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EVENT20.06.2024 / 5.30pm7.30pm
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Re-writing the Reproductive Body

Join Sally Butcher, artist in residence for Feed, to re-write a feminist glossary of terms for the reproductive body.

The workshop uses found text to engage participants in slow reading and alternative writing exercises that expand authoritative medical meanings. Exploring the space for in/visible artworks, participants also work collectively to create collaged text scrolls that give voice to hidden lived experiences of both infertile and maternal bodies.  

This event is organised to coincide with Ikon’s presentation of Feeding Chair (5 June – 7 July 2024) and is presented as part of Ikon’s 60th anniversary year.

About the artist 

Sally Butcher is an artist, researcher, activist and (m)other, based in Birmingham. Her interdisciplinary feminist practice draws on lived experience to engage with spheres of subjectivity and embodiment. Butcher’s PhD explores the ‘Invisibilities of (In)fertility between the Medical and the Maternal’ through narrative, language and bodily data. 

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Free entry, booking essential

Events Room, First Floor

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1. Sally Butcher. Re-writing the reproductive body artwork. Image courtesy of the artist 2. Sally Butcher. Re-writing the reproductive body artwork. Image courtesy of the artist 3. Sally Butcher. Re-writing the reproductive body artwork. Image courtesy of the artist 4. Sally Butcher. Re-writing the reproductive body artwork. Image courtesy of the artist
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