Mary Kelly

Mary Kelly creates Installation work which includes mixed modes of documentation. One of her most important works is Interim which Kelly creates using memories. Post Partum Document created in the 1970s has been widely exhibited and caused a significant amonut of scandal when first exhibited. She uses a conceptual approach to doucmentation and includes vests, dirty nappies, traces of markings and writing, hand imprints, and insect specimens. This is Kelly's means of documentation and recording via her child although she also includes further notes such as quantities of milk the child requires on a daily basis before it is weaned onto solids. She also includes academic texts and data to underpin and make sense of the purely sensory experience of the child's development.

The Distressed Seamstress

SONG: THE DISTRESSED SEAMSTRESS
(Sung to the air "Jenny Jones")
You gentles of England, I pray give attention,
Unto those few lines, I'm going to relate,
Concerning the seamstress,I'm going to mention,
Who long time has been, in a sad wretched state,
Laboriously toiling, both night, noon, and morning,
For a wretched subsistence, now mark what I say.
She's quite unprotected, forlorn, and dejected
For sixpence, or eightpence, or tenpence a day.
Come forward you nobles, and grant them assistance,
Give them employ, and a fair price them pay,
And then you will find, the poor hard working seamstress,
From honour and virtue will not go astray.
To shew them compassion pray quickly be stirring,
In delay, there is danger, there's no time to spare,...
The pride of the world is o'er whelmed with care,
Old England's considered, for honour and virtue,
And beauty the glory and pride of the world,
Nor be not hesitating, but boldly step forward,
Suppression and tyranny, far away hurl.

[Source: Roy Palmer, A Ballad History of England:
From 1588 to the Present Day, B.T. Batsford Ltd, London, 1979
http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/seamstress.html Accessed 22/2/2011

Victorian Source Material

Lynn Hershmann

Collecting - Trawling the Antique Fairs

I wanted to collect more primary source to establish if my family photographs reflected the time period in similar ways. These depictions were similarly posed, and attracted me initially due to their fashions. They also have an interesting visually quality, which include age spots, water marks and fading which i would like to explore through my creative process.

Liz Skeketee

Liz Steketee uses photography to explore the notion of memory but through manipulation of these original images, she creates her own personal view on family events, both past and present. She constructs and deconstruction her famil history through the use of montage and digital techniques. She states that she explores the "how and why of taking family photos"

http://www.grinnell.edu/faulconergallery/exhibitions/steketee

Rebecca Horn

Rebecca Horn's work explores the body and its relation to space, creating kinetic sculptures which look at the implications of the space and the extensions from the body.

Another aspect of intrest to be is the incorporation of the mechanical or technological aspect found in many of her works. The relation between the body and the mechanisms chosen by Horn in order to express them.

Narcissistic Narrative Linda Hutchinson

This paper discusses the use of fashion as a means of identity and argues that fashion creates meaning through the use of colour, shape, texture and pattern.

It also discusses the impact of Martin Margiela's work, Victor and Rolf and Comme De Garcon.

http://bezalel.secured.co.il/8/rosenfelden16.htm

Philip King

Bowen's Family Systems Theory

The family systems theory is a theory introduced by Dr. Murray Bowen that suggests that individuals cannot be understood in isolation from one another, but rather as a part of their family, as the family is an emotional unit. Families are systems of interconnected and interdependent individuals, none of whom can be understood in isolation from the system.
The family system
According to Bowen, a family is a system in which each member had a role to play and rules to respect. Members of the system are expected to respond to each other in a certain way according to their role, which is determined by relationship agreements. Within the boundaries of the system, patterns develop as certain family member's behavior is caused by and causes other family member's behaviors in predictable ways. Maintaining the same pattern of behaviors within a system may lead to balance in the family system, but also to dysfunction. For example, if a husband is depressive and cannot pull himself together, the wife may need to take up more responsibilities to pick up the slack. The change in roles may maintain the stability in the relationship, but it may also push the family towards a different equilibrium. This new equilibrium may lead to dysfunction as the wife may not be able to maintain this overachieving role over a long period of time.
There are eight interlocking concepts in Dr. Bowen's theory:
Triangles: The smallest stable relationship system. Triangles usually have one side in conflict and two sides in harmony, contributing to the development of clinical problems.
Differentiation of self: The variance in individuals in their susceptibility to depend on others for acceptance and approval.
Nuclear family emotional system: The four relationship patterns that define where problems may develop in a family.
- Marital conflict
- Dysfunction in one spouse
- Impairment of one or more children
- Emotional distance
Family projection process: The transmission of emotional problems from a parent to a child.
Multigenerational transmission process: The transmission of small differences in the levels of differentiation between parents and their children.
Emotional cutoff: The act of reducing or cutting off emotional contact with family as a way managing unresolved emotional issues.
Sibling position: The impact of sibling position on development and behavior.
Societal emotional process: The emotional system governs behavior on a societal level, promoting both progressive and regressive periods in a society
Genogram – key events, multi generational family history

Cornelia Parker