| Mammalien by Jo Shapland |
| First presented in 2001 by Jo Shapland |
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synopsis: ‘Ointment’ event at Parc-y-Pratt farm, Ceredigion, west Wales February 2001; the weekend the foot & mouth outbreak was announced and farms and farmland started to close. 1997 death of a mother of a condition treated years before with a mastectomy. 1997 closure of Parc-y Pratt dairy farm. Mammalien was an installation and performance with milk and milk products and large porcelain pots. The gravitational movement of cracking, spreading, collapsing blancmanges placed inside the oldest part of the farm in neglected recesses made of traditional lime. Bra – placing of blancmanges in the cups. The slow descent of blancmange sinking into and through the fabric Blancmanges in two spherical glass light fittings, one that is damaged, the pieces in the shape of a tear. Placed on the ground, bedded in straw. Outside- mother’s pots, made in moulds from porcelain slip Action – at a speed pertaining to the glacial movement of the spreading blancmanges, carrying and leaving offerings of saucers of milk in the building where the cows used to wait to be milked. The blancmanges were left for a month. They were eaten by the farm cats and wild animals. Some were left and grew into mould. . Milk... not for adults, giver of life, nurturer, allergen Milk... growth, hormones, antibodies Alien growth Curdled mammiaries,udders. Life bringer/death giver |
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