It’s fascinating to see one’s work in different contexts and this month my interactive, online memoir, Fitting the Pattern: or being a dressmaker’s daughter, is published in issue two of Studies in the Maternal. It appears alongside a PDF download of my parallel lecture about the piece, Being Creatively Autobiographical in New Media.
Here’s how Lisa Baraitser and Sigal Spigel describe the work in their editorial:
Christine Wilks’ wonderfully quirky interactive digital media work: Fitting the Pattern: or being a dressmaker’s daughter… is a memoir about her mother, a skilled dressmaker, whom Christine grew up with in Leeds. Christine makes use of biographical minutiae at their intersection with cultural representations for exploring the emergence of subjectivities within mother-daughter relations. The work invites the reader/viewer to take part in the exploration and mediated construction of perplexed yet intimate mother-daughter relationship.
About Studies in the Maternal
Studies in the Maternal is an international, peer-reviewed, scholarly online journal. It aims to provide a forum for contemporary critical debates on the maternal understood as lived experience, social location, political and scientific practice, economic and ethical challenge, a theoretical question, and a structural dimension in human relations, politics and ethics.
The e-journal publishes “articles, essays and reviews from academics, writers, artists and clinical and cultural practitioners who engage with the maternal from diverse perspectives,” including multimedia work that “falls outside of the textual tradition.”
Here are the contents of the current issue:
