Attributes
10.30am – refreshments, Cinema Foyer
11am – film screening with Q&A, Cinema 2
11.30am – 20-min Q&A with artists
Join us during Breastfeeding Week, an annual global campaign to raise awareness and action on issues related to breastfeeding, to get together and watch Milk Report the Film. Created by the Bristol-based artists and designers Jen Conway and Jessy Young, Milk Report explores the politics and economics of care through the lens of feeding a baby, and the 720 hours Young spent doing so over a 6-month period.
The 20-minute film focuses on the improvised, chaotic, interdependent and messy nature of reproductive labour.
There will be a short audience Q&A following the film with the artists.
Babies are welcome, this is a relaxed screening with no worries about causing a disturbance, sound in the cinema will be lowered to a safe volume.
Milk Report was produced as part of Feed, an arts-based project that promotes inclusive, sustainable approaches to infant feeding and public space. Chapter is currently home to the Feeding Chair (2022), a collaborative, touring artwork produced as part of the project, that invites parents and carers to feed their babies and young children in public venues. The Chair is installed in an area of our café bar that we have transformed into a welcoming space for families with small children. Relax in the Chair or share your thoughts on our feedback wall about how Chapter can be a more welcoming place for people of all ages.
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About the artists
Conway and Young have collaborated as graphic designers, artists and educators since 2006. Working on commissioned and self-initiated projects, they are motivated by art and design’s critical, social, civic and political potential. They are interested in DIY, inclusive and discursive forms of production and practise and their work often serves as an invitation to create communities.
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