A wide-ranging, first-of-its-kind anthology of art and writing exploring how surveillance impacts contemporary motherhood.
The tracking of our personal information, activities, and medical data through our digital devices is an increasingly recognizable field in which the lines between caretaking and control have blurred. In this age of surveillance, mothers' behaviors and bodies are observed, made public, exposed, scrutinized, and policed like never before. Supervision: On Motherhood and Surveillance gathers together the work of fifty contributors from diverse disciplines that include the visual arts, legal scholarship, ethnic studies, sociology, gender studies, poetry, and activism to ask what the relationship is between how we watch and how we are watched, and how the attention that mothers pay to their children might foster a kind of counterattention to the many ways in which mothers are scrutinized.
A groundbreaking collection, Supervision is a project about vision (and supervision), and all the ways in which vision intersects with surveillance and politics, through motherhood and personal history as well as through the histories and relations of the societies in which we live.
Contributors:
Melina Abdullah, Jeny Amaya, Gemma, Anderson, Nurcan Atalan-Helicke, Sarah Blackwood, Lisa Cartwright, Cary Beth Cryor, Moyra Davey, Duae Collective, Sabba Elahi, Laura Fong Prosper, Regina José Galindo, Michele Goodwin, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Lily Gurton-Wachter, Sophie Hamacher, Jessica Hankey, Keeonna Harris, Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann, Jennifer Hayashida, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Lisbeth Kaiser, Magdalena Kallenberger, Caitlin Keliiaa, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, Stephanie Lumsden, Irene Lusztig, Tala Madani, Jade Phoenix Martinez, Mónica Mayer, Iman Mersal, Jennifer C. Nash, Hương Ngô, Erika Niwa, Priscilla Ocen, Litia Perta, Claudia Rankine, Viva Ruiz, Ming Smith, Sable Elyse Smith, Sheida Soleimani, Stephanie Syjuco, Hồng- n Trương, Carrie Mae Weems, Lauren Whaley, Kandis Williams, Mai'a Williams, Carmen Winant, Kate Wolf, and Hannah Zeavin
ISBN-13: 9780262047814
Media Type: Hardcover
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication Date: 04-25-2023
Pages: 200
Product Dimensions: 8.15(w) x 10.30(h) x 0.66(d)
Sophie Hamacher is an artist, filmmaker, and curator whose work concerns media, technology, and the archive. She is Assistant Professor of Film and Media at the Maine College of Art and Design.
Jessica Hankey is an artist and the publisher of Orbis Editions, an artist-run platform for publications and performance. She has held editorial and curatorial positions at the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles.
Table of Contents
6 Preface
Sophie Hamacher
16 Introduction
24 A Conversation with Lisbeth Kaiser and Erika Niwa
27 Her Internet
Jennifer Hayashida
28 We Stand in the Gray Spring Light
Jennifer Hayashida
32 A Conversation with Laetitia Badaut Haussmann
36 Family Scanning
Hannah Zeavin
40 A Conversation with Moyra Davey
43 A Conversation with Jennifer C. Nash
46 Film Stills and Biometrics
Sophie Hamacher
62 Policing the Womb
Michele Goodwin
64 A Conversation with Irene Lusztig
71 Keeping Watch
Sarah Blackwood
75 Maternal Surveillance and the Custodial Camera
Lisa Cartwright
86 ["Closed to Traffic"]
Claudia Rankine
87 A Conversation with Melina Abdullah
92 A Conversation with Lauren Whaley
97 A Conversation with Jade Phoenix Martinez
100 On Disobedience
Mai'a Williams
101 A Conversation with Nurcan Atalan-Helicke
107 The Terrible Two
Magdalena Kallenberger
111 Drawing on the History of Gestation and Hands and Body Parts
Sophie Hamacher
124 Looking at our mothers
Iman Mersal
128 The Evanesced: Embodied Disappearance
[Shifting Spectators to Witness]
Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle
138 Mothering Swells
Litia Perta
145 Heavy Swimmers
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
150 A Conversation with Keeonna Harris
158 Nel Nome Del Padre
Duae Collective
(Silvia Campidelli, Luna Coppola)
160 Body Blitz
Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb
164 A Conversation with Priscilla Ocen
170 Mama Virtual
Jeny Amaya
176 Watching Her Watching Him
Kate Wolf
180 A Conversation with Caitlin Keliiaa and Stephanie Lumsden
187 Afterword
Lily Gurton-Watcher
190 Contributors
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