My project is about birth control, people epically women should learn from it to prevent future health complications and art activism can support my issue, has emotional impact, and women should have the desire to talk about it without feeling shamed or embarrassed. I chosen this topic due to my experience and I wish someone told my past self on the warnings of taking birth control and how it affects women’s body’s. Birth Control can be very broad when it comes to women taking birth control by pills or men deciding an important life decision to get a vasectomy. But my focus is that I just want people to be more aware of the choices they choose and its always best to learn information or do your research before deciding to make a decision that can affect your lifestyle, or your way or living. My message to my audience is that sometimes better to speak up on issues that bother you and you should not hold in some part of yourself for others and just be yourself and go by your own advice by your experiences or how your body functions.
I published my project by going to NYC and putting my shirt and post-it up and let people go up to the shirt and feel the emotions of touching a used white shirt symbolizing when a person uses birth control. It symbolizes that even though birth control is seemed as safe like a clean fresh white t-shirt, overtime it will turn dirty by the use of people overusing it, that it wears and tears, and symbolizes it’s affect on the human body in the long run.My project fits into my professional aspirations in life and my portfolio because this is a subject I am in favor of, I feel there should be more self-awareness of women and we should understand more how women’s body functions to live longer lives with less complications. Inspires me to stay motivated and be proud of the work and art that I do, hopes that one day maybe by the creative tool of art activism that someday women will have better medicine or preventing more miscarriages when it comes to my topic of birth control. The following artists below I choose symbolize the different experiences and raising concerns from different perspectives. They can say its to prevent unwanted pregnancies but is birth control only being pushed on social media to push a drug of added and unnessecary hormones that can potentially harm the natural function of a women’s body.
“Water is a marvelous metaphor; one drop of water is quite alone, like a single person, but many drops can create a tidal wave or immense rivers and oceans, much like individual people come together to create community, exchange ideas and build something incredibly powerful.” – Jaume Plensa.
“Culture as art is shaped by the norms and patterns of everyday life, little c culture. And it works the other way too: art shapes everyday life, providing representations of ideals to strive for in our everyday lives.
(Book: Art Of Activism , Steve Duncombe and Steve Lambert)”
Bernays strategy was simple: sell cigarettes to women. But there was a problem with his plan: women in the United States didn’t smoke, at least not publicly. The trick was convince women that it was desirable to smoke- the question was how.”
(Book: Art Of Activism , Steve Duncombe and Steve Lambert)”
“The point is not to replicate popular culture, but to learn from it and tap into the basic human needs and desires it speaks to.
(Book: Art Of Activism , Steve Duncombe and Steve Lambert)”
“The score required Ono to remain expressionless, but in the film you can see apprehension in her eyes as audience members keep mounting the stage and standing over her wielding the scissors, looking for another place to cut. When her bra is cut, she covers her breasts with her hands—almost her only movement in the entire piece.Most immediately, “Cut Piece” is a concrete enactment of the striptease that men are said to perform in their heads when they see an attractive woman. It weaponizes the male gaze.(Yoko Ono, Art of Defiance).”
Sources:
1.Birth Control Way: Powerful Art As Activism
https://nwlc.org/resource/birth-control-way/
2.Book: Art Of Activism , Steve Duncombe and Steve Lambert
3.Yoko Ono’s Art of Defiance
https://www.bunkhistory.org/resources/yoko-onos-art-of-defiance
4.Why Some Young Women Are Quitting Birth Control
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-third-wave/202604/why-some-young-women-are-quitting-birth-control
This article is very motivating and to the theme of “the rise of social media misinformation” that relates to how birth control is perceived on media vs reality check.
5.Women Health Expert: Birth Control Changes Who You Are & How You Feel About Your Partner!
The Diary Of a CEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGposaKNJKQ
The youtube video is very inspirational and motivation for women in similar situation, the pressure of partners and the negative impacts it has on your relationship when it comes to birth control.
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