages elsewhere.
The second abstraction is into fragments of words become embedded into the physical fabric of the new Perinatal Centre, sandblasted onto the vision panels of doors between en suite bathrooms in the delivery rooms in the heart of the birthing environment..
First Moments includes the funding of a postcard display in the birth partners area that will allow for the continuation of the dialogue first moments has started after the completion of the new Perinatal Centre. An interactive piece that will continue to leave postcards for partners to add feelings but also display texts, postcards and abstracted texts, it will provide space for on-going understanding and interaction with the project. A piece that allows partners to add and share experiences.
Location The Delivery Unit
Artist Teresa Hoskyns
Delivery Unit staff Jeffery Heath, Hilary Clarke, Cynthia Jordan
Funding Arts Council of England, Homerton University Hospital NHS Trust Homerton University Hospital Arts Forum, University College London Beacon Bursary
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The first abstraction is into a set of postcards which emerges involving a group of people involved in the project, hospital staff, artists and partners, where key words are pulled out to make a set of postcards. The postcard project gives visibility to first moments outside the ward sending messages elsewhere.
The second abstraction is into fragments of words become embedded into the physical fabric of the new Perinatal Centre, sandblasted onto the vision panels of doors between en suite bathrooms in the delivery rooms in the heart of the birthing environment..
First Moments includes the funding of a postcard display in the birth partners area that will allow for the continuation of the dialogue first moments has started after the completion of the new Perinatal Centre. An interactive piece that will continue to leave postcards for partners to add feelings but also display texts, postcards and abstracted texts, it will provide space for on-going understanding and interaction with the project. A piece that allows partners to add and share experiences.
Location The Delivery Unit
Artist Teresa Hoskyns
Delivery Unit staff Jeffery Heath, Hilary Clarke, Cynthia Jordan
Funding Arts Council of England, Homerton University Hospital NHS Trust Homerton University Hospital Arts Forum, University College London Beacon Bursary
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'In The Name of Love Brigid Mc Leer with taking place
In The Name of Love is one of 6 art projects under development by the art and architecture group ‘taking place’, for the new mother and baby unit at Homerton University Hospital in East London, due to open in early 2010.
For this project I am making a series of drawings that trace the unique experience of birth and the transition of the baby from the mother’s womb into the world of family and culture.
Each drawing is made by connecting the name of the mother with the name of their new-born child, through a series of ‘echo-lines’, each of which represents a minute of time that the mother spent in labour with that child.
The drawings will also be hand engraved into copper and these copper ‘name plates’ will become part of an installation for the new maternity unit at Homerton.
The work also includes a special artists book which will have interivews with mothers and families about the naming of their children, why they chose the names they did, and for instance, how these names relate to larger family histories and cultural origins.
The project overall is currently mid-way through its development. As a group we have had to raise all our own funding, and to date have raised nearly £30,000 from Arts Council England and other sources. For my own project I have, so far, worked closely with five couples who have had their babies at Homerton and I am currently developing their drawings – on paper and on copper. My intention is to work with roughly 11 couples/mothers altogether.
This project continues my interest in ideas of drawing and time, and my ongoing investigation into the social, political and psychological frameworks that condition subjectivity.
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Senior Midwife post-natal ward 2:30-3:30pm
Less the organization of space than its use, in many ways, the hospital is produced by its spatial gestures. Which places are occupied, when and how? There are a whole series of spatial interactions through which people take up locations in relation to each other; a distinct one crystallising in the line of the cubicle curtains and the practices surrounding their use. Who can see what; who moves what; who is observed and when? Discussions with essence of care nurses, laundry services, and ward managers have inspired the visualisation of a number of proposals that start to unravel these practices to provoke conversations about privacy and dignity.
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'‘I was there for three weeks, I ended up making tea for the other mothers.’
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'‘I was surrounded by textiles which I liked, but I wanted to change the space somehow.’
Since November 2008 textile designer Anne Marre has been collaborating with Helen Stratford to produce a series of privacy interventions for installation in the refurbished postnatal wards in February 2009. Anne is Course Director for BA (Hons.) Textile Design Course at Central Saint Martins College, University of the Arts London.The interventions will temporarily change the curtains and spaces around the beds, provoking discussions with staff & mothers on privacy and dignity issues surrounding the nature of this particular boundary.
www.annemarr.comPresentations and discussions with Essence of Care nurses: Margaret Howat, Maria Zwane Ncamsile and Jane Streeten: Laundary Services Manager. Ward managers meeting. Members matters public presentations and discussions.
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Artist Julia Dwyer & Sue Ridge
Title The Homerton Tree
Site Delivery Unit
The Homerton Tree stems from the mature London Plane that was felled to make way for the new delivery unit in April 2008. The tree has become a measure the hospital’s past and its loss is felt strongly. Its leaves once screened the car park from view, and cooled the delivery rooms in summer. Images derived from the tree will be incorporated into a new window looking south, near to where the tree once stood.
We will seek further funding to apply tree based images to windows in the three delivery rooms nearest the site of the tree: they will screen views into the neighbouring building, and provide some privacy. Their imagery comes from the sense of being in amongst the branches.
Wood salvaged from the tree will appear inside the hospital within artworks including other artworks in TOSOW, and re-usable artifacts. One of these will be the large wooden ‘measures’ marked with significant measurements relating to time and size which have been defined by delivery unit staff, to be mounted on the corridor wall in the new building. Others will be craftsman made plane ‘pinnards’ given to senior midwives.
Time Line- Questionnaire for delivery unit staff, asking them to contribute ideas for (and knowledge of) significant measurements or records.
- Developing the photographic and drawn images for the window artwork
- Fabrication of the glass sandwich and double glazed unit for the new window.
- Drying and milling long lengths of timber for the ‘measures’.
- Marking (engraving/ painting) the surface of the ‘measures’.
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taking place announce the launch event of their project The Other Side of the Waiting for the new perinatal centre. From Tuesday 22nd to Friday 26 April the plane tree in the east car park next to the antenatal clinic is being felled to make way for the new building. Artists Julia Dwyer and Sue Ridge have commissioned a specialist woodsman to take down the tree and mill it on site so that its beautiful timber can be reused in art works for the new delivery suite as part of their project. The exact time of the felling is uncertain but it is expected to be some time on Wednesday 23 April in the morning. taking place artists will be manning an information desk with leaflets and display in the conservatory end of the antenatal clinic for the four days of the tree felling.
| download tree felling poster here |
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Christopher James Contracts Ltd.
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This Is For You: Cabinet Installation
Earlier this year the first of the projects to be embedded within the walls of the new Perinatal Centre at Homerton was installed in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The cabinet was crafted and co-designed with Katie Lloyd Thomas by Will Brook, an experienced cabinet maker and local Hackney GP. It is made from timber from the Homerton Tree and its contents, whose installation is now underway, will form a growing selection of texts, images and artefacts generated by stories of mothers of preterm babies.
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Homerton Tree and Measure Installation
In April 2011 we excitedly witnessed the installation of the Homerton Tree and Measure artworks within the Delivery Suite of the new Perinatal Centre. Both artworks were designed by Julia Dwyer and Sue Ridge. The Homerton Tree is a complex image, a virtual tree framed in the Southern window of the Delivery Suite corridor. Measure is made from timber from the Homerton Tree and is an artefact identifying measures that are important to all aspects of the staff on the unit’s work including cervical dilation.
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| download tree felling poster here |
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