Birth Rites Collection Summer School is a unique programme of lectures, workshops, seminars and one-to-one tutorials. It will introduce you to the art collection and facilitate a dialogue between you, your practice and the artworks. The course is led by Helen Knowles, BRC Curator and artist, Hermione Wiltshire, artist and Senior Lecturer at the Royal College of Art. They will help you articulate responses to the art collection in a supportive environment.

If you are a midwife, academic, curator, artist, medic, health professional, art historian or policy advisor, you will enter the course with your own skill set and finish, with a bespoke multi-media pack of visual, textual, auditory and filmic material, each your own responses to art on birth, to be used thereafter in your own future work.You will enter the course with your own skill set and finish with a bespoke multi-media pack of visual, textual, auditory and filmic material, each your own responses to art on birth, to be used thereafter in your own future work.

Workshops include shooting and editing short films on mobile phones and reflecting on the themes through visual and written material. We will introduce different perspectives from international guest speakers and chair in-depth discussions that address aesthetics, ethics and the visual discourses of birth.

Themes include:

​–How the collection informs different perspectives from midwifery, medicine and education, and its potential to change practice and policy

​–Artistic and midwifery practices that address reproduction in the digital age 

​–The collection’s impact on feminist art practices and the rehabilitation of the visual discourses of birth into art history

–Censorship of artworks on birth, institutional responses, ethics and the law

–Sexual reproduction and reciprocity

Speakers include: Sophie Lewis, Laia Abril, Joscelyn Gardner, Francois-Joseph Lapointe, Marta Stysiak, Nora Heidorn.

There are two courses available:

In person five-day course 

July 12–16, 10–5pm GMT

Guy’s Campus, King's College, London (pandemic allowing).

Online four-week course

Wednesdays, September 8–29, 7–9:30pm GMT / Saturday, September 25, 1–6pm GMT

This will be a mixture of pre-recorded talks and material, plus online in-person workshops and tutorials.

Cost per course 

£450 per person / £300 concession (for practising artists, students and those with a low-income). 

We also have two bursary places available per course (£50 per place). 

Please email [log in to unmask] for more information. 

www.birthritescollection.org.uk/summer-school

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ABOUT THE COLLECTION

Birth Rites is a collection of contemporary art on childbirth. The first of it’s kind in the world. It was housed in the Mary Seacole Building in the Midwifery School at the University of Salford from 2009-2017 and moved to King’s College, London in 2017 where it is currently housed across four buildings on Guy’s Campus. It is on display for staff, students and the general public. The collection currently comprises photography, sculpture, painting, artist books, print, wallpaper, drawing, new media and film.
 
Birth Rites Collection aims to facilitate the production of new cutting edge works by artists who might not normally address the subject because of its taboo status within contemporary art practice, to support the work of artists whose work already engages with issues on this subject and to acquire relevant existing works to expand the collection. The collection currently comprises of photography, sculpture, painting, wallpaper, drawing, new media and a documentary film.

Through the presentation and dissemination of the work in the public domain, BRC encourages debate and increases awareness around childbirth practice. The project highlights issues like the shift towards medical intervention in birth and explores the impact of biomedical advances in technology. We explore whether society’s focus on propelling women on to an equal footing with men in the workplace, erodes their importance as mothers and investigate how free women are to give birth in a way they want. The Birth Rites Collection considers who controls the process of childbirth and why.

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