Bio
Angela Beallor is a visual artist exploring memory, history, and politics through video, photography, writing, and performance. She was a 2015 BRIC Media Arts Fellow. A Jerome Foundation Travel Grant recipient (2013), she traveled to Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia in relation to her project Pink Lenins. Her video, I Want a Baby! REVisited (Lecture) won first place in the 2017 Sofia Queer Forum video competition. In 2019, she staged M.G. (aka I Want a Baby! Reimagined), an experimental, queer adaptation of Tret’iakov’s play I Want a Baby! at EMPAC (Troy, NY). Beallor often collaborates with Elizabeth Press and has staged four FlagSss Day Processions (2019-2023) with the FlagSss Day Collective (with Hana van der Koelk and Elizabeth Press). She has been in residence at CCI Fabrika, Moscow; Vermont Studio Center; Habitable Spaces, Kingsbury, TX, and was once a resident-artist at Flux Factory (NY). Her work has been presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Cleveland, OH) (2017); Smack Mellon (2016); SPACES (2016); Here Art Space, NY (2014); and, in conjunction with Sharon Hayes, in the Whitney Museum of American Art (2012). She holds a BS in Photo-illustration from Kent State University, an MFA from Bard College-ICP, and a PhD in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is currently Documentarian in Community Co-Creation, facilitating the Co-Creation Initiative of the John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative (MDOCS) at Skidmore College.
Elizabeth Press (They/Them and who goes by their initials, EP) is a media-maker and educator based in Troy, NY. Press is a lecturer in the Arts Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute teaching classes in digital filmmaking and studio production. Press has dedicated their work to independent community media and is interested in socially engaged documentary practices.
Press cut their teeth in journalism as a producer for the independent TV/Radio program, Democracy Now!. As a videographer, producer, and editor, Press worked with BRIC Arts Media, The International Institute for Sustainable Development covering the UN climate negotiations, StreetFilms, GritTV with Laura Flanders, and PBS.
EP’s work has been screened in international festivals across North America and Europe and in the New York Times, Democracy Now!, Rooftop Films, Exit Art, and EMPAC, and more. EP is on the board of the Sanctuary for Independent Media and is a collective member of the radio program the Hudson Mohawk Magazine. EP helped launch this daily, one-hour show in 2017. Press is a Fulbright Scholar, has an MFA in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a BA in Anthropology from Ithaca College.
Abstract
Angela Beallor is an artist and Documentarian in Community Co-Creation at Skidmore College. She carried the child we write about. She is the one most legible as “mother” because of that labor. Elizabeth Press, known as EP, teaches in the Arts Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. They come out of an independent journalism and media-making lineage. Most simply stated, EP identifies as a non-binary mother or parent. Both Beallor and Press have complicated relationships with the gendered title “mother” and in this article, explore their relationships to mothering, care work, and their collaborative art making.
Queer Re/Productions: Exploring Care Work Through Collaborative Art-Making
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