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==Symbiosis: a mother diary== | |||
In collaboration with [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Being_a_Unicellular_Organism/Carolina_Fernandes_Garcia_Pinto Carolina] | |||
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_Symbiosis: a mother diary_ documents the experience and thoughts of two young women and their slime mold child. The diary documents the growth of Vina Garcia Morais, the slime mold we gave birth to, and reflect about this “caring system” that is always expected on us (women). We sign the "family contract" to care, feed, protect and love, putting our efforts to keep them alive and support them in their own journeys. | |||
Being regularly questioned by our families about our plans to have children, specially because our ovules are in their "healthiest phase" at this age we're in, we never know if our ability to take care is something natural of our personalities or if it was imposed on us so we could be better mothers. Considering the diary as a literature genre that gives place to a regular input of honest confessions, we see this medium as an appropriate way to share our thoughts letting it clear that every statement there is profoundly personal and "unfinished". | |||
===The diary=== | |||
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For the full-size pdf, see [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eNFpqSji-8KtDh7gUdgLfYGUsjSz5xGa/view?usp=sharing Symbiosis] | |||
===Relevance=== | |||
Maternal bond, biological clock, unconditional love are terms inherently attached to parenthood, especially when talking about the mother-child relationship. With this project we question how much the weight of its terms' meanings is on real feelings - and this almost magical environment created around the idea of motherhood - and how much it is actually related to society laws and social pressure. | |||
===Technical aspects=== | |||
During the phase of getting to know Vina (our child) we'll try to understand their preferences such as food, music and space preferences. For example, we already know that Vina loves kinder bueno but is not that into broccoli. With these "experiments" we shall observe our own feelings on the process and the discoveries to share them in the diary. | |||
*Slime mode | |||
*Medium plastic dish | |||
*Normal oats | |||
*Gluten-free oats | |||
*Kinder bueno | |||
*1 week | |||
*dark spaces | |||
As we didn't have our previous slime molds, we asked [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Being_a_Unicellular_Organism/Nicolas_Krewer Nicolas] to be our baby's grandfather and give us a bit of his slime mold. Being always so kind, he provided us not only a whole new petri dish full of a living blob but also a dry one that we could bring back to life with water if necessary. | |||
===Aesthetic approach=== | |||
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The diary contains a mixture of Viviane's photographs and Carolina's drawings, both being our point of view about our baby's growth. The journaling experience takes place in a period of one week, being this week what we could call the childhood of the slime mold and the moment where we're having our first steps as mothers. During this time we share our duties so each day one of us is responsible for feeding, observing from time to time, documenting and giving attention in general to our blob. | |||
Within the imagetic documentation, we write down our thoughts and feelings while taking care of Vina. | |||
==References== | |||
* [https://aihasegawa.info/i-wanna-deliver-a-shark I WANNA DELIVER A SHARK… - Ai Hasegawa] | |||
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