BROODWORK was a multi-year, multi-faceted project implementing work that furthers the fundamental discussion of the relationship between creative practice and family life. Founders Rebecca Niederlander and Iris Anna Regn explored the unspoken community of creative practioners whose work found an unexpected perspectival shift after becoming parents. Regn and Niederlander named this output BROODWORK.
BROODWORK is a non-hierarchical sensibility, contextualizing the heady optimism of an investment in the future with exacting honesty and humility.
BROODWORK cannot be classified along lines of gender, content or medium, but there are defining characteristics that often appear, even indirectly. The Families and Work Institute in NYC reports that families today spend significantly more time with their children than even a decade ago. This aligns with a change in methodology in the creative practices: work gets produced in small increments of time, projects are conceived as an accumulation of parts, work is made collaboratively. Thematically, there exists an increased social consciousness, where ethical and environmental issues become a focus or an ancillary concern. Some work navigates the landscape of the child and childhood from the regard of a creative person who is a parent.
BROODWORK is building, talking, curating, exhibitions, events, writing.
