{"id":22,"date":"2021-06-15T19:11:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T19:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/art-mobilities\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2021-06-25T09:01:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T09:01:37","slug":"clare-qualmann","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/art-mobilities\/clare-qualmann\/","title":{"rendered":"Clare Qualmann"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perambulator<\/em><\/h2>\n

2014-2021<\/p>\n

Perambulator<\/em> is an ongoing artwork that explores gendered spaces, maternal narratives and shifting identities, inequality and mobilities. Begun in 2012 in response to my experience of pushing my son in his pram the work has developed over the last decade, evolving with each of my children and my shifting relationship with my parental mobility\/immobility.<\/p>\n

Perambulator Covid Walks<\/em>, 2021<\/h2>\n

In Perambulator Covid Walks<\/em> 2021 I performed a series of walks in the pandemic-empty City of London with my 3-year-old in the pram. Together we enacted and re-enacted moments of parental performance exploring the conjunctions between our bodies, our mobility tools and the finance-dominated topography. In earlier phases of the artwork the pram felt like an encumbrance, a hindrance that limited my mobility. This perception flipped under covid-19 restrictions when only local walking was permitted, and the pram meant that we could roam further than the streets immediately surrounding our flat: as far as the city one mile away. It became a brilliant mobility assistant rather than impediment. These images were made in correspondence with the artist Claire Hind, who conducted simultaneous walks in Ravenscar North Yorkshire.<\/p>\n