Series 10 - Episode 5: Oxytocin Collective Care - The art & interdisciplinary strategies

This week’s episode looks at Oxytocin Collective Care - an interdisciplinary live event about mothers, parents and carers that uniquely combines a bold programme of performances and live art along with discussion panels and workshops. It creates a platform for critical art practices, intersectional feminist theories and maternity services as well as showcasing the work of artists whose practices and personal experiences are often under-represented.

At its third edition, Oxytocin aims to create an arts, health & community-driven programme to evaluate the effectiveness of Black and Brown and disabled peoples’ care and the cultural sensitivity of primary care providers, administrators and staff in maternity services.

Hosted by:
Sheena Byrom OBE, Midwifery Consultant; Director, All4Maternity

Contributions from:
Laura Godfrey-Isaacs, Midwife, Author and Artist
Dyana Gravina, Art producer, Curator, Activist, Birth Doula

Biographies
Laura Godfrey-Isaacs
Laura is an artist, midwife, award-winning author and health feminist. She combines her knowledge and experience in the arts and healthcare to bring fresh creative and interdisciplinary perspectives to support reproductive rights and justice, as well as feminist readings of the body.

Dyana Gravina
Dyana Gravina (They/She) is an interdisciplinary artist, independent curator, activist, mover, and community builder. She is the founding director of Procreate Project, a pioneering arts organisation dedicated to womxn and non-binary artists who are (m)others. Currently MA in 'Gender Sexuality and Culture' at Birkbeck University.

They have collaborated and curated projects with partners and venues including RCA, King’s College London, LADA Live Art Development Agency, Ugly Duck, Mimosa House, Women's Art Library, RichMix, Richard Saltoun Gallery, 198 contemporary Art and Learning, to mention a few. Her performance actions and performative lectures have been shown and hosted in the UK and internationally including, Artist Association Israel, East Street Arts, Wellcome Collection, ]Performance Space[, Leyden Gallery, The Yard Theatre, Institute Centre of Photography ICP ( NYC), Art Basel / Richard Saltoun Gallery, Minusoffspace (Vienna), Menoparkas Gallery (Kaunas), Gruentaler9 (Berlin).

"Central to my thinking is the dismantlement and mobilisation of old structures, imagery and languages, which oppress someone's sense of identity and freedom of expression, within the birth space and beyond."

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