Holding Time (2015—) — Social Art Library

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Lisa Creagh

An interdisciplinary, multi-media project focusing on presenting new ways of thinking about breastfeeding.

How to create art that really brings about social change? This is the question, the experiment of Holding Time. Working with health professionals and mothers, this ever-growing and changing project addresses the role of art within society and the power of art to change behaviours. Moving beyond the polarized debates of pros and cons of the medical benefits of breastfeeding, this project brings together mothers with researchers and feeding teams to energize and reinvent the conversation around breastfeeding.

Empowering mothers, offering choice and inspiration, Holding Time is an experiment in the possibilities of art as tools for meaningful social change. Holding Time is a multi-channel piece, operating as an installation, a series of still images, a series of video interviews and an ongoing conversation that takes place both live and online. The centrepiece is an installation of mother portraits in the form of stop motion animations, accompanied by music and a 3D animated abstract object, called the Timepiece. The viewer stands in a central position as all twenty-three mothers breastfeed in succession. Accompanying the work is a program of interviews with participating mothers and blog posts by maternal researchers.

More information: www.holdingtime.org

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Lisa Creagh

Lisa Creagh devises and create artistic works including site-specific installations, photographic exhibitions, video interviews and social media interventions. Creagh's work is shown in commercial and other spaces including museums, community settings, health care environments and other public places. Creagh is passionate about the transformative potential of art to create healthier, happier people.

www.lisacreagh.com