Posted on 06/16/2006 9:53:44 PM PDT by beaversmom
Mother's milk may be the healthiest food for babies, but is it art?
Yes, according to Jess Dobkin, a lesbian mother and artist who will present her work Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar on July 13 at the Ontario College of Art and Design, the institution of higher learning that a few years ago brought you vomiting as performance art.
The audience will be invited to sip during cocktail hours (5 to 8 p.m.) small cups of pasteurized breast milk donated by six lactating new mothers in the community. Dobkin has obtained a breast milk pasteurizer and will have the milk tested by a lab.
"I am taking all precautions," she said in an interview. "Donors have all been screened."
She is also designing a unique serving vessel for each woman. "I conducted interviews with all the donors and I worked with each to envision the appropriate serving device, the way different glasses are used for red or white wine. The vessel is designed to bring out the uniqueness of each woman's milk."
Following the "tasting," there will be an artist's talk and discussion.
Dobkin, who came to Toronto from New York, and has received grants from the Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council, said in a news release she became interested in taboos surrounding breastfeeding.
"This project re-contextualizes something often regarded as indecent or repellent, offering a celebratory view," the 36-year-old said. "A substance that nourishes us in our infancy later becomes a curiosity in adulthood."
Yes. I bet her children will be so proud of Mommy. I was embarrassed when my Mom showed up at school with cupcakes on my B-day -- They were great cupcakes and so was my Mom -- but I was just a kid then.
Nice!!! :D
They would only be able to swallow from a glass....
Will it be pasteurized? ;)
Yes -this one is weird, a homosexual celebrating an aspect of the heterosexual reality she rejects... One who engages in the unnatural and disordered celebrating the natural and ordered. Maybe she is just attempting to demean it by treating it as just another commodity to be acquired -like that of sperm from a sperm bank?
"Maybe she is just attempting to demean it by treating it as just another commodity to be acquired -like that of sperm from a sperm bank?"
But for her purposes, the sperm would have to be pasteurized.
Gives a whole new meaning to "creme anglaise".
There ain't no way to improve on the beautiful serving device made by God.
You know, that is an excellent point.
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