What counts as women’s work? And how does menstruation and menstrual art represent and respond to experiences of gendered, aesthetic and reproductive labour?
In Episode 5 of the Visualising Menstruation podcast, we explore these questions through contemporary art, featuring work by Carina Úbeda Chacana, Eleanor Antin, Ingrid Berthon-Moine, Phoebe Ching Yin Man, Lutz Bacher, Lee Bul, Helena Walsh, Catherine Bell, Casey Jenkins, Elspeth Owens, Su Richardson and Jane Woollatt.
Find the answers to Bee’s Menstrual Art Crossword here!
Read MoreIn this episode Bee revisits their experience as Artist in Residence on the project Blood Lines: Exploring the History of Menstruation at the University of St Andrews (Hughes, Røstvik & Spencer, 2021).
They talk about the project, a collaboration between Bee, Dr Camilla Mork Rostvik and Dr Catherine Spencer and reflect on the intersections of menstruation, artistic practice, institutional history, and the unforeseen conditions of the COVID‑19 pandemic.
Read MoreIn Episode 3 join Bee to explore how artists have shaped the aesthetics of menstrual blood, from the language of disgust and stigma to imagery that celebrates blood’s beauty, power, and symbolism, and work that uses menstrual blood as a metaphor for social and political violence.
Read MoreIn this episode we’re going to get into the thorny issues of the naked body in art. Why has femininity historically been labelled as the object, and masculinity as the subject? Is it possible to wrest control of representing bodies away from the regime of the male gaze?
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