4The Daily Tar HeelFriday, April 20, 1984
Power of childbirth portrayed
By ARLAINE ROCKEY
Starr Writer
The Union Gallery Committee has
caused quite a stir by-bringing "Child
birth in America," part of The Birth Pro
ject by Judy Chicago, to UNC. Rarely has
an exhibit evoked such controversial
emotion among people who ordinarily do
not think twice about the gallery art as
they cruise through to the Student Union
lobby.
The exhibit, including three images
called The Crowning, was designed by
Chicago as an exploration of technique,
with North Carolina's strong heritage of
textile and handwork artistry in mind.
The Crowning is one of about 10 birth
images Chicago designed for use in The
Birth Project, a needlework project that
involves over 100 American artists.
The exhibit combines texts and photo
graphs to document childbirth in
America and to explore it from early
America to present-day considerations,
showing the movement of birth from a
mechanical, necessary process to a
humanistic experience shared by women
and men.
Black and Native American birth prac
tices are documented, giving cross
cultural attitudes about birth.
In the Ojibway tribe, for instance, the
man built a birthing hut away from his
village. Then, while he waited in the
village, the woman gave birth kneeling
and clutching a pole in the center of the
hut attended by a midwife and other
women.
The development of obstetrics, mid
wifery, anesthesia and painless childbirth
are covered. Photographs contribute to
the documentation. One photograph
graphically shows the moment in birth
when the baby's head appears. This
'The Crowning' is part of the exhibition "Childbirth in America"
... The controversial project attempts to portray childbirth positively
photograph, along with The Crowning
needleworks, has received many mixed
reactions. In fact, these images are so
strong that they demand some sort of
emotional reaction.
Birth itself has not been portrayed
much in the art world. Feminists and
Chicago say that it is because the art
world is dominated by men and men ob
viously do not give birth. Rebecca Man
ner, who worked on the quilted batik,
said, "These images have been hidden
from the world for so long thought to
be vulgar and obscene."
. Chicago tries to bring a change to
society's image of childbirth. "One
reason people don't relate positively ta
vaginal imagery is that it is usually just
pornography, where women are not af
firmed but made into objects," Chicago
said. "In these images I want to show the
power of women giving birth."
The Birth Project is feminist also in
that ordinary women, not necessarily ar
tists, create these works in their own
homes using needlework, a traditionally
woman-related type of artistry.
"What I am trying to do in the exhibi
tion of Birth Project art," Chicago said,
"is to present each piece with documenta
tion that includes information on the im
agery, the people involved in executing
the work, the experience represented in
the work and related materials (poems,
quotes, research) that establish a more
universal context for the birth experience.
"I have approached the subject of
birth with awe, terror and fascination,
and have tried to present different aspects
of this universal experience the
mythical, t.he celebratory and the
painful."
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Hart
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"The enemy in the Third World is not
communism, it is poverty," Hart said as
he was interrupted by applause,
something that happened some 30 times
during the evening.
To solve the problems of a country like
Honduras, he said doctors, nurses and
teachers should replace combat troops.
Hart said social and economic assistance
would also help the United States im
prove the conditions in Southeast Asia
and South Africa for the poor:
Blaming the Reagan administration for
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policy predicated on military power to
better East-West relations.
"For the first time in this nation's
history, we will stop the nuclear arms race
in its tracks," he said. Hart favors a
mutually verifiable nuclear freeze; a ban
on nuclear weapons in space and the end
of U.S, deployment of cruise-and Per
shing II missiles in Europe. .
Hart tied his defense policy to educa
tion If President Reason VpH him hrw
he would pay for upgrading education as
a "big spending Democrat," Hart said he
would reply, "By cancelling the M
missile and the B-l bomber."
The Reagan budget cuts in education
have left 3 million school children
without lunches, while businesses have
enjoyed 100-percent tax exemptions,
Hart said. "It is a shame."
The appearance at UNC was the se
cond in a year for Hart, who spoke last
spring in Hamilton Hall. As in that
speech, Hart on Thursday warned of the
dangers posed by the nation's 17,500 tox
ic waste dumps, landfill disposal methods
and acid rain.
"We need to re-adopt the national
commitment to clean up the nation's air
and water," he said.
The Hart economic program would be
one of progressive industrialization, using
education and training to prepare the
United States for the next century, he
said, rebuking the federal government for
its bailout of Chrysler.
"We cannot do that (position the na
tion's economy for the future) with
bailouts, handouts and Band-Aids," he
said.
As other politicians ,have done while
speaking at UNC, Hart commented on
the U.S. Senate race between incumbent
Jesse Helms and Gov. Jim Hunt.
"I hope in 1984, North Carolina elects
a senator as great at Frank Graham,"
Hart said of the former UNC president
and 1950s Democratic senator.
UNC with Hart and North Carolinians
for Hart sponsored the speech.
As people filed into Carmichael, they
were met by about 30 Republican
students carrying signs reading, "How
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Ralph Reed, the executive director of
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