Auspicious Plastic | Episode 9 |Casey Jenkins by Megan Spencer

AUSPICIOUS PLASTIC is a podcast about precious objects and the stories behind them.

Casey Jenkins is an "endurance performance artist" from Melbourne, best-known for her 2013 "craftivist" work "Casting Off My Womb", where she knitted a huge textile from yarn "inserted daily" into her vagina, for one month. A video about the installation went viral, causing a huge controversy and opening up a public dialogue - much of it abusive - about women's bodies and cultural ownership over them.

Meeting in Berlin, Casey and I chat about the woollen object she created, now wound into a neat, soft, precious ball. Also a well-travelled symbol of 'cultural disruption', it will soon be incorporated into another exhibition, 'BLOOD: Life Uncut', at the Science Gallery in London. The conversation is emotional and thoughtful, journeying deep into the heart of art, loss, creativity and motherhood.

NOTE: This episode contains 'adult themes'.

Credits:
Interview: Casey Jenkins
Presenter/Producer: Megan Spencer
Original music: Jeremy Conlon/Cooperblack (used with permission)
https://cooperblack.bandcamp.com/
Logo: Studio Ink www.studioink.com.au
Photo: Megan Spencer
Thank you: Casey for the interview!

Visit Casey's artist Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/CaseyJenkinsArtist

Read about Casey's 'Bad Blood' exhibition in 'BLOOD: Life Uncut':
https://london.sciencegallery.com/blood/artworks/bad-blood

Read the 2016 interview I did with Casey on Circus Folk:
http://www.wethecircusfolk.com/2016/09/casey-jenkins

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