Join MOTHEROTHER at The NewBridge Project for a performance reading of Milk Report, a publication exploring the politics and economics of care through the lens of breastfeeding. The performance includes the whole text and plays with the messiness of care, the leakiness of bodies, ideas of the artificial and the natural, and the difficult, the performed and the improvised in care giving.
Milk Report is a print piece (and latterly a performance piece) recording the hours and minutes Young spent breastfeeding during the six months after giving birth. This totalled 720 hours and 7 minutes. The length of every feed is documented and is accompanied by a narrative text.
Seeking full remuneration for the labour-intensive work undertaken, an edition of 720 copies of Milk Report have been printed to be sold for £8.21 each (the 2019 National Living Wage), which will equate to a wage of £5916.95 once all copies have been sold.
Conway and Young was estabished in 2006 by Jen Conway and Jessy Young. The duo take a collaborative approach to commissioned and self-initiated projects and are motivated by art and design’s critical, social, civic and political potential. Their work often serves as an invitation to create communities. They are interested in DIY, inclusive and discursive forms of production and practice. Art, graphic design, research, consultancy and education.
