See art by Mayra Alpízar | Carlota Berard | Jennifer Boe | Roz Bonnet | Luiza Brown | Nikoline Calcaterra | Judy Chicago | Selin Cileli | Maldoror Capvt Corvi | Maribel Cruz | Thomasin Durgin | Natalie Aniela Dybisz | Elvira | Anne Encephalon | Hélène Epaud | Quiara Z. Escobar | Fanni Fazekas | Pat Fish | Julie Gaw | Gina | Kat Grandy | Martina Hoffmann (1 & 2) | Jelena | Judy Jones | Margaret Kalms | Brina Katz | Lorraine Lamothe | Ria Lee | Sharon Lee | Lana Leitch | Carol Nathan Levin | Katy Luxion | Sarah McCutcheon | Isa Menzies | Megan Morris | M. Parfitt | Petra Paul | Ana Elena Pena | Melina Piroso | Elentye Paulauskas-Poelker | Leigh Radtke | Jacquelyn Rixon | Isa Sanz | Vladislav Shabalin | Nelson Soucasaux | Paula Speakman | Alexandra Steiner | Melina Szapiro | Von Taylor | Jean Tracy | Joseph Tonna | Jessica Wagner | Jennifer Weigel | Terry Wunderlich | Tamara Wyndham | New Guinea menstrual hut carving
Art of Menopause by Coni Minneci
Ancient Peruvian menstrual art
If you create or own art concerning menstruation or menopause and are interested in showing it on thesepages (it's free!), contact MUM
Marie Claire magazine (Italian edition) featured several of the above artists in an article about this museum and menstruation in 2003. The newspaper Corriere della Sera (Io Donna magazine) (Milan, Italy) and the magazine Dishy (Turkey) showed some of the artists in 2005 in articles about this museum.
HOMEPAGE
CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
Some MUM site links:
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MUM address & What does MUM mean? |
Email the museum |
Privacy on this site |
Who runs this museum?? |
Amazing women! |
Art of menstruation (and awesome ancient art of menstruation) |
Artists (non-menstrual) |
Asbestos |
Belts |
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Birth control and religion |
Birth control drugs, old |
Birth control douche & sponges |
Founder bio |
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Essay directory |
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Extraction |
Facts-of-life booklets for girls |
Famous women in menstrual hygiene ads |
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Menarche booklets for girls and parents |
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Norwegian menstruation exhibit |
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Olor |
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Poetry directory |
Products, some current |
Puberty booklets for girls and parents|
Religion |
Religión y menstruación |
Your remedies for menstrual discomfort |
Menstrual products safety |
Sanitary napkin, towel, pad directory |
Seguridad de productos para la menstruación |
Science |
Shame |
Slapping, menstrual |
Sponges |
Synchrony |
Tampon directory |
Early tampons |
Teen ads directory |
Tour of the former museum (video) |
Towel, pad, sanitary napkin directory |
Underpants & panties directory |
Videos, films directory |
Words and expressions about menstruation |
Would you stop menstruating if you could? |
What did women do about menstruation in the past? |
Washable pads |
Read 10 years (1996-2006) of articles and Letters to Your MUM on this site.
Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.


The Art of Menstruation at the Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health


Carlota Berard in a performance at the Phoenix Theatre in Exeter, England. The performance is called AQUA PERMANENS, 2004.
See what she created while dancing.

The pictures are details of a menstrual dance performance Carlota Berard did over a 2x2 meters cloth with her own musical composition and choreography. While she was dancing and her menstrual flow was dripping over the cloth, she was at the same time creating the graphite traces. When it dried she cut the cloth into fragments and made small drawings-collages [here].

Carlota Berard is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist who does PhD research in England about body substances on artistic performances: Each body substance or fluid has a different texture and a different way or perforating the body. The body pulsates in diverse ways when releasing any substance, by contraction or expansion and with rhythmical or non-rhythmical pulses. The body is full of a pulse, in other words energy or excitement, ready to ooze slowly and outwards a liquid and an intense emotion. The body also oozes when it slowly disappears within a frame of time to allow a metamorphosis, another performance to happen and another existence. There is a pulse within any artistic performance. The pulse not only concerns matter, but also the soul.

Carlota Berard, 2004

 

The closeness of the spirit,

nowadays a fluent thing to write or tell,

since no distant colour seems to stay.

No flagrant music without spell,

no poison pulse without smell.

Disposition is the key word, the secret.

We had a secret? Tell me if so, again and again!

Slowly and tenderly between distances,

pure and gelid transfuse of blood while breathing instances.

All art and photos copyright 2004-2005 Carlota Berard
NEXT: Jennifer Boe
See all the artists in the links in the left-hand column.
If you create or own art concerning menstruation or menopause and are interested in showing it on these pages (it's free!), contact MUM


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