MILK DIARIES
Technology for new parents have, for better and for worse, created interesting relationships between babies and their carers over time. Many of these technologies such as breast pumps, heart rate monitors, thermometers etc. help parents to measure their babies health, input, output etc. For me, these have, at times, exacerbated postpartum anxieties through obsessive charting of my baby’s feeds, weighing, temperature checks etc. However, the simple act of pumping and freezing breastmilk has been a way for me to cope and ease anxieties around getting sick and not being able to feed my baby. Milk Diaries 2020 began three months postpartum as a way to document life postpartum, anxieties around motherhood and life in COVID19. Milk Diaries has been a way to publicly navigate intense waves of grief over the loss of my mum, past infertility/miscarriage, a fear of dying and postpartum struggles.
KASIE CAMPBELL
Kasie Campbell is an award-winning visual artist working out of Edmonton, AB. In 2015, she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in Sculpture at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, AB. Campbell’s work integrates a variety of media including sculpture, photography, and installation with performative means. Themes of the abject and simultaneous tensions around beauty and the grotesque, surrounding the female body have been major points of interest in her work. Notably, Campbell has exhibited her work throughout Canada and internationally at Grounds for Sculpture (south of NYC), Mana Contemporary in Hamilton, NJ, Mana Contemporary in Chicago, IL, New York City at the Westbeth Gallery and more recently, Viljandi, Estonia.